Guilty Party
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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.