Fact Based Crime series (1951 - 52)

"Whitehall 1212" is the number of Scotland Yard, and the alarmed woman ringing the number of the show sets the situation.

Presenting some of the "most baffling cases" of the famed Scotland Yard is Chief Inspector John Davison, caretaker of the Yard's famed "Black Museum." Each artifact in the Black Museum has seen its own crime, whether just or premeditated. Now the simple objects are kept as sinister reminders of the actual events and deeds.

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Wyllis Cooper, who had previously done the excellent thriller show Quiet Please, worked from research to write the scripts, which he then directed, using a cast of London-based actors. The results are polished, thrilling, factual crime drama.

For more fact based crime drama, see also: Black Museum, Dragnet, Tales of the Texas Rangers, and Unit 99.