The series
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).
Episodes
Season 1 · 39 episodes · 1953
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Episode 11 Feb 1953
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…
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Episode 2
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 expl…
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Episode 3
The Candlelight Murder
An Inspector unmasks a blacksmith as a killer of an old hermit.
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Episode 4
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 …
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Episode 5
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…
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Episode 6
Late Night Final
A missing crippled witness turns out to be a drug smuggler's disguise.
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Episode 7
Fatal Journey
An Inspector exposes an amnesiac as a blackmailer who killed the woman who jailed him.
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Episode 8
The Strange Case of Blondie
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Episode 9
Passenger to Tokyo
A rare operation helps track a killer of a rich woman sent to Tokyo in a trunk
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Episode 10
Night Plane to Amsterdam
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Episode 11
The Silent Witness
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Episode 12
The Stateless Man
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Episode 13
The Mysterious Bullet
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Episode 14
Murder Anonymous
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Episode 15
The Wall of Death
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Episode 16
The Case of the River Morgue
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Episode 171 Sep 1956
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.
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Episode 18
Person Unknown
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Episode 19
The Lonely House
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Episode 20
Bullet from the Past
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Episode 21
The Case of the Smiling Widow
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Episode 22
Inside Information
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Episode 23
The Mail Van Murder
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Episode 24
Night Crossing
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Episode 25
The Tyburn Case
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Episode 26
The White Cliffs Mystery
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Episode 2718 Apr 1958
Print of Death
Supt.. Reynolds proves that payroll robbers dismembered an ex-convict and grafted his fingertips on to rubber gloves.
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Episode 28
Crime of Honour
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Episode 29
Cross Road Gallows
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Episode 30
The Unseeing Eye
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Episode 31
The Ghost Train Murder
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Episode 32
The Dover Road Mystery
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Episode 33
The Last Train
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Episode 34
Evidence in Concrete
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Episode 35
The Grand Junction Case
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Episode 36
The Never Never Murder
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Episode 37
The Silent Weapon
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Episode 38
The Square Mile Murder
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Episode 39
Wings of Death
Cast
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