“Huh?” I hear you think “S1E1? Surely there’s no seasons or episodes in Beauty and the beast; it’s a film!” But no. First of all,…
CIPC #337: Lexx S4 E18, The game
I may just have witnessed the most bizarre thing to appear on this blog. It was an episode of a mostly forgotten science fiction series…
CIPC #335: Psych S2 E7, If you’re so smart, then why are you dead?
British detective series are the bread and butter of this blog. But every now and then, I want to mix things up by spotlighting an…
CIPC #333: Prime suspect S2 E1, Operation Nadine
Even in the nineties, women and men were still treated very differently. A case in point: when we meet inspector Barnaby from Midsomer Murders or…
CIPC #329: Midsomer Murders S20 E2, Death of the small coppers
It’s been entirely too long since we’ve last talked about cold old British crime television. So let’s return to Midsomer Murders. Exactly six years ago,1…
CIPC #328: Das Kriminalmuseum E13, Tödliches Schach
I haven’t kept statistics about this,1 but I suspect that over ninety percent of the things I discuss on this blog have been anglophonic. That’s…
CIPC #324: The Sweeney S1 E4, Queen’s pawn
The Sweeney is an old police drama series from the UK. That’s not so remarkable, especially not for a subject of this blog. But what’s…
CIPC #323: Bewitched S5 E27, Daddy does his thing
Why is it that American television series tend to have billions of episodes? Take an iconic British series, say, Fawlty Towers: two seasons of six…
CIPC #318: Midsomer Murders S22 E1, The wolf hunter of Little Worthy
The last time we met inspector Barneby from Midsomer Murders, I barely talked about the series itself and, frankly, I remember nary a thing about…
CIPC #316: All in the family S5 E14, Mike’s friend
All in the family is an absolute classic in the ever — but unaccountably — popular sitcom genre of obnoxious people being terrible to each…