Colonel March of Scotland Yard

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."

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