Paul Temple

From the BBC's viewpoint only 16 of the 52 editions survive in their Archives: 11 on their original colour masters, with the final five as monochrome film prints returned from New Zealand. BetaFilm and/or ZDF in Germany hold 35mm colour telerecordings of all 39 episodes from the second season onward; however they have dubbed German soundtracks. (Amongst these remains an English-tracked edition not held by the BBC, A Family Affair (1971)). Some prints feature alternative footage which UK viewers never saw, and vice versa. Such differences even extend to the credits, as the German copies retain the John Levene "running man" titles after it had been supplanted in the UK. A monochrome English-soundtracked 16mm copy of Murder in Munich: Part 1 (1970) was eBayed to vintage TV organisation Kaleidoscope in July 2023; in November 2024 they announced they'd married this original soundtrack to the German telerecording, recreating a lost episode.

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