Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Genre	Drama
Directed by	Cy Endfield
Starring	Boris Karloff Ewan Roberts
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Fountain Films
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	1 February 1956 – 1 April 1957

Colonel March of Scotland Yard is a 1950s British television series based on author John Dickson Carr's (aka Carter Dickson) fictional detective Colonel March from his book The Department of Queer Complaints (1940). Carr was a mystery author who specialised in locked-room whodunnits and other 'impossible' crimes: murder mysteries that seemed to defy possibility. The stories of the television series followed in the same vein with Detective March solving cases that baffle Scotland Yard and the British police.

The series was made at Southall Studios in Middlesex, England and was produced by Fountain Films for ITV. The series premiered in 1955 with a total of 26 episodes. The show starred Boris Karloff as the urbane, eye-patched sleuth (no reason was ever given for the loss of his eye). Other regulars included Ewan Roberts as Inspector Ames of Scotland Yard and Eric Pohlmann as Inspector Goron of the Paris Sûreté.

A related series Scotland Yard, hosted by Edgar Lustgarten' and starring John Woodvine, Russell Napier, and John Carlisle aired on the American Broadcasting Company in the 1957-1958 television season.

List of episodes

1. The Sorcerer
2. The Abominable Snowman
3. Present Tense
4. At Night All Cats Are Gray
5. The Case of the Kidnapped Poodle
6. The Invisible Knife
7. The Strange Event at Roman Hall
8. The Headless Hat
9. The Second Mona Lisa
10. Death in Inner Space
11. The Talking Head
12. The Devil Sells His Soul
13. Murder is Permanent
14. The Silent Vow
15. Death and the Other Monkey
16. The Stolen Crime
17. The Silver Curtain
18. Error at Daybreak
19. Hot Money
20. The Missing Link
21. The Case of the Misguided Missal
22. The Deadly Gift
23. The Case of the Lively Ghost
24. Death in the Dressing Room
25. The New Invisible Man
26. Passage at Arms

Availability on Home Video

The series has never been legally released to home video in any format. It has turned up in various grey market collections in poor condition, missing the episode "The Case of the Lively Ghost."

External links

• Colonel March of Scotland Yard at the Internet Movie Database
• Colonel March of Scotland Yard ep. "The Silver Curtain" is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]