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1 The Case of the Cunningham Heritage
2 The Case of Lady Beryl 3 The Case of The Pennsylvania Gun 4 The Case of The Texas Cowgirl 5 The Case of The Belligerent Ghost 6 The Case of The Shy Ballerina 7 The Case of The Winthrop Legend 8 The Case of Blind Man's Bluff 9 The Case of The Harry Crocker 10 The Mother Hubbard Case 11 The Case of the Red Headed League 12 The Case of The Shoeless Engineer 13 The Case of The Split Ticket | . . |
14 The Case of the French Interpreter
15 The Case of the Singing Violin 16 The Case of the Greystone Inscription 17 The Case of The Laughing Mummy 18 The Case of The Thistle Killer 19 The Case of The Vanished Detective 20 The Case of The Careless Suffragette 21 The Case of The Reluctant Carpenter 22 The Case of The Deadly Prophecy 23 The Case of The Christmas Pudding 24 The Case of The Night Train Riddle 25 The Case of The Violent Suitor 26 The Case of The Baker Street Nursemaids | . . |
27 The Case of The Perfect Husband
28 The Case of The Jolly Hangman 29 The Case of The Imposter Mystery 30 The Case of The Eiffel Tower 31 The Case of The Exhumed Client 32 The Case of The Impromptu Performance 33 The Case of The Baker Street Bachelors 34 The Case of The Royal Murder 35 The Case of The Haunted Gainsborough 36 The Case of The Neurotic Detective 37 The Case of The Unlucky Gambler 38 The Case of The Diamond Tooth 39 The Case of The Tyrant's Daughter |
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This series of 39 films was shot in Paris studios under the aegis of executive producer Sheldon Reynolds and Nicole Milinaire. Although many actors based in France were used, such as Eugene Deckers, a number of British actors made the journey across the Channel to appear, which for me is really the fascination of the series.
These were new and rather mundane adventures of Conan Doyle's hero, Ronald Howard in the title role trying his best. Also featured were H Marion Crawford as Dr Watson ("now really Holmes, you've gone too far"), and Archie Duncan, who makes an entertaining idiot out of Inspector Lestrade. My favourite episode: #20 The Careless Suffragette, by a narrow head from #9 Best moment: Perhaps the crazed Michael Gough in #27, calmly telling his wife he 's going to murder her. Dud episode: #34 The Case of the Royal Murder Note- the series is available on dvd from some outlets.
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. . . . . - Made in West Berlin, Steve Holland starred in this low budget, low thrills series of 39 dark stories.1 The Planet of Death - "You'll murder every man you send to Tarsis." The curse of Belphegor falls on anyone landing on this dead planet. But as "the defence of the galaxy" depends on gravitational experiments being conducted there, our brave Mr Flash must travel to this Planet of Death 8 The Breath of Death - Flash and Dale zoom in the Skyflash to prison planet Gemini to patch up an oxygen purifier. "One of the worst criminals in the universe," No 34, escapes and stows aboard for the return trip. While Ground Control are forced to consider blowing up Skyflash, Flash is compelled to land on a poisonous planet where he and 34 have to hold their breath. A fight. Flash, naturally, has the bigger lungs, and "disintegrator guns" just save Skyflash from annihilation. "Thank heaven!" 10 Return of the Androids - Flash and his buddies hold the secrets of how the robots known as Androids used to be made. Forcing Flash to reveal all will enable an evil Queen take over (shock horror) the galaxy! "Androids - destroy. Attack GBI headquarters!" 17 The Lure of Light - "Can a human being survive at a speed faster than the speed of light?" Evil Queen Credentia wants that secret in order to go back in time to reverse the result of the war she lost, and thus become Queen of the Universe. But it's Flash who braves that epic first journey, thwarting her wicked plan 19 Race Against Time - A ray machine forces Flash to make an emergency landing on Planet Epsilon 30. Waiting are three criminals, who act more like the Three Stooges 21 The Brain Machine - Cmdr Richards and Dr Zarkov cause an explosion on Neptune. Flash clears their names by exposing the Witch of Neptune and her fiendish "brain recorder" which is able to "make every living human bend to her will." Richards and Zarkov end up as dummies (OK, so they always were) as the Witch flees with their secrets. (to be continued) 22 Struggle to the End (part 2) - An electronic memory file holds the secrets of what Dr Zarkov and Cmdr Richards once knew: "their mind's a complete blank!" Learning the secret of matter transference, Flash swears to catch the "mad witch of Neptune" before she rules the galaxy: "I have made the greatest conquest of all" 24 Saboteurs from Space - Flash's craft is "sucked thru space into a trap" whilst machines on Earth are paralysed by an "electronic distorter." But good old Flash foils the attempt to kidnap top scientists 25 The Forbidden Experiment - Electrosillion is wanted on a remote planet by an old colleague of Dr Zarkov, but it's a trap and he's captured by a growling fiend known as The Lion Man. Flash to the rescue, but with all the animals in the jungle at Lion Man's disposal, surely Flash can't succeed? 36 Deadline at Noon - Isis, Osiris and other planets are blown up by an enemy that "has sworn eternal war against the Earth," where an early intimation of Climate Change is the result of a bomb being placed way back in 1953 by the evil planet's representative, who speaks, unsurprisingly, with a German accent. "In one hour, your precious earth explodes," he warns. Dr Zarkov's time machine leads Flash to, where else?, Berlin ("the inhabitants may be hostile") and there's a long chase sequence set around the rubble of West Berlin. With a mere two secs to go the bomb is defused 39 The Subworld Revenge - 1,500 miles inside the earth's core, the evil Zaldo plans to fire his deadly machine that'll turn the earth into a ball of fire. Flash is caught by Zaldo's magnetic field- "poor Flash... and soon it'll be poor us!" Euro Crime Series |
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