Nat Cohen
Director
The Edgar Wallace Mysteries (1959)
Season 5
The Edgar Wallace Mysteries is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre on television in the United States.
Released Dec. 4, 1959
Episode 42 min
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Production Companies: Independent Artists, Beaconsfield Studios, Film Producers Guild, Merton Park Studios Ltd., Anglo-Amalgamated Productions
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S5E1 - S5.E1 ∙ The Partner
hady 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.
Sept. 10, 1963, midnight
S5E2 - S5.E2 ∙ Accidental Death
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.
Nov. 21, 1963, midnight
S5E3 - S5.E3 ∙ Five to One
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.
Dec. 26, 1963, midnight
S5E4 - S5.E4 ∙ Downfall
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife.
Dec. 31, 1963, midnight
S5E5 - S5.E5 ∙ The Verdict
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.
Feb. 4, 1964, midnight
S5E6 - S5.E6 ∙ We Shall See
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.
Feb. 6, 1964, midnight
S5E7 - S5.E7 ∙ Who Was Maddox?
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.
June 10, 1964, midnight
S5E8 - S5.E8 ∙ Act of Murder
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.
Sept. 10, 1964, midnight
S5E9 - S5.E9 ∙ Face of a Stranger
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.
Sept. 15, 1964, midnight
S5E10 - S5.E10 ∙ Never Mention 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
Sept. 16, 1964, midnight
S5E11 - S5.E11 ∙ The Main Chance
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.
June 8, 1966, midnight
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 40 min.
Released: Dec. 4, 1959
Last Air Date: Sept. 27, 1967, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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