Whitehall 1212 radio show (1951-1952, United States)
Episode time
30 minutes
Language
English
The title of the show, Whitehall 1212, refers to the phone number of Scotland Yard because even though it was a fully American radio show, all the scripts (supposedly) were based on true crime cases from the Scotland Yard archives. Hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, who actually was the curator of the Black Museum, a collection of memorabilia kept in the Scotland Yard, each week the show presented a different case, most of which were in later years proved to be actual true-crime stories. Most of them were murder cases, in which a detective or the inspector starts his work when a body is reported to the police and, step by step, unveils the circumstances that led to the crime.
There was also a radio show called The Black Museum, hosted by Orson Wells, which was based on more or less the same set of cases, but the two shows had a slightly different approach to the storytelling. In Whitehall 1212, the whole story was told from the perspective of policemen, who try to solve the case, while The Black Museum was trying to recreate the crime itself and wander into the dark corners of the killer’s mind.
In total, 44 episodes of Whitehall 1212 were produced, which were broadcasted between November 1951 and September 1952.
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