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CIPC #407: Banacek S2 E1, No stone unturned

Posted on January 6, 2025January 6, 2025

There will be no Best of/Worst of list this year, for the simple but compelling reason that I don’t feel like making one. Instead, we’ll…

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CIPC #397: Cheyenne S1 E14, Johnny Bravo

Posted on October 30, 2024October 30, 2024

Cheyenne was a rather popular wild west television series produced by Warner Brothers in the fifties and sixties. It deals with the adventures of the…

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CIPC #396: Seinfeld S9 E16, The burning

Posted on October 23, 2024October 23, 2024

Seinfeld is one the most beloved and popular sitcoms of all time and, judging from this single episode, that seems justified. The plot is admittedly…

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CIPC #393: Monsters S3 E15, The space eaters

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

Last time we met with Monsters,1 there was a man looking for his daughter in an art gallery were a rather disturbing portrait of her…

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CIPC #392: The Dick Van Dyke show S1E18, Who owes who what?

Posted on September 24, 2024September 25, 2024

The Dick Van Dyke show is, despite the suspicious spelling of the main character’s last name, one of the most highly acclaimed and popular sitcoms…

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CIPC #390: Der Alte E244, Drei Schüße ins Herz

Posted on September 11, 2024September 11, 2024

Midsomer murders, probably the most frequent subject of our derision, has been running for almost three decades and there have been, at the time of…

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CIPC #387: Lewis S6 E3, Fearful symmetry

Posted on August 21, 2024August 21, 2024

Yadda yadda detective yadda yadda Lewis. Look, we don’t have time for this. There’s far too much to talk about here, because one of the…

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CIPC #383: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S2E2, Dead water

Posted on July 23, 2024July 26, 2024

The inspector Alleyn mysteries ran only very briefly, for a mere nine episodes. Yet it now features for the second time on this blog. After…

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CIPC #380: Monty python’s flying circus S1 E5, Man’s crisis of identity in the latter half of the 20th century

Posted on July 3, 2024

I have quite some trepidation as I start writing this post, because I will have to judge the pythons!1 Their flying circus is perhaps the…

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CIPC #374: Innocent S1 E1

Posted on May 22, 2024May 22, 2024

All you people are such sinners you probably don’t even know what Innocent is1, so here’s the rundown: it’s a quite recent British television show…

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