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Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Paul Monash Synopsis : When psychoanalyst Doctor Patten is murdered in strange and inexplicable circumstances, Colonel March's investigations lead him to discover a shadowy, darker side to the dead man's character. With Gerald Heinz (Doctor Patten), Lily Kann (Mrs Patten), Eileen Erskine (Mrs Cusby) and Phil Brown (Brian Hayes).
Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Olaf Pooley (Carlmeddy), Doris Nolan (Mary Gray), Alec Mango (Narbu), Ivan Craig (Osborne) and Peter Bathurst (Major Brian Forbes-Williams). Synopsis : Colonel March is called upon to investigate strange and threatening activities surrounding the Himalayan Mountaineering Club, the members of whom appear to be threatened by a creature resembling the Abominable Snowman, who is reported to have recently been seen on Mount Everest. When he himself receives a visitation, and afterwards discovers a strange footprint seemingly left by the beast, he wonders whether he has become part of an elaborate fabrication …
Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Peter Green Cast : Mary Parker (Emily), Peter Reynolds (Ernest), Phil Brown (Gordon), Doris Hare (Lydia) and John Laurie (Doctor Brandon). Synopsis : Colonel March becomes engaged on an unusual case of the supernatural when young widow Emily believes she has come into contact with her recently-deceased husband Ernest, who died in a plane crash on the eve of her requesting a divorce from him.
Director : Philip Brown Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Christopher Lee (Jeanpierre), Frances Rowe (Madame Jeanpierre), Isobel George (Fleur) and Eileen Moore (Ivette). Synopsis : When the body of a young model is discovered in a London flat, Colonel March realises that the murderer has made a fatal mistake common to colour blindness. His investigate leads to the fashion house where the girl was once employed.
Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Arthur Berstock Cast : Michael Shepley (Sir Nigel), Doris Nolan (Linda), Kit Terrington (Willie), John Boxer (Heather), John Boxer, Eliot Makeham and Cameron Hall. Synopsis : Despite the fact that his attention should be solely directed towards the pursuit of the parties responsible for the ambitious theft of the renowned Fairway Diamonds, Colonel March seems far keener to locate a newspaper' boy's missing poodle.
Director : Terence Fisher Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Henrietta Edwards (Alice), Mark Baker (The Salesman), Leslie Weston (Hays) and Hubert Gregg (Pennacott). Synopsis : Colonel March puts his own life on the life when he sets in motion an elaborate plot to become Pennacott's sixth murder victim as a means of ensuring he can be brought to justice for the murder of five of his previous business partners.
Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Paul Monash Cast : Russell Waters (Hocksby), John McLaren (Peter Ford), Philip Friend (Professor John Hamilcar), Rachel Kempson (Helen Rune) and Lionel Murton (Ben Crowder). Synopsis : When Colonel Marsh hears Helen Rune and Professor Hamilcar deep in discussion of plans for them to live together at the expensive of her famour author husband, he is later surprised to discover that the man in question has fallen from a cliff at "Roman Fall". He is soon called in to investigate the circumstances of the "accident", but he is only-too-aware that he is not the only person to have overheard the conversation …
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : By Leslie Slote Cast : Marne Maitland (Inspector Toro), Miki Averi (The Customer), Donald Cashfield (The Waiter), Ina de la Haye (The Shop Assistant) and Betty Paul (Mrs Sargeant). Synopsis : Even on holiday in the South of France, Colonel March cannot escape being lured into an investigation after a visit to a store in the nearby village at which he is enjoyed a relaxing vacation.
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : Peter Green Cast : Alan Wheatley (O'Brien), Robert Ayres (Wyatt), Eric Polhmann (The Emir), George Margo (Rogers) and Frederick Leicester (The Constable). Synopsis : In Paris, Colonel March encounters O'Brien, an unscrupulous swindler engaged in a nefarious deal to sell the Mona Lisa to a Middle Eastern dignitary.
Director : Philip Brown Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Rosalie Crutchley (Annette), Peter Illing (Lavois), Michael Alan (Phillipe) and Christopher Rhodes (Rochell). Synopsis : A murder in France draws Colonel March into the world of astronomy.
Director : Paul Dickson Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Peter Asher (Andrew Barton), Hugh Williams (Harold Hartley), Hugh Griffith (Doctor Ivy), Mary Clare (Mrs Wrigley) and Helen Christie (Mrs Phyllis Barton). Synopsis : In a bizarre case of the supernatural, Colonel March is called in to investigate the circumstances surrounding several attempts having been made on the life of Harold Hartley, who once shared a partnership with the late John Barton. His investigations uncover a strange phenomenon: Barton's son Andrew appears to be executing instructions delivered by his dead father from a marble bust of the man himself …
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : Arthur Berstock Cast : Patrick Barr (Leeland Horton), Ann Hanslip (Emily Horton), Basil Appleby (George Trevors), Patricia Laffan (Jane Corwin), Alfred Burke (The Minister) and Michael Alexander (Doctor Walker). Synopsis : When Lord Telford seemingly dies from natural causes, his retinue of sycophantic supporters who had resided for so long at his castle are all-too-prepared to point the finger of suspicion at one another. Unable to bear the strain, Emily Horton calls upon Colonel March to perform a mass hypnosis of the group as a means of identifying their activities on the night of Telford's death. In so doing, March, who adopts the role of Telford during the session, nearly finds himself meeting the same fate as the recently deceased …
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Elspeth Gray (Joanna Greer), Patrick Holt (Paul Chalford), Margaret Halstead (Mrs Greer), Neal Arden (Josef Latour), Paul Shiel (Annetre) and Nora Gordon (Mary). Synopsis : Colonel March moves in the circles of high society in pursuit of a murder amongst eminently respectable company.
Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Peter Green Cast : Zena Marshall (Madeleine), Anton Diffring (Francois), Marne Maitland (Gaston), Martin Benson (Jacques Dupont), Eugene Deckers (Philippe), Carl Jaffe (Father Mendes) and Stan Watson (The Guitarist). Synopsis : Colonel March's holiday in the South of France is interrupted when he is called upon to investigate the murder of a young man, Philippe, apparently at the hands of his friend Francois, a man absent without leave from a Pyrenees monastery.
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Gudrun Ure (Nell), Percy Marmont (Sir George Watkins), Victor Platt (Clarence), John Schlesinger (The Dutch Cook) and Richard Burrell (Guy). Synopsis : Colonel March and Inspector Ames are faced with obstructive staff at a scientific research laboratory, responsible for carrying out experiments on live animals, at which one of their number has met an unpleasant end.
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : Paul Tabori Cast : Glyn Houston (Peter Ridgeway), Walter Horsbrugh (The Butler), Amy Dalby (Aunt Josephine) and Josephine Douglas (Jennifer Lane). Synopsis : When Peter Ridgeway confesses to a brutal murder, Colonel March elects to pursue his own lines of enquiry to prove the man's innocence.
Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Leslie Slote Cast : John Chandos (Doctor Herbert), Christine Pollon (Eleanor), Anton Diffring (Davos) and Arthur Hill (Jerry Winton). Synopsis : Colonel March becomes involved in a strange case of blackmail when Jerry Winton, an American student holidaying on the French Riviera, loses his money at a casino and is offered a substantial sum to undertake a specific project for a man called Davos …
Director : Philip Brown Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Adrienne Corri (Clara), Lloyd Lamble (Kane), Patricia Marmont (Marion) and Robert Brown (Hastings). Synopsis : Colonel March, assisting a small boy on a beach to find a lost ball, discovers a body and is soon embroiled in a murder investigation.
Director : Donald Ginsberg Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Mr Bowler), Joan Sims (Marjorie Dawson) and John Hewer (John Parrish).
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Helen Cherry (Evelyn Innes), Stuart Lindsell (Sir Henry Danier), Peter Coke (Tom Grafton), Joseph Tomelty (Braden), Peter Goss (The Technician), John Watson (The Policeman) and Douglas Herald (The Guard). Synopsis : Colonel March and Inspector Ames, in pursuit of a thief and a murder, become embroiled in the theft of a skull which may prove Darwin's theories correct, and are greeted by unusual behaviour from men of distinguished learning and an unusual couple in an investigation which culminates in a museum laboratory.
Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Jane Griffiths (Nancy Pembroke), Trader Faulkner (Garrick), Antony Newley (Ned Young) and John Arnatt (Professor Wesley). Synopsis : Colonel March becomes involved in the mysterious case of a medieval Missal, which continually appears and disappears from Professor Wesley's locked safe whilst on University premises. Garrick, who gifted the establishment with such a prized possession, calls on March's assistance to find an answer to the curious case.
Director : Bernard Knowles Script : Paul Monash Cast : Sandra Dorne (Rosie), George Colouris (Harwood), Tommy Duggan (Lawton) and John Gabriel (The Jeweller). Synopsis : Colonel March is called to attend the reading of Johnny Blake's will, some ten years after his death. In attendance is Rosie, a barmaid from The White Unicorn Public House who hopes to hear something to her advantage.
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Genine Graham (Madame Richter), Virginia Downing (Mrs Fortescue), Susan Buret (The Nurse), Enid Lorimer (Victoria Hibbing), Tristan Rowson (Lord Hibbing) and Tony Wright (Terry Fortescue). Synopsis : Colonel March becomes interested in the activities of Madame Richter, a professional medium who, despite her fake methods, appears to have summoned a genuine spirit into existence.
Director : Donald Ginsberg Script : Leo Davis Cast : Sheila Burrell (Joan Forsythe), Richard Wattis, Sonya Hana, Dagmar Wynter and Joan Sims (Marjorie Dawson).
Director : Donald Ginsberg Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Patricia Owens (Betty Hartley), Joan Sims (Marjorie Dawson), Roger Maxwell and Anthony Forward (Jim Hartley).
Director : Arthur Crabtree Script : Leslie Slote Cast : Laurence Payne (Dollus), Rachel Curney (Martha), Bruce Seton (Hartnett), Michael Godfrey (Charles), Paul Hansard (Rene), Gaylord Cavallaro (Lawrence), Marc Sheldon (Marcel) and Edward Cast (Carter). Synopsis : When a wealthy widow is found murdered, suspicion falls on the British and French fencing teams engaged in a high-profile international tournament staged in London. Colonel March's investigations lead him to become referee in a duel which will, he hopes, culminate in the unmasking of the party or parties responsible. |
The series was A Criterion and Panada Productions drama production for ITV based on the stories by John Dickson Carr (credited as Carter Dickson). Transmission dates are for the ATV Midlands region. The series was produced by Hannah Weinstein and the theme music was by Edwin Astley. Text © Matthew Lee, 2005. |
