Colonel March of Scotland Yard Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Sorcerer

First aired: Feb/29/1956
Writer: Paul Monash
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Phil Brown (Brian Hayes), Lily Kann (Mrs Patten), Eileen Erskine (Mrs Cusby), Robert Adair (Cusby), Gerald Heinz (Doctor Patten)

Colonel March is called into investigate the murder of a psychiatrist who had been threatened by the husband of a patient.

2 :01x02 - The Abominable Snowman

First aired: Mar/07/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Alec Mango (Narbu), Peter Bathurst (Major Brian Forbes-Williams), Ivan Craig (Osborne), Olaf Pooley (Carlmeddy), Doris Nolan (Mary Gray)

Members of the Himalayan Mountaineering Club are threatened by what appears to be an abominable snowman. What makes it even more believable is the strange footprint left outside the office of Colonel March.

3 :01x03 - Present Tense

First aired: Mar/15/1956
Writer: Peter Green
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Doris Hare (Lydia), Peter Reynolds (Ernest), Mary Parker (Emily), John Laurie (Doctor Brandon), Phil Brown (Gordon)

March's niece believes in spiritualism so when she hears her dead husband's voice and the sound of him playing the piano she believes that hubby has returned.

4 :01x04 - At Night All Cats are Grey

First aired: Mar/21/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Philip Brown
Guest star: Frances Rowe (Madame Jeanpierre), Lucienne Hill (Fleur), Peter Dyneley (Red Darrow), Eileen Moore (Ivette), Isobel George (Fleur), Christopher Lee (Jean Pierre)

A fashion model is found murdered but dressed in mis-matched colors. Could the killer be color blind?

5 :01x05 - The Case of the Kidnapped Poodle

First aired: Mar/28/1956
Writer: Arthur Berstock
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Kit Terrington (Willie), Eliot Makeham (1st Judge), Michael Shepley (Sir Nigel), John Boxer (Heather), Cameron Hall (2nd Judge), Doris Nolan (Linda)

The kidnapping of a little boy's pet leads March to a smuggling ring and a stolen diamond.

6 :01x06 - The Invisible Knife

First aired: Mar/28/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Terence Fisher
Guest star: Leslie Weston (Hays), Henrietta Edwards (Alice), Hubert Gregg (Pennacott), Mark Baker (The Salesman)

Colonel March is on the scene when a dead parrot is sent to a man rumored to be guilty of five murders.

7 :01x07 - The Strange Event at Roman Fall

First aired: Apr/02/1956
Writer: Paul Monash
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Lionel Murton (Ben Crowder), Russell Waters (Hocksby), John McLaren (Peter Ford), Philip Friend (Professor John Hamilcar), Rachel Kempson (Helen Rune)

Colonel March overhears a man ask a woman to tell her husband that she wants a divorce. The woman then reports that her husband has fallen off the side of a cliff.

8 :01x08 - The Headless Hat

First aired: Apr/11/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Guest star: Betty Paul (Mrs Sargeant), Miki Averi (The Customer), Marne Maitland (Inspector Toro), Ina De La Haye (The Shop Assistant), Donald Cashfield (The Waiter)

Colonel March's search for a mysterious character known only as "Monsieur Z" takes him to a waterfront nightclub.

9 :01x09 - The Second Mona Lisa

First aired: Apr/25/1956
Writer: Peter Green
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Guest star: Robert Ayres (Wyatt), Eric Pohlmann (Emir), Frederick Leister (Constable Matthews), Alan Wheatley (O'Brien), George Margo (Rogers)

Two Mona Lisa paintings appear on the art market. But which one is the original and which is the fake?

10 :01x10 - Death in Inner Space

First aired: May/09/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Phil Brown
Guest star: Rosalie Crutchley (Annette), Michael Allan (Phillip), Karel Štěpánek (Hodek), Peter Illing (Lavois), Christopher Rhodes (Rochel)

Experiments lowering the body's resistance for space travel prove fatal. Colonel March must determine if it's an accident or foul play.

11 :01x11 - The Talking Head

First aired: May/16/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Paul Gherzo
Guest star: Hugh Williams (Harold Hartley), Hugh Griffith (Dr. Ivy), Mary Clare (Mrs. Wrigley), Helen Christie (Mrs. Barton), Peter Asher (Andrew Barton)

A boy hears what appears to be the voice of his dead father coming from a bust. The voice is telling the lad to kill.

12 :01x12 - The Devil Sells His Soul

First aired: Jun/06/1956
Writer: Arthur Berstock
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Guest star: Basil Appleby (George Trevor), Patrick Barr (Horton), Patricia Laffan (Jane), Ann Hanslip (Emily), Michael Alexander (Dr. Walker), Alfred Burke (Minister), Ernest Clark (Dr. John Walker)

In order to solve the murder of an English Lord, Colonel March puts five persons under hypnosis.

13 :01x13 - Murder is Permanent

First aired: Jun/13/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Guest star: Neal Arden (Joseph), Nora Gordon (Mary), Elspet Gray (Johanna Greer), Margaret Halstead (Mrs. Greer), Ruth Shiell (Annette), Patrick Holt (Paul)

Colonel March is called to the scene when a murder occurs in a hairdressing salon.

14 :01x14 - The Silent Vow

First aired: Jun/20/1956
Writer: Peter Green
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Eugene Deckers (Phillippe), Carl Jaffe (Father Mendes), Eric Pohlmann (Inspector Goron), Stan Watson (Guitarist), Anton Diffring (Francois), Marne Maitland (Gaston), Martin Benson (Jacques), Zena Marshall (Madeleine)

A man is poisoned to death in a cafe right before the eyes of Colonel March and a colleague.

15 :01x15 - Death and the Other Monkey

First aired: Jun/27/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Percy Marmont (Sir George Watkins), Ann Gudrun (Nell), Richard Burrell (Guy), Victor Platt (Clarence), John Schlesinger (Cook)

When March investigates the murder of a staff member at a scientific research institution he finds his investigation obstructed by the colleagues of the decedant.

16 :01x16 - The Stolen Crime

First aired: Jul/04/1956
Writer: Paul Tabori
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Guest star: Josephine Douglas (Jennifer Lane), Walter Horsburgh (Judge), Glyn Houston (Peter Ridgway), Amy Dalby (Josephine)

A husband goes to the police and asks to be locked up--so that he won't kill his wife.

17 :01x17 - The SIlver Curtain

First aired: Jul/10/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: John Chandos (Dr. Herbert), Christine Pollon (Eleanor), Arthur Hill (Jerold Winton), Eric Pohlmann (Inspector Goron), Anton Diffring (Davos)

The leading suspect in a murder is an American who claims he only met the victim once.

18 :01x18 - Error at Daybreak

First aired: Jul/17/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Phil Brown
Guest star: Patricia Marmont (Marion), Lloyd Lambie (Kane), Richard O'Sullivan (Roger), Adrienne Corri (Clara), Robert Brown (Hastings)

The key to the solution of a murder could be a young lad's lost ball.

19 :01x19 - Hot Money

First aired: Jul/24/1956
Writer: Leo Davis
Director: Donald Ginsberg
Guest star: Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Bowler), John Hewer (John Parrish), Joan Sims (Marjorie Dawson)

After a bank robbery, the suspect is followed to his office, never out of sight of the police. But when March and the authorities arrive and search the office there's no trace of the money.

20 :01x20 - The Missing Link

First aired: Jul/31/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Guest star: Helen Cherry (Evelyn Innes), Douglas Herald (Guard), Peter Coke (Tom Grafton), Joseph Tomelty (Braden), Peter Goss (Technician), Jack Watson (Policeman), Stuart Lindsell (Sir Henry Danier)

A skull, known as the Damascus Man, is stolen from a museum and someone wants Colonel March off the investigation so bad that they try to kill him.

21 :01x21 - The Case of the Misguided Missal

First aired: Aug/07/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Jane Griffiths (Nancy Pembroke), Trader Faulkner (Garrick), Chan Canasta (Canasta), Anthony Newley (Ned Young), John Arnatt (Professor Wesley)

A 15th century book, rumored to contain black magic, disappears from the safe of a university while on loan to the institution.

22 :01x22 - The Deadly Gift

First aired: Aug/14/1956
Writer: Paul Monash
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: George Coulouris (Harwood), Sandra Dorne (Rosie), John Gabriel (Jeweller), Tommy Duggan (Lawton)

Did an empty music box, left to an heir, turn deadly?

23 :01x23 - The Case of the Lively Ghost

First aired: Aug/21/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Bernard Knowles
Guest star: Susan Buret (Nurse), Virginia Downing (Mrs. Fortescue), Genine Graham (Madame Richter), Tony Wright (Terry Fortescue), Dulcie Bowman (Fortescue), Enid Lorimer (Victoria Hibbing), Tristan Rawson (Lord Hibbing)

A phony medium informs Colonel March that she's conjured up real spirit.

24 :01x24 - Death in the Dressing Room

First aired: Aug/28/1956
Writer: Leo Davis
Director: Donald Ginsberg
Guest star: Sonya Hana (guest star), Sheila Burrell (Joan Forsythe), Dana Wynter (guest star), Richard Wattis (Cabot)

A call for help during a Javanese dance is the clue Colonel March needs to break a suspect's alibi.

25 :01x25 - The New Invisible Man

First aired: Sep/04/1956
Writer: Leo Davis
Director: Donald Ginsberg
Guest star: Anthony Forwood (Jim Hartley), Roger Maxwell (guest star), Bernard Rebel (guest star), Patricia Owens (Betty Hartley)

A pair of disembodied gloves kill a man but was it an optical illusion or could it have been real?

26 :01x26 - Passage at Arms

First aired: Sep/11/1956
Writer: Leslie Slote
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Guest star: Laurence Payne (Dollus), Bruce Seton (Hartnett), Marc Sheldon (Marcel), Gaylord Cavallaro (Lawrence), Paul Hansard (Rene), Edward Cast (Carter), Michael Godfrey (Charles), Rachel Gurney (Martha), Eric Pohlmann (Inspector Goron)

When a woman is found dead, Colonel March must determine whether it was suicide or murder. A fencing match holds the vital clue.