Guilty Party

Contents

Host

Not known

Co-hosts

Regular panellists: John Arlott, F.R. Buckley, Robert Fabian

Regular actors: Jon Farrell as "Private Detective Joe McCready" and Hamilton Dyce as "Inspector Galloway"

Broadcast

BBC Home Service (Light Programme from 1957), 19 February 1954 to 9 October 1962

BBC-tv (2 one-offs), 23 November 1956 and 1957

Synopsis

"A problem in crime detection". Each episode started with a short crime play, written by Edward J. Mason. Then the three regular panellists got to "cross-examine" the characters in an attempt to name the guilty party.

A second TV episode was broadcast in 1957 with the panel replaced by John Dickson Carr, the famous crime writer.

Inventor

Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane

See also

Foul Play was a similar format, played more for laughs.

Web links

Radio episode list

Hear "The Gamblers" from 1960

Hear "The Case of the Empty Chimney" from 1962

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