Cast:  Lord Lochmaben (Thorley Walters), Alick Carruthers (Jeremy Clyde), Maud (Susan Skipper), Tremayne (David Firth), Polly (Sally Grace), Butler (Lockwood West), Sergeant Croom (Godfrey James)

Story:  Bunny visits Raffles, the man he used to "fag" for at school.  He arrives at Raffles apartment to find a game of cards in progress.  He gets involved and manages to looses £500.  He gives his two opponents, Alick Carruthers and Tremayne cheques.  Later that night Bunny returns to Raffles apartment and confesses that he is completely broke.  The cheques will bounce.  Raffles decides to help Bunny.  However Raffles has as little money as Bunny.  With no alternative Raffles takes Bunny on his next job, for Raffles is a cracksman and thief by profession...

Cast:  Reuben Rosenthall (Alfred Marks), Billy Purvis (Brian Glover), Club President (Peter Myers), Dolly (Jill Gascoine), Maisie (Lesley Daine), Club Waiter (Terrence Soall), Kaffir Servant (Eddie Tagoe), Coachman (Andrew Jackson), Tramp, Postman, Policman (Raffles [in other words Anthony Valentine])

Story:  After attending a dinner party Raffles decides to burglar the host of the party's house.  The host, Reuben Rosenthall, had boasted at the party about his fabulous diamonds and how he protected them with a revolver and an ex-boxer called Billy Purvis.  Raffles and Bunny break into Rosenthall's house only to find that his boasts about the security of his diamonds were not just hot air...

Cast:  Osborne (William Mervyn), Lady Osborne (Barbara Hicks), Lady Adela (Sally Osborn), Georgre Osborne (William Humbert), Policeman (John Pickles), Station Porter (Ted Morris)

Story:  Bunny wants to get more involved wit the burglaries but Raffles is not too sure.  When Bunny comes up with the idea of breaking in to the house he used to live in Raffles is not very enthusiastic.  Bunny perseveres and arranges for Raffles to see Lady Osborne, the lady of the house, wearing her very expensive diamond necklace.  Raffles finally agrees to go ahead with the burglary on the proviso that Bunny takes command and decides how the burglary is to be carried out...

Cast:  Lord Thornaby (Tony Britton), Kingsmill (Peter Sallis), Lady Alice (Diana Weston), Parrington (John Quentin), Selby (Basil Henson), Museum Policeman (William Moore), Inspector Woodward (Charles Rea), Butler (Michael Nightingale), Valet (Adam Bareham), Museum Attendant (Alan Haines), Cabbie (George Tovey), 1st Footman (Dixon Adams), 2nd Footman (Ronald Goodale)

Story:  Raffles sees the St Agnes Cup, the latest addition to the British Museum's collection.  After a daring raid right under the attendants noses Raffles decides to send the Cup to the Queen as a Jubilee present.  A few days later Raffles and Bunny receive an invitation to a criminologists club meeting headed by Lord Thornaby.  The purpose of the meeting?  To find the thief who took the St Agnes Cup...

Cast:  Bank Clerk (Geoffrey Hutchings), 1st Commissionaire (John Ringham), Policeman (James Murray), Sergeant (Mike Murray), Bunny's Porter (Trevor Ray), Wealthy Lady (Joan Haythrone), Growler Driver (Johnny Wade), Waiter (Terrance Soall), Electrician (Alan Hockey), Clubman (Robert Dorning), Masseur (John Who), Commissionaires (Anthony Powell, Peter Dean, David Aldridge)

Story:  Raffles decides to have his flat done up.  He tells Bunny that he is taking the opportunity to go to Scotland to brush up on his Scot's accent.  He doesn't want to leave all the stolen silver he has in the flat for anyone to find so he puts it all in a big trunk and asks Bunny to put it in his bank.  However, a day after Raffles has left the bank strong room is broken into...

Cast:  Count Corbucci (Robert Lang), Faustina (Marina Sirtis), Pinelli (Cyril Shaps), Risi (Bruce Robinson), Madame (Gillian Webb)

Story:  Raffles steels a jewel during a party at the Italian embassy right under everyones noses.  During the robbery he is helped out of a sticky situation by one of the servants.  Later he is contacted by the servant.  She wants Raffles help.  It seems that she has been spurning the advance of the Italian ambassador, Count Corbucci.  He is understandably angered by this.  Only trouble is, the Count is the head of the Camorra, the Napoli version of the Mafia.  Raffles helps the girl leave the country but puts his own head on the block in the process...

Cast:  Barney Maguire (Christopher Malcolm), Sergeant Thompson (John Stratton), Jethro (Don Fellows), Florrie (Carol Drinkwater), Swigger Morris (Lloyd Lamble), Bunny's Porter (Trevor Ray), P.C. Bristow (John McDermott), Police Doctor (John Rolls), Police Constable (John Ludlow)

Story:  Raffles and Bunny go to a party hosted by the International Sporting club.  There they meet Barney Maguire, Heavyweight champion of America.  He boast about all the valuable things he has won and been given.  He tells Raffles and Bunny that he has a trap to stop any Cracksman from steeling his prized possessions.  Maguire makes a remark about the British that Raffles takes offence to.  He decides to put Maguire's trap to the test.  On the night of the robbery Bunny arrives home to a phone call from Raffles.  It seems that he has sprung the trap and is in trouble...

Cast:  Lord Ernest Belville (Robert Hardy), Pageboy (David Parfitt), Policeman (John Flint), Cabbie (Mike Perry)

Story:  A thief is copying Raffles style in a number of recent burglaries.  Raffles is annoyed by this.  After a bit of detective work he pinpoints the most likely suspect; Lord Ernest Belville.  Raffles visits Belville under the guise of a journalist.  Later he and Bunny return to Belville's place to find the loot.  They find it hidden in Belville's bedroom.  Seconds later Belville returns.  Raffle's pretends that he is a policeman and arrests Belville.  He leaves the flat to get a cab.  While he is away Belville tricks Bunny and escapes.  When Raffles returns he informs Bunny that is exactly what he wanted.  Belville has flown the nest and Raffles has his loot.  But has Belville really left the country...

Cast:  Netje (Jan Francis), Sergeant Holly (Norman Bird), Mrs. Van Der Berg (Brenda Cowling), Tresje (Carole Bollard), Waiter (Dennis Chinnery)

Story:  Raffles plans to rob the wedding of rich Dutchman Van Der Berg's daughter are spoiled when he is selected to play cricket for England.  Bunny persuades Raffles to allow him to do the robbery in his place.  All goes well until Bunny falls foul of Van Der Berg's gun-totting younger daughter Netje...

Cast:  Brigstock (John Savident), Lady Camilla Belsize (Lynette Davies), Teddy Garland (Charles Dance), Duchess of Darlington (Gabrielle Brune), Detective (Alan Downer), Cabbie (Andrew Jackson), 1st Heavy (Maurice Bush), 2nd Heavy (Steve Emerson)

Story:  Raffles helps friend and fellow cricketer Teddy Garland out of tight spot by tricking debt collector Brigstock to allow Raffles to pay off Garland's debts.  Brigstock is angered by this.  When Brigstock comes to Raffles with a proposition to wipe out his debt by stealing back a letter from the magazine Facts that is a vital piece of evidence in a libel case he is currently involved in Raffles is naturally cautious.  Despite this he still agrees to do the job.  Brigstock is pleased by this but Raffles has a couple of tricks up his sleeve to counter the traps laid for him by Brigstock...

Cast:  Sir Arthur Rumbold (Graham Crowden), Jane (Erin Geraghty), Lady Rumbold (Claire Davenport), Dodson (Erik Chitty), Policeman (Colin Edwynn), Footman (Farrell Sheridan), Butler (Norman Shelley)

Story:  Raffles is annoyed when the secretary for Home Affairs, Sir Arthur Rumbold, announces measures to capture the perpetrator of the burglaries Raffle has done.  When Rumbold goes to his club where Raffles is also a member boasting about the stiff sentence the burglar will get when he is caught Raffles decides he has had enough.  That night he and Bunny break into Rumbold's house.  However, it soon becomes clear that their lack of forward planning could be their undoing...

Cast:  Carstairs (John Carson), Felicia (Hilary Gasson), Von Heumann (John Hallam), Lord Willoughby (Frank Middlemass), Rumpelmayer (Yuri Borienko)

Story:  German Von Heumann is passing through London on his way to give a pearl as a gift to a South Pacific king.  The foreign office see this as a slight to England as the pearl used to belong to the Queen Mother.  Raffles is planning to steal the pearly when he is visited by Carstairs, a member of the foreign office.  To Raffles surprise he is asked to steal the pearl on behalf of the foreign office and England...

Cast:  Lord Paulton (Gerald Flood), Lady Paulton (Caroline Blakiston), Doctor Addison (Gary Watson), Cabble (Malcom Rogers), Police Constable (Peter Spraggon) Undertaker (Frank Tregear), Priest (Clifford Parrish), Pelham (Maurice Quick), Footman (Michael Syers)

Story:  Raffles breaks into a house in Kensington when a woman discovers him.  However, he does not try and flee since the woman is Lady Paulton, a woman Raffles had an affair with many years ago.  He broke off the affair because he loved her but could not have her as she was (and is) married.  She helps Raffles escape from the house.  Next day Lord Paulton visits Raffles.  He offers Raffles money to stay away from her to preserve Paulton's marriage, not to mention his wealth which comes from her.  And to Bunny's surprise he accepts.  As Raffles explains he was going to stay away from her anyway so why shouldn't he take the money?  However, soon Lady Paulton arrives at Raffles flat saying that she is going to divorce Paulton and asks Raffles to go abroad with her...

Posted:  21 July 2002
Last Updated:  18 April 2004