Suzi Quatro was on Midsomer Murders?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
I guess Hathaway being a supercilious prick wasn't really acting... still like watching Lewis, it's supremely relaxing
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
Jonathan Creek has one too!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
even Death in Paradise has one, except with a reggae band (Jonathan Creek's is, of course, a prog band)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
just tried watching an ep of this on Youtube (Counter Culture Blues) and couldn't make it past 5 minutes!
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
these shows are so satisfying, our relatable quotidian becomes exceptional in the context of a murder investigation
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
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 :-/
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
it probably doesn't help that I know how appalling his sidekick is before I've been drawn into it.
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
^^ 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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
Pro tip: they're all Tories
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
morse is best because my grandpa looked just like john thaw
that's it, lock thread
― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
xp I know Neil Dudgeon id's openly as Labour (but don't ask me what brand/melt/spice/etc)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
my favorite character in Morse and Lewis is Oxford
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
also tory iirc
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
but Mary Beard
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
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?
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
a mysterious rock chick's twin
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
Spoiler alert, mark.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
yeah some of us have only seen that episode 5-7 times
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
^^^this story is rather less bathetically recounted in thurber's "the years with ross"
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
Waking the Dead and Midsomer Murder both had elder Foxes guest star. I can ever remember which one is Laurence’s dad.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
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???
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
it's not like a member of the Fox family to go nuts
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
This made me laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0XnLs7DSc
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 January 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
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
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 February 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
tfw you settle down for a nice long maigret and it's just mr bean w/a sour puss >:(
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
The Greek ep is one of my faves
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
I quite like Atkinson as Maigret tbh
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
i'm still watching
(tho given the topic of this thread that is no index of quality)
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
I'm a discerning viewer I'll have you know
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
lol im not
― mark s, Monday, 17 February 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
"Is there a butler?""Haven't seen one sir.""Pity. It might have saved us a lot of time."
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
i just watched an entire ep of father brown -- lol it was extremely terrible
(not a gkc story for a start but even so)
― mark s, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
The Father Browns are really wrong as far as the stories are concerned, they might as well have just called it something else.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
Maths geek listening to Muse ergo clearly deserves to die
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
Lol Peggy Mount in two minute nun cameo
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 August 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
God Morse is a sex pest
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link
Still getting handsy with the only surviving criminal
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
You should try the Elmore Leonard novel where the hero hits on his girlfriend outside the rape clinic
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
The unemployment rate amongst posh elfin actresses must have shot up when they stopped making Lewis
― A bot scamping on a human face, forever (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link
lol true
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
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
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
i love Endeavour (esp w mustache) & enjoy Lewis (though Hathaway holds most of the appeal there)... is it weird i’ve never watched Morse? mum used to watch, feel like i absorbed it vicariously i am v fucked off that britbox & acorn stole allmost of the brit detective shows off Primewent to do a rewatch of Cracker but it was the bloody American remake! /vomit emoji
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link
i am v fucked off that britbox & acorn stole most of the brit detective shows off Prime
take it to the JiC thread
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
shush
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
truly this thread was my "horror cannot be set in space" lol
also i see that wikipedia have deleted the list of the name of midsomer villages, which is like the burning of the library of alexandria x one trillion
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link