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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 20, 2019 4:27:26 GMT
Never watched it before.
Now I'm going to watch all 12580 minutes.
Nice to see so far so many familiar faces from the 80s. A couple guest-stars I remember from Columbo episodes.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Dec 20, 2019 4:49:34 GMT
I watched it several times. Good show.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 20, 2019 11:17:41 GMT
Never watched it before.
Now I'm going to watch all 12580 minutes.
Nice to see so far so many familiar faces from the 80s. A couple guest-stars I remember from Columbo episodes.
I ENJOY watching it with my mom when I visit her. Good, fun and very-entertaining series.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 20, 2019 11:18:13 GMT
I watched it several times. Good show.
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Post by Catman on Dec 20, 2019 18:13:40 GMT
What amazes Catman is how Jessica not only manages to murder all those people and frame others for the crime, but the people framed usually confess to a crime they did not commit.
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Post by Sarge on Dec 21, 2019 2:25:16 GMT
I watched a few episodes recently, first time, and they were good but it's not the show for me and I can't articulate why.
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 21, 2019 3:04:22 GMT
Itâs fun enough, though I kind of see it as a guilty pleasure (donât tell detour!). Angela Lansburyâs always great, though. Elsewhere I once posted about episodes that I thought were hidden gems: âMurder Takes the Busâ has Mrs. Fletcher and dumb-as-a-block-of-wood Sheriff Tupper taking a bus from Cabot Cove to Boston in the middle of a storm; the bus pulls over at a roadside diner to wait the storm out, and the whole thing plays out as The Twilight Zoneâs âWill the Real Martian Please Stand Upâ without the aliens. Great array of suspicion, several interesting suspects (including David Wayne, the Mad Hatter in Batman and Insp. Queen in Ellery Queen), and a surprisingly clever plot. The murderer is guessable, but unusually for this show thereâs a complex-but-comprehensible chain of clues that points definitively (or close to it) to this person. Really good. Plot-wise, âTrial by Errorâ may actually be my favorite courtroom mysteryâbeating out, for example, just about all of Perry Mason and Christieâs âThe Witness for the Prosecutionâ (and the movie version, great though it is). Where did this burst of ingenuity come from, and why on MSW? Mrs. F is the forewoman of a jury trying to decide if the defendant murdered his mistressâs husband or shot him in self-defense. Simple scenario, but the writer found so many twists on it, and we bounce back and forth on the guyâs guilt or innocenceâuntil our Jessica figures out the imbroglio (and seems proud of herself for itâdeservedly so), the solution to which comes as a complete surprise. The writer brilliantly uses our familiarity with Christieâs âWitness,â even using it as a clue. Sheer entertainment. Also: Mama Harper and the Skipper are in it. Who could ask for anything more? âThe Grand Old Ladyâ shouldnât really count as an MSW episode: it was intended for Ellery Queenâs second season, and Jessica Fletcher only introduces the story. (Lansbury was bored by the part at this point but contractually obligated to appear.) Itâs set, like EQ, in the late â40s, aboard the Queen Mary, and has a thinly-veiled Ellery expy in Gary Kroegerâs Christy McGinn. The plot is complex: three different solutions, each building on the one coming before it, each offered by a different sleuth. Robert Vaughn shines as Simon Brimmer clone Edwin Chancellor, who in Brimmer-esque style gives a brilliant solution thatâs completely wrong, and June Havoc has fun as an Agatha Christie-like mystery writer who outwits himâbut the third (and correct) solution is from Christy, a complicated business involving war secrets, codes, German army ranks, and more red herrings than a Communist fish market. The ultimate answer is not as clever as the problem, but the deductions are excellent, and the â40s, shipboard atmosphere is even better.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 21, 2019 13:37:29 GMT
What amazes Catman is how Jessica not only manages to murder all those people and frame others for the crime, but the people framed usually confess to a crime they did not commit. SADLY and MOST-UNFORTUNATELY the tv movie in which she's (Jessica Fletcher, that IS) FINALLY CAUGHT was NEVER AIRED.
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Post by nutsberryfarm đ on Dec 22, 2019 0:31:30 GMT
what about the magnum pi crossover eppys?!
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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 22, 2019 21:30:07 GMT
Just watched a tennis episode called 'Menace Anyone?' last night.
It had beautiful Linda Hamilton in it and a very young Bryan Cranston in it.
(Spoilers), Cranston's character get's blown up in spectacular fashion.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 22, 2019 21:31:04 GMT
what about the magnum pi crossover eppys?! I'm just starting season 3 and I see one of those is coming up.
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Post by louise on Jan 13, 2020 15:42:12 GMT
I love. Have watched it many times. Never fails to entertain.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 4, 2021 17:16:59 GMT
Iâve been on an MSW kick recently, and last night I rewatched an old favorite, âWitness for the Defenseâ (S4:E3). Its mystery plot isnât particularly surprising or complex, its Canada setting is kind of wondrously ridiculous (everyone in Quebec speaks the Queenâs English, lawyers are basically allowed to do anything they want in court, and the city of Montreal is filled with palm trees), and it isnât a showcase for Angela Lansburyâs talents. So why do I love it nonetheless? Easy. Because the bearded guy in the photo above, and the episodeâs guest star, is Patrick McGoohan, a.k.a. John Drake, a.k.a. No. 6, a.k.a. my avatar, a.k.a. one of the coolest actors ever. And while this episode isnât a Lansbury showcase, itâs a McGoohan showcase all the way. Heâs a brilliant, flamboyant, hilarious, conniving Canadian barrister who is the only person in the whole show to call out Mrs. Fletcher for being a murder magnet. In other words, heâs amazing. Itâs too bad this is his only Murder, She Wrote performance because he actually outacts Lansbury here (and Iâm a huge Angie fan, so thatâs saying something!). That said, he and Lansbury have great chemistry and are loads of fun together. Iâd love to know the background behind the episode, because the character and dialogue seem especially tailored to McGoohan. Like Orson Welles (for whom he acted in Wellesâ play Moby DickâRehearsed), McGoohan had a penchant for rewriting his characterâs dialogue and directing the directors, and I wonder if thatâs what happened here. My encomia to Patty McG aside, the episode has a good, quick pace and a solid script. But McGoohan is just plain inimitable. So, yeah, one of the greatest MSW episodesâfor McGoohan, and also for the sheer fun of the thing. Highly recommended.
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Post by mcclance on Mar 15, 2021 2:43:51 GMT
I started watching the show on Netflix a few years ago (more like 5, I think). I made it through 2 seasons before they removed it, so I ended up buying the complete series. As a writer myself, I was amazed that her first book was published in the pilot episode and a few episodes later, she already had 5 or 6 more books completed and published. I realize there's often a long stretch of time between the pilot episode and the rest of the first season, but that seems to be pushing it.
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