Edgar Wallace Mysteries

1. S1 E5

   E5

   5. The Malpas Mystery

   Air date TBA

   When Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she asks stepsister Dora for shelter. Dora takes Audrey to a party hosted hosted by Lacey, her boyfriend. Lacey complains about his neighbor, the mysterious Mr. Malpas, who makes strange noises all night and is never seen. Next day, Audrey gets a job offer from Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.

2. E2

   2. The White Trap

   Finale 67 years ago

   Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.

3. S1 E1

   E1

   1. Breakout

   67 years ago

   A government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in and his gang is caught.

1. S2 E12

   E12

   12. The Sinister Man

   Finale 64 years ago

   A body found in the River Thames is of an archaeology professor, murdered over three small fragments of an ancient text that could serve as a pretext for a red China-like country to invade a Nepal-like country.

2. S2 E11

   E11

   11. Never Back Losers

   65 years ago

   Wally Sanders, a horseracing jockey, loses a race and crashes his car to claim an insurance. Jim Matthews, a shrewd and energetic insurance investgator, follows up the company's suspicion of foul play and stumbles deep into a web of corruption concering fixed horse races.

3. E10

   10. Man Detained

   65 years ago

   A cracked safe seems like routine to the police, until the owner of the business is found dead the next morning and they find that a lot more money was in the safe than he had said. Where did he get it and why was it there?

4. S2 E9

   E9

   9. House of Mystery

   65 years ago

   A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.

5. S2 E8

   E8

   8. Attempt to Kill

   65 years ago

   A rich man's secretary/fiancée is harassed by an assistant, who's sacked. Dangerous accidents start occurring and the assistant is suspected, but he's suddenly murdered just as he plans to meet with a Scotland Yard inspector.

6. S2 E7

   E7

   7. Seven Keys

   65 years ago

   An ex-con goes looking for his late cellmate's hidden loot.

7. E6

   6. Clue of the Silver Key

   65 years ago

   When a hired server is killed after a party for an artist and his fiancée, and soon after, the girl's hot tempered, disapproving old uncle is murdered too, the police look for a connexion. The clues available include a small, brightly painted key to the old man's safe, and some wigs found in an abandoned apartment near a crime site.

8. E5

   5. Man at the Carlton Tower

   65 years ago

   A murderous jewelry heist attracts an ex-partner of the killer, a master criminal who's never been caught. His personal nemesis,a retired detective, joins Scotland Yard to crack the case, in turn recruiting the thief's estranged wife.

9. S2 E4

   E4

   4. The Fourth Square

   65 years ago

   The chief suspect in a series of jewel robberies is found dead.

10. S2 E3

    E3

    3. Man in the Back Seat

    65 years ago

    Two young thugs rob a bookie leaving a dog-racing track with his winnings, but when they grab his case full of money they discover that he has chained it to his wrist. They dash around town trying to find a way to separate the case from the wrist of the bookie, who the pair has by now beaten so badly he appears to be dead. They finally come up with what they think is a foolproof plan, but soon something happens that they weren't quite expecting.

11. S2 E2

    E2

    2. Clue of the New Pin

    65 years ago

    Rex Lander (Paul Daneman) is prime suspect in his rich uncle's murder, but there's no evidence to pin it on him.

12. S2 E1

    E1

    1. Partners in Crime

    65 years ago

    A film producer (Guy Doleman) devises a deadly plan to finance a project.

1. S3 E6

   E6

   6. Death Trap

   Finale 64 years ago

   Carol Halston discovers her sister withdrew £7000 before she died. The money is now missing.

2. S3 E5

   E5

   5. Solo for Sparrow

   64 years ago

   A gang of thieves are implicated in a murder while executing a jewellery shop heist.

3. S3 E4

   E4

   4. Playback

   64 years ago

   A German immigrant seduces a young P.C. and talks him into an elaborate scheme.

4. S3 E3

   E3

   3. Locker Sixty-Nine

   64 years ago

   A businessman's fraudulent dealings kills many people. His partner threatens to expose him if he has further dishonest dealings. When the fraudster receives death threats he fakes his own murder to get his hands on the partner's evidence.

5. S3 E2

   E2

   2. Time to Remember

   64 years ago

   Burglars rob a townhouse and most of them are caught at the scene, but valuable jewels seem to have vanished. An estate agent realises they are still on site, and tries to purchase the building before anyone finds them.

6. E1

   1. Number Six

   64 years ago

   An international criminal arrives in London, and a detective is anxious to pin something on him for some unprovable murders of former lovers. The villain starts to suspect servants and henchmen of being a police spy known as 'Number Six'.

1. S4 E9

   E9

   9. To Have and to Hold

   Finale 63 years ago

   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.

2. S4 E8

   E8

   8. The Rivals

   63 years ago

   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.

3. S4 E7

   E7

   7. The Double

   63 years ago

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

4. S4 E6

   E6

   6. Ricochet

   63 years ago

   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.

5. S4 E5

   E5

   5. Return to Sender

   63 years ago

   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.

6. S4 E4

   E4

   4. On the Run

   63 years ago

   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.

7. S4 E3

   E3

   3. Incident at Midnight

   63 years ago

   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.

8. S4 E2

   E2

   2. The £20,000 Kiss

   63 years ago

   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.

9. E1

   1. The Set Up

   63 years ago

   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.

1. S5 E11

   E11

   11. The Main Chance

   60 years ago

   A disgraced ex-RAF pilot is enlisted into a smuggling scheme by an electronically sophisticated smuggler, who has a room full of computers and recording devices. The pilot is to take stolen diamonds from across the Channel, but he plans a carefully crafted double cross instead.

2. S5 E10

   E10

   10. Never Mention Murder

   62 years ago

   Top surgeon Philip Teasdale plans to use his medical skills to bump off his wife's lover, but reckons without the greedy private detective he originally hired to prove him a cuckold

3. S5 E9

   E9

   9. Face of a Stranger

   62 years ago

   In prison, two inmates are getting out soon. One, soon getting out, has been sent up for a heist of several thousand pounds, still not recovered. The other, getting out before him, pumps the other for details of his home life, so he he can assume the other's identity and get to the loot first.

4. S5 E8

   E8

   8. Act of Murder

   62 years ago

   A happily married couple plan a vacation in the city to see several stage plays, as the wife is an ex-actress. They arrange to temporarily swap residences with an older couple who want to visit the country. The older couple are actually part of a team of antiques thieves but are interrupted by a friend of the actress-wife. When the cottage couple find there is no city residence, and are told they are probably being robbed, they return home to find everything intact....except their pets and plants were poisoned. Someone seems to be taking advantage of the situation to upset their lives.

5. S5 E7

   E7

   7. Who Was Maddox?

   Finale 62 years ago

   A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.

6. S5 E6

   E6

   6. We Shall See

   62 years ago

   Alva Collins is the attractive wife of a captain in a civil airline. She is neurotic, vicious and unstable but only her brother knows that she is a hopeless psychopath whose condition can only deteriorate.

7. S5 E5

   E5

   5. The Verdict

   62 years ago

   Big-time racketeer Joe Armstrong is deported back to Great Britain from America to find himself facing a murder rap for a killing he had committed twenty years before.

8. S5 E4

   E4

   4. Downfall

   62 years ago

   Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife.

9. S5 E3

   E3

   3. Five to One

   62 years ago

   Alan Roper is an intelligent young man on the fringes of big time crime. With his partner-in-crime, Lea, and his girlfriend Pat, he's planning his biggest job yet - the robbery of a betting shop owned by a man he hates.

10. S5 E2

    E2

    2. Accidental Death

    63 years ago

    Returning from a party the adopted daughter of Colonel Paxton and her boyfriend are surprised by an intruder. The colonel, however, instantly remembers him as a war comrade.

11. S5 E1

    E1

    1. The Partner

    63 years ago

    Shady dealings and a duplicitious accountant put studio head Wayne Douglas and his new Oriental actress Lin in peril.

1. S6 E4

   E4

   4. Dead Man's Chest

   Finale 61 years ago

   It all began as a hoax, a stunt, a trick on the part of two cynical young journalists to spite society and thwart the Establishment. The idea was to expose the frailty of circumstantial evidence, and they planned to fake a murder. But the plan went disastrously wrong. Starring John Thaw, Ann Firbank, John Meillon, Peter Bowles and John Abineri. Directed by Patrick Dromgoole.

2. S6 E3

   E3

   3. Strangler's Web

   61 years ago

   What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging onetime showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify. A police detective and a solicitor for the defence unravel the mystery.

3. S6 E2

   E2

   2. Change Partners

   61 years ago

   Ben Arkwright, a co-director in the firm of Arkwright and Gallen, is having an affair with Anna, the strongly willed wife of Ricky Gallen, Ben's partner. Trouble arises. Starring Zena Walker, Kenneth Cope, Basil Henson and Anthony Dawson. Directed by Robert Lynn.

4. S6 E1

   E1

   1. Game For Three Losers

   61 years ago

   Robert Hilary is a public figure, a businessman and a politician. Happily married, Hilary still lets his desire for his new secretary get the better of him. Starring Michael Gough, Mark Eden, Toby Robins and Allan Cuthbertson. Directed by Gerry O'Hara.

1. S7 E1

   E1

   1. Episode 1

   Finale 60 years ago

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