Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who (Related) Spoting Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:37:47 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 195 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:37:43 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a1ef9c736cf18a162ff2b8426aa01c22"; logging-data="1461018"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ozO+8hxgGiW74bmDLLErW" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Wnla643p+5RUMNYnk0yys1eOvk= In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 250414-0, 4/14/2025), Outbound message Bytes: 7982 On 14/04/2025 8:27 am, Your Name wrote: > 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: >> >> >> >>>>> 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. Oh!! I must have missed that Eps. I thought her Partner was still there. >>> - 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. Oh. Hang on, I might have seen one or two of them! >>> - 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. Nope! >>> - 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. Police Detective turned Cruise entertainer .... Yeah!! I can see that happening!! .... NOT!! >>> - 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). Nope!! >>> - 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. So in the First Ep, did "we" see what happened to the Real Detective?? I missed it. >>> 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. Thank You!! Thank You! Thank You. I thought I might have been going crazy .... or was I just confusing myself .... but I thought he HAD been in the other series!! >>> - 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?? >>> - 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. Was that about the time of the First DI (whom I liked a lot) getting ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========