The Film Chest Announces The Release Of A Long Lost Series Treasure On Apr. 30 • The Complete Collection Of Boris Karloff's Colonel March of Scotland Yard

The Film Chest has scored a major coup with the announcement this past week that the ultra rare Boris Karloff ITV London television mystery series (1954/1955) titled Colonel March of Scotland Yard.

All 26 episodes will be presented as a three-disc DVD collection for amateur sleuths to enjoy on Apr. 30.

Based on writer John Dickson Carr’s (aka: Carter Dickson) 1940 novel, “The Department of Queer Complaints,” Colonel March of Scotland Yard (Karloff) is assigned the task of solving mysteries that have baffled law enforcement.

This was certainly an odd duck.   No less than three pilots were filmed in effort to pitch the series.   And, since nothing would possibly go to waste, director Cy Endfield (Zulu, Mysterious Island, Tarzan’s Savage Fury, etc.) had the three pilots edited into a feature length film titled Colonel March Investigates, which was released theatrical in the UK during the summer of 1953.

This is X-Files before there was such a thing.   Mysteries that cannot possibly be solved … but then there’s Colonel March.

Be sure to check it out Apr. 30.