Episode list

Paul Temple

Paper Chase

Tue, Jun 08, 1971
An envelope full of blank paper landing on Temple's doormat one morning, soon arouses interest from Russian, US and British agents. Pestered as a person of interest, he wonders why and sets about investigating why he's suddenly so popular.
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Death Sentence

Tue, Jun 15, 1971
Steve avoids crash a car who Susan Grant. who is married to ambitious detective investigating Sammy Carson. Susan is getting death threats but her husband believes it's a crank. Instead she asks Steve and Paul for help but gets kidnapped.
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Ricochet

Tue, Jun 22, 1971
Paul Temple drives through the mountains in Switzerland to St. Moritz, but instead goes with his wife onto the road to Soglio. At the village's cafe, the Italian gangster Angelo gives Heidi and her father Bernhard a bad time. Temple and his wife then arrive for a meal. Heidi asks them for a lift to St. Moritz where she works. Temple books into his usual haunt, the 'Kulm Hotel'; Angelo then tells Heidi (who works there) to check the rooms for things to steal. To help his son to win the Cresta Run (which he doesn't), Patrick Nolan pays Angelo to cheat for him by heating the blades on the toboggan. His son Dermot then gets him to steal the trophy, but they are both later caught by the inspector at the the airport with Temple's help. The village is then released from the pressure brought on by Angelo.
7 /10
With Friends Like You, Who Needs Enemies?
Sammy Carson's old friend Bill Stacey is living in the Cannes and offers his nephew a job. Sammy needs to talk to Helen Charlesworth about Stacey. In her absence gets sold the wrong urn. Next day Helen is murdered and Sammy is arrested.
6.6 /10
Party Piece

Tue, Jul 06, 1971
Sammy Carson is a friend of jazz pianist, Joe Brand. Joe supplements his income by playing exclusive parties with his band. He now wants to quit the band but he and his sister get threatened at gun point. Paul decides to find out why.
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The Quick and the Dead
Paul and Steve visit George Robertson, who is raising funds for repairs to his local church. Paul is told the church has been damaged and a beam has suddenly collapsed. When builder Norman Bales dies in accident, Paul believes it's murder.
6.4 /10
The Man Who Forged Real Money
Paul and Steve visit African culture week. Former Oxford classmate, diplomat Ken Umbraga tells Paul about receiving box of rotten bananas while his wife has £10,000 paid in her account. Sammy Carson joins Paul and Steve to investigate.
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A Family Affair

Tue, Jul 27, 1971
Paul and Steve visit recluse, Theodore von Leverkühn, in Hamburg who wants Paul to find his son Bruno. Secretary Lustig tells Paul, Bruno forged a bank draft 500,000 DM. Bruno says Lustig set him up as well has having an affair with Inge.
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The Guilty Must Die
While Paul's away, Steve and Sammy try to prevent her friend from marrying a crook whose car dealership is stocked with stolen cars. But is the friend really as oblivious as she seems?
7.1 /10
Game, Set and Match
Australian bad boy of tennis Andy King is in London to take part in the Tournament of Champions. He owes money to a man called Currie who is hot on his tail. King can no longer stay in an hotel so decides to visit old flame Steve Temple.
5.5 /10
Long Ride to Red Gap
Late at night, Sammy is involved in a car crash. He says he saw a man in a Red Indian headdress looking in. Next day Paul and Steve check the scene and find some evidence and number of tracks that seem to lead to a nearby reform school.
6.1 /10
Winner Take All
Steve's new racehorse San Remica comes last on it's first race in Ireland. Trainer Major Bennett won't answer the phone so Paul's visit the stables but is made unwelcome. Talking to stable lad Harry Broadman, Paul suspects the fix is in.
6.8 /10
Critics, Yes! But This Is Ridiculous!
In a library in Edinburgh, Scotland, a man waits until the librarian leaves, then goes to the shelf with all the Paul Temple books, and tears out the pages. The next day, it makes all the press. Steve, who is going up to Edinburgh, as coincidence would have it, asks Paul to come with her, and he does so.

When they check into their hotel, the clerk calls someone and says, "They're here."

Someone calls Paul, and asks to meet him. It turns out to be a reporter who wants to follow Paul around. They meet in a pub. The reporter has a friend named David Moffatt. A long haired hippie comes in. The friend punches him in the stomach - the barkeep throws the hippie out, calling him a troublemaker.

In the commune, the hippie mounts the steps and meets a girl who wants him to fix a sewing machine. He says he'll do it later.
7.5 /10
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