Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

George White

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122110240#Comment_122110240

Francis Durbridge as a franchise was massive in Germany, hence the 70s Paul Temple series being a German co-pro (and why most of the eps survive only in German dubs).

There was a whole series of German TV adaptations from the 60s to the early 90s, analoguous to the similar film adaptations of Edgar Wallace's mysteries (often with the same actors too). Germans love British mysteries or 'krimi', to the point that the only films found in the Fuhrerbunker were two Sherlock Holmes films, the 1937 German version of Hund von Baskerville and a comedy called The Man who was Sherlock Holmes, starring Heinz Ruhmann, who later in the early 60s appeared as Fr Brown in two German comedy-'krimis' shot here (one of which, featuring 'the Irish Television Service', before Telly Eireann had started airing!).

Apparently, Stanley Tucci recently played Temple in a private radio-style reading of one of the serials to some rich company after-dinner meeting. Cos he lives in England, he can do that thing now.

odyssey06

Paul Temple was mentioned recently on the thread.

I noticed this on Talking Pictures - can be streamed for a week or so in UK and Ireland, registration is free.

Send For Paul Temple (1946)

https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/Video/Send-For-Paul-Temple?id=3e280380-a6e9-4e28-a50f-15205558257d