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This second episode of "Colonel March of Scotland Yard": gets started on the wrong foot, with events being set in motion by everyone, including the supposedly brilliant Colonel March, making the completely unwarranted assumption that because a footprint resembling that of an Abominable Snowman has been found inside Colonel March's office (on what? His collection of footprint sand?), that means the Snowman himself has been there (standing on one foot?) rather than that somebody left it there. We are spared an explanation for this later, though, and never told why the footprint was there as far as I can see.

Later, once we get to a Himalayan mountaineers' club, is disturbance at a film is once again attributed to the Snowman for no reason. When the "Snowman" does show up he is a man that looks a little silly in his furry Yeti suit (wouldn't they have been able to tell that this did not leave real footprints?) and we would have had to have known as Colonel March did that somebody was another person's brother to have guessed the solution to the mystery.

The plot addresses a couple of forward-thinking themes, regarding both a club's reluctance to admit a female member, and British ethnocentrism against Tibetans. Boris Karloff is still a great Colonel March, but isn't given much to say in this one except standard detective-fiction lines. He does have one satisfying moment in which he tricks a bunch of characters into "protecting" the female member, then reveals to her this was really to trap the killer among the, because she could best handle being bait.

This is still interesting and entertaining viewing, but I'm afraid the plot just not too well-conceived and full of holes.

The second episode of the COLONEL MARCH TV series is a bit of a joke, if I'm honest. The plot revolves around March's membership of the Himalayan climber's club, whose membership is in disarray after a woman (gasp!) applies to join. However, footprints in the vicinity indicate the presence of the Abominable Snowman himself, who may have arrived seeking revenge...

It's not much of a surprise to say that the Abominable Snowman in this film involves a guy in a ridiculously tatty-looking suit. Much of the running time sets up the plot and tries to give one of the characters motivation to do this bizarre dressing-up game, but it all rings rather hollow and only Karloff's acting kept me watching.