"Colonel March of Scotland Yard" The Stolen Crime (TV Episode 1956) Poster

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(1956)

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8/10
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Sleepin_Dragon1 December 2020
The Stolen Crime is one of my favourites, it's an incredibly traditional, and formulaic episode, but the premise is a truly interesting one. A man calls on March explaining how be has the perfect crime, soon after she dies.

Glyn Houston is excellent here as the central character, and actor I am a fan of, he's quite a dashing chap in his younger years.

1956, it could have easily been 1926.

Amy Dalby is glorious as dotty Aunt Josephine, you can't help but think of the old dear in The Ladykillers. She's wonderfully eccentric, but the performance is sincere.

Totally enjoyable episode, 8/10.
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5/10
Throwback episode
Leofwine_draca5 October 2016
THE STOLEN CRIME is an episode of the COLONEL MARCH TV show that looks and feels like it has come out of the 1930s. The setting is one of those country mansions favoured by the rich, you know the kind; full of manservants, decanters, immaculate decor, and cabinets loaded with historical artifacts and the like.

The main guest star in this one is Glyn Houston, who arrives at March's office begging to be locked up for the murder of his wife. The twist is that she's not actually dead, and when she does die within a few days, her death is put down to natural causes. It doesn't take long for March and Ames to get to the bottom of things via a rather clever twist ending which lifts the episode a little. Houston gives one of the best performances I've seen from a guest star in this show.
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5/10
The Stolen Crime
Prismark105 April 2022
A perfunctory episode of Colonel March.

Young Peter Ridgway (Glyn Houston) requests to be arrested by Inspector Ames as he plans to kill his much older and wealthier wife.

Later that die, his wife indeed did die. Ames goes to see him with Colonel March.

Ridgway denies murdering his wife although he did boast he had thought up a perfect murder.

March talks to dotty Aunt Josephine and secretary Jennifer Lane who has eyes for Ridgway. Then there is a coin collection with some items replaced by counterfeits and a book with a cigarette for a bookmark.

It has a very old fashioned country house setting and a very basic story set up. There is a good performance from Glyn Houston who only died in 2019.
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5/10
The Perfect Crime becomes The Stolen Crime
kevinolzak17 September 2011
Episode 19, "The Stolen Crime" begins with Peter Ridgway (Glyn Houston) asking Inspector Ames (Ewan Roberts) to arrest him for plotting the perfect murder of his wealthy wife, who does indeed turn up dead on the very night he had predicted, apparently of natural causes. His elderly Aunt Josephine (Amy Dalby) believes that her niece's secretary, Jennifer Lane (Josephine Douglas), is responsible for leading her nephew astray, but Colonel March learns that the Ridgway coin collection reveals a number of counterfeits replacing the more valued ones (what starts out as 'the perfect crime' ends up as 'the stolen crime'). Walter Horsbrugh makes a brief appearance as the butler, Jenkins.
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