Paul Temple And The Jonathan Mystery

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The 52 episodes, made over 4 seasons, were co-produced with ZDF, a West German television station based in Munich. This made it practicable, in terms of the show's budget, to film location scenes for the series overseas (i.e. in Munich and other cities in West Germany). The episodes were subsequently dubbed into German, using German voice artists, for broadcast by ZDF to German audiences.

The two novels with Douglas Rutherford (The Tyler Mystery, 1957 and East of Algiers, 1959) appeared under the Paul Temple pen name. The Tyler Mystery is unusual in giving Temple's wife Steve a more central role. East of Algiers was partly based on the 1947 radio serial Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery. From The Kelby Affair (1970) on the novels are credited to Francis Durbridge alone. Until 1954 the strip was drawn by Alfred Sindall. [20] From 1954 onward it was continued by Bill Bailey, John McNamara [21] and Philip Mendoza. [22] Selected editions from the strips drawn by John McNamara were reprinted by an obscure South London magazine publisher, Micron, in a short lived series in 1964. [23] At no stage did the strip feature recognisable portraits of the then-current stars of the radio series, Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury. [24] Commercial releases [ edit ] Concerning Richard Ferguson: When another body is found, the sleuth's investigation takes a dramatic turn.

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After the series ended on radio it went to television, and now Radio 4 Extra marks 50 years since the suave amateur detective Paul Temple first appeared on BBC television. That episode, the first of 13, was one of the first programmes to be broadcast in colour.

Tim Frazer jagt den geheimnisvollen Mister X [ de] / Case 33: Antwerp is an Austrian/Belgian co-production based on the Tim Frazer character Francis Durbridge licensed the television rights in his characters to the BBC, who between 1969 and 1971 produced a drama series entitled Paul Temple. It starred Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, and co-starred Ros Drinkwater as his wife Steve. [14] None of the television scripts were written by Durbridge. After meeting an American couple on a flight, Paul Temple is soon investigating another murder in this 1963 remake. The dates given are those of the first broadcast (and, in the case of serials, of the first episode): [20] Paul Temple [ edit ] None of the episodes of The Francis Durbridge Serial are believed to have survived. [21] All episodes of Francis Durbridge Presents survive except for The World of Tim Frazer of which only episode 3 and 10 (out of 18) are thought to still exist. [22]

Created for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul Temple in 1938, the Temples featured in more than 30 BBC radio dramas, twelve serials for German radio, four British feature films, a dozen novels, and a BBC television series. A Paul Temple daily newspaper strip ran in the London Evening News for two decades. [1] Overview [ edit ] Das Messer [ de] (1971, loosely based on Tim Frazer: The Mellin Forrest Mystery), with Hardy Krüger Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. Between 1952 and 1980, Durbridge wrote 17 TV serials for the BBC. Until 1959, they were shown under the umbrella title A Francis Durbridge Serial, which was then changed to Francis Durbridge Presents. [11] Versions were also made in the Netherlands, Italy, France and Germany, some serials were re-made in the 1980s and 1990s. Calling Paul Temple (abridged remake of radio serial Send for Paul Temple Again) with John Bentley as Temple and Dinah Sheridan as Steve.