Episodes
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Black Museum – A Letter. ep24, 520612
When a master forger uses innocent Londoners to cash bogus checks, Scotland Yard must untangle a web of deception and a mysterious letter to catch a killer.
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Black Museum – The Leather Bag. ep23, 520605
A body is reported to the local constables, and the slow but steady wheels of policework begin. Evidence is gathered and examined, people in the area are questioned to start…
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Black Museum – A Ladys Shoe. ep22, 520529
Orson Wells takes us on a tour through the Black Museum, then presents a featured item, a lady’s fashionable shoe. It was a dark and stormy night as the middle-aged…
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Black Museum – The Khaki Handkerchief. ep21, 1952
It’s the kind of a handkerchief that a soldier might use, but you can bet it didn’t belong to any hero. Orson Wells shows an exhibit or two in the…
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Black Museum – The Black Gladstone Bag. ep4, 520122
Taking a tour through the Black Museum, Orson Wells introduces today’s instrument of death. A regular piece of luggage belonging to Jim, a travelling salesman, but now is tainted with…
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Black Museum – A Jar Of Acid. ep20, 520515
The story of crime begins in the echoing halls of the Black Museum. Then we have Orson Wells transition us to a scene of two women who wait for a…
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Black Museum – The Jack Handle. ep19, 1952
Dramatic story’s from the Gallery of Death, presented by Orson Wells. We are taken to a time during the war, when American troops found out of the way cafes to…
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Black Museum – The Hammerhead Matter. ep18, 520501
A practical tool becomes a deadly weapon, and Orson Wells tells us how it all went down. From the echoing halls of the Black Museum, we go to a train…
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Black Museum – Glass Shards. ep17, 520424
Orson Wells presents how a few glass shards found their way into the gallery of death. After a hard day at work and school, Charles, and Charles Jr arrive home.…
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Black Museum – The Gas Receipt. ep16, 520417
Every week a look at a different item in the Black Museum of Scotland Yard is presented by Orson Wells. Sometimes a typical weapon of murder, and sometimes a mundane…
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Black Museum – A French English Dictionary. ep15, 520410
Many different articles can be used for murder, or at least connected in a key way to murder. The featured item today is a French English dictionary. How in the…
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Black Museum- The 22 Caliber Pistol. ep1, 520101
Orson Welles presents a display from Scotland Yard’s Museum of murder. Each item is a crucial part in solving a case, as well as carrying the disposition of the case.…
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Black Museum – Four Small Bottles. ep14, 520403
Sometimes the smallest of common items can be the link to murder. Today, Orson Wells portrays how four small bottles were archived in the Black Museum. Oscar has a friend…
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Black Museum – The Door Key. 12, 1952.
As he often does, Orson Wells takes us on a tour of the items in the Black Museum. He points out the door key that he features in today’s story…
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Black Museum – The Champagne Glass. ep10, 1952
The Colonel is a high powered businessman. On returning home, he calls on a doctor to take care of his wife, who is having pains. A couple of months go…
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Black Museum – The Car Tire. ep9, 520226
Orson wells tells how a regular car tire ended up in Scotland Yard’s museum of murder. A car theft goes off without a hitch until the two speeding car thieves…
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Black Museum – – The Canvas Bag . ep8, 520219
A canvass shopping bag, used for merchants to transport goods from one store to another is the centerpiece of today’s murder. Mary Wilson packs her suitcase to run off and…
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Black Museum – A Can Of Weedkiller. ep7, 520212.
John and Helen live in a Norman castle with their daughter, Joy. A household accident finds Helen being hurt, and the family is overly worried. The doctor isn’t so alarmed,…
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Black Museum – The Brass Button. ep6, 520205
A simple brass button, common to any military parade ground, is the focus on solving the latest featured crime in the Black Museum. A young woman with artistic inclinations is…
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Black Museum – The Bloodstained Brick Bat. ep5, 520129.
A young man responds to a help wanted ad. He does good work for the family, and all seems well, and quite normal in the household. Cousin Alma, a house…
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Black Museum – The Bath Tub. ep3, 520115.
The instrument of death is introduced as Orson Wells takes us through the Black Museum. The mystery rolls the clock back to the year of 1910, and a peaceful afternoon…
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Black Museum – A 32 Caliber Bullet. ep2, 520108.
Orson Wells takes us on a brief tour of Scotlandyard’s Black Museum of items that have been tainted with murder. After a few displays he settles on a .32 calibre…
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Black Museum – The 22 Caliber Pistol. ep1, 520101.
Events at a party seem typical, until a gunshot is heard. The prime suspect is Mrs Davis who claims she had nothing to do with it, and is distraught over…
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Black Museum – The Wool Jacket. ep51, 1952
Death, dressed in it’s Sunday best. Amid all the artifacts in the Black Museum, Orson Wells takes us back to the 1920’s, and how a young man and woman met.…
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Black Museum – A Shilling. ep40, 1952
Scotland Yard’s museum of murder is filled with commonplace items, all linked with death. Orson Wells shares how a shilling coin played a part in murder. A murder has taken…
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Black Museum – The Sash Cord 1952 (retro437)
It’s a harmless bit of rope, but it’s just the right length to wrap around a man’s throat and strangle him. Orson Wells provides the voiceover narration as Scotland Yard…
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Black Museum – A Womans Pigskin Glove. ep50, 1952
Join Orson Wells as he introduces us to a simple woman’s glove, but it has a history of murder. Three women are found murdered while enkjoying tea together, and the…
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Black Museum – The Walking Stick. ep49, 1952
In the Black Museum, Orson Wells points out an exhibit that tells the story of a walking stick. It comes from Alaska, and belongd to a man who has friends…
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Black Museum – Two Bullets. ep48, 1952
In the Black Museum, Orson Wells points out two bullets, and how they were connected to the same weapon in committing murder, although the crimes were years apart. Though it’s…
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Black Museum – A Trunk. ep47, 1952
Take a tour through the Black Museum of Scotland Yard, and let Orson Wells tell about a few of the displays. Today he settles on an ordinary, heavy steamer trunk.…
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Black Museum – The Tan Shoe. ep45, 1952
The tan shoe of the left foot has what appears to be a blood stain on the heel. It’s just the thing to link it to murder, and win it’s…
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Black Museum – The Straight Razor. ep44, 1952
Walk through the exhibits as Orson Wells shares something about them, before arriving at the straight razor that is key to today’s case. The Wilson’s own a pub, but when…
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Black Museum – The Spotted Bedsheet. ep43, 1952
It isn’t always weapons or poison that find a place in the Black Museum. Today Orson Wells shares the tale of a common household item that won a place there.…
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Black Museum – The Small White Boxes. ep42, 1952
What do innocent little white boxes have to do with murder? Orson Wells tells all about how they won their place in the Black Museum. The case dates back to…
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Black Museum – A Silencer. ep41, 1952
In reviewing the various instruments of death in the Black Museum, Orson Wells presents how a silencer found it’s way in its display. Before turning in for the evening, Herbert…
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Black Museum – A Shilling. ep40, 1952.
Orson Wells presents a story of how a Shilling coin became the key evidence in a case of murder. Two brothers, Joey and David, have sworn to kill each other.…
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Black Museum – The Shopping Bag. ep39, 1952.
The Black Museum is a warehouse of regular items that somehow became involved in murder. Orson Wells tells us how a simple canvass shopping bag won it’s place there, as…
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Black Museum – The Sheath Knife. ep38, 1952.
Examine a few of the artifacts, as Orson Wells points out how a simple sheath knife became involved in murder. Scotland Yard investigators are looking for a man with a…
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Black Museum – A Service Card. ep37, 1952.
Take another tour through the Black Museum, with Orson Wells as your guide through the instruments of death. Roll the clock back to 1947 where parents worry about their son…
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Black Museum – The Raincoat. ep35, 1952
A typical raincoat is presented by Orson Wells as the object of focus in the Black Museum. How is it connected to murder? When friends get worried, they go to…
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Black Museum – A Prescription. ep34, 1952
As we look at a few exhibits from the Black Museum, we learn the drama behind the featured item. Orson Wells presents a story of a woman with a terminal…
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Black Museum – The Telegram. ep46, 1952
A common telegram holds the invitation to die. Orson Wells is on hand to trace how it became a fixture in Scotland Yard’s black museum of death. The forces of…
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Black Museum – The Pair Of Spectacles. ep30, 1952.
Reporting in from London, Orson Wells takes us on another tour through the Black Museum. Today’s featured exhibit is an ordinary pair of women’s eyeglasses. How did this typical household…
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Black Museum – The Open Ended Wrench. ep29, 1952.
From the annals of the cases of crime at Scotland Yard, Orson Wells brings us another display of murder. This time it’s about how a common tool of mechanics has…
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Black Museum – The Old Wooden Mallet. ep28, 1952.
Orson Wells walks us through a few of the exhibits in the Black Museum before stopping to feature today’s display. In England it’s customary to have bon fires through the…
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Black Museum – The Notes. ep27, 1952.
A slogan that was popular through the war, Kilroy was here, is the connection to a murder. Orson wells introduces us to a few exhibits, but lands on the scribble…
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Black Museum – Meat Juice. ep26, 1952.
Orson Wells examines another display in the Black Museum. At a wedding anniversary, it becomes known that Robert is a hypochondriac. Orson takes part in portraying the crime through the…
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Black Museum – The Mandolin String. ep25, 1952.
Take a tour of the Black Museum with Orson Wells, and learn how a common object has become entwined with murder. In the days of polished carriages, and King Edward,…