British Television Series
Durbridge licensed the character to the BBC, which from 1969 made 64 one hour television episodes, in colour, starring Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, co-starring Ros Drinkwater as his wife Steve, with George Sewell. 52 of the episodes of the Paul Temple television series were co-produced with West German television station ZDF, making it the very first international co-production of the TV era, thereby making it practicable to film location scenes for the series in West Germany.
The co-produced episodes were dubbed into German, using German voice artists, for broadcasting in West Germany. Many of these dubbed episodes survive in the ZDF archives, in colour, but without any English language soundtracks. Only 11 colour episodes with English soundtracks were retained by the BBC.
The theme tune of the television series was written by Australian composer Ron Grainer.
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