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Issue Details: First known date: 1952... 1952 Skeleton of the Past
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'A MAN, badly hurt and suffering from loss of memory, stumbled into Scotland Yard one wintry night. He did not even remember his name, so Inspector Scroggs (Jack Raine) called him Terence Drury. For 20 years he lived and worked under that name and became a useful member of the staff. One time he was detailed to investigate the finding of a human skeleton, discovered in a shallow grave in a Devonshire garden. As Drury (Moray Powell) carried out the investigation the dreadful feeling grew upon him that he was in some way implicated in the disappearance of two people. As Terence Drury he continued to do his duty, although it became increasingly clear that he was finally to accuse himself. A surprise denouement merges his past and present life into one.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 5 January 1952.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UW on 12 January 1952, from 8:30pm.

    Director: John Appleton.

    Cast: John Appleton (as Announcer), Moray Powell (as Drury), Jack Raine (as Scroggs), Peter Woodriff (as Peters), Ossie Wenban (as Doctor & Stanhope), Connie Hobbs (as Mrs. Tumley), Colin McAlister (as Hawkins & Driver), Richard Ashley (as Ben), and Deborah Winchcombe (as Sarah).

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