Whitehall 1212 (radio show)
Whitehall 1212 was a weekly crime drama radio show in the United States that ran from November 18, 1951 until September 28, 1952. Its cases were taken from the files of Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
History
Whitehall 1212, named after the then famous telephone number of Scotland Yard—the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force—was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and broadcast by NBC. It was similar in scope to contemporary The Black Museum. It was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of the Black Museum and it used many of the same picked cases a contemporary radio show called The Black Museum, and it nearly mirrored The Black Museum's broadcast run. The two shows were different in the respect that while Whitehall 1212 told the story of a case entirely from the point of view of the police starting from the crime scene, The Black Museum was more heavily dramatized and played out scenes of the actual murders and included scenes from the criminal's point of view.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Dunning 1998, p. 721.