Colonel March de Scotland Yard

Colonel March investigates three cases, the first a bank robbery, in which a mask wearing gunman gets away with a haul of cash, killing someone in the process.

In the second case, March is at night club where a Javanese dancer killed, and in the third March deals with a man who's convinced he's witnessed a murder through his binoculars.

Boris Karloff is great as Colonel March, an eye patch wearing, straight talking Detective, who often talks directly to the camera.

March establishes exactly what happens as 'The Department for Queer complaints,' he deals with some of the more unusual crimes, locked room mysteries as it were.

Some years ago, I worked my way through Thr Colonel March series, and for its time, I always felt it was somewhat ahead of its time, it really has that feeling of a 1950's American TV series, but of course it's set in The UK, with a largely British cast.

The three cases flow fairly well together, it doesn't feel cobbled together at any point. If you can access the TV series, I'd recommend it, as a few of the cases are very interesting.

Watch out for several well known faces, you'll see Ronald Leigh Hunt, Joan Sims, Richard Wattis, Sheila Burrell and more.

It's definitely worth a look.

7/10.