Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Season 5

1963 · 11 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Partner

   15 Sept 1963

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

2. 2

   2. Accidental Death

   14 Nov 1963

   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.

3. 3

   3. Five to One

   18 Dec 1963

   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.

4. 4

   4. Downfall

   13 Jan 1964

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

5. 5

   5. The Verdict

   8 Feb 1964

   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.

6. 6

   6. We Shall See

   8 Apr 1964

   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. 7

   7. Who Was Maddox?

   6 Jun 1964

   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.

8. 8

   8. Act of Murder

   9 Sept 1964

   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.

9. 9

   9. Face of a Stranger

   23 Sept 1964

   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.

10. 10

    10. Never Mention Murder

    5 Nov 1964

    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

11. 11

    11. The Main Chance

    1 Jun 1966

    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.