Secrets of Scotland Yard
Mutual
Mutual · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
57
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 57
- Genre
- detective
SECRETS OF SCOTLAND YARD In an earlier time, just prior to and following the Second World War, the general public was fascinated by the subject of crime. Numerous magazines of "True Crime Stories" filled the newsstands. Radio also helped fill the need with fictional heroes such as Johnny Dollar and The Saint . Few true crime dramas, other than Gangbusters or Dragnet , sustained long term success on radio. The Secrets of Scotland Yardwas a successful crime drama series, initially airing internationally between 1949 and 1951. Selected episodes finally came to a US radio network for a brief run much later in 1957 over the Mutual Broadcasting System. The series boasted well over 100 episodes, one of which, "The Bone From A Voice Box", apparently served as the prototype for another well remembered Towers Of London dramatic series, The Black Museum . Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Secrets_Of_Scotland_Yard_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Murder At Moat House Farm · Date unknown
- 2. Bone from a Voice Box · Date unknown
- 3. Crime On The Railway · Date unknown
- 01
Murder At Moat House Farm
Date unknown · 25 min
- 02
Bone from a Voice Box
Date unknown · 32 min
- 03
Crime On The Railway
Date unknown · 26 min
- 04
General Charles Leward aka Death In The Wood
Date unknown · 25 min
- 05
Murder Without Motive
Date unknown · 25 min
- 06
One Man Too Many
Date unknown · 27 min
- 07
Servant Problem
Date unknown · 28 min
- 08
Jean Pierre Vaquier: The Dapper Frenchman
Date unknown · 25 min
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