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On 2025-04-13 12:11:39 +0000, Daniel70 said:
> On 13/04/2025 8:30 am, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2025-04-12 10:11:33 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>>> On 12/04/2025 9:20 am, Your Name wrote:
> 
> <Snip>
> 
>>>> 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!!
>> 
>> Then there's:
>>  - The Madame Blanc Mysteries
> 
> Pommies moving on to France Riviera in Retirement.

Nope. The British antiques expert / seller comes to the small French 
village when her husband was murdered there, and after that mystery was 
solved she decided to stay. There are a few other ex-pat British people 
already living there, but none are retired.



>>  - The Marlow Murder Club
> 
> ??

Small UK village of Marlow where a retired archaeologist, a vicar's 
wife, and a dog walker come together to solve murders, which grudging 
approval of the police they are helping. Based on a series of books.



>>  - Queens of Mystery
> 
> ??

A young female police detective moves back to her home town and is 
unofficially  helped by her three aunts to solve mystery crimes. There 
is also an on-going mystery surrounding her parents.



>>  - The Good Ship Murder
> 
> ??

Ex-police detective turned cruise line entertainer solves mysteries 
involving the ship's guests (on and off the boat) around the 
Mediterranean, with the help of the ship's second in command.



>>  - Moonflower Murders
> 
> ??

A series of books that is being made into a trilogy of mini-series. 
First one was "Magpie Murders", the second "Moonflower Murders", and 
the up-coming third one is yet to get an official name. A book editor 
solves crimes with the help of the fictional detective from her edited 
books (she sees and talks to him).



>>  - Agatha Raisin
> 
> Like it.
> 
>>  - Ludwig
> 
> Seen a couple .. but missed the first Ep so don't know the "back-story".

A police detective goes missing and his twin brother (a newspaper 
crossword setter) comes in to help the detective's wife find out what 
happened, which he does by pretending to be his brother to go into the 
police station and ends up having to solve other crimes while looking 
for clues about his brother.



>> and the professional / semi-professional private detectives helping police:
>>  - Harry Wild
> 
> Good
> 
>>  - Whitstable Pearl
> 
> Good

The son in Whistable Pearl is played by the same actor who plays Harry 
Wild's sidekick, so it can get a bit confusing if you watch both shows 
close toegether and aren't concetrating.



>>  - Professor T
> 
> ??

Basically a bit of a knock-off of the US series "Monk". A university 
crime professor with obsessive compulsive disorder helps the police to 
solve crimes, while also trying to cope with his over-protective mother 
and the 'suicide' of his father that he witnessed as a child. The 
series has been remade by a few European countries, the latest being 
the British version starring Ben Miller (who was one of the Death in 
Paradise detectives).



>>  - Shakespeare & Hathaway
> 
> Good.

>> Plus of course all the proper police ones.
> 
> I may have mentioned before that I do a bit of Volunteering at the 
> local Salvation Army thrift Shop .... to which someone donated 59 of 
> the 68 old "Midsomer Murders" TV series DVDs
> 
> (Bugger!! I original spelt that 'Midsommer' but the went to IMDB and 
> they have it as "Midsomer" so I changed it .... then hit 'Send' and my 
> Spell-checker offered "Midsommer" .... so I don't know!!! ;-) )

One 'm' in the middle: Midsomer. Some silly auto-correct 'features' 
will change it to "midsummer" instead.



> I might have brought them ..... cept I've seen them over and over and ...
> 
>> And those are just off the top of my head. There are plenty more, even 
>> not counting non-UK ones.
> 
> Yeap, like "Homicide - Life on the Streets" which is being repeated, 
> three or four Eps in a row, of a Thursday evening.
> 
> I haven't seen "Hill Street Blues" this century, I think, but wouldn't 
> mind if it got repeated!!
> 
>>>> 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!!
>> 
>> He did get promoted from Detective Sergeant to Detective Inspector at 
>> some point. He didn't want to be the boss - he was offered another 
>> promotion after DCI Cassie Stuart died, but he turned it down because 
>> he didn't think he was in the right frame of mind after her death.
> 
> .... and, somewhere along the line, he's seperated from his T.V. wife 
> .... and is now trying to set himself up with a Nurse.

Possible spoilers, depending on what season's you have watched ...

He got divorced. Then the was with Sal (I can't remember if she was a 
nurse or not nor if she was the reason for his divorce), who became 
pregnant, they got engaged, then she lost the baby, and they split up. 
In the new season he's starting a relationship with the police 
pathologist Leanne.