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1. The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.
Stars: John Wilder, George Hilsdon, Bernard Lee, Stanley Morgan
Votes: 199
2.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
The £20,000 Kiss
(1962)
57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Dawn Addams, Michael Goodliffe, Richard Thorp, Anthony Newlands
Votes: 102
3.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Clue of the New Pin
(1961)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a visit from a mysterious stranger from his past, enigmatic millionaire John Trasmore is found dead - shot at close range locked in his own strongroom, with the only key on a table in the middle of the room.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Paul Daneman, James Villiers, Katherine Woodville, Bernard Archard
Votes: 72
4.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Rivals
(1963)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a ransom letter directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Jack Gwillim, Erica Rogers, Brian Smith, Tony Garnett
Votes: 46
5.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Accidental Death
(1963)
57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Geoffrey Nethercott | Stars: John Carson, Jacqueline Ellis, Derrick Sherwin, Richard Vernon
Votes: 40
6.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Fourth Square
(1961)
57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewelry which had led to murder.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Paul Daneman
Votes: 53
7.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Five to One
(1963)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Lee Montague, Ingrid Hafner, John Thaw, Brian McDermott
Votes: 51
8.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Downfall
(1964)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Maurice Denham, Nadja Regin, T.P. McKenna, Peter Barkworth
Votes: 47
9.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Verdict
(1964)
55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: David Eady | Stars: Cec Linder, Zena Marshall, Nigel Davenport, Paul Stassino
Votes: 55
10.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Partner
(1963)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Gerard Glaister | Stars: Yôko Tani, Guy Doleman, Ewan Roberts, Mark Eden
Votes: 44
11.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Who Was Maddox?
(1964)
62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Geoffrey Nethercott | Stars: Bernard Lee, Jack Watling, Suzanne Lloyd, Finlay Currie
Votes: 48
12.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Man at the Carlton Tower
(1961)
57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Allan Cuthbertson, Terence Alexander
Votes: 89
13. Solo for Sparrow (1962)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewelry shop where she works.
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Anthony Newlands, Glyn Houston, Nadja Regin, Michael Coles
Votes: 125
14.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Strangler's Web
(1965)
55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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, ... See full summary »
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: John Stratton, Pauline Munro, Griffith Jones, Gerald Harper
Votes: 44
15.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Flat Two
(1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: John Le Mesurier, Jack Watling, Bernard Archard, Barry Keegan
Votes: 59
16.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Playback
(1962)
62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A German immigrant girl seduces a young P.C. and talks him into an elaborate scheme.
Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Margit Saad, Barry Foster, Victor Platt, Dinsdale Landen
Votes: 46
17.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Locker Sixty Nine
(1962)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A business man'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.
Director: Norman Harrison | Stars: Eddie Byrne, Paul Daneman, Walter Brown, Penelope Horner
Votes: 49
18. The Delavine Affair (1955)
64 min | Crime, Drama
A man's death leads a local newspaperman and the man's girlfriend to seek the killer.
Director: Douglas Peirce | Stars: Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman, Gordon Jackson, Valerie Vernon
Votes: 185
19. Marriage of Convenience (1960)
58 min | Drama, Mystery
An escaped convict discovers his girlfriend has married the detective who arrested him.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, John Cairney, John Van Eyssen, Jennifer Daniel
Votes: 71
20. Man at the Carlton Tower (1961)
57 min | Mystery
When a hotel becomes the scene of a murder and robbery, investigators take to the streets in pursuit of the suspect.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Allan Cuthbertson, Terence Alexander
Votes: 37
21.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Never Back Losers
(1961)
61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis, Patrick Magee, Richard Warner
Votes: 53
22.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Sinister Man
(1961)
61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: John Bentley, Patrick Allen, Jacqueline Ellis, John Glyn-Jones
Votes: 47
23.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Number Six
(1962)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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".
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Ivan Desny, Nadja Regin, Michael Goodliffe, Brian Bedford
Votes: 72
24.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Solo for Sparrow
(1962)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A gang of thieves are implicated in a murder while executing a jewellery shop heist.
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Anthony Newlands, Glyn Houston, Nadja Regin, Michael Coles
Votes: 60
25.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Death Trap
(1962)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Carol Halston discovers her sister withdrew £7000 before she died. The money is now missing. Betrayal, Blackmail and Murder.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Albert Lieven, Barbara Shelley, John Meillon, Mercy Haystead
Votes: 52
26.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Incident at Midnight
(1963)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A team of gangsters hide out in an all pharmacy to await a drugs transaction, little realising one of their hostages is not all they seem
Director: Norman Harrison | Stars: Anton Diffring, William Sylvester, Justine Lord, Martin Miller
Votes: 47
27.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
On the Run
(1963)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Emrys Jones, Sarah Lawson, Patrick Barr, Delphi Lawrence
Votes: 43
28.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Ricochet
(1963)
64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Maxine Audley, Richard Leech, Alex Scott, Dudley Foster
Votes: 52
29.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
To Have and to Hold
(1963)
71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Ray Barrett, Katharine Blake, Nigel Stock, William Hartnell
Votes: 53
30.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Clue of the Twisted Candle
(1960)
61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A blackmailer is found dead in a locked room and all the suspects have unbreakable alibis.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Bernard Lee, David Knight, Francis De Wolff, Colette Wilde
Votes: 69
31.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Man Who Was Nobody
(1960)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A valuable diamond is purchased by a man-about-town who then disappears and his cheque bounces. His solicitor hires a private investigator who seeks to track down the man and his female companion but the fugitive turns up dead.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Hazel Court, John Crawford, Lisa Daniely, Paul Eddington
Votes: 80
32.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Partners in Crime
(1961)
54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A company-owner arrives home from a night out with his wife, disturbs a burglar, and is shot. A detective starts investigating the case, to find out who is responsible.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond, John Van Eyssen, Stanley Morgan
Votes: 89
33.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Game for Three Losers
(1965)
55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Gerry O'Hara | Stars: Michael Gough, Mark Eden, Toby Robins, Rachel Gurney
Votes: 45
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