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*Chéri-Bibi*
Chéri-Bibi
Genre	Mystery crime
Based on	Chéri-Bibi by Gaston Leroux
Written by	Jean Pignol
Directed by	Jean Pignol
Starring	Hervé Sand ; Jean Lefebvre ; Danièle Lebrun
Composer	Francis Lemarque
Country of origin	France
Original language	French
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	46
Production
Running time	13 minutes
Production company	Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
Original release
Network	ORTF 1
Release	20 December 1974 –; 18 February 1975

Chéri-Bibi is a French mystery crime television series which premiered on the ORTF 1 channel between 20 December 1974 and 18 February 1975.^[1] The programme was based on the series of four serial novels by Gaston Leroux. Previous adaptations of the stories include The Phantom of Paris (1931), Chéri-Bibi (1938) and Chéri-Bibi (1955).^[2]

Synopsis

Chéri-Bibi is wrongly sentenced for a crime he did not commit and sent to serve in a penal colony in French Guiana. He leads a mutiny amongst his fellow prisoners and seizes the ship carrying there. He changes place with the dead Marquis du Touchais and travels back to France and assumes his identity. He lives a happy life with Cécily, the neglected with of the Marquis, until discovering that it was the Marquis who really committed the crime he was tried for and the police are now on his case.

Cast

Hervé Sand as Chéri-Bibi
Jean Lefebvre as La ficelle
Danièle Lebrun as Cécily
Daniel Emilfork as Le Kanak
Marguerite Cassan as Soeur Sainte-Marie des Anges
Pierre Hatet as Pont Marie
Malka Ribowska as La Comtesse
Robert Vattier as Le commandant
Andrée Damant as Mme Regime
Georges Montillier as Maître Regime
Jean Saudray as Petit Bon Dieu
Marcel Champel as Gueule de Bois
Jean Mauvais as Le Rouquin
Georges Hubert as Le Coryphée
Muse Dalbray as Reine
Pierre Filou as Le domestique
Jean De Beaumont as L'inspecteur
Antoine Marin as Baron Proscoff

References

^ Jélot-Blanc p.111
^ Soister & Nicolella p.123

Bibliography

Jélot-Blanc, Jean-Jacques.Télé feuilletons. Editions Ramsay, 1993.
Soister, John T. & Nicolella, Henry. Down from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s. McFarland, 2016.