"Eddie Boyd writes The View From Daniel Pike - if your scruples can stand it". The Guardian. The View From Daniel Pike made it's tv debut on BBC2 on 25th November 1971, starring legendary Scots star Roddy McMillan. Over the course of two series and thirteen episodes it became the BBC's counter to ITV's legendary Public Eye. Daniel Pike, a shabby private detective, was the Glaswegian answer to Frank Marker. Two episodes ('A Slight Case of Absalom' and 'Four Walls') are sadly missing from the archives, but it's time for a dvd release of the remaining eleven so that this forgotten classic can enjoy the recognition it deserves. Created by Scottish writer Edward Boyd (1916-1989) it brought the down-at-heel detective to the back streets of Glasgow, and out as far as the Hebrides, as Pike encounters a wide range of cases and people with secrets to hide. Contemporary press coverage was mostly positive, but also taken aback at th