![]() ![]() The longest running team, and the most popular with audiences, was Peter Coke (pronounced Cooke) and Marjory Westbury, who starred together in every serial made between 19 - and Marjory Westbury also co-starred as Steve Temple in every serial aired between 19. ![]() The Paul Temple characters and formula were developed in a succession of BBC radio serials broadcast between 19, with several voice actors portraying the Temples. Some elements of the plot had already been explained during the serial, while others were occasionally never fully explained, due to limitations of time. Here, Paul explained why certain events in the serial took place, which of these had been red herrings, and which had been genuine clues. Surviving these, Temple would arrange a cocktail party or similar social event at which he unmasked the perpetrator.Īt the end of each tale, Paul, Steve and Sir Graham Forbes held a post mortem. ![]() Yet even this informal style of investigation invariably precipitated attempts by the suspects to hamper him, through traps, ambushes, even assassination attempts. Over the course of each case, Temple eschewed formal interviews or other police techniques, in favour of casual conversations with suspects and witnesses. 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. ![]()
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