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Post by jjmooney on Oct 21, 2023 14:39:46 GMT
Did Charlie Chisholm ever actually solve a crime?? He couldn't catch a cold!
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Post by jno on Oct 22, 2023 4:41:13 GMT
Or Jim Bergerac coyote hereby invited round to the next Bergerac fan convention in the rusty old red phone box at the bottom of the garden at jno Towers.
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Post by metro1962 on Oct 22, 2023 11:52:52 GMT
No Basil on the list?
Now he was a great detective for Disney.😁
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Post by ltd on Oct 22, 2023 16:53:01 GMT
Or Jim Bergerac coyote hereby invited round to the next Bergerac fan convention in the rusty old red phone box at the bottom of the garden at jno Towers. I watched all the Bergeracs a few years ago and rather enjoyed them. The series has perhaps garnered a reputation as a cosy crime show, but it could be very hard edged at times - I remember a couple of episodes with people blasted at close range by automatic gunfire. The episode with Ian "Stevo" Redford as a mercenary seeking revenge on an arms supplier for the death of his family is one that sticks in the mind as quite uncompromising. Could be educational as well, especially about the various fiddles that went on in the Channel Islands. I remember one centred on the "Sark lark" - companies registered on the island with non-executive directors drawn from the rustic populace, paid a bung to put their names to various pieces of dodgy paperwork.
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Post by barrythebook on Oct 31, 2023 19:13:36 GMT
Did Charlie Chisholm ever actually solve a crime?? 'Poetic Justice 'innit?', he got Smith nicked for dishonestly handling but can't think of any others at the minute. Oh, he got Terry a 'suspended' for shoplifting even though he didn't do it!
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Post by ontheslate on Nov 2, 2023 14:55:03 GMT
Find Father Brown a very enjoyable easy going watch and the books are good as well, Sherlock Holmes is a literary phenomenon and have enjoyed the books, television,film and radio versions of it. Of course put my third vote in for Cheerful Charlie.
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Post by coyote on Nov 10, 2023 19:53:09 GMT
coyote hereby invited round to the next Bergerac fan convention in the rusty old red phone box at the bottom of the garden at jno Towers. I watched all the Bergeracs a few years ago and rather enjoyed them. The series has perhaps garnered a reputation as a cosy crime show, but it could be very hard edged at times - I remember a couple of episodes with people blasted at close range by automatic gunfire. The episode with Ian "Stevo" Redford as a mercenary seeking revenge on an arms supplier for the death of his family is one that sticks in the mind as quite uncompromising. Could be educational as well, especially about the various fiddles that went on in the Channel Islands. I remember one centred on the "Sark lark" - companies registered on the island with non-executive directors drawn from the rustic populace, paid a bung to put their names to various pieces of dodgy paperwork. Bergerac is being repeated in the afternoons on some nostalgia channel and I caught a couple of episodes from series 1 and 4. I was pleasantly surprised how well it has stood the test of time and was quite entertained. My memory as a child was that it went down the gurgler in the later series though.
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Post by ltd on Nov 10, 2023 22:05:20 GMT
I watched all the Bergeracs a few years ago and rather enjoyed them. The series has perhaps garnered a reputation as a cosy crime show, but it could be very hard edged at times - I remember a couple of episodes with people blasted at close range by automatic gunfire. The episode with Ian "Stevo" Redford as a mercenary seeking revenge on an arms supplier for the death of his family is one that sticks in the mind as quite uncompromising. Could be educational as well, especially about the various fiddles that went on in the Channel Islands. I remember one centred on the "Sark lark" - companies registered on the island with non-executive directors drawn from the rustic populace, paid a bung to put their names to various pieces of dodgy paperwork. Bergerac is being repeated in the afternoons on some nostalgia channel and I caught a couple of episodes from series 1 and 4. I was pleasantly surprised how well it has stood the test of time and was quite entertained. My memory as a child was that it went down the gurgler in the later series though. The last series was very patchy although I liked Therese Liotard who played his French girlfriend. Roger Sloman's a fine comic actor but he was a poor replacement for Sean Arnold.
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Post by hollandpark on Nov 17, 2023 15:57:46 GMT
Philip Marlowe for me, I read all the Chandler books and he has a way of describing Los Angeles that hits the spot so well. The Radio plays are awesome as well, they can be found on youtube. The Movie adaptations are great as well, esp The Long Goodbye with Elliot Gould. I heard the Coen brothers say that Marlowe was basically their inspiration for the Big Lebowski, which I also find very cool. I actually started to drink Old Forester Bourbon simply cos its mentioned so many times in all the Marlowe novels.
I would throw in Jim Rockford as well, as I am currently working my way through the boxset of Rockford Files, shame the blu ray only comes in region 1 USA and you cant stream it anywhere. He has the same deadpan kind of anti hero sarcastic personality that Marlowe does
Honorary mention Harrison Fox as Crazy Like a Fox was such a cool show, still repeated sometimes on great tv.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Nov 18, 2023 6:48:32 GMT
Philip Marlowe for me, I read all the Chandler books and he has a way of describing Los Angeles that hits the spot so well. The Radio plays are awesome as well, they can be found on youtube. The Movie adaptations are great as well, esp The Long Goodbye with Elliot Gould. I heard the Coen brothers say that Marlowe was basically their inspiration for the Big Lebowski, which I also find very cool. I actually started to drink Old Forester Bourbon simply cos its mentioned so many times in all the Marlowe novels. I would throw in Jim Rockford as well, as I am currently working my way through the boxset of Rockford Files, shame the blu ray only comes in region 1 USA and you cant stream it anywhere. He has the same deadpan kind of anti hero sarcastic personality that Marlowe does Honorary mention Harrison Fox as Crazy Like a Fox was such a cool show, still repeated sometimes on great tv. Marlowe is good. He’s like a less vicious, less unhinged, more respectable version of Mike Hammer IIRC.
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