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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard
TV ShowEnded

Scotland Yard

1953
1 season
39 episodes

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).

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Cast

Russell Napier

Edward Malin

John Le Mesurier

A

Arthur Gomez

J

John Wynn

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.The Drayton Case

    01-02-1953

    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 cel...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Missing Man

    TBA

    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 belon...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Candlelight Murder

    TBA

    An Inspector unmasks a blacksmith as a killer of an old hermit.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Blazing Caravan

    TBA

    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...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Dark Stairway

    TBA

    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...

  • Ep 6

    6.Late Night Final

    TBA

    A missing crippled witness turns out to be a drug smuggler's disguise.

  • Ep 7

    7.Fatal Journey

    TBA

    An Inspector exposes an amnesiac as a blackmailer who killed the woman who jailed him.

  • Ep 8

    8.The Strange Case of Blondie

    TBA
  • Ep 9

    9.Passenger to Tokyo

    TBA

    A rare operation helps track a killer of a rich woman sent to Tokyo in a trunk

  • Ep 10

    10.Night Plane to Amsterdam

    TBA
  • Ep 11

    11.The Silent Witness

    TBA
  • Ep 12

    12.The Stateless Man

    TBA
  • Ep 13

    13.The Mysterious Bullet

    TBA
  • Ep 14

    14.Murder Anonymous

    TBA
  • Ep 15

    15.The Wall of Death

    TBA
  • Ep 16

    16.The Case of the River Morgue

    TBA
  • Ep 17

    17.Destination Death

    01-09-1956

    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 smugglin...

  • Ep 18

    18.Person Unknown

    TBA
  • Ep 19

    19.The Lonely House

    TBA
  • Ep 20

    20.Bullet from the Past

    TBA
  • Ep 21

    21.The Case of the Smiling Widow

    TBA
  • Ep 22

    22.Inside Information

    TBA
  • Ep 23

    23.The Mail Van Murder

    TBA
  • Ep 24

    24.Night Crossing

    TBA
  • Ep 25

    25.The Tyburn Case

    TBA
  • Ep 26

    26.The White Cliffs Mystery

    TBA
  • Ep 27

    27.Print of Death

    18-04-1958

    Supt.. Reynolds proves that payroll robbers dismembered an ex-convict and grafted his fingertips on to rubber gloves.

  • Ep 28

    28.Crime of Honour

    TBA
  • Ep 29

    29.Cross Road Gallows

    TBA
  • Ep 30

    30.The Unseeing Eye

    TBA
  • Ep 31

    31.The Ghost Train Murder

    TBA
  • Ep 32

    32.The Dover Road Mystery

    TBA
  • Ep 33

    33.The Last Train

    TBA
  • Ep 34

    34.Evidence in Concrete

    TBA
  • Ep 35

    35.The Grand Junction Case

    TBA
  • Ep 36

    36.The Never Never Murder

    TBA
  • Ep 37

    37.The Silent Weapon

    TBA
  • Ep 38

    38.The Square Mile Murder

    TBA
  • Ep 39

    39.Wings of Death

    TBA

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