'Colonel March Investigates' (1953) – Cyril Enfield.

A cult classic TV serial wherein we take a rare look into the manifestly mysterious machinations of 'The Department of Queer Complaints', arguably one of the more esoteric echelons of Scotland Yard's most august estate, a shadowy, secretive section being largely the sole purview of that inestimably astute puzzle-solver, the slyly sardonic, unerringly triumphant, fiendishly inventive, and all-round clever clogs Colonel March of Scotland Yard. The more deviously confounding crime that he is tantalizingly confronted with, the greater relish with which our dutifully dogged, uncommonly tenacious, profoundly unconventional public servant attacks the apparently impenetrable case! This charmingly erudite, witheringly witty, larger-than-life super-sleuth of dastardly eldritch, murderous malfeasance, and supernaturally sympathetic crimes becomes embroiled with a bafflingly bizarre bank robbery, which very soon throws up more dizzying twists and turns than a permanently pixelated ice-skating puddy tat! The second, no less audaciously trick-headed, preternaturally puzzling crime concerns the especially unpleasant demise of a physically gifted exotic Javanese dancer, a darkly fascinating crime of deadly amorous duplicity that almost pushes the redoubtable March's legendary perspicacity to its not inconsiderable limits! And this greatly obfuscated tale of callous capital murder is bound to have the mentally flummoxed viewer frustratingly scratching their beleaguered bonce like a lice-ravaged chimp!!! The final fright-packed tale in this creepy celluloid triptych of delectably strange criminality, is the mystifyingly mad, cryptically confounding case of an altogether hallucinatory, phantasmagorically-inclined shooting by a pair of 'murderously disembodied gloves'???!!! A rabidly perplexing, reality warping, logic defying misdeed so insanely implausible, so desperately vexing that the usually ironclad, indefatigable modus operandi of Colonel Marsh is momentarily undone by the singular ingenuity of this inventively invidious villain's criminally convoluted cunning! Master filmmaker Cyril Enfield's 'Colonel March Investigates' is a crime buff's brainbox baffling bonanza, this vintage small screen serial is considerably enlivened by yet another exquisitely enigmatic performance from the iconic, ghoulishly glamorous fright-master Boris Karloff, this engaging crime series is highly recommended, a definite must-see for the more refined murder mystery unravelling epicureans out there! For a sleuth with only one eye, the visionary detective Colonel Marsh sees far more than most!