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Margery Allingham’ s Albert Campion series of detective novels and short stories are generally adventures rather than true mysteries, as they rarely feature puzzles that the reader has a chance of solving; it is the characters and situations which carry the story. Supposedly created as a parody of Dorothy L Sayers' detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Albert Campion eventually established his own identity, and matured and developed as his series of stories progressed.
If one follows these stories, one will discover that Albert Campion is in actual fact a pseudonym used by a man who was born in 1900 into a prominent British aristocratic family. Early novels hint that he was part of the royal family, but this suggestion is dropped in later works. He was educated at Rugby School and the St Ignatius' College, Cambridge (according to a mini-biography included in Sweet Danger). Ingenious, resourceful and well-educated, he assumed the name Albert Campion in his 20s and began a life as an adventurer and detective.
Between 22 January 1989 and 16 March 1990, the BBC adapted the first eight Albert Campion novels (excluding The Crime At Black Dudley) in a television programme entitled Campion, with Peter Davison playing the title role of Albert Campion. The eight stories were produced as sixteen episodes over two series; with four stories in each series, each story of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes on BBC1. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; an instrumental version is used in the second series.
If one follows these stories, one will discover that Albert Campion is in actual fact a pseudonym used by a man who was born in 1900 into a prominent British aristocratic family. Early novels hint that he was part of the royal family, but this suggestion is dropped in later works. He was educated at Rugby School and the St Ignatius' College, Cambridge (according to a mini-biography included in Sweet Danger). Ingenious, resourceful and well-educated, he assumed the name Albert Campion in his 20s and began a life as an adventurer and detective.
Between 22 January 1989 and 16 March 1990, the BBC adapted the first eight Albert Campion novels (excluding The Crime At Black Dudley) in a television programme entitled Campion, with Peter Davison playing the title role of Albert Campion. The eight stories were produced as sixteen episodes over two series; with four stories in each series, each story of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes on BBC1. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; an instrumental version is used in the second series.
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Series 1 (1989)
Series 2 (1990)
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