CIPC #96: Masha and the bear S2 E2, Time to ride my pony
Usually, I am somehow familiar with the things I talk about. Most of the movies I talk about I have seen. Most of the comics I have read. Even La...
CIPC #94: Toen was geluk heel gewoon S5 E67, Schaken
Toen was geluk heel gewoon (back then, happiness was normal) was a Dutch sitcom that ran for sixteen seasons between 1994 and 2009. It was loosely based on The honeymooners,...
CIPC #90: Zorro S2 E8, The flag of truce
What, oh what, did people do before the internet? Or, generally, before the rise of the computer? Hell, before cheap pocket editions of all the classical books where available in...
CIPC #88: A talent for murder
And once more we end up in our wheelhouse: crime fiction. This time, we’ll talk about a British made-for-tv movie from 1984. Angela Lansbury plays Ann Royce McClain, a crime...
CIPC #86: Kunt U mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer? E40, De zoon van Zwankezwaan
Whoever heard of a fantasy television series conceived as a sequel to a Grimm fairytale with a nine word title and 45 minutes episodes which are put on hold three...
CIPC #85: Professor T. S2 E10, Het DNA van een moordenaar
Here we go again. How many times have I spotlighted television series about detective?! The Mentalist, Midsomer Murders, Columbo – I have the impression that I’m barely talking about anything...
CIPC #81: Zorro S1 E36, The sergeant regrets
I hope you guys have been dutifully spreading the word about the Zorro-opening, because, today, Zorro rides again! Yes! We’re now a bit further in the series but still in...
CIPC #78: Zorro S1 E11, Double trouble for Zorro
Long, long before Batman there was already a wealthy man living a double life as a masked and caped vigilante, a superman in everything but the name, battling corrupt law...
CIPC #73: Ronzoni commercial
If you have read some of my other blog posts, you will have noticed that I usually start with a short text providing context for the subject at hand. But...
CIPC #72: Maigret S35, Mon ami Maigret
I have a conjecture: every sufficiently well-known fictional detective will sooner or later be confronted with chess. A slightly – but only very slightly – stronger variation of this conjecture...
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