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

As of July 2016 all 26 episodes are available for streaming on the UK Amazon Prime platform.



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

Revision as of 21:02, 19 July 2016

Colonel March of Scotland Yard
GenreCrime drama
Directed byCy Endfield
StarringBoris Karloff
Ewan Roberts
ComposersEdwin Astley (9 episodes)
Philip Green (1 episode)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
ProducerHannah Weinstein
CinematographyLionel Banes
Running time30 minutes
Production companyFountain Films
Original release
NetworkITV
Release1 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. It was believed only twelve episodes of the series still existed as 35mm black and white prints, the rest having been destroyed (all 26 have been made available on DVD-R, with only "The Devil Sells His Soul" lacking a soundtrack) Recently, Multicom Entertainment Group has made all 26 episodes available. Apparently taken from the original 35mm elements, all of the episodes have been posted online.[1] Two feature films, Colonel March of Scotland Yard and Colonel March Investigates were also released, each comprising three episodes of the TV series.[2]

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.

As of July 2016 all 26 episodes are available for streaming on the UK Amazon Prime platform.


List of episodes

Episode Title
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." The region 2 DVD release of the 1970 Karloff film Cauldron of Blood (aka Blind Man's Bluff) includes the episode The Silver Curtain.

References

  1. ^ "Action TV - Colonel March of Scotland Yard episode guide". Startrader.co.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  2. ^ TV.com. "Colonel March of Scotland Yard". TV.com. Retrieved 9 May 2014.