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

Breakout

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.

The White Trap

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

Partners in Crime

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

Clue of the New Pin

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.

Man in the Back Seat

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

The Fourth Square

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.

Man at the Carlton Tower

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.

Clue of the Silver Key

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

Seven Keys

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.

Attempt to Kill

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.

House of Mystery

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?

Man Detained

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.

Never Back Losers

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.

The Sinister Man

Curzon employs the brash and confident Logan to save his ailing business. However Logan's confidence is not matched by his ability and his desperate measures lead to a life threatening situation.

Backfire

With his marriage failing, a man hires a german assassin to murder his wife, who he suspects is having an affair. Things seem to go to plan at first, until the assassin decides not to kill the woman, but rather kidnap her, while still collecting his fee for the job. The husband wants proof of the muder (a body) before he pays. Things go wrong for both men when proof is not forthcoming.

Candidate for Murder

A victim's boyfriend sneaks into a blackmailer's flat to sort him out, but another man's already there, and both don't realise the crook has been murdered before they got there. The police soon arrive, tipped off in advance.

Flat Two

Supt. Meredith is determined to bring a team of wealthy blackmailers to book. As he piles on the psychological pressure, the criminals begin to look for ways to betray each other and escape with a fortune in diamonds.

The Share Out

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".

Number Six

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.

Time to Remember

Jewel thieves graduate to murder when their elderly hostage dies.

Solo For Sparrow

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

Playback

Locker Sixty Nine

Blackmail is the dividend a stockbroker (Albert Lieven) earns for keeping his ex-client's money.

Death Trap

Theo Gaunt (Maurice Denham) hires an ex-con to steal his wife's jewelry.

The Set Up

A drug addict (Martin Milner) tries to crack a dope ring

Incident at Midnight

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.

The £20,000 Kiss

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.

On the Run

A swindling tycoon (Nigel Davenport) tries to avoid jail by discrediting the prosecutor. 

Return to Sender

A man (Alan MacNaughton) suffering from amnesia, false memory and paralysis of his legs returns to England with his nurse (Jeanette Sterke). He believes he killed his partner 6 months earlier, but the body was never found. They are to stay with her sister (Jane Griffiths) while she continues to try to overcome his handicaps. They are spotted at the airport by the secretary (Anne Lawson) of Basil Henson, who has kept tabs on his movements. Sterke gets engaged in following the trail, which begins with a solicitor and leads to Henson who is a successful stock broker with the same name as MacNaughton's partner.

The Double

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.

To Have and To Hold

Shady dealings and a duplicitious accountant put studio head Wayne Douglas and his new Oriental actress Lin in peril. Starring Yoko Tani, Guy Doleman, Ewan Roberts, Mark Eden and Anthony Booth. Directed by Garard Glaister.

The Partner

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. Starring John Carson, Jacqueline Ellis, Derrick Sherwin and Richard Vernon. Directed by Geoffrey Nethercott.

Accidental Death

Alan Roper is a smart 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. Starring Lee Montague, Ingrid Hafner, John Thaw and Brian McDermott. Directed by Gordon Flemyng.

Five to One

A Swedish millionaire (Jack Gwillin) thinks the world of his daughter---and it may cost that much to get her back from kidnappers.

The Rivals

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.

Ricochet

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

Downfall

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. Starring Maurice Kaufmann, Faith Brook, Alec Mango and Hugh Paddick. Directed by Quentin Lawrence.

We Shall See

A well-off couple who work in the theatre plan to temporarily swap their country manor for the city home of an elderly couple. When they arrive in city, there is no sign of the address they were given. At the same time, their home is being looted of its expensive antiques and furniture. However, a friend stumbles onto the thieves and chases them out. When the couple arrives home, they find themselves subjected to odd occurrences, like poisoned pets and livestock. Someone seems to be taking advantage of the situation to upset their lives.

Act of Murder

Top surgeon Philip Teasdale (Dudley Foster) 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

Never Mention Murder

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.

Face of a Stranger

Joe Armstrong, a big-time racketeer, is deported back to Great Britain from America to find himself facing a murder rap for a killing he had committed twenty years before. Starring Cec Linder, Nigel Davenport, Zena Marshall and Paul Stassino. Directed by David Eady.

The Verdict

Philip Teasdale, an eminent heart surgeon, is having his attractive artist wife watched by a private detective - not for purposes of divorce, but for a nasty form of revenge. Starring Maxine Audley, Dudley Foster, Michael Coles and Pauline Yates.

Who Was Maddox?

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.

Game For Three Losers

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.

Change Partners

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.

Strangler's Web

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.

Dead Man's Chest

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.

The Main Chance

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.

All Episodes of Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Browse all episodes of Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Season 1

Breakout

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/1959

The White Trap

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/1/1959