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Paul Temple

Drama: Crime

The adventures of writer and amateur private detective, Paul Temple.

The adventures of writer and amateur private detective, Paul Temple. Created by Francis Durbridge

Paul Temple and the Conrad Case

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Paul Temple: Paul Temple and the Conrad Case: 6. Concerning Captain Smith

6. Concerning Captain Smith

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Arriving to collect vital information from Countess Dekker, Temple gets a shock.

Arriving to collect vital information from Countess Dekker, the stylish detective gets a shock. Stars Peter Coke. From 1959.

Back in London, Paul Temple arrives to collects some vital information from Countess Dekker. 

But another shock is in store...  

Francis Durbridge's crime thriller stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury as BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Captain Williams …. John Bennett
Inspector Digby …. Peter Wilde
Paddy …. John Hollis
Denis Harper …. John Bryning
Elsa, Countess Dekker …. Joan Matheson
Charlie …. James Beattie
Sir Graham Forbes …. Richard Williams
Dr Conrad …. Rolf Lefebvre
Herr Breckshaft …. Jeffrey Segal

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1959.

Paul Temple: Paul Temple and the Conrad Case

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The only clue to the whereabouts of a missing schoolgirl is a cocktail stick.

The only clue to the whereabouts of a missing schoolgirl is a cocktail stick found in her bedroom. How can Temple work from just that? Peter Coke stars as the debonair sleuth.

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