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Bezalel Levi as Paul Temple and Nili Keynan as his wife Steve. The series, which was broadcast in the days when there was no TV station in
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The radio series was a collaboration between writer
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Paul Temple was a professional novelist. While he possessed no formal training as a detective, his background in constructing crime plots for his novels enabled him to apply deductive reasoning to solve cases whose solution had eluded
Scotland Yard.
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Many of the earliest serials, in which the eponymous hero was played by many actors, have not survived. Several were remade in the 1940s, in abridged form, as feature films. However, some of the early radio serials do still exist, including
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described it as "the novel of the thriller that created a BBC fan-mail record". Durbridge used a co-author because he regarded himself as a writer of dialogue, a scriptwriter rather than a novelist. The two novels with
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from 1942, featuring the first appearance in the series by
Westbury, in a supporting role. All but one of the serials starring Peter Coke also exist: since 2003, these have been regularly repeated on digital station BBC Radio 7 (now
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In 2014, an abridged remake of the lost 1949 version of "Paul Temple and the
Gregory Affair" was aired and released, followed by a live radio show in 2015 with the cast and the WDR Radio Orchestra, hosted by German Comedian
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Only 16 of the 52 episodes currently exist in the BBC's television archive with their original
English soundtrack, and only 11 of these are in colour (for the other five, only black and white
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The 11 surviving colour episodes held in the BBC archives (featuring
Francis Matthews and Ros Drinkwater) from the BBC-TV version of "Paul Temple" were released on DVD on 6 July 2009 by
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Netherlands, several of the radio plays were re-recorded using Dutch actors and the title character's name adapted as Paul Vlaanderen. Alfred Sindall drew the initial strips.
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Between 1946 and 1952, Paul Temple appeared in four feature films, each an abridged version of one of the early (hence, now lost) BBC radio serials. These films were distributed by
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survive). Seasons 2-4 survive, in colour, in archives in
Germany, but with dubbed German soundtracks. The 11 colour episodes are available on DVD (EAN 5036193099021).
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serials broadcast between 1938 and 1968, with several radio actors portraying the Temples. After the war the character was played by a succession of different actors:
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first played Sir Graham Forbes, the Chief Commissioner of Scotland Yard, in this serial – and would continue to play that part in every serial up to and including
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assassination attempts. Always surviving these, Temple would arrange a cocktail party or similar social event at which he unmasked the perpetrator.
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been established in the radio series by this point, but was not cast in these films because she was not a film actress.
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radio serials were released on CD across four new BBC box sets. These include the previously unreleased 1959 remake of
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crimes through subtle, humorously articulated deduction. Always the gentleman, the strongest expletive he employs is "
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2142:"Peter Coke: Voice of radio sleuth Paul Temple"
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2539:"Renown Films – Renown Pictures Ltd"
1846:Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery
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2673:Fictional amateur detectives
2613:1968 radio programme endings
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1818:), 1961 with Gualtiero Rizzi
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1764:Aachener Bildschriftenverlag
1552:Paul Temple: East of Algiers
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1169:26 February – 21 March 1968
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235:Louise ("Steve") Temple
211:In-universe information
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2574:Anthony Hulme Obituary
2390:Daily newspaper serial
2317:"Obituary: Peter Coke"
2191:"The Radio Detectives"
1806:A Case for Paul Temple
1534:Paul Temple Intervenes
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