I doubt many here have seen this show, linked here. I’ve been watching from season 1 and now that I am on season 9 I realize what an eternal treasure it is. Imagine a show being made on the 90s that recreates the thirties with extreme perfection. ZERO cgi. Just pure humor and mystery and joy.
But trains cars and planes from the 30s.
Great characters and timeless mysteries.
I guess I’d like to know what series you believe people might stumble upon after it’s quite old and still fall as in love with it as folks might have during its first run. This is one of those. It simply cannot age because it is a perfect period piece.
Right up there with the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett.
If you.like those two, you should check out A&E’s Nero Wolfe.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXK4DoUvHGLpSAE150iWgagtwSKJ6fUnl
I own the DVDs - it is a great series. My spouse is a HUGE fan of it (and Poirot, and Holmes).
Your spouse has impeccable taste in TV shows.
I met this detective from a paper back in a little free library — what a hoot. Obese man who loves orchids sends his womanizing assistant to do the footwork while he solves the case. I didn’t hate it. And this one talks about how amazing it was you could take a flight from NYC to LA and it took ONLY eleven hours. I love little details like that in books.
A neat thing about this show is that they used a rather fixed cast. The same actors would be in every episode but they would play different characters in each story.
Absolutely intriguing!
I’ve done all of the Basil Rathbone and all the radio dram but I haven’t seen Jeremy Brett series — it’s on the list.
Good lord!
Is this a kind good lord or a wtf good lord?
It’s Hastings’ catch phrase.
Hah. I haven’t picked that up — hmph. I’ll watch for it.
I did just watch two episodes in a row where Hastings, usually late to the party, says something flippantly or off handed, and this triggers Poirot to solve the case. It’s an interesting dynamic.
I can’t tell you how much a few miles on the odometer have impacted my ability to appreciate great media I one abhorred.
I just reread “Big Blond” by Dorothy Parker and understood it. Finally.
David Suchet will always be the Poirot that all others are measured against. The genius of this show is how the stories are used to advance time and show Poirot’s own developing idea on human character. At the beginning he is absolutely confident that he knows how people behave and by the last episode he knows that there all rules will have exceptions so he must break his own rules and murder a murderer. Genuinely brilliant from start to finish. Also the best Murder on the Orient Express ever.
Another show that is underrated is Miss Fischer’s Murder Mysteries from Australia. The costumes are the best Australia has ever made and one for the history books. The cast is also incredible and the mysteries are excellent. The romantic tension between Ms Fischer and Chief Inspector Robinson is something special too.
If BBC is all you can watch, Father Brown is another good choice. Similar time period as Poirot but much more provincial so less set design and more costume work. Good mysteries but it falters after most of the cast is let go and 3 people are replaced by one girl named Bunty. It takes time to find itself but it does get good again.
I can’t quite recall the number of episode but Suchet’s Poirot falls in love with a diamond thief and he lets her go — that must be where the growth you describe begins.
I’ll keep an eye out for Miss Fischer.
And father brown put my wife to sleep in about ten minutes — we’ll give it another try some time.
Shit yeh! I remember watching some of this as a kid in the 90s and have been considering going back and watching it as an adult after watching that recent Agatha Cristie adaptation.
