One of the best ways to see the impact of a particular work on general culture is to look at the traces it left in…
CIPC #313: Maigret S2 E5, Maigret and the minister
I want to complain about something. Not just because I like complaining — although I definitely do — but because something has been bugging me.…
CIPC #307: Lewis S5 E4, The gift of promise
January ain’t over yet and we’re already on our second British detective series! That’s got to be some kind of record! Two weeks ago, we…
CIPC #305: Taggart E3, Murder in season
After all these years, there are still British detective series that have never been mentioned on this blog. One of them is Taggart, but after…
CIPC #303: The adventures of dr. Fu Manchu intro
Once more, quite some time after the crime doctor and Philo Vance, we’re brutally tearing another long-forgotten franchise from Morpheus’ arms and putting it right…
CIPC #302: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation S14 E16, Killer Moves
The hugely popular television series about crime scene investigations, CSI, started over twenty years ago now. Since then, there have been so many season, adaptations,…
CIPC #297: Ivo op zondag 27-03-2022
This is a bit of a rarity: a talk show! Yes, Ivo op zondag (Ivo on Sunday) is a Dutch television program in which the…
CIPC #294: Batman S1 E11, A riddle a day keeps the Riddler away
Before I ever laid eyes on any episode of the Adam West Batman series from the sixties, I had this idea, gotten through sheer cultural…
CIPC #289: The doctor Blake mysteries S1 E6, If the shoe fits
Australia! The land of weird, venomous animals, fairy bread, and TwoSet violin. I don’t think I have yet spotlighted any Australian television show or indeed…
CIPC #278: Mission: Impossible S5 E21, A ghost story
You are probably aware of Mission: Impossible, if only for the theme song or the Tom Cruise movies.1 It started as a tv series back…