Scotland Yard is a half-hour ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 crime

Crime

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/drama

Drama

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 television series, which uses police files from the British Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became...

 investigative force in the shaping of each episode. The series aired on Sunday evenings in the 1957-1958 season, having premiered on November 17, 1957, but the sixty-three episodes filmed would have spilled over into the 1958-1959 season. Yet, Scotland Yard is not listed as having gone into a second season. Nor is there an indication that the later segments were syndicated. Perhaps many of the later segments never aired.

Selected episodes of the program are hosted by the British novelist and journalist Edgar Lustgarten

Edgar Lustgarten

Edgar Marcus Lustgarten was a British broadcaster and noted crime writer.His books included crime fiction, but most were accounts of true-life criminal cases. The legal justice system and courtroom procedures were his main interests and his writings reflect this...

. Russell Napier

Russell Napier

Russell Gordon Napier was an Australian actor.Russell Napier was born in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a lawyer, Napier was active as an actor from 1947 to 1974, playing both comedic and dramatic roles in both cinema and television. Notably, he starred in a live BBC television production...

 stars as Inspector Duggan. John Woodvine

John Woodvine

John Woodvine is an English stage and screen actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.-Early life:...

 appears as Inspector Kingdom. John Carlisle

John Carlisle (actor)

John Carlisle is a British television and stage actor.John Carlisle had regular roles in Emergency - Ward 10, Scotland Yard on ABC, 1957–1958, and the London Weekend Television series New Scotland Yard as Detective Sergeant Ward.He also appeared in the BBC series The Omega Factor as the morally...

 fills the role of Inspector Ward.

Episode list

Here is the list of Scotland Yard episodes with a brief synopsis:

• And When You're Wrong - Series premiere, an unscrupulous former insurance agent is hired to solve a case of missing art works, but he turns up dead.
• The Banker - A banker for an organized crime syndicate is found dead.
• Don't Go Out Alone - Patricia Donahue portrays a wealthy woman who hires an escort for a night on the town. She is found murdered, and her jewelry is also missing.
• Error of Judgment - A member of Parliament
  Parliament
  A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...
  
   is murdered. He had tried to clear the name of a man who was executed twelve years earlier.
• Inside Information - On Guy Fawkes Day, a charred effigy
  Effigy
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   is an actual corpse.
• The Mysterious Bullet - Police search for a murder weapon that can clear two innoncent men and convict a killer.
• Papa Charlie - An intruder breaks into Inspector Kingdom's house and holds his wife, played by Sally Home, as hostage.
• Perfect in Every Way - A 19-year-old finds the body of a retired police inspector in a park. Inspectors Kingdom and Ward investigate.
• Rogues Gallery - A stolen painting appears at a museum, and the curator is murdered.
• We Do What We Can - A woman suspects that her husband is seeking to return to a life of crime.
• Who's Harry - Inspectors Kingdom and Ward investigate the prison escape of a ruthless killer.
• Ask No Questions - Kingdom investigates the murder of a pregnant woman whose body is found on a garbage heap.
• The Case of the River Morgue - A body is stolen from a mortuary and returned the next day in different clothing.
• Hoax - Inspector Kingdom investigates a series of bomb threats, then an unusual occurrence.
• Late Night Final - An investigation into a late-night robbery of a warehouse
• My Boy, Robby - A woman discovers a dead boy in a park while she is out walking her dog.
• Passenger to Tokyo - At Yokohama
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  , police find the body of a mutilated woman in the trunk of a British businessman.
• Reunion - A lawyer is robbed and murdered on the night that a bank robber escapes from prison.
• Shadow of a Deadbeat - Police investigate the murder of a vagrant.
• Weight of Evidence - A woman witnesses a bank robbery by three masked men.
• Blazing Caravan - The winner of a football game of chance is found murdered.
• Bullet from the Past - The shooting of an elderly insurance agent reveals clues to a previous murder.
• The Candlelight Murder - The body of a missing recluse apparently turns up badly mutilated.
• Exchange Is No Robbery - Inspector Kingdom investigates a bank raid with an officer with whom he has previously quarreled.
• Gathering of Dust - Kingdom investigates the discovery of a human skeleton at a demolition site.
• Hard Contract - Kingdom investigates the common link of three murder victims; each had been approached by a phony detective inspector.
• Night Crossing - Inspector Duggan investigates the appearance of the body of a young woman on the beach.
• Night Plane to Amsterdam - A murderous safecracker wears a glove only on the right hand.
• Nothing to Live For - Kingdom investigates a murder that stirs up the memory of a tragedy in his own family.
• The Silent Witness - A husband claims the death of his wife was accidental.
• Stone - A civil servant finds a colleague dead amid confidential files.
• The Strange Case of Blondie - Inspector Duggan investigates a blonde woman who turns to robbery and murder.
• Daisy Chain - Inspectors Kingdom and Ward question a link between the murder of a justice of the peace and the skeleton of a girl found on a construction site.
• The Dark Stairway - The only witness to a murder is a missing blind man.
• Destination Death - Duggan investigates a man murdered at the airport.
• The Lonely House - Two murderers use a matrimonial agency as a front.
• Memory of Gauntlet - A murdered letter carrier is found to have been a guard in a Nazi concentration camp.
• The Missing Man - A mother's dream leads police to the body of her missing son.
• Point of Impact - A police officer becomes the target of protestors when he is suspected of having killed a young demonstrator.
• Wrong UN - Investigation into a prison murder
• Evidence of Character - Gossipers smear a man's reputation because they believe he is a murderer.
• Shock Tactics - A man reports the accidental death of his wife as a result of a practical joke, but investigators are unsure of his claim.
• Two into One---Will Go - Inspector Kingdom investigation a murder and a stolen-car racket.
• Palais Romeo - Kingdom loses his objectivity in the investigation of the murder of several middle-aged women.
• Person Unknown - Inspector Duggan investigates the death of a quarry foreman killed in an explosion.
• Monopoly - Kingdom investigates the murder of a man killed during a game of Monopoly
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• The Wall of Death - An investigation into the death of a motorcycle
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   stunt driver
• Case of Prejudice - Kingdom and Ward investigate the violent death of a robbery
  Robbery
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   victim.
• The Stateless Man - Police investigate a Czech refugee whose fiancee is found dead in a boardinghouse.
• Money Game - A purse snatcher leaves behind a victim's bag full of counterfeit money.
• Bird in a Haystack - Kingdom investigates the murder of a man killed by a bullet through a parlor window.
• The Case of the Smiling Widow - An art collector's paintings reveal a clue about the murder of an artist.
• Fire in Honeypot - An extortionist covers a murder with a number of nightclub fires.
• The Drayton Case - The skeleton of a strangled woman suddenly appears.
• Murder Anonymous - The fresh paw print of a dog is the only evidence in a murder.
• The Comeback - Kingdom and Ward investigate the seemingly motive-less murder of a respected retired banker.
• London Bridge - Three seemingly unrelated events lead to an investigation of murder and blackmail
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• Prove It - Inspectors Kingdom and Ward pursue a crime boss when a small-time crook is found murdered.
• Property, Dogs and Women - Young Christmas carol
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  ers run afoul of a juvenile gang.
• Diamonds Are Not For Ever - Kingdom and Ward investigate a robbery at the home of a wealthy jeweler and find someone taking pictures of the man's wife and her lover.
• The Mail Van Murder - Thieves seize a mail truck and kill the driver.

Scheduling

Scotland Yard aired at 10 p.m. Eastern opposite The $64,000 Challenge on CBS

CBS

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 and The Loretta Young Show on NBC

NBC

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. It was replaced on the 1958 fall schedule by the five-week series Encounter

Encounter (TV series)

Encounter is a five-week anthology television series aired from Toronto, Canada, and carried by both the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and ABC from October 5 to November 2, 1958.The one-hour dramas were either romance, adventure, or mystery stories...

, a drama anthology which originated from Toronto

Toronto

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, Canada.

From February 1956 to April 1957, Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...

 starred as Colonel Perceval March in a related 26-episode British series, Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of Scotland Yard is a 1950s British television series based on author John Dickson Carr's fictional detective Colonel March from his book The Department of Queer Complaints . Carr was a mystery author who specialised in locked-room whodunnits and other 'impossible' crimes: murder...

. There is also a 15-episode 1957 British series, Stryker of the Yard, starring Clifford Evans

Clifford Evans

Clifford Evans was a Welsh actor. As a conscientious objector he served in the Non-Combatant Corps in World War II.During the summer of 1934 he appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Open Air Theatre in London....

, George Woodbridge

George Woodbridge (actor)

George Woodbridge was an English character actor in films and television from the 1930s to the 1970s...

, and Tim Turner

Tim Turner

Not to be confused with the TV character Timmy Turner of The Fairly OddParents.Tim Turner , was a British actor who performed in the 1950s and 1960s....

. That program is based on a 1953 film

Stryker of the Yard

Stryker of the Yard is a 1953 British crime film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling and Eliot Makeham....

 of the same name, starring Evans and Woodbridge. From 1972-1974, the revised series New Scotland Yard

New Scotland Yard (TV series)

New Scotland Yard was a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television of the ITV network between 1972 and 1974. It featured the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with...

aired in Great Britain.