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The Paul Temple Collection review by A customer from Stranraer

The Paul Temple Collection 12 February 2010
...ned out to be a mistake - it is now VERY dated and the fashions/styles show it. Francis Matthews, whom I normally like, tries to be manly in the manner of Roger Moore in 'The S... Read customer review

Francis Matthews - filmography

Crossplot on DVD (1969)
Starring: Roger Moore, Martha Hyer, Alexis Kanner
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Certificate:
Roger Moore stars in this action-packed thriller as a British ad executive whose relations with a model from Hungary involve him in a scandalous web of romance and death. Set in London in the 1960s, CROSSPLOT sees an ordinary businessman's life turned upside down by the deception of a beautiful ..read more »

53% from 147 members

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E17 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Ken Turner
Certificate:
"If we ever get out of this, Lieutenant, I'll buy you all the coconuts you can eat." Scarlet, Blue and Green volunteer for a dangerous mission to remove the power source of the Mysteron complex in Crater 101 before it is destroyed by a low yield atomic device. Travelling to the Moon, they enter the ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E27 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"This Mysteron agent is one of the most dangerous we have ever faced." The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Triumvirate of Europe, the three most powerful men on Earth after the World President. The three are sent to separate maximum security installations, but Mysteronised electronics expert ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E29 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Leo Eaton
Certificate:
"What a bang! Can we do that again?" When the Mysterons threaten to destroy the World Navy Complex at Atlantica, Blue and Ochre fly a V17 Air Force bomber to destroy a wreck that has been sighted drifting towards the base. But the pair have been drugged by tainted champagne and passed false orders ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E10 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Robert Lynn
Certificate:
"A Spectrum officer is outside the ranch. If you are with us... kill him!" The Mysterons threaten to obliterate North America, but Spectrum is left without its number one agent when Scarlet is dismissed for gambling offences. He is approached by a pair of Mysteron agents who intend to destroy ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E21 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"I'd say Major Gravener was a lucky man - a very lucky man." Captain Black engineers the death of chief test pilot Major Gravener, who is retrometabolised as a Mysteron agent as part of the Mysterons' plan to destroy the World Capital, Futura City. But a pair of doctors manage to resuscitate the ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E28 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"There's something strange going on, sir. He just seemed to cut off." The Mysterons threaten to destroy the de-salination plant at Najama in the Andes, so Scarlet and Blue are sent to observe the plant from an Aztec temple that overlooks it. But a Mysteronised SKR4 recovery craft packed with high ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E31 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Ken Turner
Certificate:
"You don't understand, Colonel. He's really dead - permanent, final, absolutely dead!" After the Mysterons threaten Spectrum's Cloudbase headquarters, a large fast-moving trace appears on the radar. When Rhapsody is dispatched to check it out, her Interceptor is shot out of the sky and she is ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E20 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Ken Turner
Certificate:
"Don't worry. He's too old a hand to get near an explosion. He'll be alright." When the Mysterons threaten to immobilise the whole of Spectrum, Scarlet and Blue are sent to the Spectrum oil refinery at Bensheba. Mysteron tampering turns Rig 15 into an inferno and fire control expert Jason Smith ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E25 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Leo Eaton
Certificate:
"Sorry to break my appointment, Doctor, but there's been a little change in plan..." A lorry carrying an atomic core reactor to the new Manicougan power complex falls into the hands of the Mysterons who intend to strike the Atlantic Seaboard of North America. Spectrum begins a search for the ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E19 ... (1968)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Brian Burgess, Brian Burgess
Certificate:
"Let's hope the Mysterons listen to reason when you talk to them." Using the Mysteron pulsator recovered from the complex in Crater 101, Dr Kurnitz has developed a transmission device with which Colonel White attempts to contact the Mysterons and sue for peace. The Mysterons arrange a rendezvous in ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E01 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Desmond Saunders
Certificate:
"We can only hear them over our radios, but I've got a feeling they're with us all the time." Mars - 2068 AD: a mission to the red planet ends in disaster as the crew make an unprovoked attack on the complex of the Mysterons. Sentient computers left behind by the dying Mysteron race announce that ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E22 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"This whole thing gets stranger every minute. We might be on to something big." When the Mysterons threaten to sabotage a vital conference at Lake Toma in Switzerland, Scarlet and Blue are assigned to escort the world's leading astrophysicist, Dr. Conrad, to Geneva. The trio board their plane at ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E15 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"Look - Angels! The girls have come to escort us!" When the Mysterons threaten to kill one of the Angels, Scarlet and Blue are sent to Paris to escort Destiny back to Cloudbase. But Captain Black engineers the destruction of three newly-built Angel aircraft - Mysteronised, the Interceptors are set ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E08 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Ken Turner
Certificate:
"That Magnus should keep his hands out of the way." The Mysterons' cryptic threat to "kill time" has the Spectrum personnel stumped until Magenta realises that their target is General Tiempo, the Commander of Western Region World Defence. Tiempo is due to have an operation which involves a new ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E24 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Ken Turner
Certificate:
"We're pretty isolated, but we don't leave anything to chance. The Mysterons won't succeed here." Tritonium alloy mining operations at Hotspot Tower in the North Pole are threatened when a Mysteron agent cuts the power to vital heating elements. Scarlet and Blue realise that with the heating ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E30 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"We've heard you've had a little trouble at the base recently." "That's no excuse!" After the inexplicable malfunction of a hovercraft at the Spectrum cadet school at Koala Base, Scarlet and Blue investigate the possibility of sabotage from within. The Mysterons have warned of a traitor in the ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E05 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Brian Burgess, Brian Burgess
Certificate:
"Believe me, before this day is out you'll need all the help you can get." When the Mysterons threaten to destroy key links in the Frost Line Outer Space Defence System, Scarlet and Green investigate the mysterious deaths of the personnel at Red Deer Base. The pair are baffled: radiation and ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E18 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Robert Lynn
Certificate:
"Gentlemen, we're about to obtain the best close up shots of Mars ever taken by man." Astronomers at K14 Observatory are monitoring signals from a hidden satellite that has made a successful landing on the Martian moon Phobos. The satellite will transmit close up pictures of Mars back to Earth, but ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E14 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Ken Turner
Certificate:
"This is an official meeting, not the Follies Bergeres!" The Mysterons target fashion designer Andre Verdain, secret controller of the European Area Intelligence Service. Suspecting that the attempt on Verdain's life will be made at a fashion show in Monte Carlo, Colonel White assigns Destiny and ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E07 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"Tomorrow morning, on the stroke of ten, the entire supreme command of the World Air Force will be wiped out - here in this room!" Following the latest Mysteron threat, Scarlet is dispatched to supervise security at the International Air Conference at Glen Garry Castle. Discovering a plot to gun ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E03 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Brian Burgess, Brian Burgess
Certificate:
"Now let's assume Macey counted correctly and heard Big Ben strike thirteen. What's the only explanation?" The Mysterons threaten to destroy London and a truck carrying an atomic device goes missing in the city. The only clue to its whereabouts is the truck driver, found unconscious in the street. ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E06 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Robert Lynn
Certificate:
"Sir, I don't think you appreciate that the man is dead." "That's no excuse!" The Mysterons threaten to kill Colonel White and after their initial attempt fails, White elects to leave Cloudbase so as not to place the other Spectrum agents in jeopardy. He goes into hiding on the USS Panther II ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E11 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"I think I know how to make the Mysterons work for us." As the Mysterons threaten to destroy the "Heart of New York", Scarlet and Blue investigate the theft of Grade A Security documents from the Spectrum security vaults. The trio of thieves learn of Spectrum¹s war with the Mysterons and decide to ..read more »

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Just Like A Woman on DVD (1967)
Starring: Dennis Price, Francis Matthews, Wendy Craig
Director: Robert Fuest
Certificate:
Scilla Andrews (Wendy Craig) is fed up her husband. His fondness of the bottle and flirtatious behavior with the stars of his numerous television productions drives her to leave him to his selfish ways. She quits her job as a singer on one of his shows and moves in with a friend planning to build ..read more »

35% from 17 members

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E32 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Ken Turner
Certificate:
"All you have to do is prove who you are." A drugged Captain Blue awakes to find himself under interrogation on Cloudbase. He has apparently been missing for three months and must now prove his identity to Intelligence agent Colgan by revealing Spectrum's top secret cypher codes. But Blue has his ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E16 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Brian Burgess, Brian Burgess
Certificate:
"Remember, time is against us. Every second takes that rocket nearer its target." The Mysterons engineer the launch of a Variable Geometry Rocket from Base Concord and their agent, Major Reeves, escapes with the destruct mechanism and target information. While the Angels are despatched to track ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E23 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Leo Eaton
Certificate:
"This bacillus is a totally new strain. The human body has no defence against it." Mysteron agent Judith Chapman steals a phial of deadly K14 virus - enough to kill ten million people - from Biological Research Station D near Manchester. Scarlet and Blue trail Chapman to New York, realising that ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E13 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Robert Lynn
Certificate:
"D'you mean to tell me that it was Major Brooks himself who exploded?" When the Mysterons threaten the life of the Supreme Commander of Earth Forces, Scarlet and Blue are assigned to escort him to SHEF HQ in New York to chair a briefing on the Unitron, an advanced unmanned tank. But the Commander's ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E02 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: David Lane
Certificate:
"There's some sort of trouble with Delta Tango one niner. They won't open the doors." The Mysterons threaten the life of the Director General of the United Asian Republic and Spectrum swings into action to protect him as he prepares to board his private plane at London Airport. But the Mysterons ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E09 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Ken Turner
Certificate:
"You will never solve the mystery of the Mysterons." At a secret conference in a hidden Spectrum base housed beneath the hunting lodge of a private African game reserve, Dr. Giadello announces the development of two devices that will turn the tide for Spectrum in their struggle with the Mysterons. ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E04 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Alan Perry
Certificate:
"The tables are turned. The manhunt for Captain Black is on!" The Mysterons make their first mistake when Captain Black, revealed to have become a Mysteron agent, breaks into the Culver Atomic Centre and is exposed to radioactivity that will enable Spectrum to track him with directional geiger ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E26 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Brian Burgess, Brian Burgess
Certificate:
"I get threatened every day of the week - phone calls, letters... If I took any of them seriously, I'd never get any work done!" When the Mysterons threaten to destroy President Roberts within twelve hours, Scarlet is assigned as bodyguard to the sceptical President. But when 11 hours pass without ..read more »

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E12 ... (1967)
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray
Director: Robert Lynn
Certificate:
"They are trapped in Lunarville 7. We will deal with them at our leisure." When the Lunar Controller announces the Moon's independence from Earth in the war of nerves with the Mysterons, Scarlet, Blue and Green journey to Lunarville 7 to investigate reports of an unauthorised complex under ..read more »

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Rasputin The Mad Monk on DVD (1966)
Starring: Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews
Director: Don Sharp
Certificate:
Rasputin, the evil monk works his satanic power over the women in the Tsar's palace, even the Tsarina cannot escape.

59% from 330 members

Dracula Prince Of Darkness - Blu-ray (1965)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
Director: Terence Fisher
Certificate:
In this Hammer Productions take on the Dracula legend, travellers visit Carlstad, ignoring many warnings, and end up spending the night at a local castle. They soon find out that the gracious host, Klove (Philip Latham), has a hidden agenda. Apparently the castle's owner, Count Dracula (Christopher ..read more »

75% from 87 members

Dracula Prince Of Darkness on DVD (1965)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
Director: Terence Fisher
Certificate:
In this Hammer Productions take on the Dracula legend, travellers visit Carlstad, ignoring many warnings, and end up spending the night at a local castle. They soon find out that the gracious host, Klove (Philip Latham), has a hidden agenda. Apparently the castle's owner, Count Dracula (Christopher ..read more »

66% from 1,305 member

The Battleaxe on DVD (1962)
Starring: Jill Ireland, Francis Matthews
Director: Godfrey Greyson
Certificate:
Francis Matthews and Jill Ireland star as Tony Evers and Audrey Page, an engaged couple whose pre-marital bliss is shattered by the future bride's domineering mother. Unable to withstand this wicked witch of the Northlands, Matthews tries to weasel out of the marriage by suing for breach of promise:..read more »

51% from 18 members

Corridors Of Blood (1962)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie
Director: Robert Day
Certificate:
In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton develops an opium-based anesthetic, to which he gradually becomes addicted...

57% from 86 members
Currently unavailable

The Pursuers on DVD (1961)
Starring: Susan Denny, Francis Matthews, Tony Doonan
Director: Godfrey Grayson
Certificate:
In this drama, a private eye is determined to find an illusive Nazi war criminal. After a long, often frustrating pursuit, he finally finds the villain hiding in the apartment of a nightclub singer.

43% from 14 members

Revenge Of Frankenstein on DVD (1958)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Francis Matthews
Director: Terence Fisher
Certificate:
When Dr. Frankenstein escapes the guillotine he returns to his sepulchral experiments, starting over with fresh body parts and assisted by a hunchbacked dwarf. Running a clinic for the wealthy, he secretly creates another creature from various body parts and places the brain of his hunchbacked ..read more »

64% from 557 members

The Paul Temple Collection (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Francis Matthews, Ros Drinkwater
Director: none
Certificate:
The Paul Temple Collection represents the surviving colour episodes of this rich series, a time capsule of 1970s fashion in clothes, cars, décor - and crime.

56% from 79 members

Francis Matthews facts

5 most recent films

Crossplot - 2.5 stars
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E17 - Crater 101 - 3 stars
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E27 - Codename Europa - 3 stars
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E29 - Flight To Atlantica - 3 stars
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - E10 - Special Assignment - 3 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dracula Prince Of Darkness - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Dracula Prince Of Darkness - 3.5 stars
Revenge Of Frankenstein - 3.0 stars
Rasputin The Mad Monk - 3.0 stars
Corridors Of Blood - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Just Like A Woman - 2.0 stars
The Pursuers - 2.0 stars
The Battleaxe - 2.5 stars
Crossplot - 2.5 stars
The Paul Temple Collection - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ed Bishop - 64 times - show films
Donald Gray - 64 times - show films
Cy Grant - 64 times - show films
Jeremy Wilkin - 62 times - show films
Ros Drinkwater - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alan Perry - 18 times - show films
Ken Turner - 16 times - show films
Robert Lynn - 10 times - show films
Brian Burgess - 10 times - show films
Brian Burgess - 10 times - show films