form y separately published work icon Walk a Crooked Mile series - publisher   film/TV   detective   crime  
Adaptation of A Stranger in Paradise Lindsay Hardy , 1956 single work radio play
Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Walk a Crooked Mile
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The police are called in to investigate a murder on a film set.

For a detailed, episode-by-episode synopsis, see Film Details.

Notes

  • The screenplay for this television series is based on several versions of Lindsay Hardy's original short story 'Morning-After Murder.' A crime thriller set in Hollywood, the story was first published in the US Cosmopolitan magazine in 1955. Hardy soon afterwards adapted it into a radio serial called A Stranger in Paradise.

    Despite the names, there does not seem to be a correlation between this work and the 1956 radio serial by the same author, also called Walk a Crooked Mile, produced in Australia by Grace Gibson Productions.

    The BBC television series does not share any relationship with the 1956 Harry Dearth Playhouse radio play Walk a Crooked Mile, which is based on the 1948 Columbia Pictures film of the same name.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1961
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      BBC TV ,
      1961 .
      Extent: 6 x 30 min.p.
      Description: Black and white
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