by mike | Jun 19, 2025 | Books, Humor, Movies, Mysteries, Mystery Films, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
I did a follow-up to this 2022 post a year later, involving major changes in a couple of characters from this series. That post will run next Thursday. Despite our affection for British mysteries, my bride and I had passed on Father Brown for quite some time. I mean,...
by mike | May 19, 2025 | Holocaust, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, TV Shows, Uncategorized, Women |
The late actress, Ingrid Pitt, gained a great deal of notoriety while starring in a number of 1970s horror films from Britain’s Hammer Film Productions and other studios. But no fictional movie could match the unthinkable, real-life horror she experienced as a child....
by mike | Apr 28, 2025 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
The BritBox original series, McDonald and Dodds—a British crime drama whose setting is the historic city of Bath—ran for four seasons. There will not be a fifth. And that’s a bummer. To begin with, four seasons may sound significant, but they were only comprised of...
by mike | Feb 20, 2025 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
After four entertaining seasons, this fun show reached its untimely end. I first presented this post in 2022. No, we’re not talking about William Shakespeare, or his wife, Anne Hathaway—not exactly, anyway. This is about Luella “Lu” Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) and Frank...
by mike | Dec 16, 2024 | Aging, Death, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
A memorable tagline: “One Black, one white, one blonde.” Michael Cole, the “White Guy” from the popular 1960s-70s crime drama, The Mod Squad, passed away last week at the age of 84. In death he joins co-stars Peggy Lipton (2019) and Clarence Williams III (2021). FROM...
by mike | Oct 10, 2024 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
British detective drama McDonald and Dodds has found its footing as an outstanding series since I first presented this post in 2021. McDonald & Dodds, a BritBox original series, is a crime drama set in the city of Bath, about ninety-odd miles from London. The...