

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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Season 1195339 episodes
- No stillE1The 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.
- No stillE2The 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?
- No stillE3The Candlelight Murder
An Inspector unmasks a blacksmith as a killer of an old hermit.
- No stillE4The 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.
- No stillE5The 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.
- No stillE6Late Night Final
A missing crippled witness turns out to be a drug smuggler's disguise.
- No stillE7Fatal Journey
An Inspector exposes an amnesiac as a blackmailer who killed the woman who jailed him.
- No stillE8The Strange Case of Blondie
- No stillE9Passenger to Tokyo
A rare operation helps track a killer of a rich woman sent to Tokyo in a trunk
- No stillE10Night Plane to Amsterdam
- No stillE11The Silent Witness
- No stillE12The Stateless Man
- No stillE13The Mysterious Bullet
- No stillE14Murder Anonymous
- No stillE15The Wall of Death
- No stillE16The Case of the River Morgue
- No stillE17Destination 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.
- No stillE18Person Unknown
- No stillE19The Lonely House
- No stillE20Bullet from the Past
- No stillE21The Case of the Smiling Widow
- No stillE22Inside Information
- No stillE23The Mail Van Murder
- No stillE24Night Crossing
- No stillE25The Tyburn Case
- No stillE26The White Cliffs Mystery
- No stillE27Print of Death
Supt.. Reynolds proves that payroll robbers dismembered an ex-convict and grafted his fingertips on to rubber gloves.
- No stillE28Crime of Honour
- No stillE29Cross Road Gallows
- No stillE30The Unseeing Eye
- No stillE31The Ghost Train Murder
- No stillE32The Dover Road Mystery
- No stillE33The Last Train
- No stillE34Evidence in Concrete
- No stillE35The Grand Junction Case
- No stillE36The Never Never Murder
- No stillE37The Silent Weapon
- No stillE38The Square Mile Murder
- No stillE39Wings of DeathFinale
Details
- Seasons
- 1 · 39 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- EN
- First aired
- February 1, 1953
