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The Black Museum

38 episodes · 1952 · Syndicated · Detective

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Orson Welles walks through Scotland Yard's Black Museum, picking up an ordinary object, a scarf, a raincoat, a walking stick, and telling the true murder case behind it. Produced in Britain by Harry Alan Towers and heard on Mutual in 1952.

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1952

• The Bathtub 1952 · Syndicated · 27 min
  A man with wives all over the place.
• The Gladstone Bag 1952 · Syndicated · 27 min
• The Brass Button 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
  The "swamp girl" is found murdered.
• The Tin of Weed Killer 1952 · Syndicated · 27 min
• The Canvas Bag 1952 · Syndicated · 25 min
  A young woman is swindled.
• The Car Tyre 1952 · Syndicated · 25 min
  A policeman is murdered when he stops a stolen car.
• The Champagne Glass 1952 · Syndicated · 24 min
• The Scarf 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
  A man named Pike strangles his victims with a scarf.
• The Four Small Bottles 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
  An old man with a young wife is poisoned with chloroform.
• The Dictionary 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
  A pub owner is poisoned. Was it his wife and her French-speaking lover?
• The Receipt 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
  A receipt for ten gallons of petrol leads to the killer of a police constable.
• Glass Shards 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
  A father and son find an intruder in their flat, and the father is shot.
• The Hammerhead 1952 · Syndicated · 24 min
  Women are disappearing around the country, two dozen of them.
• The Jack Handle 1952 · Syndicated · 27 min
  An American soldier and a pub singer in wartime London turn to robbery and murder.
• A Jar of Acid 1952 · Syndicated · 27 min
  A woman disappears after an appointment with a charming research chemist.
• The Khaki Handkerchief 1952 · Syndicated · 24 min
  Two women are found dead in a wood, and a handkerchief points to the army.
• A Lady's Shoe 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
  A woman's new husband turns out to be a fortune hunter and a murderer.
• The Leather Bag 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
  A body with five bullets in the head is found on a train.
• The Letter 1952 · Syndicated · 25 min
  A clever, well-educated forger swindles the banks.
• Mandolin Strings 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
  A woman marries twice, and both husbands fall down the stairs and break their necks.
• Meat Juice 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
  A two-timing wife has almost certainly poisoned her hypochondriac husband.
• The Wooden Mallet 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
  On Guy Fawkes night, a man's body is found in a burning car.
• The Open End Wrench 1952 · Syndicated · 25 min
  A woman found dead in a car leads Scotland Yard to a killer with a wrench.
• A Pair of Spectacles 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
  A woman disappears on her way to visit a strange chicken farmer.
• The Pink Powder Puff 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
  A murderer tells his life story while waiting to be hanged.
• The Postcard 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
  A woman secretly married to a man is found dead in his room.
• The Prescription 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
  A paralyzed woman leaves her fortune to her nurse in a new will.
• The Raincoat 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
  A husband is convicted of his wife's murder, but reasonable doubt spares him from the gallows.
• The Service Card 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
  A murderer is trapped by the mileage on his victim's car.
• The Sheath Knife 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
• The Canvas Shopping Bag 1952 · Syndicated · 27 min
  A man who has murdered five times is caught by his faded green shopping bag.
• The Shilling 1952 · Syndicated · 25 min
  A man out of prison wants his nightclub back, and when his brother is murdered, a coin leads to the gallows.
• The Silencer 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
  A man moving into a new house is shot with a silenced gun, and more murders follow.
• The Small White Boxes 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
• The Razor 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
  A little man with a foreign accent who might have been Jack the Ripper.
• The Telegram 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
  A chauffeur with a taste for murder and poor spelling is caught by a telegram.
• The Walking Stick 1952 · Syndicated · 25 min
  A walking stick once used by Garibaldi is the clue to the murder of a doctor's wife.
• A Woman's Pigskin Glove 1952 · Syndicated · 27 min
  Three women are shot, each with a single bullet, and a woman's glove is the clue.