TV detectives

[Richard Tarleton]

Oh yes I remember that and then, Waking the Dead Sorry Jayne, do not do American, cops or otherwise.

He's one of our great TV actors, completely hogs the screen...

[salymap]

And what about Margery Allingham's Albert Campion, who starts off as sort of sub-LPW but develops into a serious detective, called upon by the Yard to help them solve the mysteries. Played, I think, by Peter Davison.

[Anna]

He's one of our great TV actors, completely hogs the screen...

Richard, the last thing I remember Trevor Eve in was Hughie Green, Most Sincerely playing Hughie Green. Amazing. Did you see it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And what about Margery Allingham's Albert Campion, who starts off as sort of sub-LPW but develops into a serious detective, called upon by the Yard to help them solve the mysteries. Played, I think, by Peter Davison.

Yes; they showed a few episodes over the Christmas/New Year schedules in 2009-10, sals. They (the films, not the stories) haven't "worn" well: Davison and Brian Glover are excellent, but the supporting cast seem very wooden.

New versions would be welcome.

Cadfael, anyone? (Philip Madoc or Derek Jacobi?)

[Richard Tarleton]

Richard, the last thing I remember Trevor Eve in was Hughie Green, Most Sincerely playing Hughie Green. Amazing. Did you see it?

No - but I did see a couple of recent 4-parters where he played a hostage negotiator...

[EdgeleyRob]

Columbo (Peter Falk RIP).
No one comes close, only IMO.

[antongould]

And what about Margery Allingham's Albert Campion, who starts off as sort of sub-LPW but develops into a serious detective, called upon by the Yard to help them solve the mysteries. Played, I think, by Peter Davison.

He was indeed but again I felt not entirely "right" for the part - but you are the Campion authority.......

[Anna]

No, missed that, but did love Shoestring being in and out of Bristol at the time and frequenting where it was filmed.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh yes I remember that and then, Waking the Dead, Sorry Jayne, do not do American, cops or otherwise.

Eddie Shoestring - lived on a houseboat down the Float Narbour in Bristle! Takes me back to when I hired my first colour TV. I'm with you on American stuff, Anna.

[Anna]

Eddie Shoestring - lived on a houseboat down the Float Narbour in Bristle! Takes me back to when I hired my first colour TV. I'm with you on American stuff, Anna.

Llandoger Trow, anyone?

[Serial_Apologist]

Llandoger Trow, anyone?

Ooo aaaah!

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandoger_Trow

[Northender]

Filmed (at least in part) in the towns in which I first saw the light of day (and spent the first 18 years of my life)! There's one episode where her husband, Robert (played by Derek Benfield) is employed as a supermarket trolley stacker - outside the very supermarket where I bought my first LP of the Emperor Concerto (the one Joseph Cooper controversially chose on BaL) and Previn's Gershwin Concerto and Rhapsody in Mauve (the cheap ink had run by the time I got home).

Eeeeyeck; I feel riit dooditherin!

Gosh, that takes me back! Are you referring to the programme in which he kept referring to 'Pianist X', and the conductor turned out to be Deutsche Grammophon's studio director Otto Gerdes - or am I conflating two different events from the same era?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Gosh, that takes me back! Are you referring to the programme in which he kept referring to 'Pianist X', and the conductor turned out to be Deutsche Grammophon's studio director Otto Gerdes - or am I conflating two different events from the same era?

I think the Gerdes story is another one. The LP I bought was this one:

http://www.musicstack.com/item/26146887

... for the princely sum of 50p!

And, for the life of me, I can't remember the soloist's name! (Elisabeth something???)

EDIT: Hanae Nakajima! (And Rato Tschupp does/did exist:

http://www.operacollectors.com/servlet/the-4159/Rato-Tschupp-signed-photo/Detail?category=AUTOGRAPHS+-+Conductors

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Lawrence Fox as Hathaway is rather good. tahe roles are reversed in Lewis. the side-kick has become the intellectual.

[VodkaDilc]

Lawrence Fox as Hathaway is rather good. tahe roles are reversed in Lewis. the side-kick has become the intellectual.

Not much effort to be more of an intellectual than Lewis. I like Hathaway - lots of character flaws hinted at, but never quite spelled out!