Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Season 4

12 episodes · Dec 4, 1962

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  • The Set Up
    S4E1

    The Set Up

    Dec 4, 1962

    Recently released from prison, Arthur Payne meets a benevolent stranger on a train who says he may be able to help him. A few days later, a second stranger arrives at Payne's houseboat, and Payne reluctantly agrees to carry out a no-risk jewel theft for a fee. When the staged burglary turns to murder, Payne realises he's been set up and he goes on the run. All the evidence points towards Payne being the murderer, but one irrefutable fact troubles Inspector Jackson.

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  • S4E2

    The £20,000 Kiss

    Dec 18, 1962

    An up-and-coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.

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  • S4E3

    Incident at Midnight

    Jan 28, 1963

    A team of gangsters hide out in a late-night pharmacy to await a drugs transaction, little realising one of their hostages is not all they seem.

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  • S4E4

    On the Run

    Mar 12, 1963

    Model prisoner Frank Stewart, convicted for burgulary, escapes from prison with the help of Jock Mackay, an associates for his boss Wally Lucas, who plans to track down Stewart to know the location of stolen bonds.

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  • S4E5

    Return to Sender

    Mar 26, 1963

    Dino Steffano is charged with fraud and set to stand trial, rather than face imprisonment, he feels his best option is to nobble The Prosecuting Barrister.

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  • S4E6

    Ricochet

    Apr 1, 1963

    Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him. But Brodie, anticipating this predictament, has a hidden agenda behind all this to get the last laugh at Phipps.

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  • S4E7

    The Double

    Apr 15, 1963

    A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.

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  • S4E8

    The Rivals

    May 11, 1963

    A pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a ransom letter directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped.

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  • S4E9

    To Have and to Hold

    Jun 15, 1963

    A CID detective is lured into a plot by girl who first pretends to fall in love with him, then that she's been killed and is now actually a heretofore unknown twin sister, and ultimately a murderous betrayal.

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  • S4E10

    Episode 10

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  • S4E11

    Episode 11

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  • S4E12

    Episode 12

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