Scotland Yard

Edgar Lustgarten introduces

SCOTLAND YARD
1 The Drayton Case 7*
2 The Missing Man 4*
3 The Candlelight Murder 6*
4 THE BLAZING CARAVAN 7*
5 The Dark Stairway 5*
6 Late Night Final 4*
7 Fatal Journey 6*
8 The Strange Case of Blondie 7*
9 THE SILENT WITNESS
10 PASSENGER TO TOKYO 6*
11 NIGHT PLANE TO AMSTERDAM 6*
12 THE STATELESS MAN 3*

13 The Mysterious Bullet 2*
14 Murder Anonymous 3*
16 Case Of The River Morgue 4*
17 Destination Death 5*
18 Person Unknown 6*
19 THE LONELY HOUSE 8*
20 Bullet from the Past 6*
21 Inside Information 5*
22 The Case of The Smiling Widow 6*
23 THE MAIL VAN MURDER 4*
24 The Tyburn Case 7*
25 The White Cliffs Mystery 6*
26 Night Crossing 5*

27 Print of Death 5*
28 CRIME OF HONOUR 5*
29 The Cross Road Gallows 5*
30 THE UNSEEING EYE 6*
31 THE GHOST TRAIN MURDER 6*
32 The Dover Road Mystery 7*
33 The Last Train 5*
34 Evidence in Concrete 6*
35 The Silent Weapon 6*
36 The Grand Junction Case 5*
37 The Never Never Murder 6*
38 Wings Of Death 1*
39 THE SQUARE MILE MURDER 4*

SCALES OF JUSTICE
1 The Guilty Party 2*
2 A Woman's Privilege 2*
3 Moment of Decision 3*
4 Position of Trust 1*
5 The Undesirable Neighbour 2*
6 Invisible Asset 5*
7 Personal and Confidential 2*
8 Hidden Face 4*
9 Material Witness 8*
10 Company of Fools 6*
11 The Haunted Man 5*
12 Infamous Conduct 1*
13 Payment in Kind 6*

"Scotland Yard" was a series of 39 films made at Merton Park Studios from 1953 to 1961 as cinema second features. From 1962 Edgar Lustgarten hosted 13 courtroom dramas under the title "Scales of Justice," the series ending in 1967 when the studios closed.
Scotland Yard was retitled Casebook, slightly cut to a 25 minute running time and shown on tv in the early sixties. Channel Four repeated much of the series with its original title Scotland Yard in the 80's, and also premiered for British TV, Scales of Justice. Bravo screened the same episodes of Scotland Yard in the 1990's.

The first introduction to Scotland Yard was pronounced in a dramatic voice thus- "Scotland Yard! Nerve centre of London's Metropolitan Police, headquarters of its Department of Criminal Investigation. Scotland Yard! A name that appears on almost every page of the annals of crime detection. Scotland Yard! Where night and day a determined body of men carry on a relentless unceasing crusade against crime. . . Stored deep in the heart of Scotland Yard are the records of thousands of cases, histories of every breach of the law from larceny to murder, stories of human weakness, of greed and envy, of cunning and stupidity."
A second more sober introduction coincided with new pictures shot in daylight of the area round the Yard: "Scotland Yard- nerve centre of London's department of criminal investigation. Here brains, science, routine and determination join forces in the constant war against crime. In the vaults beneath Scotland Yard are the histories of thousands of cases, evidence of the department's long standing and successful battle with the criminal."
A later introduction, was this- "London- greatest city in the world, and home of the oldest democracy. A city whose worldwide reputation for honesty and integrity is firmly based on a thousand years of the rule of law, enforced and safeguarded by a police force, whose headquarters is as well known as London itself- Scotland Yard! .. Filed in the Records Department of Scotland Yard are the histories of thousands of cases, evidence of the long standing and successful battle with the criminal."