TV Series (1968)

Starring:

Jean-Pierre Moulin (Émile le Roux - 13 episodes)
Pierre Tornade (Joseph Torrence - 13 episodes)
Marlène Jobert (Mlle Berthe - 13 episodes)
Michel Robin (Barbet - 13 episodes)
Noël Roquevert (Inspecteur Bichon - 7 episodes)
Louis Arbessier (Commissaire Janvier - 6 episodes)

This series features the investigations of the famous private detective firm, Agence O. Officially, the agency is headed by Joseph Torrence (a former deputy of Commissioner Maigret), but in reality, behind a one-way window in his office hides the real boss, Émile le Roux.

Episode 1 Le prisonnier de Lagny

No aircraft in this episode but views of Aéroport de Paris-Orly terminal. See discussion tab (1)].

Episode 2 L'homme tout nu

Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III

Supposed to take off from Paris-Orly. See discussion tab (2).
Registration F-BJTO, c/n 148. First flight on May 20th 1963 by Sud-Aviation, registered F-WJTO. Delivered to Air France in May 1963, registered F-BJTO, named Nivernais, then Pays Basque in 1969. Leased to Air Charter International in September 1970, then bought in April 1971. Withdrawn from use at Paris Orly, ORY in November 1980.

SCAN Stampe SV4C

Unknown ownership.

SCAN Stampe SV4C

Registration F-BGRN, c/n 364. Cancelled from French register in November 1978.

Episode 3 Les trois bateaux de la calanque

No aircraft in this episode.

Episode 4 La cage d'Emile

No aircraft in this episode.

Episode 5 Le docteur tant-pis

No aircraft in this episode.

Episode 6 Le club des vieilles dames

No aircraft in this episode.

Episode 7 L'étrangleur de Montigny

No aircraft in this episode but views of Aéroport de Paris-Orly. See discussion tab (3)].

Episode 8 La petite fleuriste de Deauville

Robin DR200

On approach for landing at Aéroport de Deauville - Saint-Gatien. See discussion tab (4)].

Touch down in few second.

Unidentified Aircraft

To the right background.

Episode 9 Le vieillard au porte mine

Boeing 707-328

On the tarmac of Aéroport de Paris-Orly, preparing for the flight to Montreal that Olaf, the Icelandic police officer, is to take.

Boeing 707-328C

Another preparation of flight for Montréal at Aéroport de Paris-Orly. It must be one of the 2 cargo aircraft operated at the time by Air France under the Pélican service who started in September 1965. See discussion tab (5). Either F-BLCC airframe 18881/436 named Le Pélican or F-BLCF airframe 19292/560 named Château de Blois at the time, renamed later as Pélican II. The subsidiary Air France Cargo was not labelled yet.
View of the JT3D-3B.

Boeing 707-328

Continuity error when taking off, the aircraft changes for a non cargo 707-328 with 4 engines JT4A.

Boeing 707-328C (inside)

Back to inside the cargo aircraft in flight to Montreal in which Inspector Torrence finds himself as a stowaway hidden in a crate carrying a fake crocodile.

In a communication with the Air Trafic Controller of Montreal, the co-pilot announces his airplane as a fake Air France Tango Sierra standing for F-xxTS non existing in the company's 707 fleet.

Boeing 707-328

Passenger disembarkation of Olaf's plane at Aéroport International Montréal-Dorval. See discussion tab (6).

Olaf passing the Pratt & Whitney JT4A nacelles when walking towards the terminal.

Vickers 952 Vanguard & Douglas DC-8

View from ATC tower Aéroport International Montréal-Dorval.
1 - Characteristic tail fin of Vickers 952 Vanguard from Air Canada.
2 - Group of 3 Unidentified Aircraft.
3 - Taxiing unidentified Douglas DC-8.

1 - Vickers 952 Vanguard from Air Canada.
2 - Unidentified Aircraft.
3 - Douglas DC-8.

Boeing 707-328

Supposed to be Le Pélican landing at Aéroport International Montréal-Dorval, but here again it's a 707-328 with JT4A engines.

Boeing 707-328C

Taking off for return to Paris. Cargo aircraft Le Pelican fitted with Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B. Seen discussion tab (7).

Episode 10 Emile à Cannes

Boeing 707-328B

Supposed at Aéroport de Nice-Côte d'Azur. Seen discussion tab (8).

Boeing 707-328

Supposed taking off from Nice to New-York, but the environment seems more like Paris-Orly than Nice-Côte d'Azur. And then it's a 707-328 again with 4x JT4A.

In flight.

Boeing 707-328

Landing at Puerto Rico International Airport/Aeropuerto Internacional de Isla Verde See discussion tab (9) after supposedly a connection in New York. We may wonder why this New-York/Puerto Rico route should be operated by a French company? Perhaps some regional links in a package with French West Indies?
Meanwhile, the arriving aircraft is F-BHSH, c/n 17620/138. Delivered new to Air France in June 1960, named Château d'Amboise. Written off in September 1976 at Napoleon Bonaparte-Ajaccio,France (LFKJ/AJA) after bomb exploded while on ground.