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Post by scorp on Nov 24, 2013 8:38:36 GMT
And a late entry - Miss Phryne Fisher, in 1920s Melbourne. Very tasty...
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Post by ARENA on Nov 24, 2013 9:42:37 GMT
And a late entry - Miss Phryne Fisher, in 1920s Melbourne. Very tasty... Who??? |
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Post by scorp on Nov 24, 2013 18:13:33 GMT
Heroine of a series of novels, Miss Fisher (The Hon.) is a Private Detective in 1920s Melbourne in an Australian TV Series, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. She's played by Essie Davis, who is rather tasty... There have been complaints from parts of America, about her immoral life-style... Miss Phryne Fisher, that is - not the actress!  There are occasional views of our own Miriam Margolyes, as Miss Fisher's aunt. |
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Post by Prue on Nov 24, 2013 19:22:00 GMT
Nice pick-up, Scorps. I've got all the Phryne books; been reading 'em for years, and am loving the TV series.
One tiny quibble I have is the relationship between Phryne and Jack Robinson, which I don't think has actually come to a climax, so to speak, yet, but it's clearly heading that way. In the books Phryne and Jack are good friends, but there's no way they'd ever get together: Jack has a gentle, quiet wife he adores, and spends his spare time with her pottering in the garden, while Phryne, that independent young woman, has one semi-permanent lover and frequently has short liaisons with other men she meets in the course of the adventures, but she would no more get it on with Jack than Miss Marple would with Colonel Melchett.
Apart from that, I love everything about it. Essie Davis is beautiful, and perfectly captures Phryne's character (apart from the Jack Robinson thing ;D ) and I love the scenes from 1920s Melbourne and the luscious indoor sets. Aunt Prudence isn't in the books, but if I were the producer of an Australian TV series and had the chance to have the magnificent Miriam Margolyes as a semi-regular, I'd write a character for her too.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 25, 2013 12:33:27 GMT
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Post by scorp on Nov 25, 2013 15:50:59 GMT
I haven't seen it, but it seems to have been very popular, with critics and punters alike. I hear a US version is being considered, that will also feature David Tennant.
Re Tennant - I saw a clip recently from a Rab C Nesbitt show, in which there was a new barmaid at the pub.
Rab's chums. Andra, Dodie and Jamesie, were all hot for her - even when told that she was actually a transvestite... and Davina... was David Tennant! And quite convincing too.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 29, 2013 9:41:34 GMT
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Post by Prue on Nov 30, 2013 9:20:10 GMT
Inevitably, it's the Aussie who answers  Yeah, I watched a couple of episodes of Dr Blake. Based in Ballarat in the 50s (? I think). Craig McLachlan's Dr Blake, back from The War with a secret sorrow and a bottle (or three) of scotch, which his housekeeper, played by Nadine Garner, knows about, but she protects Dr B's secret from the rest of the world. He was a Police surgeon from memory, and always poking his uninvited nose into murder cases and solving them, much to the chagrin of the regular jacks. It was pretty good, but it didn't really take off. Not sure why. |
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Post by ARENA on Nov 30, 2013 10:09:43 GMT
Inevitably, it's the Aussie who answers Yeah, I watched a couple of episodes of Dr Blake. Based in Ballarat in the 50s (? I think). Craig McLachlan's Dr Blake, back from The War with a secret sorrow and a bottle (or three) of scotch, which his housekeeper, played by Nadine Garner, knows about, but she protects Dr B's secret from the rest of the world. He was a Police surgeon from memory, and always poking his uninvited nose into murder cases and solving them, much to the chagrin of the regular jacks. It was pretty good, but it didn't really take off. Not sure why. Sounds like a similar theme to my favourite non-Brit who-dunnit Jesse Stone If you missed them www.imdb.com/character/ch0035705/?ref_=fn_ch_ch_6 |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 2, 2013 9:45:09 GMT
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Post by jimshoo on Dec 2, 2013 10:41:26 GMT
Cheers I'll give it a try |
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Post by scorp on Dec 3, 2013 13:22:00 GMT
Ooh! I forgot! One of the very best series was A Nero Wolfe Mystery - with Maury Chaykin as Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. When I was a child my father used to hand over his library books to me before taking them back, and I read a lot of Rex Stout's mysteries. This series captured exactly the places and the characters - although I don't think Chaykin actually weighed 'a seventh of a ton'!  A sort of rep. company of actors appeared in each episode, in different parts which somehow worked... Series one was shown on BBC2 in an afternoon slot, and series 2 never arrived - a great pity. These were really good detection yarns, faithfully adapted. |
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Post by ARENA on Dec 3, 2013 13:48:10 GMT
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Post by scorp on Dec 3, 2013 20:25:57 GMT
Yep - that's Archie Goodwin to a 'T' (whatever that is). He does all the leg-work - Wolfe seldom ever leaves the house - after all he has his orchids to care for (2 till 5 every afternoon)... As with most Private Detectives, there is a running battle with the police detectives, typified by Inspector (they had Inspectors in New York back then) Cramer - beautifully played by Bill Smitrovitch. He chews on cigars but never lights them... He also has to admit that he owes Wolfe for the solutions to many crimes!
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Post by jimshoo on Dec 4, 2013 11:55:45 GMT
Dr Blake's that poofter from Nayburs. ;D
Not a bad show.
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