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I ran across my Lord Peter Wimsey DVD set a couple of days ago (still in shrink wrap) which I want to crack open and watch. I haven't seen any of them since their original PBS broadcasts back in the 1970s, and with the new TV season promising only reruns, reality shows, game shows, and imports...

I assumed it was Gail Fisher from Mannix, but Teresa Graves is a better guess.

Another series to be on the lookout for!

3 - I knew the series name Cool Million, but I didn't remember the name of the adventurer James Farentino played. I had to look it up.

Never saw Griff, Bronk, or Jigsaw John. I guessed Hawk instead of Dan August, too! Great minds and all....

Yeah, I've never seen ANY of the episodes of this series, and I'd love to give it a chance.

SOme wonderful shows pictured in these photos. How I'd love to see some of them again!

I missed Boston Blackie, and I don't know why because I used to watch that show as a little kid. Haven't seen it in ages, though.

I went through the same reaction to Monk. The mysteries were wonderful, but after about three seasons, Monk's idiosyncrasies began to take their toll on my enjoyment. I recently, however, rewatched the entire run when it was streaming on one of the services.

I watched Psych until I tired of the shenanigans. But I thought the first four seasons were really entertaining.

I did check out the show tonight on Ovation. First off, the show is charming and I enjoyed it. But I had to endure the same commercial for Barbados SEVENTEEN times during the show's 42-minute run time. I didn't watch it that many times, but I heard it on the background as I roamed around the...

Thanks for the tip. I'll check the show out when I get a moment.

TCM always shows them in HD, too, and they look very nice.

That's exactly how I feel. They're not the Miss Marple from the books, but the films themselves are entertaining and loads of fun, and I wouldn't miss owning them. Would love to see Blu-ray versions someday.

Was a fan of the show as a kid and that has continued to this day. I was fortunate enough to review many of the season boxes and all of the TV-movies (which are lesser in quality and often seem padded). One of the TV greats, in my opinion. Its longevity proves its classic status.

Yes, once the shows were ported to Blu-ray, I got to review almost all them and was in heaven. I lean toward the hour-long shows of the early seasons. They were pretty faithful to the short stories and novels. Later seasons veered away from the novels a bit and changed some endings (Appointment...

Canada has given us a spiffy, cracking period mystery show: The Murdoch Mysteries. Highly recommended especially the early seasons.

And here's season three of Sherlock.

I didn't review every season of Murder, She Wrote. Here's a review for season 9.

I've reviewed a bunch of mystery-related CBS fare including multiple seasons of NCIS (and its numerous offspring) , Elementary, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds. Also multiple series of Poirot, Marple, Sherlock, and, of course, Murder She Wrote.

I just checked: I did review The Father Dowling Mysteries here.

I have the Father Dowling Mysteries, too. (Did I review the sets? Can't remember.) They're fine. That bumbling priest got on my nerves after a while. Did you realize that Tom Bosley only appeared in nineteen episodes of Murder, She Wrote over his four seasons on the show? It seemed to me he was...

Thanks for the tip on North. Always looking for something "new" to watch. Much preferred Joan Hickson to McEwen or Julia McKenzie (I reviewed her three disc sets) as Marple. And Hickson's were much more faithful to the books than the others.

That's the best idea. The modernized Holmeses are fun but not for strict purists. Even the brilliant Basil indulged in a modernized Holmes (though they were only a couple of decades ahead of the last Doyle stories) to good effect. He is also my favorite. I greatly appreciate Jeremy Brett's...

Overall, I prefered Elementary for a modernized Holmes and Watson that didn't go out of its way to be other-worldly. I watched all seven seasons and reviewed them on DVD here. But it was a meat-and-potatoes show whereas Sherlock was more like an elaborate sundae.

Though I enjoyed many of the early episodes, I found the plotting with Mrs. John Watson rather absurd, and I didn't enjoy the later episodes featuring her.

During the period when the show ran, I was heavy into a relationship, working two jobs, and doing theater as a sideline, but there was one show that my partner and I would never miss - Murder, She Wrote. I saw every episode the night it aired, recorded the show on the VCR and rewatched the...

I haven't seen Riverdale since the end of season two, but the first two seasons were mystery-oriented along with a lot of teen angst and melodrama on a hyped-up scale thrown into the mix. There's a mystery element at work in The X-Files, too, though, of course, the sci-fi/supernatural wonderment...

Today in my YouTube feed was an episode of Hawkins starring Jimmy Stewart. I remember when this was broadcast in the 1970s, but I never watched it. The one I watched today - "Murder on the 13th Floor" - was okay, but no better than McMillan and Wife or The Snoop Sisters of the same era.

When I was watching the various Lord Peter Wimsey series on PBS all those years ago, I used to get irked because we only got hour installments each week, and it was hard keeping the mystery straight sometimes (Dorothy Sayers' constructions of her puzzles were VERY convoluted) over the period of...