TS: Lewis vs Morse

I've read about five tweets from diff people I follow calling for the Laurence Fox tweets to stop. I think only other subjects that I've seen this much pain on the timeline over are Tony Blair and the Lab party.

nah, the stolen guitar episode is the quiz weekend one with Alan Davies guest starring

in which Davies plays an obnoxious shifty self-regarding twat

the ep of Lewis where one of the members of an ageing 60s rock group is electrocuted on-stage

This sounds very much like Midsomer Murders' 'The Axeman Cometh':

55 4 "The Axeman Cometh" Renny Rye Michael Aitkens 2 February 2007 August/September 2006 6.87
The music lovers of Midsomer County are delighted when a host of bands arrives for the Midsomer Rocks festival. Barnaby himself is particularly looking forward to seeing recently re-formed rock band, Hired Gun, perform on stage, but he soon gets close to the band for rather unfortunate reasons. During their opening performance, the band's singer, Mimi (Suzi Quatro), falls to the ground dead – electrocuted by a wire that had been run through the microphone stand. Barnaby and Jones soon find the rest of the band could be targets, and when another is killed, questions are raised as to whether former band member, Ginger Foxton, who went missing for 30 years and is presumed dead, is still at large. The detectives soon have to delve into a world of rock music, drug use and greed, to find the truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0pekalbPjk

Suzi Quatro was on Midsomer Murders?

I guess Hathaway being a supercilious prick wasn't really acting... still like watching Lewis, it's supremely relaxing

lol yes there's also an ageing rock-blues ep in waking the dead, feat.nigel terry as a virtuoso guitarist who's also a hitman for a sinister club owner (i think he also has alzheimer's, it's a complicated episode)

Jonathan Creek has one too!

even Death in Paradise has one, except with a reggae band (Jonathan Creek's is, of course, a prog band)

just tried watching an ep of this on Youtube (Counter Culture Blues) and couldn't make it past 5 minutes!

these shows are so satisfying, our relatable quotidian becomes exceptional in the context of a murder investigation

brb writing a MARPLE script that finally ties these unsolved crimes together: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainers_who_died_during_a_performance

Suzi Quatro was on Midsomer Murders?

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You bet! And yr otm about how satisyfing these shows are, though Death in Paradise is an outlier I can't watch for some reason. I will cop to having seen more Father Brown episodes than I'd like to admit though :-/

it probably doesn't help that I know how appalling his sidekick is before I've been drawn into it.

^^ similarly, learning Ali Carter is a Farage retweeter and stan ruined watching him play the Masters last week.

I've vowed to not look up the p0litics of English actors any longer.

Pro tip: they're all Tories

morse is best because my grandpa looked just like john thaw

that's it, lock thread

xp I know Neil Dudgeon id's openly as Labour (but don't ask me what brand/melt/spice/etc)

my favorite character in Morse and Lewis is Oxford

also tory iirc

but Mary Beard

the ep of Lewis where one of the members of an ageing 60s rock group is electrocuted on-stage

Is this the one with Joanna Lumley as a mysterious rock chick?

a mysterious rock chick's twin

Spoiler alert, mark.

yeah some of us have only seen that episode 5-7 times

LOL:

Alexander Woollcott suffered a heart attack during a radio show in which he and four other individuals were having a discussion about Hitler. Listeners were oblivious to the fact that anything was out of the ordinary. Several of them reported that Woollcott, known for being strongly opinionated, was unusually quiet.

^^^this story is rather less bathetically recounted in thurber's "the years with ross"

Waking the Dead and Midsomer Murder both had elder Foxes guest star. I can ever remember which one is Laurence’s dad.

I am laughing a bit about his complaints about 1917 because he was in a WW1 movie about a haunted trench. Are ghosts historically accurate???

my complaints about 1917 is that it is another bad sentimental bullshit war movie by a dreadful director. But yeah, what a prize pumper for saying that!

it's not like a member of the Fox family to go nuts

This made me laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0XnLs7DSc

The Greek ep of Morse is so good, he hits some special notes of obnoxiousness, also I want to read The Magus for the first time in 30+ years

tfw you settle down for a nice long maigret and it's just mr bean w/a sour puss >:(

The Greek ep is one of my faves

I quite like Atkinson as Maigret tbh

i'm still watching

(tho given the topic of this thread that is no index of quality)

I'm a discerning viewer I'll have you know

lol im not

"Is there a butler?"
"Haven't seen one sir."
"Pity. It might have saved us a lot of time."

i just watched an entire ep of father brown -- lol it was extremely terrible

(not a gkc story for a start but even so)

The Father Browns are really wrong as far as the stories are concerned, they might as well have just called it something else.

Maths geek listening to Muse ergo clearly deserves to die

Lol Peggy Mount in two minute nun cameo

God Morse is a sex pest

Still getting handsy with the only surviving criminal

You should try the Elmore Leonard novel where the hero hits on his girlfriend outside the rape clinic

The unemployment rate amongst posh elfin actresses must have shot up when they stopped making Lewis

lol true

I don't know, I have Britbox and there are roughly 5,000 murder mysteries on there packed with posh elfins and hapless dad bods