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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who (Related) Spoting
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:11:33 +1000
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On 12/04/2025 9:20 am, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-04-11 13:58:23 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>> On 1/04/2025 10:51 pm, Daniel70 wrote:
>>> Currently watching Sean Pertwee
>>> 
>>> https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675730/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1
>>> 
>>> in Agatha Christie's "The Pale Horse"
>>> 
>>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10485750/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_9
>>>
 >>> and, (Obj Doctor Who) Sean is a son of Jon Pertwee ....whom IMDB
>>> says "who was mainly a comedy actor and was known for his 
>>> starring roles in Doctor Who (1963),".
>>> 
>>> "A Comedy Actor" ..... really?? Who would have thought??
>>> 
>>> "1963"?? .... Really??
>> 
>> One of our Commercial stations is/was showing a series called "Mrs
>>  Sidhu Investigates" in which a Woman who is a Caterer by
>> profession assists the local Police in investigating various
>> murders.
> 
> It's an okay, light-hearted, series, but there are so mny of these 
> amateur detectives "help" (i.e they solve the crimes)

Yeap. "Father Brown" and "Sister Boniface Mysteries" for starters!!

Hmm!! Are these two shows just an effort to portray the Roman Catholic
Church as a bunch of busy-bodies?? Oh!! No!! Wait! "Grantchester" is a
CoE based Cop-show!!

> the police shows now that it's all becoming too samey. Most of the
> time I can solve them before the first ad break.
> 
>> The Woman who plays Mrs Sidhu,
> 
> Meera Syal.

I thought I had actually mentioned her RL Name AND included a link to
her IMDB Bio ..... but NO!!

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842934/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1

> She has plaued *lots* of roles and is married to Sanjeev Bhaskar (the
> male detective in the "Unforgotten" series

Good Series .... and he plays his part very well .... thinking HE should
be the Boss of the squad .... but "The System" keeps posting in other 
DCI's!!

> and has been in Doctor Who three times, although two of those were 
> voice-acting roles).
> 
>> appeared as "Nasreen Chaudhry" in the Eleventh Doctor "Doctor Who"
>> episode, The Hungry Earth, where some group or other of Scientists
>> were drilling through Earth's Crust ..... until The Silurians
>> start abducting people.
> 
> Clips of the same character also appeared in "The Destinations of 
> Doctor Who" show.
> 
> She was also in the Doctor Who audio drama "Peladon" playing Arla 
> Decanto, and was the narrator in the audio drama "Doctor Who: New 
> Series Adventures". Plus of course appeared as herself in an episode
>  of the documentary "Doctor Who Confidential".
-- 
Daniel70