Scotland Yard
Series· 1953–1958

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).

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Last aired
S1 · E27Print of Death

Cast

Seasons

Season 11953
39 episodes
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    E1The 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.

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    E2The 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?

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    E3The Candlelight Murder

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

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    E4The 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.

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    E5The 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.

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    E6Late Night Final

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

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    E7Fatal Journey

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

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    E8The Strange Case of Blondie
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    E9Passenger to Tokyo

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

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    E10Night Plane to Amsterdam
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    E11The Silent Witness
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    E12The Stateless Man
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    E13The Mysterious Bullet
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    E14Murder Anonymous
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    E15The Wall of Death
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    E16The Case of the River Morgue
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    E17Destination 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.

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    E18Person Unknown
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    E19The Lonely House
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    E20Bullet from the Past
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    E21The Case of the Smiling Widow
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    E22Inside Information
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    E23The Mail Van Murder
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    E24Night Crossing
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    E25The Tyburn Case
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    E26The White Cliffs Mystery
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    E27Print of Death

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

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    E28Crime of Honour
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    E29Cross Road Gallows
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    E30The Unseeing Eye
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    E31The Ghost Train Murder
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    E32The Dover Road Mystery
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    E33The Last Train
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    E34Evidence in Concrete
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    E35The Grand Junction Case
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    E36The Never Never Murder
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    E37The Silent Weapon
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    E38The Square Mile Murder
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    E39Wings of DeathFinale

Details

Seasons
1 · 39 episodes
Status
Ended
Language
EN
First aired
February 1, 1953
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