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* PublicSecretMessage: In "Death in the Dressing Room", a Javanese dancer incorporates movements meaning "Help. Danger" into her dance. Fortunately for her, Colonel March understands the meaning of Javanese dance moves.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: In "Death in the Dressing Room", a maid takes the place of a murdered dancer and appears in the nightclub floor show to make it look like the dancer was murdered later than she actually was and allow the killer to establish an alibi.
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* FreshClue: In "Death in the Dressing Room", March feels the palm of the BodyOfTheWeek before it is moved, much to Inspector Ames' confusion. Later March reveals that her hand was bone dry and not covered in oil as it would have been if she had been dancing, meaning that she had been killed before the floor show and that [[DeadPersonImpersonation someone else had taken her place]].
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* ContinuityNod: In "Death in the Dressing Room", Colonel March attends a masked event at a nightclub wearing the rubber demon mask worn by the bank robber in "Hot Money".
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* BrandishmentBluff: In "Hot Money", Colonel March gets the drop on a safecracker by jamming his finger into the middle of his back. The crook is convinced that it is a gun.
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* SwordCane: March's iconic umbrella is also a sword cane. He undoubtedly bought it at the same place as [[Series/TheAvengers1960s John Steed]].
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* CaneFu: Even though March's iconic umbrella is actually a SwordCane, he is also adept as using it as a weapon without drawing the blade. For example, in "Hot Money" a criminal attempts to draw a gun from a desk drawer, only for march to hook the man's swivel chair with the handle of the umbrella and spin the chair around, then knock the gun from his hand with the brolly.
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* FollowThatCar: In "Hot Money", a bank clerk who has just been robbed chases the robber out of the bank and jumps in a taxi and gets it to follow the getaway car.
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* StolenByStayingStill: In "The Second Mona Lisa", the would-be thief breaks into Lawson's hotel room, knocks out his bodyguard, and twists the eponymous painting so it is hanging askew on the wall. This convinces Lawson that the painting has been stolen so he removes it to be re-authenticated, allowing the art expert to misidentify the real painting and send Lawson away with the copy.
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* StolenByStayingStill: In "The Second Mona Lisa", the would-be thief breaks into Lawson's hotel room, knocks out his bodyguard, and twists the eponymous painting so it is hanging askew on the wall. This convinces Lawson that the painting has been stolen and replaced with a copy, so he removes it to be re-authenticated, allowing the art expert to misidentify the real painting and send Lawson away with the copy.
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* DeadlyAffair: In "Death in Inner Space", a scientist discovers that his assistant is having an affair with his wife. He murders the assistant by sabotaging the breathing apparatus being used in a space flight simulation.
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* DeadlyAffair: ADeadlyAffair: In "Death in Inner Space", a scientist discovers that his assistant is having an affair with his wife. He murders the assistant by sabotaging the breathing apparatus being used in a space flight simulation.
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* DeadlyAffair: In "Death in Inner Space", a scientist discovers that his assistant is having an affair with his wife. He murders the assistant by sabotaging the breathing apparatus being used in a space flight simulation.
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* HavingAGayOldTime: Colonel March is the head of 'The Department of Queer Complaints'.
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* LockedInAFreezer: In "Death in Inner Space", March and a French lawyer are locked in an airtight chamber--designed to simulate the rigours of space travel--while all of the air is slowly extracted.
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* EiffelTowerEffect: "Death in Inner Space" opens with a shot of the Eiffel Tower, followed by the Arc de Triomphe and the Fontaines de la Concorde to establish beyond a doubt that the episode starts in Paris.
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* ShutUpGunshot: In "The Second Mona Lisa", March breaks up a fight between the two bodyguards over the paintings by taking Lawson's gun off him and firing two shots into the ceiling.
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* StolenByStandingStill: StolenByStayingStill: In "The Second Mona Lisa", the would-be thief breaks into Lawson's hotel room, knocks out his bodyguard, and twists the eponymous painting so it is hanging askew on the wall. This convinces Lawson that the painting has been stolen so he removes it to be re-authenticated, allowing the art expert to misidentify the real painting and send Lawson away with the copy.
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* StolenByStandingStill: In "The Second Mona Lisa", the would-be thief breaks into Lawson's hotel room, knocks out his bodyguard, and twists the eponymous painting so it is hanging askew on the wall. This convinces Lawson that the painting has been stolen so he removes it to be re-authenticated, allowing the art expert to misidentify the real painting and send Lawson away with the copy.
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Working out of D-3 (a.k.a. 'The Department of Queer Complaints'), Scotland Yard's department for seemingly unsolvable cases, March's investigations brought him into contact with the impossible, the unnatural and the supernatural. March is aided on most of his of his investigations by the dependable Inspector Ames.
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Working out of D-3 (a.k.a. 'The Department of Queer Complaints'), Scotland Yard's department for seemingly unsolvable cases, March's investigations brought bring him into contact with the impossible, the unnatural and the supernatural. March is aided on most of his of his investigations by the dependable Inspector Ames.
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* CouchGag: The opening title sequence shows Colonel March taking off his coat in his office and writing the title of each episode in a book. This then dissolves to an image of an object from within the following story. Often it's a murder weapon or an item of clothing. Sometimes its relevance is a mystery until it is revealed later in the episode. Other episodes, such as in "The Headless Hat", show the item that the episode is named after.
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* LaResistance: In "The Headless Hat", March befriends Mrs. Sargent: an English widow living in France. She tells him that her late husband was part-French, and they were both members of the French Resistance. She also reveals that 'Monsieur Z', the head of the underworld in Marseilles, [[FromCamouflageToCriminal is a former Resistance leader]], and she may be one of the only people to know him by sight.
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* BadgesAndDogTags: In "The Headless Hat", March mentions that he was in Army Intelligence during WWII, which taught him a few tricks of his own. It is not known if he was a police officer before the war and joined up for the duration, or if he joined the police after leaving the army.
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* FromCamouflageToCriminal: In "The Headless Hat", the mysterious 'Monsieur Z' was a leader of LeResistance during WWII. However, when the war ended, rather than returning, Z stayed in the shadows and used their skills at organization and subterfuge to take control of the Marseilles underworld.
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* FromCamouflageToCriminal: In "The Headless Hat", the mysterious 'Monsieur Z' was a leader of LeResistance LaResistance during WWII. However, when the war ended, rather than returning, Z stayed in the shadows and used their skills at organization and subterfuge to take control of the Marseilles underworld.
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* FromCamouflageToCriminal: In "The Headless Hat", the mysterious 'Monsieur Z' was a leader of LeResistance during WWII. However, when the war ended, rather than returning, Z stayed in the shadows and used their skills at organization and subterfuge to take control of the Marseilles underworld.
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* CompilationMovie: ''Colonel March Investigates'' is a 1953 British film consisting of the three pilot episodes of the TV series.
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* SmithOfTheYard
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* LockedRoomMystery: In "The Sorcerer", a psychoanalyst is found dead in a seemingly sealed room. Inspector March needs to decide who had the most reason to kill him, and how did they accomplish the task.
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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: When March exposes the mysterious 'Monsieur Z' in "The Headless Hat", Z tells March that he is very clever and then pulls a gun. March tells Z that the gun won't help him because it is empty. Z pulls the trigger only to discover that March is telling the truth.
* LaughingMad: When the murderer is revealed in "The Sorcerer", his facade of sanity breaks and he starts laughing crazily as Ames leads him off.
* LockedRoomMystery: In "The Sorcerer", a psychoanalyst is found dead in a seemingly sealed room. Inspector March needs to decide who had the most reason to kill him, and how did they accomplish thetask.task.
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''Colonel March of Scotland Yard'' is a British television series consisting of a single season of 26 episodes broadcast in 1955 and 1956, and starring Creator/BorisKarloff as the one-eyed criminologist Colonel March. It is based on author Creator/JohnDicksonCarr's fictional detective Colonel March from his book ''The Department of Queer Complaints''.
Working out of D-3 (a.k.a. 'The Department of Queer Complaints'), Scotland Yard's department for seemingly unsolvable cases, March's investigations brought him into contact with the impossible, the unnatural and the supernatural. March is aided on most of his of his investigations by the dependable Inspector Ames.
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* EyepatchOfPower: Colonel March sports one.
* LockedRoomMystery: In "The Sorcerer", a psychoanalyst is found dead in a seemingly sealed room. Inspector March needs to decide who had the most reason to kill him, and how did they accomplish the task.
Working out of D-3 (a.k.a. 'The Department of Queer Complaints'), Scotland Yard's department for seemingly unsolvable cases, March's investigations brought him into contact with the impossible, the unnatural and the supernatural. March is aided on most of his of his investigations by the dependable Inspector Ames.
!!Tropes:
* EyepatchOfPower: Colonel March sports one.
* LockedRoomMystery: In "The Sorcerer", a psychoanalyst is found dead in a seemingly sealed room. Inspector March needs to decide who had the most reason to kill him, and how did they accomplish the task.
