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Post by CAEF on May 29, 2015 18:00:22 GMT
I dont mind Midsomer Murders but it is quite an outdated show, the cars and clothes are modern but it given the impression that rural England is full of posh toffs and posh old hags. I know even pretty rural villages have feral chavs stoning people at bus stops.
I prefer the original Barnaby. In the earlier episodes Tom Barnaby had a harder edge to him.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 19:45:54 GMT
Never got into Midsomer myself. Now, the legend that is Hercules Poirot on the other hand, can't beat it!
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Post by ScrabblyWabbly on May 29, 2015 20:03:29 GMT
I used to love it, but stopped watching a few years back. Tom and Troy were the best duo and it was never the same when Troy left.
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Post by amber jade on May 29, 2015 21:34:48 GMT
I had to watch the episode where his wife had her baby as in one scene the baby was played by my niece! (at the time about a week old)
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Post by CollieWobbles on May 30, 2015 14:04:06 GMT
Can't stand the newer ones, but the original 81 with John Nettles are my guilty pleasure! I'm a Midsomer nut, I have all eight boxsets and have seen every one at least five times smiley-biglaugh , if I ever went on Mastermind it would be one of my specialist subjects redface4 .
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Post by ScrabblyWabbly on May 30, 2015 16:35:13 GMT
Can't stand the newer ones, but the original 81 with John Nettles are my guilty pleasure! I'm a Midsomer nut, I have all eight boxsets and have seen every one at least five times smiley-biglaugh, if I ever went on Mastermind it would be one of my specialist subjects redface4 . I went to see The Magic Flute a few years back and in the interval, while queuing at the bar I realised John Nettles was standing right in front of me. I was uber excited and totally embarrassed my friend.
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Post by Lotty27 on May 30, 2015 17:28:46 GMT
I love Midsommer Murders, not quite to Collie's standards of adoration mind! smiley-biglaugh On the whole I preferred the old ones with John Nettles but the new guy has bedded in quite nicely and I simply adore Sykes the dog! Plus it's nice to see that this Barnaby has a wife who does a bit more than goes to the WI, although Joyce came in very handy for having just read up on whatever strange thing Barnaby was investigating, the woman must have had psychic powers! Midsommer is definitely one of my favourites but I also love Poirot which was also mentioned above.
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Post by Lotty27 on May 30, 2015 17:33:14 GMT
I dont mind Midsomer Murders but it is quite an outdated show, the cars and clothes are modern but it given the impression that rural England is full of posh toffs and posh old hags. I know even pretty rural villages have feral chavs stoning people at bus stops. I prefer the original Barnaby. In the earlier episodes Tom Barnaby had a harder edge to him. It's to sell it abroad though isn't it? Quintessential 'Englishness' sells I suppose. Foreign sales the reason that the new Inspector had to also be called Barnaby because in most other countries the programme has been renamed 'Barnaby' (or is it 'Inspector Barnaby'?) so they conveniently made them cousins, lol! It always looks so idyllic yet must be the most dangerous county in the country to live in
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Post by kitkat1971 on May 30, 2015 19:59:36 GMT
I'm another Midsomer Murders fan Loved the first few seasons with Bergerac and Anthony _ emphasis on the th (from our Friends in the north) - yes Tom and Troy, I know really and actually quite liked the two replacements as well< him that murdered his sister from Family Affairs and Warren from This Life it did get very formulaic which was fun at first, how many people cam be murdered and how in an investigation and it is never questioned but then ig ot boring. I actually think new barnaby breathed some life into it as his detection method is very different to Toms and the family set up was different too.
I'd happily watch a MM if I have a couple of hours free when I want something entertaining, diverting but not too intellectually taxing over most other shows - even if I've seen it several times before
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Post by Lotty27 on May 30, 2015 23:13:59 GMT
What are people's favourite Midsomer deaths? (mad question I know ) My ultimate mad death was 'Death by catapulting wine bottles' where the poor bloke was pinned out on the grass while some nutter, well, catapulted wine bottles at him! I think they'll have to go a looooong way before they beat that s0238 Although I did also take a bit of satisfaction in Martine McCutcheon being felled by falling cheese, lol!
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 23:28:28 GMT
I love it too. And Hercule and Miss Marple
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Post by CollieWobbles on May 31, 2015 15:44:15 GMT
What are people's favourite Midsomer deaths? (mad question I know ) My ultimate mad death was 'Death by catapulting wine bottles' where the poor bloke was pinned out on the grass while some nutter, well, catapulted wine bottles at him! I think they'll have to go a looooong way before they beat that s0238 Although I did also take a bit of satisfaction in Martine McCutcheon being felled by falling cheese, lol! That's Hidden Depths, the one where Dr Ormerod off The Royal got drowned in a tv screen smiley-huh ! I read an interview in something with John Nettles, where he was asked which was his favourite death and his answer was the catapulted wine too . I really liked the 'death by washing machine' where Barnaby goes looking for her and she's there spinning around in it, just because it's so out there smiley-biglaugh . There have been too many for me to have a favourite death really, but one of my favourite things in the whole series is the wired up house which will let someone in but gives them a shock so they can't get back out again - absolutely ingenious burglar system! They have some pretty gruesome deaths actually, it's the most dangerous village in the country next to Emmerdale!
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Post by CAEF on May 31, 2015 20:18:33 GMT
Tom Barnaby was a bit of a hard nosed copper in the pilot and a few earlier seasons, he used to interrogate suspects harsher, it was only in the later episodes he was much more thoughtful and nicer. He once shouted loudly at colleagues a few times in the earlier eps.
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Post by kitkat1971 on Jun 1, 2015 22:47:23 GMT
What are people's favourite Midsomer deaths? (mad question I know ) My ultimate mad death was 'Death by catapulting wine bottles' where the poor bloke was pinned out on the grass while some nutter, well, catapulted wine bottles at him! I think they'll have to go a looooong way before they beat that s0238 Although I did also take a bit of satisfaction in Martine McCutcheon being felled by falling cheese, lol! Yes, death by wine bottle catapult whilst his disabled wife looked on first horrified, then laughing does take some beating. Wasn't that the same episode that Robert Daws had to run his gameshoe whilst drowning in a mocked up TV box? Was,'t somebody put in a washing machine too? The one with simon Williams with the newspaper and hotel.
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Post by kitkat1971 on Jun 1, 2015 22:50:43 GMT
Just seen Colliewobbles has mentioned the same ones as me.
I do have to say that the murders that stick in the mind tend to be from not very good episodes - it is like the basic plot and script weren't up to much so throw in an outrageous death. The earlier ones, death weren't as gruesome but they were better written generally.
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