There have been many BBC and
ITV British detective/mystery series which have since appeared on either
Masterpiece Theatre or on DVD. These are
some of them, loosely in order of my favorites (best first). What I am missing?
Foyle's
War. Crime in the 2nd World War on the south
coast of England.
Prime
Suspect with Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison.
Life
on Mars. DCI Sam Tyler “transported” from 2006 to 1973.
Inevitably, one grows to like the bullying Gene Hunt.
Wallander. Inspector
Kurt Wallander in southern Sweden.
Inspector
Morse. The archetypal Oxford curmudgeon.
George
Gently. An honest
ex-Yard cop in Durham.
Rebus. Insp.
Rebus in Edinburgh. First series with John Hannah.
Inspector
Lewis. Was Morse’s sidekick; better than expected. Perhaps
too Oxford-centric?
A
Touch of Frost. Det. Jack Frost was around way too long.
Dalziel
& Pascoe. Loud-mouthed copper in Yorkshire.
Hetty
Wainthropp. At least it’s different but what about the hat?
Midsomer
Murders. DCI Barnaby also outstayed his welcome. How can one
village have so many murders?
Murder
in Suburbia. Kate Ashurst and Emma Scribbins … not sure that their
endless “debates about dates” rang true. Maybe they are not supposed to?
The
Last Detective. Dangerous Davies; “a decent man in an indecent world”.
Miss
Marple. The Joan Hickson version. Almost as annoying as
Poirot?
Inspector
Lynley Mysteries. Dubious expression of English class-warfare but I do
love his cars (Jensen Interceptor and then a Bristol 410).
Poirot. Really
annoying but that’s what Agatha intended?
Wire
in the Blood. Featuring psychologist Dr. Tony Hill.
Second
Sight. Ross Tanner with spells of blindness.
2 comments:
Inspector Montalbano,
Hello just thought you would like to look at this Italian TV show. It aired earlier this year on BBC. Inspector Montalbano (Italian: Il commissario Montalbano) is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novelsof Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano (English: Young Montalbano
Forgot to include Adam Dalgliesh (P.D. James) which we enjoyed. The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries (Dianna Rigg) have been ordered. Neither Inspector Montalbano or Scott and Bailey are available on DVD in the States. Have seen many of the Ruth Rendell Mysteries with mixed results.
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