About this season
The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a British second-feature film series, produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 46 films in the series, made between 1960 and 1965. The films were loose adaptations of Edgar Wallace's books and stories. Very few used his original titles, and there was no attempt to set them in the period in which Wallace wrote, probably to obviate the need for elaborate costumes and sets. A 1962 article in Scene magazine quotes £22,000 as the budget for an episode then in production.
Episodes (12)
1. Partners in Crime
Aired 10 January 1961
A film producer (Guy Doleman) devises a deadly plan to finance a project.
2. Clue of the New Pin
Aired 25 January 1961
Rex Lander (Paul Daneman) is prime suspect in his rich uncle's murder, but there's no evidence to pin it on him.
3. Man in the Back Seat
Aired 1 June 1961
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.
4. The Fourth Square
Aired 4 July 1961
The chief suspect in a series of jewel robberies is found dead.
5. Man at the Carlton Tower
Aired 15 July 1961
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.
6. Clue of the Silver Key
Aired 27 July 1961
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.
7. Seven Keys
Aired 1 August 1961
An ex-con goes looking for his late cellmate's hidden loot.
8. Attempt to Kill
Aired 12 August 1961
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.
9. House of Mystery
Aired 16 August 1961
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.
10. Man Detained
Aired 16 October 1961
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?
11. Never Back Losers
Aired 27 October 1961
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.
12. The Sinister Man
Aired 13 December 1961
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.