The BBC presents "Guilty Party". A problem in Crime detection in which you are invited to match your wits with a panel of experts - John Arlott, F.R. Buckley and Robert Fabian. So began a typical episode of the long running panel show. It was devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason. The scripts were written by Mason and the series produced by Shryane. The shows started with a dramatised crime play, the panel then decided on a line of investigation and cross examined the suspects, who gave unscripted answers to their questions. This cross examination should then lead the panel to the Guilty Party!  From the Second series, two regular characters were featured in the dramatisations. Private detective Joe McCready (Jon Farrell) and Police Inspector Galloway (Hamilton Dyce).