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Scotland Yard

All Episodes 1953 - 1961

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  • 1953-02-01T00:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 19h 30m (39 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Crime, Drama
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).

39 episodes

Series Premiere

1953-02-01T00:00:00Z

1x01 The Drayton Case

Series Premiere

1x01 The Drayton Case

  • 1953-02-01T00:00:00Z30m

A 1941 air raid uncovered a firewatcher’s 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.

1953-05-31T23:00:00Z

1x02 The Missing Man

1x02 The Missing Man

  • 1953-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

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?

1953-09-30T23:00:00Z

1x03 The Candlelight Murder

1x03 The Candlelight Murder

  • 1953-09-30T23:00:00Z30m

An Inspector investigates the murder of an old hermit.

1954-02-01T00:00:00Z

1x04 The Blazing Caravan

1x04 The Blazing Caravan

  • 1954-02-01T00:00:00Z30m

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. When a body is found beneath a burning caravan, the question is - has the murderer been clever enough?

1954-03-01T00:00:00Z

1x05 The Dark Stairway

1x05 The Dark Stairway

  • 1954-03-01T00:00:00Z30m

A blind man is the only witness to a murder on a darkened stairway .

1954-06-30T23:00:00Z

1x06 Late Night Final

1x06 Late Night Final

  • 1954-06-30T23:00:00Z30m

A lorry is stolen and the only witness, a crippled newspaper seller, has gone missing...

1954-07-31T23:00:00Z

1x07 Fatal Journey

1x07 Fatal Journey

  • 1954-07-31T23:00:00Z30m

A happily married husband living in an isolated location returns home to find his wife collapsed on the floor.

1x08 The Strange Case of Blondie

  • 1954-09-30T23:00:00Z30m

Why does a murderous blonde cat burglar keep moving location? Scotland Yard think they know where the answer lies,,,

1954-09-30T23:00:00Z

1x09 The Silent Witness

1x09 The Silent Witness

  • 1954-09-30T23:00:00Z30m

A self-confessed killer almost escapes the full weight of the Law

1954-11-01T00:00:00Z

1x10 Passenger to Tokyo

1x10 Passenger to Tokyo

  • 1954-11-01T00:00:00Z30m

A highly unusual operation helps track down the killer of a wealthy woman murdered and sent to Tokyo in a trunk.

1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

1x11 Night Plane to Amsterdam

1x11 Night Plane to Amsterdam

  • 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

The case of a murder which baffled the police of two countries.

1955-04-30T23:00:00Z

1x12 The Stateless Man

1x12 The Stateless Man

  • 1955-04-30T23:00:00Z30m

A late night crime in London’s Docklands baffles the Police.

1955-06-30T23:00:00Z

1x13 The Mysterious Bullet

1x13 The Mysterious Bullet

  • 1955-06-30T23:00:00Z30m

A ballistics expert traces the killer of a widow's fiancé

1955-11-01T00:00:00Z

1x14 Murder Anonymous

1x14 Murder Anonymous

  • 1955-11-01T00:00:00Z30m

A Scotland Yard detective investigates the murder of a man who was the lover of a blind man's wife.

1956-03-01T00:00:00Z

1x15 The Wall of Death

1x15 The Wall of Death

  • 1956-03-01T00:00:00Z30m

A Scotland Yard detective investigates the death of a man who died on an amusement park ride

1x16 The Case of the River Morgue

  • 1956-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

The Police are summoned when a dead body is stolen from the morgue.

1956-08-31T23:00:00Z

1x17 Destination Death

1x17 Destination Death

  • 1956-08-31T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1956-11-01T00:00:00Z

1x18 Person Unknown

1x18 Person Unknown

  • 1956-11-01T00:00:00Z30m

A Polish spy changes places with a would-be assassin.

1957-01-01T00:00:00Z

1x19 The Lonely House

1x19 The Lonely House

  • 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

Scotland Yard investigates a dating agency where the clients have a high mortality rate.

1957-01-01T00:00:00Z

1x20 Bullet from the Past

1x20 Bullet from the Past

  • 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

An Inspector solves a 27-year-old murder whilst investigating the shooting of an Insurance Agent.

1957-05-31T23:00:00Z

1x21 Inside Information

1x21 Inside Information

  • 1957-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

A murder hunt is launched the morning after Bonfire Night, when it emerges that a real body was used as the ‘Guy’

1x22 The Case of the Smiling Widow

  • 1957-07-31T23:00:00Z30m

A combination of chance and hard work by the police lead them to question the circumstances of an apparent suicide.

1957-09-30T23:00:00Z

1x23 The Mail Van Murder

1x23 The Mail Van Murder

  • 1957-09-30T23:00:00Z30m

Supt. Hammond tracks down the boss of a gang who stole a mail van.

1957-09-30T23:00:00Z

1x24 Night Crossing

1x24 Night Crossing

  • 1957-09-30T23:00:00Z30m

The quiet of an idyllic port town is shattered when a body is found on the beach.

1957-09-30T23:00:00Z

1x25 The Tyburn Case

1x25 The Tyburn Case

  • 1957-09-30T23:00:00Z30m

Supt. Reynolds intends to proves that a lawyer drowned a widow for the insurance money.

1957-09-30T23:00:00Z

1x26 The White Cliffs Mystery

1x26 The White Cliffs Mystery

  • 1957-09-30T23:00:00Z30m

A dead rocket engineer is being blackmailed. But Why - and by whom?

1958-04-18T00:00:00Z

1x27 Print of Death

1x27 Print of Death

  • 1958-04-18T00:00:00Z30m

A Scotland Yard detective in pursuit of payroll thieves suspects that the criminals are using a dead man's fingerprints to throw him off the trail.

1958-07-31T23:00:00Z

1x28 Crime of Honour

1x28 Crime of Honour

  • 1958-07-31T23:00:00Z30m

A Thames Estuary dredger drags a man’s body from the bed of the river.

1958-07-31T23:00:00Z

1x29 Cross Road Gallows

1x29 Cross Road Gallows

  • 1958-07-31T23:00:00Z30m

A farmer discovers caravaners have been trespassing on his land- when he attempts to disturb the occupants he finds dead bodies inside.

1959-02-01T00:00:00Z

1x30 The Unseeing Eye

1x30 The Unseeing Eye

  • 1959-02-01T00:00:00Z30m

A night worker returning home through a sleeping London street sees smoke and flames coming from a building.

1959-12-01T00:00:00Z

1x31 The Ghost Train Murder

1x31 The Ghost Train Murder

  • 1959-12-01T00:00:00Z30m

Scotland Yard detectives pursue the murderers of a Hungarian girl found dead on an amusement park ride. Their inquiries lead them to a rooming house full of shoplifters.

1960-02-01T00:00:00Z

1x32 The Dover Road Mystery

1x32 The Dover Road Mystery

  • 1960-02-01T00:00:00Z30m

A Ford Consul has been stolen and is used in a bank robbery. Unknownto the police, the car has been tuned up to go faster. When it is spotted and chased by the police, it is too fast for the squad car.

1960-04-01T00:00:00Z

1x33 The Last Train

1x33 The Last Train

  • 1960-04-01T00:00:00Z30m

Inspector Duggan investigates a murder in the London Underground

1960-12-01T00:00:00Z

1x34 Evidence in Concrete

1x34 Evidence in Concrete

  • 1960-12-01T00:00:00Z30m

A young girl is found dead off a busy motorway. A car accident seems to be the cause - until the police make an unexpected discovery.

1961-02-01T00:00:00Z

1x35 The Grand Junction Case

1x35 The Grand Junction Case

  • 1961-02-01T00:00:00Z30m

Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a woman whose dismembered body is found floating in a canal. The only clue to the woman's identity is an usual "Edelweiss" tattoo.

1961-02-01T00:00:00Z

1x36 The Silent Weapon

1x36 The Silent Weapon

  • 1961-02-01T00:00:00Z30m

Scotland Yard detectives investigate homicide and race-fixing at a dog track.

1961-05-31T23:00:00Z

1x37 The Never Never Murder

1x37 The Never Never Murder

  • 1961-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a woman found in a wrecked building.

1961-05-31T23:00:00Z

1x38 The Square Mile Murder

1x38 The Square Mile Murder

  • 1961-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

When a travel agency is burgled by a safebreaker, Superintendent Hicks is brought in to solve the case.

1961-05-31T23:00:00Z

1x39 Wings of Death

1x39 Wings of Death

  • 1961-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a pilot found in the wreckage of his own plane. Their investigations focus on a passenger who apparently survived the crash, but was injured when the plane came to grief.

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