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Additional Cast : Bill Burridge, Frederick Corke, Carole Brett, Denis Thorne, Ann Windsor. Synopsis : No synopsis was printed in the daily TV listings of Radio Times. Notes : The series was originally transmitted on BBC-1 from 8:45pm to 9:15pm on Wednesdays.
Additional Cast : Denys Graham, Beryl Cooke. Synopsis : What really happened to the loot hidden in Austria by the Nazis towards the end of the war? In tonight's second episode of this exciting new series, an important newcomer to the cast is Meredith Edwards, as Bezirkinspektor Weidig of the Austrian police. Notes : Incidental Music for the series was provided by Bruce Campbell.
Synopsis : Detective Inspector Mitchell and his wife Ann are on holiday in Austria. A murdered man is found in their hotel bathroom. Inspector Weidig of the Austrian police asks Mitchell to assist investigations, which lead to a nearby mountain Health and Nature Camp.
Synopsis : On holiday in Austria, Detective Inspector Mitchell and his wife Ann become involved in a murder case. Assisting Inspector Weidig of the Austrian police, investigations lead Mitchell to a mysterious organization at a nearby health and nature camp run by Doctor Mylanos.
Additional Cast : Reginald Green, Michael Houdley. Synopsis : Detective Inspector Mitchell and his wife Ann, on holiday in Austria, become involved with the mysterious Narcissus organization run by a Doctor Mylanos and his assistant Erika. Lovers of the thriller serial Flower Of Evil know by now that the holiday Scotland Yard Inspector Mitchell and his wife Ann sought in a little Austrian mountain village has turned into a nightmare. Rmours of Nazi treasure hidden in the area, then an out-of-season flower found floating in a bath beside the body of a murdered man. Co-opted into the investigation by patient Inspector Weidig of the Austrian police, Mitchell has hit on the fact that the "nature camp" is actually the headquarters of a neo-Nazi organization which has the narcissus as its emblem. Meanwhile, Chick, the breezy Welshman staying at the Mitchells' hotel, has revealed himself as a British agent. So what is the goal of the naricissus gang? The treaure - or something far more sinister? All Mitchell and his allies know is that events are moving towards a desperate climax. In tonight's episode, the fifth of the six, you can see Meredith Edwards as that dogged philosopher, Inspector Weidig. Edwards has toned down his familiar Welsh characterization and accent for his part in this Edward Mason-Ted Willis story, but his countryman David Davies is perfectly at home as the Welshman Chick.
Additional Cast : Anthony Blackshaw, Patricia Denys. Synopsis : The Narcissus organization, led by the former Nazi, Doctor Mylanos, is planning a gigantic threat to the world. Detective Inspector Mitchell, on holiday in Austria, discovers the plot and with British Secret Agent, Chick Moore, and Otto, a local man, finds a secret entrance to the underground fortress of the organization.
The series created and written by Ted Willis and Edward J Mason, produced by Harry Carlisle. Interviewed for the Radio Times (October 5th, 1961), Ted Willis described the series as follows: When Hitler's Reich was crumbling before the combined Allied assault, some of his most fanatical supporters fled to Austria with a great treasure trove, most of it property looted from occupied countries. This is fact. Only a tiny fraction of it has ever been recovered. This is also fact. It is history. And it is the springboard for the new serial which starts tonight. What did happen to this fantastic amount of loot? What happened to the dozens of people who took it into the Alps? There were S.S guards, Gestapo men, high-ranking officials like Adolf Eichmann. They are not all dead. One or other of them may have the clue which could lead to the discovery of this vanished fortune. From this early speculation our story began to shape itself. We visited Austria, and this expedition made us certain that we had the makings of a really exciting adventure-thriller. Ted Mason and I have really let ourselves go on this one, and have tried to create a fast-moving adventure-thriller which we hope you will enjoy viewing as much as we enjoyed writing it. It is a piece of fiction, of course. And yet the strange thing is - it could happen, it could be possible. If you want to know exactly what Flower Of Evil really is you must tune in to BBC Television. But I am allowed to give you one clue. In the Styrian Alps, each spring, the mountainside and fields are covered with a spreading carpet of narcissus: small, delicate, white, innocent little flowers… |
 Ted Willis was the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green, Sergeant Cork, The Secret Service, Copper's End and Hunter's Walk, and named in The Guinness Book Of Records as one of Britain's most prolific television writers. He joined forces with Edward J Mason to pen Flower Of Evil, a six-part mystery thriller serial. The show was created as part of BBC Television's wide range of six-weekly drama productions featuring a plethora of nefarious crimes and dastardly masterminds, transmitted back-to-back across a three year period in an attempt to draw viewers away from The Avengers. The series opened with Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Mitchell, portrayed by William Lucas (later to star in London Weekend Television's The Adventures Of Black Beauty), venturing on holiday to Austria with his wife, Ann (Betty McDowall). As seems to be par for the course for over-worked, under-paid and ever-committed police officers, the holiday was cut short when the pair returned to their hotel room one evening to find the body of an unidentified stranger drowned in their bath, a mysteriously out-of-season flower bobbing gently in the water beside him. When the Austrian police, lead by Bezirkinspektor Weidig (Meredith Edwards), are called in to investigate, Mitchell finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue at the heart of which lies treasure plundered during World War II by the Nazis. Joint investigations lead to the discovery of the Narcissus Organisation (fronted by an Austrian health club) populated by dastardly Germans with an eye on the main chance and a keen interest in stolen goods. As a self-contained drama production (something the BBC certainly prided themselves on for at least twenty years across the 1960s and 1970s), the programme failed to capture the imagination of the British viewing public . The series was repeated several years later, but was later junked and now no longer exists in the archives. Text © Matthew Lee, 2004. |
| Please note synopsis are taken from the original Radio Times listings for the day of transmission. |