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 (10)
1. Number Six
Aired 15 February 1962
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'.
2. Time to Remember
Aired 22 April 1962
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.
3. Locker Sixty-Nine
Aired 15 May 1962
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.
4. Playback
Aired 11 September 1962
A German immigrant seduces a young P.C. and talks him into an elaborate scheme.
5. Solo for Sparrow
Aired 28 September 1962
A gang of thieves are implicated in a murder while executing a jewellery shop heist.
6. Death Trap
Aired 1 October 1962
Carol Halston discovers her sister withdrew £7000 before she died. The money is now missing.