"including the fifteen ""Old Mother Riley"" films). Francis Durbridge licensed the television rights in his characters to the BBC, who between 1969 and 1971 produced fifty two colour 50-minute episodes of a drama series entitled ""Paul Temple"". It starred Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, and co-starred Ros Drinkwater as his wife Steve, with George Sewell as Sammy Carson. None of the television scripts were written by Durbridge. The 52 episodes, made over 4 seasons, were co-produced with ZDF, a West German television station based in Munich, making it the very first international co-production of the TV era. This made it"
"Francis Durbridge Francis Henry Durbridge () (25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998) was an English playwright and author. Durbridge was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bradford Grammar School, where he was encouraged to write by his English teacher. He continued to do so while studying English at the University of Birmingham. After graduating in 1933, he worked for a short time as a stockbroker's clerk before selling a radio play, ""Promotion"", to the BBC at the age of 21. Durbridge created the character of Paul Temple, a crime novelist and detective, in the 1930s."
"series. A ""Paul Temple"" comic strip ran in the London Evening News from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s. 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. Over the course of each case, Temple eschewed formal interviews or other police techniques, in favour of casual conversations with suspects and witnesses. Yet even this informal style of investigation invariably precipitated attempts by the suspects to hamper him, through traps, ambushes,"
"Peter Temple Peter Temple (10 March 1946 – 8 March 2018) was an Australian crime fiction writer, mainly known for his ""Jack Irish"" novel series. He won several awards for his writing, including the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first for an Australian. Peter Temple was an international magazine and newspaper journalist and editor. Born in South Africa in 1946, he moved to Sydney, Australia in 1980 and in 1982 moved to Melbourne to become the founding editor of ""Australian Society"" magazine. He also taught journalism, editing and media studies at university. He played a significant role in establishing the"
"Philip Temple Robert Philip Temple (born 1939 in Yorkshire, England) is a Dunedin-based New Zealand author of novels, children's stories, and non-fiction. His work is characterised by a strong association with the outdoors and New Zealand ecology. His early work was non-fiction, describing mountaineering expeditions to New Guinea and New Zealand and includes ""Nawok!"" (1962) ""Castles in the Air: Men and Mountains in New Zealand"" (1969) and ""The World at Their Feet"" (1973). Following this Temple produced a number of novels - ""The Explorer"" (1975), ""Stations"" (1979), ""Beak of the Moon"" (1981), ""Sam"" (1984), ""Dark of the Moon"" (1993), and"
"ABC Television broadcast an adapted telemovie of ""The Broken Shore"" on 2 February 2014. Temple was married to Anita and had a son, Nicholas. He died after a brief battle with cancer in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, on 8 March 2018 at the age of 71. Notes Sources Peter Temple Peter Temple (10 March 1946 – 8 March 2018) was an Australian crime fiction writer, mainly known for his ""Jack Irish"" novel series. He won several awards for his writing, including the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first for an Australian. Peter Temple was an international magazine and newspaper journalist and"
"Paul Temple Returns Paul Temple Returns is a 1952 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring John Bentley, Patricia Dainton and Peter Gawthorne. Known in the U.S. as ""Bombay Waterfront"", it was the fourth and last in the series of Paul Temple films, although the character was revived for the BBC television series ""Paul Temple"" in 1969. Aspiring novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple begins investigating the case of a famous unsolved murder and ends up in a mansion full of snakes. With the aid of his wife Steve, he eventually solves the murder, and gets renown for"
"With Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist who would later become his wife, Temple solved numerous crimes in the glamorous world of the leisured middle classes, first on radio, then in films and, from 1969 to 1971, in a television series. In addition to the Paul Temple series, Durbridge wrote other mysteries for radio and television, many of which were also produced for Dutch, German and Italian television and radio. In the Netherlands Temple was known as ""Paul Vlaanderen"". Durbridge also forged a successful career as a writer for the stage with seven plays, the last of which, ""Sweet Revenge"","
"was written in 1991. He also wrote forty-three novels, many of which were adapted from his scripts, sometimes with the help of others. Durbridge married Norah Lawley in 1940. They had two sons. He died at his home in Barnes, London, aged 85, in 1998. Durbridge wrote twenty Paul Temple serials for radio. The first was ""Send for Paul Temple"", broadcast in eight episodes on the BBC Midland Regional Programme from 8 April 1938. Hugh Morton played Paul, and Steve was played by Bernadette Hodgson. Carl Bernard took over the part of Paul in 1939. After the war the character"
"2011, read by Anthony Head or Toby Stephens. Between 1951 and 1954 ""Paul Temple"" was also adapted into a daily newspaper comic by Alfred Sindall. From 1954 on it was continued by Bill Bailey, John McNamara and Philllip Mendoza. All the surviving English-language radio episodes, including the 1940 Canadian remake of ""Send for Paul Temple"", have been released on CD by the BBC. 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 Acorn Media UK. A further"
"although it was not. The adaptation is by Argyle, who reuses the names of characters and places from the novel, and recycles some plot ideas and situations, and the basic storyline; but a comparison with the extant 1940 Canadian radio production reveals (unsurprisingly, since five of the eight radio episodes have been omitted) that little of Durbridge's original dialogue, characterisation or detailed plotting survives. Durbridge's trademark ability to construct his radio dramas around the seven cliffhanger endings in his multipart serials is entirely lost. Send for Paul Temple Send for Paul Temple is a 1946 British crime film directed by"
"Send for Paul Temple Send for Paul Temple is a 1946 British crime film directed by John Argyle and starring Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton and Tamara Desni. Paul Temple is called in by Scotland Yard after a major diamond theft. It was the first of four film adaptations of the BBC's Paul Temple radio serials, with John Bentley taking over the lead role in future installments. The film is an abridged version of the first ever ""Paul Temple"" radio serial, originally broadcast in 1938 (and re-made in 1940 with a Canadian cast for broadcasting in Canada), which was also entitled"
"White Dog (Temple novel) White Dog (2003) is a 2003 Australian novel by Peter Temple. The fourth novel in the ""Jack Irish"" series, it won the 2003 Ned Kelly Awards Best Novel for Crime Writing. It was reprinted in the United Kingdom in 2007 by Quercus. A Melbourne property developer is murdered and his artist ex-girlfriend is the prime suspect. Jack Irish, a lone private investigator, comes in to investigate. In his investigation, he figures out quite the surprise. Reviewer Hutchings describes the novel as ""classic detective fiction"" typified by its first-person narrative and ""engagement with the city"". Hutchings also"
"William F. Temple William Frederick Temple (9 March 1914 – 15 July 1989) was a British science fiction writer, best known for authoring the novel-turned-film ""Four Sided Triangle"". Temple was a member of the British Interplanetary Society, the editor of their journal ""Bulletin"", and involved in science fiction fandom before writing. Prior to World War II, Temple shared a flat in London with fellow science fiction fans Arthur C. Clarke and Maurice K. Hanson. Temple wrote a gently humorous, semi-autobiographical account of this time, called ""Bachelor Flat"", in the 1940s but failed to find a publisher. It was eventually printed"
"Paul Cornell Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as ""Doctor Who"" fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield. As well as ""Doctor Who"", other British television dramas for which he has written include ""Robin Hood"", ""Primeval"", ""Casualty"", ""Holby City"" and ""Coronation Street"". For US television, he has contributed an episode to the modern-day set Sherlock Holmes series ""Elementary"". Cornell has also written for a number of British comics, as well as Marvel Comics and DC Comics in America,"
"new production of ""Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery"", a lost 1947-produced serial. The re-creation used the original 1947 script, vintage sound effects, music and microphones, and carefully reproduced 1940s upper-class accents. Paul Temple was played by Crawford Logan and Steve by Gerda Stevenson. This production was repeated on Radio 4 from mid-June 2007. In the 1960s, German radio adapted twelve Paul Temple serials. Like the BBC originals, each part ended with a cliffhanger, making them ""Strassenfeger"" (""street-clearers""), which were so popular as to leave the streets deserted. The actors were of national renown, with Paul Temple played by Luxembourg-born"
"""Send for Paul Temple"". The radio script was written by Francis Durbridge. The film script is only indirectly based on the radio drama, since the screenplay is actually an adaptation by John Argyle of Durbridge's 1938 novel, which Durbridge had in turn based on the scripts for his 8-part radio serial. Accordingly, much of the 200 minute nominal duration of the radio production has been discarded in abridging the story to fit the film's much shorter 83 minute running time, and the plot has consequently been heavily truncated and considerably simplified. None of the radio cast appear in the film,"
"Temple (novel) Temple is a thriller novel written by Australian author Matthew Reilly and first published in 1999. Like Reilly's other books, Temple's major attractions are the fast pace and the complexity of the action scenes. At the time of publication, Reilly hinted at the possibility of a sequel starring the same protagonist, Professor William Race, but the release of such a book has never been officially confirmed. Deep in the jungles of Peru, the hunt for a legendary Incan idol is underway - an idol that in the present day could be used as the basis for a highly"
"of these were re-published in paperback in 1970 by Mayflower Books Ltd. William F. Temple William Frederick Temple (9 March 1914 – 15 July 1989) was a British science fiction writer, best known for authoring the novel-turned-film ""Four Sided Triangle"". Temple was a member of the British Interplanetary Society, the editor of their journal ""Bulletin"", and involved in science fiction fandom before writing. Prior to World War II, Temple shared a flat in London with fellow science fiction fans Arthur C. Clarke and Maurice K. Hanson. Temple wrote a gently humorous, semi-autobiographical account of this time, called ""Bachelor Flat"", in"
"Paul Thomas (writer) Paul Thomas (born 1951) is a New Zealand novelist, journalist, sports biographer and scriptwriter. He won the Australian Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 1995 for ""Inside Dope"". Thomas was born in Harrogate, United Kingdom, and attended the University of Auckland. Thomas' novels are set primarily in Australia and New Zealand, and often also in France, where he spent several years in Toulouse. He is known for his humorous writing style, especially in the novels featuring Tito Ihaka, a Māori detective in Auckland. The Ihaka novels also draw a panoramic view of the contemporary society"
"his newest book as well. ""TV Guide"" called the film a ""standard murder mystery,"" and ""Britmovie"" agreed, adding, ""b-movie director Maclean Rogers keeps the story moving at a brisk pace and makes good use of exterior locations."" Paul Temple Returns Paul Temple Returns is a 1952 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring John Bentley, Patricia Dainton and Peter Gawthorne. Known in the U.S. as ""Bombay Waterfront"", it was the fourth and last in the series of Paul Temple films, although the character was revived for the BBC television series ""Paul Temple"" in 1969. Aspiring novelist and amateur"
"Robert K. G. Temple Robert Kyle Grenville Temple (born 1945) is an author best known for his book ""The Sirius Mystery"" (first published in 1976 though he began writing it in 1967, with a second edition in 1998 with 50% additional material). The book points out that the Dogon people of Mali in West Africa preserve advanced astrophysical information which predates modern times, and that the Dogon tradition describes contact with intelligent [ beings] from the Sirius star system. His writings on the Dogon are based on decades of work with the Dogon by the French ethnographers Marcel Griaule and"
"The Temple (Lovecraft short story) ""The Temple"" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine ""Weird Tales"" #24 in September 1925. The story is narrated as a ""found manuscript"" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a lieutenant-commander in the Imperial German Navy during the days of World War I. Altberg begins by declaring that he has decided to document the events leading up to his untimely end in order to ""set certain facts"" before the public, aware that he will not survive to do so himself. In the North"
"Francis Matthews (actor) Francis Matthews (2 September 1927 – 14 June 2014) was an English actor best known for playing Paul Temple in the BBC television series of the same name and for voicing Captain Scarlet in ""Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons"". Matthews was born 2 September 1927 in York to Henry and Kathleen Matthews. His father was a shop steward at the Rowntree's chocolate factory near York. His parents took him often to the theatre, where he gained a love of acting. He attended St George's RC Primary School, then St Michael's Jesuit College in Leeds. He found work"
"He has written novels, non-fiction, audio plays and comic scripts. Some of the notable series and episodes he has worked on include: Paul Cornell Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as ""Doctor Who"" fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield. As well as ""Doctor Who"", other British television dramas for which he has written include ""Robin Hood"", ""Primeval"", ""Casualty"", ""Holby City"" and ""Coronation Street"". For US television, he has contributed an episode to the modern-day set Sherlock Holmes"
"Paul Finch Paul Finch is an English author and scriptwriter. He began his writing career on the British television programme ""The Bill"". His early scripts were for children's animation. He has written over 300 short stories which have appeared in magazines, such as the ""All Hallows"", the magazine of the Ghost Story Society and ""Black Static"". He also edits anthologies of Horror stories with the overall title of ""Terror Tales"". He has written variously for the books and other spin-offs from ""Doctor Who."" He is the author of the ongoing series of DS Mark ""Heck"" Heckenberg novels. Finch is the"
"Richard Temple (bass-baritone) Richard Barker Cobb Temple (2 March 1846 – 19 October 1912) was an English opera singer, actor and stage director, best known for his performances in the bass-baritone roles in the famous series of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. After an opera career in London and throughout Britain beginning in 1869, Temple joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1877. There, he created most of the bass-baritone roles in the Savoy Operas, as follows: Sir Marmaduke in ""The Sorcerer"" (1877), Dick Deadeye in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" (1878), the Pirate King in the London production of ""The Pirates of"
"suggests that ""the sense of times past"" conveyed by Temple in this novel is central to other writers in this genre, such as Raymond Chandler whose hero, Philip Marlowe, is ""an anachronistic knight-errant, a defender of past decencies"". He suggests that for Temple, along with the Australian crime writers Marele Day, Peter Corris and Cathy Cole, ""the detective offers a link to a disappearing working-class, egalitarian Australia"". As in all his Jack Irish novels, Australian Rules Football and horse racing feature in ""The White Dog"". White Dog (Temple novel) White Dog (2003) is a 2003 Australian novel by Peter Temple."
"became the seventh actor to take the role of Paul Temple in the long-running radio drama series written by Francis Durbridge. The first serial he starred in was ""Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case"". Curiously he had appeared in an earlier episode of Paul Temple called ""The Vandyke Affair as a"" villain. He played the role until 1968, when he appeared in ""Paul Temple and the Alex Affair"". Those programmes which survive have been repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Between 1958 and 1988 he wrote eleven plays, including his best known ""Breath of Spring"", which was successful in both"
"University of Lousiville in the USA and subsequently at the personal direction of the Chinese Minister of Education was appointed Visiting Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing; he declined to be paid for either position because he does not believe that part time academics should be paid. Temple lives in England with his wife, Olivia. Robert K. G. Temple Robert Kyle Grenville Temple (born 1945) is an author best known for his book ""The Sirius Mystery"" (first published in 1976 though he began writing it in 1967, with a second edition in 1998"
"1969–1971 television series ""Paul Temple"" ran for 52 episodes over four seasons, with the last 39 episodes (seasons 2–4) being the first international television co-production, made by the BBC with Taurus Films of Munich, West Germany. Paul Temple was played by British actor Francis Matthews, with Ros Drinkwater playing Steve. Only 16 of the 52 episodes survive in the BBC TV archives today, with their original English soundtracks (11 in colour, with 5 only available in black and white). The visuals of some of the 36 missing episodes survive in the ZDF TV archives in Germany, but only with the"
"even assassination attempts. Surviving these, Temple would arrange a cocktail party or similar social event at which he unmasked the perpetrator. At the end of each tale, Paul, Steve and Sir Graham Forbes held a ""post mortem"". Here, Paul explained why certain events in the serial took place, which of these had been red herrings, and which had been genuine clues. Some elements of the plot had already been explained during the serial, while others were occasionally never fully explained, due to limitations of time. The Paul Temple characters and formula were developed in a succession of BBC radio serials"
"Cheryl Lanham Cheryl Arguile (b. November 10, 1948, in Richwood, West Virginia) is an American writer who also writes under her maiden name Cheryl Lanham and the pseudonyms Sarah Temple and Emily Brightwell. Born Cheryl Lanham on November 10, 1948, in Richwood, West Virginia. In May 1976, she married Richard James Arguile. They have two children. She was published several times in the Young Adult novel genre (writing as Cheryl Lanham) and Contemporary Romance novels (writing as Sarah Temple). As Emily Brightwell, Cheryl is the author of 37 titles in the Victorian murder mystery series that started with ""The Inspector"