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CIPC #426: Chocky’s children E3

Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

I’ve talked a great deal about British television series on this blog, but they were almost exclusively detective series. We have not featured any of…

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CIPC #424: Tatort E1302, Zugzwang

Posted on May 6, 2025May 6, 2025

I don’t think I’ve ever been this topical. The episode we’ll be discussing today aired only on April 27th. Of this year! The plot is…

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CIPC #422: Black saddle S1 E5, Client: Starkey

Posted on April 22, 2025April 22, 2025

Black saddle is one of those western television series that were all the rage in the fifties and sixties. It follows a gunslinger-turned-lawyer named Clay…

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CIPC #420: Heartbeat S10 E23, The Buxton defence

Posted on April 9, 2025April 9, 2025

Somehow, they still keep coming. There are still long-running British crime series that somehow passed me by. Heartbeat was aired on ITV from 1992 until…

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CIPC #415: CSI: NY S2 E4, Corporate warriors

Posted on March 5, 2025March 5, 2025

Over two years ago I first discussed an episode from one of the many, many CSI series. Back then, I had quite a lot to…

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CIPC #412: Inspector Morse S7 E2, The day of the devil

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

In this episode of the classic Inspector Morse series, our eponymous hero is after a satanic murderer with a long rap sheet of various depraved…

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CIPC #410: Der Alte S30, Teufelsbrut

Posted on January 30, 2025

When we previously talked about Der Alte, it was considerably older but the old one in question was considerably younger. For the first one hundred…

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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 #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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