User Reviews

This second episode is such an enjoyable, watchable piece of nostalgia. The delivery is very light, almost whimsical, I can't imagine any drama being made now with cheerful accompanying music as a man is gassed to death. The tone may be light, but the story and crime is the reverse, very dark, quite grim, but wonderfully clever and imaginative. Who'd have thought anyone could link a death by telephone kiosk with stolen Marble chippings, only the mind of Mr JG Reeder. I find a lot of black and white shows from the 60's wonderfully atmospheric, partly due to the black and white, partly the camera work, this is certainly such a show. It looks so much better in black and white then colour, this episode looks suitably eerie at times.

Really enjoyable.

Based on the short stories by Edgar Wallace. The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder are quirky offbeat crime stories accompanied by some jaunty music.

This one starts with a man gassed to death as he takes a telephone call. An old family firm has money embezzled from it. Young Sidney Telfer who runs the company is ineffectual, he is even afraid of his old nanny.

Reeder has been sent in to investigate. He believes that the secretary in the company who also lives near to him might soon become a murder suspect.

At times this really looked like a short story that was being stretched. It was nice enough mystery, rather fiendish. Very reminiscent of Thame Television's other show. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.

Reeder works for the Office of the Public Prosecutor and looks like a quiet and meek man from the outside but he possesses a keen mind.

His larger than life boss Sir Jason Toovey is played by Willoughby Goddard. He was Gessler in the early ITV series William Tell. He really was big man and his girth looked worse on a large screen television. I was surprised to discover that he lived until he was 81 and was much younger than actor Hugh Burden who played Reeder.