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Matters' guide to the British and American classic series

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Empty-nest family life is static and monotonous. Whenever the child goes home for a short period of time, the impact is shown in the choice of the TV station. Young people can't imagine now. Obviously there is Netflix at home. Why are we still used to watching the fixed station? And the TV shows over and over again. I've seen it at least three times. But still enjoying it.

Watch the child mutter over there. It was clearly the husband who complained that his parents-in-law listened to local music and watched copies of ancient albums.

Although the world keeps changing. The generation gap between different age groups will never change.

Write down the albums you watch frequently. Most were found from the UK and the US. And 30, 40 years ago. Euphemistically classic nostalgia. I don't know if it's to save money, but German TV likes to rebroadcast.


Murder, she wrote

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Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The show ran for 12 seasons on CBS from 1984 to 1996, with a total of 264 episodes. Four TV movies followed. The most successful and longest-running show in history, averaging more than 30 million weekly viewers in its prime (sometimes reaching more than 40 million), it was a Sunday night staple on CBS for a decade.

The plot of each episode is just right. Don't burn your brain. Not like the current crime cases. There are too many gory scenes and dark psychoanalysis. Very relaxing after watching.


Quincy

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Quincy, Forensic (also known as "Quincy") is an American medical suspense TV series produced by Universal Pictures, which aired on NBC from October 3, 1976 to May 11, 1983. Jack Klugman plays a Los Angeles County medical examiner who is often involved in police investigations.

There is a scene at the beginning. The forensic doctor was in a hurry and wanted to end the anatomy class early, so he taught the class in a rude way. The students who were watching the corpse fainted from physical and mental discomfort one by one. What I think is more special is that each issue will involve heated discussions in the society at that time. Not a purely personal crime. Some of the texts are written in a Taoist style.


M*A*S*H

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M*A*S*H (short for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was an American war satire series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983. It was the first original spin-off series developed by Larry Gelbart, based on the 1970 feature film M*A*S*H, which in turn was based on Richard Hooker ( Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. Produced by 20th Century Fox Television for CBS, the series follows doctors and support staff of the "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital No. 4077" stationed in Ujeong-fu, South Korea during the Korean War (1950-53).

War is a farce. You cannot live without humor and irony.


Dr. Quinn medicine woman

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Doctor Quinn, Female Doctor is an American Western TV series written and executive produced by Beth Sullivan and starring Jane Seymour. The plot takes place in America circa 1867: Doctor Michaela Quinn in the mountain town of Colorado Springs Lyns got a job and left her wealthy family in Boston. Combat the "Women can't be good doctors" prejudice.

Solitaire in James Bond

Feel familiar. Suddenly remembered, Jane Seymour 22 years old has taken on the role of Solitaire Bond Girl. Pure face, devil figure.

Live and Let Die, the eighth film in the James Bond series, was released in 1973 and was Roger Moore's first film as James Bond. The film is the first in MGM's James Bond series to feature the black and gay community as major villains. And the theme song is by former Beatles member Paul McCartney, the rhythm style of the music is very different, very alternative.


Diagnosis Murder


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The protagonist of the series is Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical advisor to the local police. His son, Steve Sloan, is a police officer himself, and he doesn't like it very much, but many cases would not be solved without his father. As a criminally gifted doctor, he takes a completely different view of the case. His friend Amanda Bentley, chief of pathology at Community General Hospital, and Dr. Jesse Travis helped him resolve the cases. Almost all of the episodes take place in Los Angeles, Malibu Beach, the home of Dr. Sloan in the series.

The storyline is just right. Don't burn your brain.


Remington Steel

Laura Holt, a private investigator, attributes her failure to the fact that she is a woman. Eventually, Laura came up with the idea of renaming her detective's office "Remington-Steel" and suggested to her clients that an ominous male investigator by that name was the real owner of the firm. The idea was successful, but one day a man popped up and the client mistook him for Steele from the first episode. Laura eventually decided to let him impersonate Remington Steele from then on. The search for Steele's true identity has been dragging on as the plot progresses. In the end, the mystery of Steele's father is solved, while Steele's identity itself is not.

Pierce Brosnan was young. Very charming.

Columbo

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Detective Columbo is an American classic TV movie series starring Peter Falk. From February 20, 1968 to January 30, 2003, there were 69 episodes in total, including 2 pilot episodes, this chapter and the special episodes that followed. The story tells the protagonist of a Los Angeles crime squad, Columbo, who always wears a rumpled brown trench coat, has unkempt hair, a cigar in his mouth, and drives a Peugeot 403. Seemingly unscrupulous, he always uses his keen reasoning ability to detect various cases and make the prisoners unable to deny them.


Each episode of this film is an independent chapter, and a major feature is the full-name actors and celebrities who guest-starred in the role of prisoners in each episode. Another feature is that the plot adopts a fixed flashback reasoning form: first describe the circumstances of the prisoner committing the crime, and then describe Colombo to determine his suspicion from the conversation with the suspect and the evidence, forcing the prisoner to confess. The prisoner thought that the perfect murder plan could not escape his sharp eyes. One of his famous words was: "There is no perfect sin in the world."


What's special is the use of a less common form of flashback reasoning that focuses on how to catch a prisoner, rather than the usual way of finding out who the killer is, the modus operandi, or the motive. This kind of plot layout and character setting will be learned by the Japanese drama "Furubata Ren Saburo" series written by Koki Mitani in the future.


After watching so many episodes, I still haven't seen Mrs. Columbo appear XD


Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama series by Anthony Horowitz based on the Chief Inspector Barnaby novels (written by Caroline Graham), which has aired on two ITV channels since its premiere on 23 March 1997. The series focuses on the various murders that take place in the fictional small village of Midsomer, England, and the efforts of a senior police detective and his partner to solve the crime by determining who the culprits are and what motivates them. Unlike other detective dramas, the show features lighthearted whimsy and dark humor.

I especially like the British towns and rural village scenery in this album. The quaint old houses are covered with all kinds of green plants and gardens. It feels a bit like viewing it as a gardening film.



Endeavour

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Endeavour is a British detective TV series. It is the first part of the TV series Inspector Morse, which tells the story of a young Inspector Morse (played by Sean Evans) as a senior detective police officer in the Oxford Criminal Detective Service.

Love the hero of this movie. Full of intellectual and melancholy eyes. The storyline is dark and whimsical. The arias of the opera soprano are often used as background music.


The Queen's Gambit

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Orphanage-raised chess prodigy Beth Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) is known for her chess talent, hopes to become a world champion, and struggles with addiction, paranoia, and difficult relationships. The plot of the play begins in the mid-1950s and continues into the 1960s

After that, the number of sales of chess and related teaching materials exploded, and the chessboard, which had been grayed out for many years, was also taken out by the children.



Unorthodox

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Unorthodox , an American-German co-production, premiered on Netflix on March 26, 2020. This is the first Netflix series to be shot primarily in Yiddish.

Plot: Esty, 19, a Jewish woman living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, lives unhappily in a Haredi Judaism arranged marriage. She manages to escape to Berlin, to her estranged mother, and tries to live a worldly life, discovering life outside her community, rejecting her past beliefs. Upon learning of her pregnancy, the husband, on the order of the rabbi, went to Berlin with his cousin to try to find her.

Unbelievable, in a big city in modern society, there is still such a religious group, living a classically repressed life. There is no personal will. Only groups.


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