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Miss Marple Box set (Joan Hickson)

Advantages: Has the best portrail of Miss Marple ever
Disadvantages: No special features

...Joan Hickson will always be the best 'Miss Marple'. Possibly as she was the first one I saw playing the part. I'm surprised that it took the BBC so long to releace them on DVD From the acting to the setting to the pacing... everything seems just right. Every part of Joan Hicksons performance (which earned her two BAFTA nominations) was perfect. She plays Miss Marple as the 'rather nosey busy body' who the criminal always seems to dismiss as past ...
...brain she can always solve the crimes faster than the inspector. Marple lives in her small village and knows everything that goes on there. Through this she knows the world. She is always saying 's/he reminded me of...' Unlike Poirot who always had a good relatioship with the Inspector, the relationship between Marple and the inspector in these storys is a little more strained. He thinks she's an interfering old busy body, which she is, but she always ...

mjc121 30.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Miss Marple Collection - Starring Joan Hickson (Box Set) (DVD)

The Definitive Holmes and Watson

Advantages: Beautifully restored versions of the greatest Holmes and Watson of all time
Disadvantages: None a single one

...not conversant with the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films, they began as almost A-movies for Twentieth Century Fox first in Hound and then The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. At this point Fox decided not to film any further adventures but Universal, ever desiring to put together B-movie series, which might draw in audiences, negotiated with Conan Doyle's estate to gain the rights. Successfully so, they brought back Rathbone, as an angular, slightly ...
...Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes remained faithful to Conan Doyle's late Victorian, fin-de-siecle, milieu, Universal decided to update Holmes and Watson to the present day, and as such the first few films, including Sherlock Holmes in Washington and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon were patriotic flag-wavers, where Holmes was pitted against dastardly Nazis but it soon became clear to them that it was fog drenched London and/or ...

No_name 20.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sherlock Holmes - The Definitive Collection (Box Set) (DVD)

"my wife loves you" (but mine hates him!)

Advantages: acting
Disadvantages: old fashioned

...a scruffy looking, forgetful guy, Columbo always manages to track down his killer. The show was always more than an hour long, and half were 90 minutes, giving an almost movie depth to each episode. IS IT ANY GOOD: I love this show, and would watch it regularly if it wasn't for my 'anti Columbo' wife. The show works because of a couple of elements that set it apart from other detective TV: 1) The inverted detective plot - Columbo episodes start ...
...it, but watching the process Columbo goes through to find out who did it. 2) Columbo, as played by Peter Falk, is an immensely appealing character. His odd looks and shabby apparel make him stand out a mile, and his apparent absentmindedness also jumps out at you. Of course, what all this does so brilliantly is makes him seem real. Unlike most detective films or shows, there is no sense of supernatural, inhuman brilliance about Columbo - he's just ...

bruffyboy 28.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Columbo - Series 1 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

Old cases solved with new tricks

Advantages: great entertaining police show...
Disadvantages: Waterman singing the theme tune...again...

...With each episode offering a new case for the four person team to crack… * What the Series one DVD has to offer… Pilot episode… UCOS is founded with the intentions of investigating previously unsolved crimes… With the introduction of the small team, headed by dog shooting Sandra Pullman, they begin to investigate their first case, trying to prove who actually murdered a nightclub hostess twenty years earlier, sending an innocent man to prison. ...
...a murdered police woman after new evidence emerges from the bottom of a lake. * 2... When UCOS begins to look into some strange happening involving the Queens art collection they soon find more than they bargained, including fraud and possibly murder. * 3... A case from the early '80s , involving a nuclear power base, is re-opened but the team soon discover that the murder may be a cover up from a much higher power. * 4... A childs murder from ...

blissman70 17.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of New Tricks - Series 1 (DVD)

Great Sunday Afternoon Fun

Advantages: Plot is great
Disadvantages: Does drag in parts

Midsomer Murders has some great who done it plot lines which will keep you glued to the screen. The murderer is always the person you least expected and so is the motive. Barnaby does not sound or look like a copper and I suppose that's what makes him a good one. He kind of creeps up on the unsuspecting murderer. It's like they knew they were going to get caught but they had not been expecting it to be that soon. When he identifies the murderer, ...
...less time investigating and more time attending, fairs and having tea with his wife. If you love who done its then this is the box set for you. The plot lines are got and the story lines okay. It will not keep you at the edge of your seat but you will feel fairly suspended. Good fun. ...

flamesk 11.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Midsomer Murders Vol.2 (Box Set) (DVD)