Paul Temple

- Season 2

(1970)

Former gangster Sammy Carson is in the frame for a wages job he says he didn't do. He asks Paul Temple to help him but with Sammy's fingerprints everywhere, Temple has his doubts.

Paul and Steve Temple's friend Ilse is kidnapped soon after arriving in London. Paul and Steve begin to suspect that maybe her Uncle is involved somehow but with no immediate evidence, set about trying to track her down.

Paul and Steve are in Malta where they encounter an eccentric film maker who plays very dangerous games.

The theft of expensive artwork from a gallery includes a piece owned by Paul Temple. When the gallery starts to receive ransom demands, Paul Temple investigates.

An ex-mercenary returns to the UK from an African state. After he unleashes an unprovoked attack on Paul Temple, Temple sets about discovering why the man has what seems to be a split personality.

When a seemingly worthless statuette that Paul Temple wins at an auction is stolen, the trail to its recovery leads Temple to a professional assassin based in Amsterdam.

The trail of the trouble in Amsterdam leads Paul Temple to Bruges. Here he uncovers a corrupt antique dealer Mondelle with international connections and a European-wide smuggling operation.

Paul Temple is in Edinburgh at an international crime writers' conference and is approached by a young German girl who asks him to review her first novel. The book is not really what she thinks it is though.

Travelling to Milan, the Temples offer Gina, an adolescent girl a lift. They soon discover she is homeless. When their property and that of their host goes missing, Paul Temple tries to get to the bottom of why the girl insists on stealing.

After an explosion in a suitcase at the Cordways' house in Riverside, Paul Temple investigates.

While in Munich, the PT on Paul Temple's suitcase means his is mistaken for assassin Peter Tasman, who has been held up at the airport and refused entry to Germany. As he begins to get small pieces of information regarding exactly what Tasman has to do, Temple is intrigued to play along - however, he soon gets mixed up in a murderous plot of double cross, all orchestrated by the mysterious but extremely efficient Mr Somerville.

After uncovering a plot in the first part, Temple now finds himself on the run and against the clock in Munich.

When Italian film star Luciana Benedetti lands in London, Paul Temple soon becomes embroiled in the disappearance of her manager's son Mark.