Season 1
39 episodes · Feb 1, 1953
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- S1E1
The Drayton Case
Feb 1, 1953A 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.
- S1E2
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 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?
- S1E4
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 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.
- S1E5
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 the smell of his after shave.
- S1E7
Fatal Journey
An Inspector exposes an amnesiac as a blackmailer who killed the woman who jailed him.
- S1E8
The Strange Case of Blondie
- S1E9
Passenger to Tokyo
A rare operation helps track a killer of a rich woman sent to Tokyo in a trunk
- S1E10
Night Plane to Amsterdam
- S1E11
The Silent Witness
- S1E12
The Stateless Man
- S1E13
The Mysterious Bullet
- S1E14
Murder Anonymous
- S1E15
The Wall of Death
- S1E16
The Case of the River Morgue
- S1E17
Destination Death
Sep 1, 1956The 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.
- S1E18
Person Unknown
- S1E19
The Lonely House
- S1E20
Bullet from the Past
- S1E21
The Case of the Smiling Widow
- S1E22
Inside Information
- S1E23
The Mail Van Murder
- S1E24
Night Crossing
- S1E25
The Tyburn Case
- S1E26
The White Cliffs Mystery
- S1E27
Print of Death
Apr 18, 1958Supt.. Reynolds proves that payroll robbers dismembered an ex-convict and grafted his fingertips on to rubber gloves.
- S1E28
Crime of Honour
- S1E29
Cross Road Gallows
- S1E30
The Unseeing Eye
- S1E31
The Ghost Train Murder
- S1E32
The Dover Road Mystery
- S1E33
The Last Train
- S1E34
Evidence in Concrete
- S1E35
The Grand Junction Case
- S1E36
The Never Never Murder
- S1E37
The Silent Weapon
- S1E38
The Square Mile Murder
- S1E39
Wings of Death