Re: Doctor Who (Related) Spoting

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:

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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.

 - 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.

 - 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.

 - 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.

 - 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).

 - 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.

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.

 - 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, 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).

 - 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. Then the was with Sal (I can't remember if she was a nurse or not nor if she was the reason for his divorce), who became pregnant, they got engaged, then she lost the baby, and they split up. In the new season he's starting a relationship with the police pathologist Leanne.