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LINKSTHE PAUL TEMPLE COLLECTION
Acorn Media UK / Region 4 / Released 20 July 2009 in a 4 disc set
Paul Temple has been around since the late 1930's having been created by the legendary Francis Durbridge for a hugely popular BBC Radio series (which ran off and on for almost 30 years), it wasn't until the late 1960's though that he and his gorgeous wife Stevie made the transition to television. This fabulous new four disc box set from Acorn Media UK gathers together eleven of the surviving colour episodes for a study in crime, coolness and groovy retro clothing!
Played by Francis Matthews, Paul Temple is a best selling novelist who, along with his wife Stevie (played by Ros Drinkwater), travels around Europe researching his next book but somehow always managing to get embroiled in mystery and murder, like a debonair Jessica Fletcher! Paul and Stevie are a great couple with an excellent dynamic, Ros is a few years younger than Paul (Temple is supposed to be in his early thirties but looks older) but they are a real partnership. They are also extremely wealthy, Paul has a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Coupe!
Unlike most series of the time Paul Temple actually went on location (for exteriors, interiors are still in studio giving it that classic seventies look) for quite a few of its stories. One of the best tales here features the brilliant George Baker as a world famous film star playing dangerous games with his coterie of hangers on in Malta. The duo also find themselves getting mixed up with witchcraft, a mysterious masked ball in Munich, mystery on the Riveira and a trip to Spain for murder in the Bullring.
Francis Matthews is perfectly suited to playing the suave Temple and the series itself is extremely enjoyable and very watchable. Most of the episode of this series have been lost so to have the remaining colour episodes gathered together is definitely to be applauded.
The extras are good too and feature an interview with Matthews, a look at the glamorous women who popped up on the show, a look at the seventies fashions on display and a Francis Matthews.
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