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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who (Related) Spoting
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:30:58 +1000
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On 15/04/2025 9:02 am, Your Name wrote:

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>>>>> - 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.
>>
>> So in the First Ep, did "we" see what happened to the Real Detective?? I
>> missed it.
> 
> Nope. It starts with Ludwig being contacted by his sister-in-law asking 
> him to come for a visit because they haven't seen Ludwig in a while, but 
> it's a ruse to get him to come help her investigate what has happened to 
> her husband. Even by the end of the season we don't know what happened 
> to the detective, other than he seems to have gone into hiding without 
> telling his family. A second season is being made.

Looks like our local TV Station has gone back to the start ....

Quote
Puzzle setter John "Ludwig"€™ Taylor'€™s life is upended when his 
identical twin, DCI James Taylor, disappears. John reluctantly assumes 
his identity in order to track him down.
End Quote.

>>>>> - 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,
>>
>> Never seen either series.
>>
>>> 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).
>>
>> Wasn't he the First Detective .... or just the First I saw??
> 
> Yep, he was the first one. He got killed off, but rather stupidly did 
> later return as a ghost. :-\

That's right. I want to type that the two of them were sitting on a 
bench seat somewhere .... but it would have made more logic to have had 
them at the Beach Bar.
-- 
Daniel70