
Scotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of crime drama. Shot as cinema support features at the company’s Merton Park…
Series • 1953 • 1 season
Starring: Russell Napier
S1 E1 - The Drayton Case
A 1941 air raid uncovered a firewatchers strangled wife. During an argument over maintenance money after their divorce Drayton strangles her. Her body is discovered in a school cellar, and the search begins. Her dental records identify her as Mrs Drayton, and her ex-husband eventually confesses to the murder.
Feb 1, 1953
S1 E2 - The Missing Man
Upon their arrival in London, a retired vicar and his wife are disturbed to find that their son, Gerald Neil, who they had planned to visit, has, without notice, sold all his belongings and gone to live in Paris. Eager for news and an explanation, the two send word to Paris and, when no reply is received for several weeks, Reverend Neil decides to travel to Paris and find his son. The search proves fruitless and, when Scotland Yard exhaust every avenue of enquiry, Mr. Gerald Neil is filed away under "Missing Person" seemingly having vanished into thin air. A few days later the Reverend's wife is woken in the middle of the night by a vision of her son's murder - can the grisly dream find the key to finding her son?
S1 E3 - The Candlelight Murder
An Inspector unmasks a blacksmith as a killer of an old hermit.
S1 E4 - The Blazing Caravan
A perfect murder requires the culprit to escape detection and capture, a complicated task when the full force of Scotland Yard is determined to bring you to justice. Arthur Cox has just won £30,000 on the football pools but his luck comes to a very sudden and sinister end when George Buxton decides to murder him and steal his identity and winnings. Buxton is no fool, planning the murder and his escape down to the very last detail but to accomplish the perfect murder requires nerves of steel and a little bit of luck.
S1 E5 - The Dark Stairway
A blind man is pushed over on a darkened stairway during a murder. When questioned by the police the old man becomes frightened until his friend comes to the station. The Inspector holds an identity parade and the murderer is picked out by the smell of his after shave.
S1 E6 - Late Night Final
A missing crippled witness turns out to be a drug smuggler's disguise.
S1 E7 - Fatal Journey
An Inspector exposes an amnesiac as a blackmailer who killed the woman who jailed him.
S1 E8 - The Strange Case of Blondie
S1 E9 - Passenger to Tokyo
A rare operation helps track a killer of a rich woman sent to Tokyo in a trunk
S1 E10 - Night Plane to Amsterdam
S1 E11 - The Silent Witness
S1 E12 - The Stateless Man
S1 E13 - The Mysterious Bullet
S1 E14 - Murder Anonymous
S1 E15 - The Wall of Death
S1 E16 - The Case of the River Morgue
S1 E17 - Destination Death
The discovery of a dead man at London Airport, a postcard photograph and a flask containing not only brandy, but poison, leads Scotland Yard to Lisbon and a giant currency smuggling ring.
Sep 1, 1956
S1 E18 - Person Unknown
S1 E19 - The Lonely House
S1 E20 - Bullet from the Past
S1 E21 - The Case of the Smiling Widow
S1 E22 - Inside Information
S1 E23 - The Mail Van Murder
S1 E24 - Night Crossing
S1 E25 - The Tyburn Case
S1 E26 - The White Cliffs Mystery
S1 E27 - Print of Death
Supt.. Reynolds proves that payroll robbers dismembered an ex-convict and grafted his fingertips on to rubber gloves.
Apr 18, 1958
S1 E28 - Crime of Honour
S1 E29 - Cross Road Gallows
S1 E30 - The Unseeing Eye
S1 E31 - The Ghost Train Murder
S1 E32 - The Dover Road Mystery
S1 E33 - The Last Train
S1 E34 - Evidence in Concrete
S1 E35 - The Grand Junction Case
S1 E36 - The Never Never Murder
S1 E37 - The Silent Weapon
S1 E38 - The Square Mile Murder
S1 E39 - Wings of Death
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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of crime drama. Shot as cinema support features at the company’s Merton Park Studios in South Wimbledon, these half-hour thrillers – based on real-life cases from the vaults of London’s Metropolitan Police headquarters – were a successful regular feature in cinemas over nearly a decade from the early 1950s onwards. Like sister series Scales of Justice, Scotland Yard is introduced by celebrated writer and criminologist Edgar Lustgarten and presents case after intriguing case, with many solved onscreen by the redoubtable Inspector Duggan (played by Australian-born Russell Napier).
TV Series • 1953