Edgar Wallace Mysteries Season 5

Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife.

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.

A well-off couple who work in the theatre plan to temporarily swap their country manor for the city home of an elderly couple. When they arrive in city, there is no sign of the address they were given. At the same time, their home is being looted of its expensive antiques and furniture. However, a friend stumbles onto the thieves and chases them out. When the couple arrives home, they find themselves subjected to odd occurrences, like poisoned pets and livestock. Someone seems to be taking advantage of the situation to upset their lives.

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

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.

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.

Philip Teasdale, an eminent heart surgeon, is having his attractive artist wife watched by a private detective - not for purposes of divorce, but for a nasty form of revenge. Starring Maxine Audley, Dudley Foster, Michael Coles and Pauline Yates.