British Crime shows have a problem

There are some Brit shows that I can watch repeats of again like Open all Hours, To the manor born, The vicar of dibley, Mildred and George And any thing with Dame Judy Denth in it like As Time goes By, I just love the quick one liners that

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Originally Posted by mick88

They leave the Yankee crime shows for dead.
At least they don't blow the Defenders up. ;)
Years ago my father in law fell asleep watching tele and when he woke up there were skyscrapers burning and thought it was more Yankee BS,
then he realised it was a dinkum news report.

Cheers, Mick.

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Ah you can not include GET SMART in this

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Originally Posted by p38arover

Yep, I wouldn't want to live in Midsomer!

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it always takes 3 murders before they run out of suspects & solve it.[biggrin]

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Originally Posted by 1950landy

it always takes 3 murders before they run out of suspects & solve it.[biggrin]

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That's detectiving, a long, slow process of elimination.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

To make it worse, they refer to Land Rovers as "jeeps" (note the lower case J).

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Thats because in the UK all 4WD's are called "jeeps". Just like we used to all vacuums "Hoovers"

I was over there and a bit stunned to here one of my cousins referring to her sons Discovery as a jeep.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

Yep, I wouldn't want to live in Midsomer!

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Originally Posted by pop058

Or Cabot Cove.

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or any spaceship with Sigorney Weaver... [bigrolf]

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

or any spaceship with Sigorney Weaver... [bigrolf]

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🤣
At least in space...no one can hear you scream..

Why do all the Chief Inspectors, except Denton's finest, drive flash, classic cars? Why don't they have a company car? Fifth Columnist?

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Why do all the Chief Inspectors, except Denton's finest, drive flash, classic cars? Why don't they have a company car? Fifth Columnist?

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Probably the requirement of the Home Office that TV promotes the Best of British or it loses its funding. [biggrin]

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Originally Posted by bee utey

Probably the requirement of the Home Office that TV promotes the Best of British or it loses its funding. [biggrin]

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That'd explain Inspector Frost's ratty, old Escort, then.[bigrolf]