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Subject: Re: Why WAS the 6th Doctor era SO BAD?!
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:10:51 +1300
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On 2025-01-26 10:45:56 +0000, Daniel70 said:
> On 12/01/2025 7:25 am, Blueshirt wrote:
>> Your Name wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-10 22:55:35 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>>> Your Name wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Colin Baker was pretty bad, but then so was his successor
>>>>> Sylvester McCoy with his Poirot-ised version of the Doctor.
>>>> 
>>>> Well there's something I have never heard said before. The
>>>> Seventh Doctor like Hercule Poirot! Captain Hastings would
>>>> have a heart attack if he read that!
>>>> 
>>>> I can't say that I see it myself...
>>> 
>>> I should probably have said a (then) modern day Poirot.
>>> Sylvester McCoy is a funny little man who swaggered around
>>> using that umbrella like a walking stick ... all that was
>>> missing was the twee little mustache and the Belgian accent.
>>> :-)
>> 
>> I think I prefer Poirot...  ;-)
> 
> Just finished watching a three/four part Doce series on the life of 
> Agatha Christie.
> 
> Poirot made her name and she wrote Mrs Marple in her later life, when 
> Agatha and Marple were about the same age.
> 
> Interesting and annoying at the same time ..... The woman presenting it 
> had a lisp!!

I think I've seen that documentary.

We are watching the old documentary series "Super Slueths" about 
various TV and movie detectives, which includes an episode about Poirot.