Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Whitehall 1212 "Electric Torch" (9-28-52)

Whitehall 1212 is a crime drama featuring cases from New Scotland Yard's "Black Museum". Unlike the show starring Orson Welles, however, this series was done with the official support of The Yard and tries to downplay the sensational aspects of thes cases and highlight the rigorous police work that went into solving them.THIS EPISODE:Whitehall 1212. September 28, 1952. NBC net. Sustaining. The last show of the series. An electric torch is in the "Black Museum" because it made an excellent wepon. A drunkard has been killed, by a man in love with the alcoholic's wife. It sounds as if the announcer had some fun with the writer-director of the program and pronounced his name at the very end of the show "Wyllis Cuckoo." Percy Hoskins (research), Wyllis Cooper (writer, director), Horace Braham, Lester Fletcher, Harvey Hayes, Cathleen Cordell, Maurice Delamore, Carl Harburg, Florence Sears. 29:32.