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Colonel March of Scotland Yard is a 1950s British television series based on author John Dickson Carr's 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 department itself is sometimes referred to as "D3". Boris Karloff starred as Colonel March.
Original Release
10/01/1955
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Boris Karloff | Colonel March Of Scotland Yard / Col. Perceval March |
| Ewan Roberts | Inspector Ames |
| Eric Pohlmann | Commissionner Aristide Goron / Goron / Inspector Goron / The Emir |
| Doris Nolan | Linda / Mary Gray |
| Phil Brown | Dr. Bryan Hayes / Gordon |
| Anton Diffring | Davos / Francois |
| Marne Maitland | Thoreau / Waiter |
| Alan Wheatley | O'Brien |
| Karel Stepanek | Hodek |
| Christopher Lee | Jeanpierre |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sorcerer | Saturday, 01 October 1955 |
| 2 | The Abominable Snowman | Saturday, 08 October 1955 |
| 3 | Present Tense | Saturday, 15 October 1955 |
| 4 | At Night All Cats Are Gray | Monday, 04 October 1954 |
| 5 | The Case of the Kidnapped Poodle | Saturday, 05 November 1955 |
| 6 | The Invisible Knife | Saturday, 29 October 1955 |
| 7 | The Strange Event at Roman Fall | Saturday, 04 February 1956 |
| 8 | The Headless Hat | Saturday, 12 November 1955 |
| 9 | The Second Mona Lisa | Saturday, 26 November 1955 |
| 10 | Death in Inner Space | Wednesday, 09 May 1956 |
| 11 | The Talking Head | Saturday, 17 December 1955 |
| 12 | The Devil Sells His Soul | Saturday, 07 January 1956 |
| 13 | Murder Is Permanent | Saturday, 14 January 1956 |
| 14 | The Silent Vow | Saturday, 21 January 1956 |
| 15 | Death and the Other Monkey | Saturday, 28 January 1956 |
| 16 | The Stolen Crime | Saturday, 11 February 1956 |
| 17 | The Silver Curtain | Saturday, 18 February 1956 |
| 18 | Error at Daybreak | Saturday, 25 February 1956 |
| 19 | Hot Money | Saturday, 03 March 1956 |
| 20 | The Missing Link | Saturday, 19 November 1955 |
| 21 | The Case of the Misguided Missal | Saturday, 03 December 1955 |
| 22 | The Deadly Gift | Tuesday, 14 August 1956 |
| 23 | The Case of the Lively Ghost | Saturday, 31 December 1955 |
| 24 | Death in the Dressing Room | Saturday, 10 March 1956 |
| 25 | The New Invisible Man | Saturday, 17 March 1956 |
| 26 | Passage at Arms | Saturday, 24 September 1955 |
Directors
Bernard Knowles, Arthur Crabtree, Phil Brown, Donald Ginsberg, Terence Fisher, Paul Dickson
Writers
John Dickson Carr, J. Gordon Russell, Leo Davis, Paul Monash, Peter Green, Waldo Salt, Paul Tabori
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Boris Karloff | Colonel March Of Scotland Yard / Col. Perceval March |
| Ewan Roberts | Inspector Ames |
| Eric Pohlmann | Commissionner Aristide Goron / Goron / Inspector Goron / The Emir |
| Doris Nolan | Linda / Mary Gray |
| Phil Brown | Dr. Bryan Hayes / Gordon |
| Anton Diffring | Davos / Francois |
| Marne Maitland | Thoreau / Waiter |
| Alan Wheatley | O'Brien |
| Karel Stepanek | Hodek |
| Christopher Lee | Jeanpierre |
| Jane Griffiths | Nancy |
| Hugh Williams | Harold Hartley |
| Hubert Gregg | Pennacott |
| Betty Paul | Mrs. Sargent |
| Mary Parker | Emily |
| Stuart Lindsell | Sir Henry Danier |
| Virginia Downing | Madame Richter |
| Zena Marshall | Madeleine |
| Elspet Gray | Johanna |
| Robert Brown | Hastings |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Hannah Weinstein | Producer |
| Donald Ginsberg | Producer |
