Only two of the 18 episodes are currently known to exist - one from each of the first two stories.
The show sparked a craze for wearing sheepskin coats of the type favoured by Tim Frazer.
Content to act as executive producer on this project, Francis Durbridge created the characters and plots, but the actual scriptwriting duties were handed to three other writers: Clive Exton, Charles Hatton (who had co-written some of the early Paul Temple novels with Durbridge) and Barry Thomas.
The three serials were written up as novels: "The World of Tim Frazer" (1962), "Tim Frazer Again" (1964) and, belatedly, "Tim Frazer Gets the Message" (1978).
Creator Francis Durbridge introduced readers of the 'Radio Times' listings magazine to the show: "Let me start by saying that he is not a private-eye. Nor is he a tough, gimmicky, trigger-happy, dame-slapping, mid-Atlantic character of no fixed abode. Frazer spent four years in the Middle East with an engineering company, finally returning to England to start a small machine-tool business of his own. Unfortunately the firm went broke and Frazer's partner, Harry Denston, disappeared - owing Tim a fair sum of money. In pursuit of the money - and Harry Denston - Frazer suddenly finds himself engaged in a considerably more hazardous and dangerous occupation than engineering."