Masterpiece (including Classic, Contemporary, and Mystery!)

[Ella Minnow Pea]

I've watched Mystery! on PBS on and off over the years. It's one of the few shows my mom regularly watched when I was growing up (for several years our TV was never tuned away from PBS), and I watched some of the episodes then. I've finally added it to my DVR this season.

Tonight was a new Miss Marple mystery. I read quite a bit of Agatha Christie in fourth - seventh grade, so I may have read this one at one time. I was quite surprised by the cast - Eileen Atkins, Tom Baker, Saffron Burrows, Alan Davies, Julie Graham, Paul Nicholls, Julian Sands, Zoe Tapper, and Greg Wise. Doctor Who, Nan Mahon, Mr. Willoughby, and George Emerson - wow! No time to watch tonight, so I'm looking forward to watching this later in the week.

[Butter]

My mom used to watch Mystery, and in the pre-TiVo, one household TV days, I was forced to watch it.  That's all I've got.

[Kenneth Toilethole]

I've watched Mystery! on PBS on and off over the years. It's one of the few shows my mom regularly watched when I was growing up (for several years our TV was never tuned away from PBS), and I watched some of the episodes then. I've finally added it to my DVR this season.

Tonight was a new Miss Marple mystery. I read quite a bit of Agatha Christie in fourth - seventh grade, so I may have read this one at one time. I was quite surprised by the cast - Eileen Atkins, Tom Baker, Saffron Burrows, Alan Davies, Julie Graham, Paul Nicholls, Julian Sands, Zoe Tapper, and Greg Wise. Doctor Who, Nan Mahon, Mr. Willoughby, and George Emerson - wow! No time to watch tonight, so I'm looking forward to watching this later in the week.

I thought the ending was dumb, but the rest of the episode was pretty good.

[Kwyjibo]

Should I be familiar with those names?  Not trying to be snarky, I just must be seriously out of the loop if they're commonly known names.

[cuddlyevil]

I've watched Mystery! on PBS on and off over the years. It's one of the few shows my mom regularly watched when I was growing up (for several years our TV was never tuned away from PBS), and I watched some of the episodes then. I've finally added it to my DVR this season.

Tonight was a new Miss Marple mystery. I read quite a bit of Agatha Christie in fourth - seventh grade, so I may have read this one at one time. I was quite surprised by the cast - Eileen Atkins, Tom Baker, Saffron Burrows, Alan Davies, Julie Graham, Paul Nicholls, Julian Sands, Zoe Tapper, and Greg Wise. Doctor Who, Nan Mahon, Mr. Willoughby, and George Emerson - wow! No time to watch tonight, so I'm looking forward to watching this later in the week.

I thought the ending was dumb, but the rest of the episode was pretty good.

It was a lame ending, but the rest of the episode was good. I'm looking forward to next week's episode.

Kwyj, if you watch a lot of british movies/tv shows you'd know some of those names.

[Kwyjibo]

Kwyj, if you watch a lot of british movies/tv shows you'd know some of those names.

Well, there's my problem.

[Doug]

Mystery always depresses me.

When I was a kid and it came on TV, it aways meant two things:

1) Time to go to bed.

2) The weekend is officially over.

Plus, I don't really get into that British period stuff.

[Ella Minnow Pea]

While I didn't know all the actors either, you might recognize

Tom Baker - The 4th Doctor and narrator on Little Britain

(although he is looking a bit older now - white hair, for example)

Julian Sands - from my repeated watchings of A Room with a View, I had the biggest crush on him. He's in lots of movies (especially those by Mike Figgis) and TV shows - Vladimir Bierko in Day 5 of 24, for example.

Greg Wise is married to Emma Thompson.


Next week's cast includes Richard E. Grant, remembered for all eternity as Clifford in Spice World.  Okay - more importantly, he was Withnail in Withnail & I.

[Kenneth Toilethole]

I thought last night's episode was great! There is much debate going on currently at our house about what Miss Marple figured out at the very very end of the episode.

[cuddlyevil]

Are they continuing that one next week? I want to know what she figured out too! I missed the first bit of it, but I really enjoyed last night's episode. All twisty in the good way.

[va_vacious]

Mystery always depresses me.

When I was a kid and it came on TV, it aways meant two things:

1) Time to go to bed.

2) The weekend is officially over.

Plus, I don't really get into that British period stuff.

I agree with one and two, but love the period stuff.  I could do a good imitation of the wailing ghost, too!

[Ella Minnow Pea]

Are they continuing that one next week? I want to know what she figured out too! I missed the first bit of it, but I really enjoyed last night's episode. All twisty in the good way.

It's a new episode next week. We have a rerun late Thursday.

I read Nemesis years ago. I may have to track it down to see what it was. Perhaps something about the flowers that had been left on the grave?

[cuddlyevil]

I'll have to check and see if they're running it again here, they show the new Dr. Who on Thursdays here now (YAY!).

It must've been. The nun who did the killin' was carrying similar flowers during her flashback to when Verity told her she was leaving. But since she was dead, how would anyone else know what kind of flowers she had? I have to get the book and read it.

[cuddlyevil]

So I was trying to see if they were running Nemesis again around here and I found this. Apparently they are showing Masterpiece theatre's renditions of all of Jane Austen's books next year (Billie Piper from Dr. Who is in Mansfield Park and they're showing the Colin Firth Pride & Prejudice--YAY!).

[cuddlyevil]

My favorite part of lastnight's episode was the evil look on Miss Marple's face as she skewered the ball of yarn on her knitting needle. And the lady who played the jazz singer kinda looked like a drag queen...who was she?

It looks like they're mining talent from the big screen versions of Jane Austen's works for every episode. Lastnight's episode featured the woman who played Jane Fairfax in Emma and next week's episode features the woman who plays Mrs. Elton.