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LOVE this show! I wish it had stayed on longer, too. It was very well done.Really enjoyed this show - was disappointed when it was cancelled. And, yes, the period details are amazing.
LOVE this show! I wish it had stayed on longer, too. It was very well done.Really enjoyed this show - was disappointed when it was cancelled. And, yes, the period details are amazing.
Brian mentioned Ellery Queen -- I presume you mean the 1975-76 series with Jim Hutton as Ellery, and David Wayne's definitive Inspector Queen? I bought the entire season set on DVD, and have been dipping into them from time to time. As a fan of Ellery in the books, I think Hutton came about as close as any actor ever has to capturing EQ's essence (later episodes had him do less of the annoying absent-minded shtick). The plots were clever and twisty, too. One episode, "The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party," is actually based on one of the EQ short stories.
I'd love to see a new period-piece version with Alexis Denisov ("Wesley" from Angel) as Ellery, and with adaptations of more of the short stories. But I fear America's TV watchers have been too dumbed down to handle a true Ellery mystery. Perhaps if AMC or TNT were to do it . . .
I doubt anyone but us recalls that. A pal of mine helped work on the show, working on costumes for crowd scenes. He was very bummed when it was axed by NBC...Homefront in the early 90s. I think it was on ABC. (mentioned earlier). I loved it. I wonder if it's out on DVD yet?
I remember it. I watched a few episodes but for some reason it never really caught on with me - even though I am pretty much a radio junkie.Did anyone ever watch Remember WENN? It was a comedy set at a radio station in the 1930s. It ran for a few years in the late 90s. It had some really funny moments.
"Call the Midwife" is set in London in the '50s-early '60s. As is usual in these British productions attention to detail is meticulous. Setting is pretty much confined to the London slums.
Even better would be The Siamese Twin Mystery, with its unusual location (atop a mountain), the reversal of the cliche of "several characters trapped in a house by a snowstorm," and the growing suspense. However, I agree the climactic scene of Chinese Orange would also go well on film, and Ellery's explanation in that one is not so long on logic -- easier for today's audiences to follow.I loved the Hutton-Wayne series when it first aired -- it was unlike any other crime show on the air at the time, and it still holds up well today.
I'd love to see a full-on period adaptation of the early Queen "puzzle format" novels. "The Chinese Orange Mystery" done up in full detail would be an astonishing thing to see.