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Knit to This: Poker Face
I go back and forth about whether I prefer bingeing a new show all at once or downing each episode one-per-week, as Gen-Z TikTok influencers like, oh, Milton Berle and Lucille Ball intended. Sometimes, it really just depends on the show. I found more than one Handmaid’s Tale at a time impossible, but I binged two seasons of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel in one long day (no, I do NOT want to talk about productivity … or my subsequent two-day phase of speaking exclusively in mid-century Greenwich Village lingo).
The new-ish series Poker Face presents a real dilemma, though. As each episode dropped weekly, I found it so, so delicious that I wanted to eat the whole box of Columbo-flavored candy all at once … but it’s so, so good that I was also just fine making it last as long as possible. The first season has ended, so you can choose how YOU want to do it.
You might already know the set-up. Natasha Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a Vegas casino cocktail waitress with an unusual gift—she’s a human lie detector. After the first episode sets up a reason for her to be on the run and off the grid, each subsequent episode reveals her in a different place, with a different odd job (each progressively more oddball and more hilariously unlikely than the last: barbecue chef, rock and roll roadie, dinner theater waitress, retirement home orderly … go-kart rental agent?), and in true Columbo fashion, in each job she’s got a different murder or two to solve. She’s the harbinger of death, y’all. If you see Natasha Lyonne heading your way, run.
Frankly, I could do without the human lie-detector bit. It seems to me she could just walk around and say, “Did you do it?” “Did YOU do it?” “DID YOU DO IT?” until her lie detecting organ or whatever it is dings. But no, the writers (of which Lyonne is one, occasionally) satisfyingly complicate the plot so she can solve the mystery in a matching complicated way. It is tremendous fun, even when it feels like the long way to get there.
I’ve mentioned Columbo twice now and that’s not by accident. The creators of the show know exactly what they’re doing with the constant vibe references, and they know we know they know. Guest stars galore! Chlöe Sevigny! Judith Light! Hong Chau! S. Epatha Merkerson! Nick Nolte! Stephanie Hsu! Ellen Barkin! Joseph Gordon-Levitt! I mean … it just goes on and on in a way not seen since Murder, She Wrote or The Love Boat and I would have it no other way.
Even the titles at the front of each episode harken back to Columbo, right down to the way the drop-shadowed title of each is displayed with the copyright date right there at the bottom in Roman numerals. Charlie has one thing Columbo doesn’t, though, and that’s the spectacular Natasha Lyonne (seriously, she is the absolute cat’s meow in this) and her shag/mullet, which not even the great Peter Falk ever dared to try.
Poker Face is streaming on Peacock, which is apparently another thing.
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Has to be the original Law & Order. DaDum.
Endeavour and Vera hands down.
So many to choose from! NCIS and Bones!
Gosh! Soooo many to choose from!! I loved and watched Colombo when I was young. I fell in love with the Nancy Drew books as a kid, and am a mystery lover big time!! I’d you are a reader, try any of the books by Greg Iles. Turning Angel is the one that got me hooked on his books. All that being said, I also love Criminal Minds, despite all the darkness of life it depicts. The ensemble cast was wonderful, and I was always on the edge of my seat! I’ve seen many titles reading these comments, and realized how many great shows there are out there. I will definitely put Poker Face on my list!!
NCIS-the old episodes. Gibbs is the best!
Love joy!
NCIS. Gibbs. The best.
I love the absolutely absurd Midsomer Murders.
Not a murder mystery, an antiques mystery show, Lovejoy.
Cadfael, over and over and over. Prime Suspect, same. Shetland and Bosch!!!!!
Kojac, oh boy, am I revealing my age or what!
Bones, Shetland, NCIS to name just a few!
I loved Kojak too! We went to the racetrack ince just to see his horse run and got to see him!
Love Bosch. Also enjoying Grace, a British show.
Recent: Knives Out, and Glass Onion. Older: love the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes series
So many, impossible to choose only one! Endeavor, Inspector Lewis, Broadchurch, Trapped, The Tunnel, Baptiste, Bosch
Love “Vera” on Brittbox!
Jerry Orbach era Law and Order. Also Ms Fisher
Jim Rockford! Who is better than James Garner? The Rockford Files was a multigenerational must see in my house when I was growing up. Who wouldn’t want to live on the beach and drive around in a cool muscle cat?
OMG “cool muscle cat” killed me! Now I’m imagining riding a lion on the beach.
Endeavor.
I loved Columbo! Total sucker for cheesey detective shows like Father Brown, Midsomer (don’t judge me – double digit seasons don’t lie), Agatha Raisin, and the goofy breezy Psych but feel like I have to say something more erudite like Endeavor and its pre-sequels, which were truly wonderful, just… darker.
So hard to choose – Barnaby? Vera? Poirot? Morse? Perez? So many wonderful stories out of New Zealand, too. Must be why we subscribe to BOTH of the UK streaming services.
Yes! Miss Fischer AND the Modern Miss Fischer! Plus My Life Is Murder from NZ
Way back when I was a kid – Ellery Queen. Later in life, Prime Suspect, and recently Broadchurch.
I’m with you! I’ve loved them all. Let’s not forget Miss Fischer!!
Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren. Love those dark, dark Brit procedurals.
Oh I do love a Sherlock Holmes and upcoming shows like Marcella and Luther.
Silent witness, Van Der Vaulk have captured me along w the regulars any Agatha Christe, murder she wrote or Columbo
Law and Order with Hawaii 5O a close 2nd
Hawaii 50 – best theme music, ever.
Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett.
Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch.
My dad and I would eagerly await whatever detective show was on that night. We especially enjoyed Kojak, Mannix , Cannon, Ironside, and of course, Columbo!
Fav detective has to be Morse. Who can resist an opera loving, grumpy, arrogant, borderline alcoholic who is brilliant at seeing and solving very human mysteries?
Look out for Endeavour ( young Morse) and then there is Lewis
Oh, this is hard! Maybe Cadfael? That’s one of the few (along with the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes) that I liked so much that my husband bought me the complete series on DVD.
Oh, I had forgotten Cadfael! They were so good! And Sherlock, the Benedict Cumberbatch ones.
Oh no! You set me up for hours of delicious fun and then I learn it’s not on Netflix. It is hard to justify a years’ worth of subscription prices for just one or two shows (never was a Yellowstone fan). Nevertheless it is something to watch out for in case it trickles over to some other platform one day – as these things occasionally do. Thanks, DG, for the heads up! Chloe
Peacock is not a subscription service, but Peacock+ is. Poker face is on Peacock. I have access to NBC via cable but I’m not sure if you need cable to watch peacock.
It also has The Amber Ruffin Show. (I admit I haven’t seen it in years, but it was great even during l pandemic lockdown with no audience.)
It’s specific to Peacock, so it won’t trickle to another service. Sign up for the free trial, binge it in a week.
I’m in Canada, get it on CityTV which I stream through my Bell service
I don’t think you need to pay for Peacock. Just for Peacock+
Bosch is a favorite read, but way, way back, I loved Quincy, M.E.
PBS’ Sherlock Holmes with Benjamin Cumberbatch!♂️
I loved The Killing.
PBS’ Sherlock Holmes with Benjamin Cumberbatch! ♂️
“Inspector Lewis” and for lighter hearted, fun series, “Death in Paradise”
I watched the “new” Hawaii 5O, and the old one sometimes, too.
Death in Paradise is good.
Law and Order for sure.
I perfected a British accent watching Inspector Lewis
Bones, NCIS, CSI, Body of Proof, Ms. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries, Midsomer Murders, Frankie Drake, Murdock Mysteries, Bletchly Circle, Criminal Minds, Sherlock
Monk- used to be a favorite Friday night watch.
OHHHH yes! Love MONK!
Poker Face is my new favorite. . .
Shetland
The original CSI. It was sometimes a little heavy but it never failed to bring me back every week.
Inspector Gadget
Lmfao!!!! Good one.
How about Scooby-Doo
Absolutely loved them both; they got my hooked my mysteries for life!
Bones, Endeavor, Lewis
I have to balance the heavy ones, like Broadchurch or Scott and Bailey or Unforgotten, with light ones, like Agatha Raisin and Father Brown and Recipes for Love and Murder.
Loving the Brokenwood Murders, which is like Midsomer Murders, but New Zealand style!
I’m with you! A little dark Hinterland, a little light Candice Renoir. Dark Line of Duty, light McDonald & Dodds. Dark Silent Witness, light Witless Silence.
Monk and Columbia, of course. Wallender for good Scandi-Noir and the rarely seen Professor T, the British version.
Has to be Shetland which is really Longmire set in Scotland.
My favorite detective is Harry Bosch. The series was simply called BOSCH and there were 7 seasons. You’ll find it on FreeVee/Amazon Prime.
Favorite detective show, Endeavor.
Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch. Also Shetland.
I love them all, these days loving the new-ish Shetland. But when it comes to detective shows I’m not that picky!
Sherlock with Benjamin Cumberbatch
It’s hard to pick just one since I’ve watched so many! Lucy Lawless is delightful in Life is Murder. Then there’s Father Brown and Sister Boniface. And Magpie Murders!
Sure loved Kojak back in the day! Although not technically a detective show, love Murder, She Wrote. Columbo was certainly the best! Law and Order and Criminal Minds are sure binge worthy!
Bosch, Poker Face and Colombo.
Inevitably dating myself: Dragnet. Loved the interactions between them.
Just watched Black Snow. Terrific!
Morse.
I think we posted at the same time. LOL I said “Endeavour”
Endeavour It was the best!
I loved Mannix! Also Get Smart!
Get Smart was the BEST! Didn’t come to mind when I thought “detective story” or “murder mystery” but it was very favorite as a teenager. Told my sisters I wanted the theme song to be played when I got married!
I adored Poker Face, too. I’d say the shows I most enjoy currently is Bosch and Bosch Legacy, the series based on Michael Connelly’s Det. Harry Bosch. Titus Welliver, the title character, is dreamy and it has the best musical intro of any show I have ever watched.
Prime Suspect with the fabulous Helen Mirren
Hercule Poirot
And Father Dowling and his side kick Sister Steve.
Psych, Monk, Poirot, Death in Paradise, Father Brown… way more than I can even list. It’s about all I watch.
Three Pines on Prime, Inspector Gamache is on the case! Set in an imaginary village in Quebec, it’s loaded with eccentric characters. If that doesn’t make you want to read the books, nothing will!
Agreed. Three Pines was so great.
Murder She Wrote
Poirot, Miss Marple and Father Brown
Beck which is a German, I think. We are hooked on foreign series and this was one of the best—at least early seasons—we think. Another season is due out this summer and we can’t wait. Another fun one is Art of Crime, which pairs a street copy with Srt historian from the love. He has been assigned to the department of art crimes as punishment and she is. His ‘advisor”. Great chemistry between two actors and she often talks to the classical painters to get help. So good, evenif it sounds wacky.
Favorite detective show…hmm…Magnum PI. Because, well, Tom Selleck!
Ditto
Montalbano. Or maybe Young Montalbano. They are on MHZ on Prime, and you have to either speak Italian and Siciliano, or use subtitles. Totally worth it.
I love Sherlock with Cumberbatch
Wow, you guys are missing out! You all need to immediately binge watch Will Trent which just finished the first season. So great.
Read the Will Trent books instead. The nice actor is just not my Will.
Oh yeah! Forgot for a minute how much I like that show. Betty is priceless!
Will Trent is great on ABC. Love Shetland too.
Angela Lansbury
OMG, yes! I have looooved Poker Face so much and it is indeed the fantastically executed throwback. So much so that when I happened upon an episode of MacMillan and Wife, I had to record it and watch a couple on demand. Always a favorite. Great memories of watching that show, Mannix, Mission Impossible, and Columbo with my parents back in the day. Such fun!
Midsummer Murders
Too many to mention them all. Cadfael is definitely one that I’ll watch over and over. Currently waiting for all the Brokenwood Mysteries to drop so I can binge. I wished that Miss Fischer’s Murder Mysteries had never ended (and was terribly disappointed with Ms Fischer’s Modern Mysteries), but Murdock Mysteries is a good substitute … y’a, lots
Hard to choose between so many good ones but I’d have to go with Monk as my favorite.
Broadchurch, Murder She Wrote, Prime Suspect, the Cumberbatch Sherlock, Unforgotten, Perry Mason, Poirot …. so many great ones!
There are so many brilliant shows but Vera, Astrid, and Midsummer Murders are among my faves. There are so many great shows in the comments that I started taking notes!
Murder she wrote
NCIS
Annika. Thanks for this prompt, DG-I love hearing everyone’s recommendations!
Cumberbatch/Freeman Sherlock Holmes! I have watched it over and over and over- I might have a problem:) My current fav (as in what you can watch now) is Will Trent. Oh so good- and the dog makes for the best comedy relief.
Kathy
As a kid I couldn’t wait to watch Get Smart!
Vera
I love so many but recently started rewatching The Rockford Files.
These have all been on the list, I’ll throw in Miss Fisher, an Australian female detective, wonderful costumes if the mysteries were a little silly. So much fun to watch!
Absolutely!
So help me Todd is on my must watch list. Love Marcia Gay Harden.
New this year, our favourite is Will Trent on CTV.
Reacher
At the moment it’s Brokenwood Mysteries on Amazon Prime.
Oops, it’s on Acorn TV.
Maigret, with Rowan Atkinson
I don’t watch much TV and instead listen to audio books. Love the detective genre! Favorite series include Three Pines with Chief Inspector Gamache by Louise Penny, Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith, Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connelly, Thomas Lynly series by Elizabeth George, Will Trent series by Karin Slaughter.
Lord Peter Wimsey, with Edward Petherbridge! Thank you, Dorothy Sayers.
I’m bookmarking this page. So many shows listed I’ve never seen. DH will appreciate every one.
CSI Miami and Blue Bloods
Midsommer Murder
NCIS and Murder She Wrote, especially the older shows.
Knitted my advent Cowl to Poker Face. Usually knit to Death in Paradise or the new spin off. Otherwise, Vera, Father Brown etc…
Absolutely love the British ones – Inspector Lewis, Endeavour, DCI Banks! Also, lots of good memories of watching Columbo with Mom…
I can’t wait to check out Poker Face! Who doesn’t love a good whodunnit!!
One of my favorite Mystery shows is Set in New Zealand and can be seen on Acorn TV. Brokenwood Mysteries is set in the town of the same name and includes an eclectic cast of local characters who add just the right touch of weirdness to each story line. I have acquired a nice playlist of country music from the main character’s favorites often included in the series! Hey, don’t knock it till you try it! – think Tami Neilson and Jenny Mitchell. Anyway I think there are about 9 seasons to binge watch!! Enjoy!
Since you mention Columbo so my much, I have to say I love that show. Each episode is feature film length and yet your attention never wavers.
Oh, just one more thing… How genius was it to not do a whodunit format but rather a howcatchem! A front row seat to see Columbo piece it all together. And there were amazing guest stars.
I’m a Hercule Poirot fan.
Harry Bosch #1 and Death in Paradise.
Love Law and Order and Blue Bloods.
Practically all of them! Detective shows are my favorite.
I enjoyed Will Trent this past season.
Unforgotten!
Always looking for a non-edible binge, especially one with murders. Thank you,DG,
I still love old reruns of “Murder She wrote”
columbo
Hmmm, Endeavor, Perry Mason, Bosch, Inspector Lewis, Bones and The Duke and Miss Scarlett.
Foyle’s War.
Yes!!!!!!!
Yes, Linda! I was scanning the comments thinking, “I can’t believe no one has said Foyle’s War”. I like a lot of the others mentioned as well but the historical context of Foyle’s War really gives it something extra. I learned so much about what the home front was like in England during WWII. Michael Kitchen is fantastic! And I really did not appreciate what a incredible actress Honeysuckle Weeks is until I saw her play a serial killer in one of the Lynley mysteries.
Night Stalker was my first favorite, but my current fav is Will Trent. Smart, occasionally funny, raw, & a cute dog
I really wanted to enjoy Poker Face. The language got to be too much for me.
Perry Mason!!!
I really like poker face as well. I think my current favorite is death in paradise. I can watch that first few seasons over and over.
Barretta, Magnum PI, Father Brown! There was a series w/Bruce Boxleitner? & ? don’t remember the actress’s name. Humphrey Bogart & Peter Lorry, Maltese Falcon; tho not a series;)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is the series. The actress is Kate Jackson.
Thank you! Never would’ve remembered;)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (Kate Jackson).
Thx Mary!
I loved Columbo so I definitely am a fan of this new version!!!!
Inspector Lewis!
Well, my husband and I love detective shows but we keep coming back to Midsomer Murders. We watch one every Sunday night and with 23 seasons it lasts a long time! Prior to watching we guess how many murders there will be in tonight’s episode. We keep a running tab on who has the most right guesses.
Rizzoli & Isles. The interaction between the two is in turns funny, poignant, heart wrenching, powerful, but mostly a wonderful display of verbal banter. And they solve murders too!
Law and Order Special Victims Unit with Bones a clise second.
I’ve never been a big fan of detective shows, but I loved Poker Face with the light of a thousand suns.
I loved Cagney and Lacey!!!
Dexter
Monk! Tony Shaloub was brilliant! (Maybe you know him from The Marvelous Mrs Maisel?)
HawaiiFiveO reruns on ION. Partly for the saturated tropical colors during long winters! Also Shetland, Vera, Wallender.
And, for a different kind of detective, House. Hugh Laurie.
Vera – best English detective ever
PBS Granville
I always liked Columbo
PBS series “The Magpie Murders” was really fun to watch (while knitting ).
I’m loving Astrid, about a detective with Aspbergers.
Oh, Endeavor is tops for me. Dalgleish is becoming a close second!
Oh Dagliesh – can’t believe I forgot about that one!
A new series I like is Karen Pirie (ITV) which has only one season so far. Also love older series Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren.
Sherlock would be my number one. Inspector Lewis, Monk, Miss Fisher.
Columbo, and Law and Order are on top of my list.
I’ve really enjoyed Endeavor. I’m a sucker for British murder mysteries!
I love Midsummer murders on PBS. Slow and easy with no guns. Lovely scenery.
I love them all but, at the moment, it is Sister Boniface
Series: The Closer with Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson (aka Kyra Sedgwick)
With out a doubt, Murder, She Wrote! We are so enjoying watching these reruns!
I must not be the only old fart here, as I see somebody else has claimed Get Smart as one of their faves! I also saw Poirot listed and that is one of the only TV shows right now that can get me to stay up one more hour (I still have to get up E A R L Y for work…)
The incomparable Helen Mirrin in Prime Suspect gets my vote!
Shetland! And, bonus, the costuming features sweaters
Original L&O❣️
Vera Stanhope
So many good ones out there! My most current fav is “ Will Trent”. Love his dog Betty.
Death in Paradise!
Impossible to answer. Scott & Bailey jumps to mind. And Shetland.
Endeavor or Foyle’s War
Only Murders in the Building
Oh, yes. Agreed.
Lewis. Just the right amount of British – so much muurder in Oxford!
Broadchurch and Luther
I love morality tales/mysteries, all of them. And I’m not surprised that the knitting community is enthralled by delving into the mysteries of the human soul. Thank you for starting this list of recommendations. Has anyone added The Rockford Files yet?
Death in Paradise
Endeavour and Death in Paradise on PBS!
I am a huge Columbo fan, watched it as a kid and rewatch it as an adult.
Longmire
Sherlock Holmes, still watch the old Basil Rathbone ones.
Really hard to pick one. Foyle’s War, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order SVU.
I loved Monk. His quirky ways were perfect!
Monk, Perry Mason and a bunch more.
Vera, Brenda Blethyn fan.
My favorite detective show is Inspector Lewis.
Luther!!
Shakespeare and Hathaway, love it!
law and order
I recently binge-watched the old Peter Gunn series, loved every minute!
Sherlock cumbercatch fan
Favorite detective is Endeavor!
Nothing like a one-eyed detective Peter Falk as Columbo!
Has to be Morse.
I like Columbo actually. Or Magnum PI. Gen xer over here. Poker face was on my radar, and your recommendation puts it at the top of my list. Thank you.
I miss Columbo.
Spenser for Hire!
Original Law and Order and every Vera episode to date. I go way back though and loved Mannix and Paladin.
Ditto Prime Suspect
Columbo of course!!
Like asking me my favorite CHILD! We loved Poker Face – I think they offered a free episode and then we were hooked. It didn’t help that we were just off a binge of Russian Doll (not for the language sensitive — either). Over the years I’ve loved anything on Masterpiece Mystery. But just lately we have been loving that rather dark Perry Mason with Matthew Rhys. Just ready to start the second season.
Currently enjoying Will Trent
Love Natasha Lyonne!! I was hooked after seeing her in the first season of Russian Doll. First season of Poker Face is brilliant. Never tired of the formula, and the guest stars are fabulous.
Inspector Lewis
Blue Bloods
Shetland! It just goes with knitting.
I love the new Perry Mason!
So many streaming services, so little time.
Plus, it’s hard to keep track.
Sigh.
Murdoch
Shetland, Midsomer, Miss Marple (with Joan Hickson), Shetland, Morse (take the tour if you’re ever in Oxford) and Inspector Lewis, Vera, and didI mention Shetland?
Yes!, to Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. Her quiet, modest tittering disguises her excellent mind at work.
Murder, she wrote!
Broadchurch was phenomenal!
Dragnet, Morse / Endeavor, Dr. G Medical Examiner, Blood and Money, Shetland, the list is just beginning
Endeavor, though I really enjoy lots of mystery series:-) Thanks for the review!
Old school – Inspector Morse, new school – Brokenwood Mysteries (love the New Zealand setting). Honorable mentions to Sherlock (both Jeremy Brett and Benedict Cumberbatch versions), Poirot, Miss Marple, and Cadfael. Also, new school, Mrs White Mysteries (via Acorn streaming)
Ok-since we get no cable and internet is very slow for streaming, airwave choices are limited, but the old series are on three networks!! BBC Midsomer Murders is right up there at the top!
It’s a toss up between Quincy ME or Magnum PI
Foyle’s war but there are so many others!
“River” with Stellan Skarsgard and Nicola Walker
For the contest- I love a good mystery, book or move or show. My current favorite tv show is CBS’ So Help Me Todd and my favorite streaming show is Only Murders In the Building. I can hardly wait for Season 4!
British ones are my favorites! More original than American series–how many Law and Order spinoffs can there be?
Mannix, of course!
Prime Suspect: Tennison starring Helen Mirren
Midsummer Murders BritBox.
NCIS!!!
In no particular order: Shetland, Vera, Annika, Unforgotten, New Tricks. Bletchley Circle, Frankie Drake (love the setting), Miss Fischer’s Murder Mysteries (again, gorgeous Art Deco setting), Death in Paradise (and the spinoff Beyond Paradise), Brokenwood, Three Pines. I can’t watch anything too grim or graphic, so I’ve tried others and not kept on.
I appreciate the list of others’ favourites, as it gives me new ideas.
Different as can be: Line of Duty and Monk. Although it’s hard to pick just two!
My fave is Vera!
Monk!
My favorite is a borderline detective show, so I hope it counts I still love “Midnight Caller,” with a very young and handsome Gary Cole. The show takes place in SF in the early 1990s, and is full of great shots of the City pop culture references, great music, and many solved crimes – new and old (or should I say cold).
Ha, it’s definitely Poker Face and not just because I just read this!
Masterpiece Theatre! Agatha Christie’s Poirot series. Wild Mint is just captivating!
Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbach….brilliant!!!
Longmire. I guess it’s more of a cop western than a detective show.
I’m still hooked on The Closer and Major Crimes. Those stories could have gone on forever. Also Bosch and Bosch Legacy.
I loved Poker Face, especially the first episode. My husband and I watch so many British detective shows and many other countries too. I can’t really pick a favorite, but I do have a soft spot for Law & Order, especially SVU. I can watch reruns and one time caught the movie (With Chris Noth!) on TV. Shetland is great, with the stark scenery and sweaters. Who knew they had so many murders on that tiny island?
Very difficult to choose just one—Bosch (Harry is so cool), Shetland (love Perez, and the scenery,) Foyle’s War (great handknits abound), and, many more…
What was the old show with James Garner? There was a character as his dad.
Loved all the old ones. Remember the search for the guy with one arm?
Loved them all.
James Garner was in the Rockford Files, with Noah Beery Jr. as his Dad. Love imdb.com to look up movies and TV questions.
My favorite detective show is actually Columbo.
Morse, Inspector Lewis & Endeavour. Also Poirot with David Suchet.
Columbo
Endeavour
The Mentalist
Astrid on PBS
I love Poker Face, and an older fav was the original CSI.
My husband has cognitive decline and loves to watch the Closer and Castle. The more complex shows confuse him. I don’t mind watching these old shows for the umpteenth time!
Olivia & Stabler !!
NCIS and Blue Bloods, Columbo
Poirot, hands down. A second would be Foyle’s War.
Sherlock
My favorite is Luther, followed by “one more thing” Columbo.
I’m torn between “Shetland” and “Unforgotten”!!
Yes to most of these. Missing are Wallander and Young Wallander. Currently Motive and King as I watch for new Brits.
Right now it has to be Will Trent.
Sherlock Holmes the old ones on PBS are my favorites! Jeremy Britt is gorgeous!
I love poker face, too, but I think my favorite right now is Law and Order and Law and Order SVU. I enjoy it for the realism.
Rosemary & Thyme, Monk, Will Trent – his dog Betty!
Love the Art Deco sets for Hercule Poirot. Father Brown’s show has lovely knitwear.
Unforgotten. Vera. Death in Paradise. Midsomer Murder!
Agatha Raisin hooked me on British, Australian and New Zealand mysteries. Too many to name them all.
I have 2 Poker Face which we have already burned through & ABC’s, “Will Trent”
PBS Mystery from the Vincent Price era.
Colombo was my favorite at the time it was on. Now I watch the Closer.
Murder, She Wrote! Loved Angela Lansbury….
,,, and Columbo, too, of course.
I enjoyed Columbo.
All of the PBS mysteries, The Thin Man, well, let’s face it, I love all the mysteries!
Montalbano, Bones, White Collar, Shetland, Vera, The Art of Crime, Murder In…, Daupin, so many possibilities!
Zen on BBC! Starring Rufus Sewell (be still my heart)
Forgot about Zen! Rufus Sewell is also excellent in the The Diplomat!
M & M …. Monk and Morse
Sherlock Holmes
Murder she Wrote
Sherlock Holmes! The one with Benedict.
The crazy OCD Monk.
Hawaii 5-0 with Jack Lord!
The Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti series. Takes place in Venice, Italy, presented in German, with subtitles! Really good show.
Homicide Life on the Street…why isn’t it streaming??
Scrolling through these was like watching my life flash before my eyes. Fortunately this was not a sign of impending death. My all time favorite is Foyle’s War. Fast forward to Magpie Murders, an excellent transition from book to screen (not all are, alas). I’m a big Nordic noir fan (subtitles, not adaptations in English) and really enjoyed Trapped (Icelandic). Also all the light antipodean stuff.
Moonlighting: “ The sly, hip, often imitated romantic dramedy about an ex-model and a PI who team up to run the Blue Moon Detective Agency. As the lead characters tried to decide if they loved or hated each other, the series established itself as a prime example of the ‘will they or won’t they’ subgenre so popular in 1980s TV. Filled with rapid-fire dialogue, in-jokes and some memorable parodies, this is a show, as its creator Glenn Gordon Caron said, ‘that knows it’s on television.“
Oh yeah!!!! I loved this show and Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd!
I think season 1 of True Dectectives with Matthew McConnehey and Woodie Harleson maybe one of the best detective mini-series.
Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Vera, Midsomer Murders, Inspector Lewis, Inspector Morse, Shetland, My Life is Murder, The Brokenwood Mysteries, New Tricks, Unforgotten, Queens of Mystery, Endeavor, The Madame Blanc Mysteries, Foyle’s War, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Agatha Raisin, The Snoop Sisters, Maigret (all three versions), Pie in the Sky, Miss Marple (all of them, including the movies), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (both series), Perry Mason (both series), The Rockford Files, The Equalizer (both versions), Partners in Crime (both versions), Poirot, Cracker, Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Rosemary and Thyme, Inspector Lynley, The Tunnel, George Gently, Murder in Suburbia, Single Handed, Loch Ness, One Lane Bridge, Magpie Murders, Annika, Case Histories ….. basically anything murder mystery or a nice cozy. I can’t really pick just one as they are all good and perfect for binging and marathon knitting or crochet sessions.
However, if we can go to the movies .. well, there just isn’t enough time or space.
LOVE the series Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury.
Poirot, especially as played by David Suchet
I love the detective shows of the ’70s and ’80s – Vega$, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch, Simon & Simon, Ellery Queen, to add to everyone’s list. But I adore Nero Wolfe, especially the novels.
Ironside. I loved Raymond Burr. But I also loved Mod Squad. I guess they looked so cool. I look after I pick and oh there are so many on the list. I mean I found Murder She Wrote and binged watched it. I mean a harbinger of death. Someone died around her weekly for years.
Remington Steele.
I love Grantchester. It has just the right amount of suspense for me.
We buzzed through Poker Face pretty quickly. As for a favorite detective show, a few years ago I found Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries…set in 1920s Australia, Miss Fisher was a strong, independent, and wealthy woman who did things her way and decided that being a “Lady Detective” was the way to spend her time. Definitely binge-worthy for me.
If it’s set in the British Isles I love it but for pure comfort viewing give me the divine Angela Lansbury and her endless parade of interesting friends and family. I usually remember who did it when the guest stars list appears at the start but so many good guest stars who cares?
Vera.
I loved Castle, up until that last episode they tacked on when the show got cancelled.
It’s Vera! A mature woman detective!
Endeavor!!!
Murder, She Wrote
So hard to choose just one, but I would say Grantchester.
The Big Sleep or the original Still Life.
Vera!
Granada Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett!
Van der Valk on PBS. Contemporary, fast-paced, set in Amsterdam.
And the books are oddly fascinating.
Reading the whole list to see what I might have missed.
Will Trent
Shetland
Has to be the original Magnum PI , my then baby girl ( I’m talking 2 or 3 years old at the most)had such a crush on Tom Selleck she would giggle and hide her face when he would raise his eyebrows and smile looking over his sunglasses. Then when the show would break for commercials and they would say please stand by , she would stand by the tv until he came back. We would watch it every week just for her!
Father Brown Mysteries. Miss Marple… and of course Rockford Files….
Hawaii 50 – I have a daughter and her family living in Hawaii and I love to see all the familiar sites I have seen on my many visits to the island!
I’m going old school … Ellery Queen. I liked watching it with my mom.
Sherlock, definitely!!!
Love this genre! Poker Face has been fun but I will give almost any of them a try.
My all time favorite – Murder she wrote.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is near the top. BUT I also love Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Mr. Mercedes, The Outsiders, Sherlock (BBC version started in 2010), Broadchurch, and Bosch has been pretty good as well.
Love all things Brit but still watching Columbo & Murder She Wrote
On ABC, WILL TRENT, solves murders with his particular focus of dyslexia and lack of attachment due to his foster care up bringing. The season ending was gripping.
Midsomer Murders. I just can’t help myself. I am fascinated by the wall colors in the houses.
Monk is my favorite! but Columbo is a close second.
Brief plug for your public library. The one I work in has many, many of these old TV series on DVD, because we know not every home has streaming services or cable. If you have a DVD player or can watch DVD’s on a computer, check out (literally) your public library
New Tricks. I’m all about a woman in charge. That goes for Vera and Prime Suspect.
New Tricks was hilarious. A very different take on solving cold cases, the characters were quirky, a mess, ppignant, & the new characters that at times replaced the old ones were just as good. A fun long series.
And currently, Professor T, the British version was on PBS.
Grantchester on Masterpiece Theatre. Really love all the British detective shows.
Prime Suspect. Back in my youth I recall an intense weekend bingeing the first two seasons on VHS from the local video rental store. Ah the 1990s!
Does Bones count? I loved the scientific aspect of solving crimes. My favorite true crime detective show is Cold Justice. Solving cold cases means so much to those families.
So many good ones. Cadfael, Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Endeavor are all so very good!
Not really that much of a detective show fan, but liked Annika, which I found out about from MKS, very much.
I love a lot of them but Murder She Wrote is now, and always will be, way out at the front of the pack. It’s like Nancy Drew for grownups.
Murder, She Wrote is an interesting case in that the mysteries themselves are rarely very compelling – and they’re always solved in exactly the same way, where Jessica notices the shape of a lampshade and that reminds her of the position the body was found, therefore the killer must be the guy who collects vintage lightbulbs OR WHATEVER, but the show is still strangely compelling – it’s all the other parts aside from the mystery itself that make it interesting. Oh, and the best episode is “Keep the Home Fries Burning,” about the poisonous pot of jam at the Joshua Peabody Inn because I mean…
P.S. In a perfect world, I would be Nancy Drew and Ann and Kay would be my BFFs Bess and George. You can be my boyfriend Ned.
Midsommers Murders. It’s so amazing that there is anyone left after all these years.
I think Broadchurch remains one of the best detective shows. So atmospheric. So many red herrings. So, so good.
The Closer – Brenda Leigh Johnson.
That’s one of my very favorite shows ever. Loved the cast & the interplay between the character.
Monk! Monk! Monk! Columbo. Monk!
I watch a lot of detective shows but am a particular fan of the Columbo-era shows. My favorites are Kolchak (love a creepy story), Banacek (he was just so cool), and Columbo (classic, especially with all of the guest stars).
Though we’ve collectively burned out on Sherlock Holmes, I have to shout out Elementary! It lets the leads care about each other, change & grow in ways that other adaptations don’t. And they do Irene Adler right!
Oooh! That’s a hard one – I’ve watched several over the years. Columbo, Murder She Wrote, Rosemary & Thyme (look for this one YouTube – old PBS), Miss Scarlett (currently PBS), MacMillian and Wife, and others along the way.
An oldie from wayyyy back, Elbert Queen Mysterys. I miss Jim Hutton. He was always good at whatever he was working in.
The Mentalist…. awesome characters!
Even though by today’s standards it’s pretty corny, we never missed Perry Mason!
Hill Street Blues – loved it. Let’s be careful out there!
My fav? Father Brown! English vicar and superior crime solver!
I’ve not seen the old timey 70’s detective shows so I’d pick Castle or The Rookie (I have a thing for Nathan Fillion) and I really like the new series Will Trent. But Pokerface was one of the best shows we watched this year!
Love L&O. What a classic. And for some campy, fun TV, it’s NCIS.
Endeavor and Vera on PBS!
Annika on PBS!!!
do the Knives Out movies count? those! or the recent Perry Mason.
Vera!!!
Not easy to choose, has to be “Vera” right now.
Shetland and endeavor
Bones!
Jackson Brodie – the books and the tv series are both fantastic.
Diagnosis Murder with Dick VanDyke! The best!
Silent Witness followed by Bosch.
Silent Witness followed by Bosch
I LOVED LOVED LOVED Monk. Tony Shalhoub is fantastic!! Also loving him in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. <3
The Aurora Teagarden mysteries. Love seeing the difference between the show and the books. (The books are much darker.)
Nero Wolfe. But Banacek and Columbo, as well as all the great British TV detectives, are right up there.
Original Perry Mason series, lived the convertible that investigator Paul Drake drove!
Hands down, Shetland.
Law and Order SVU
Harry Bosch!
CSI and of course Scooby Doo, haha
Three Pines, based on the series by Louise Penney. Love Inspector Gamache!
Luther and Vera!
SVU just take 1sr place at our house, then I have to admit I’m currently hooked on Carnival Row…Orlando Bloom all grown up, what’s not to love!
Psych is my favorite. The genuine friendship between Gus and Shawn. Their antics. The mystery is always chefs kids
My favorite is Vera, a British series.
Broadchurch. Hands down…
We just added Remington Steele to our que. Hard to beat a young Pierce. But we also have a deep deep fear of some place in England and will run like a gazelle if we ever meet Joyce Barnaby. That woman brings death where ever there is any church event.
Father Brown
I don’t really have a favorite as it’s not my genre. Will have to give Poker Face a try. Enjoying So Help Me Todd.
Books not a show, but the lord Peter wimsey series is fab.
Criminal Minds! Sometimes it scares me!
True Detective – just wish there were more episodes!
Shetland! It also has great sweaters on the actors. I also love Vera. This is making me want to renew my lapsed Britbox subscription.I love British detective shows.
True Detective.
I loved Bosch! He’s a homicide detective in LA and lives in a gorgeous flat way up on a hillside with an incredible view!
I LOVE detective shows! It’s impossible to pick a favorite. One we’ve enjoyed recently is Will Trent.
I could watch Law and Order forever
Astrid, the detective with Asperger’s. A wonderful detective show that not only solved murders but provided insight to someone with special needs. Astrid made us smile, cry and cheer for her.
I LOVE Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, set in Australia and available on Acorn TV.
Bosch all the way!
Morse. Hands down my favorite detective.
Law and Order: SVU is my forever love. I can’t even begin with the Chicago ones. I think they’ll be my consolation prizes if SVU ever ends.
Hawaii 5-O, the original!
Law and Order SVU ♥️
I loved Lucifer. I was sooo disappointed when he gave up his hell assignment to take care of heaven. still one of the best detective series I’ve watched.
The Killing and Monk.
Our latest detective show is Will Trent. It has interesting characters and storylines
Big fan of mysteries, especially British…Vera, Shetland, etc. But good old Poirot and Miss Marple are probably my all time favs
My favourite changes regularly. At the moment it’s Dalgliesh (dramatisation of the Adam Dalgliesh novels by the great P D James).
Better Call Saul!
I like both action and mystery solving in my detective series and a favorite is the historical “Ancient Detective” – a Chinese wuxia (martial arts) and mystery series from 2020.
The plot is centers on young amnesiac detective Jian Buzhi’s quest to track down the four remaining witnesses to an epic jianghu takedown of a murderer eight years ago that killed his father. His own lost memory dances on the edge of the riddle of that day’s events; he is determined to clear up all the remaining loose threads including the mysterious disappearance of the murderer’s corpse. This series is available with English subtitles on various streaming platforms.
“Who loves ya baby” is from Baretta!!! Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time ….
My best friend and I say “who loves ya baby?” to each other so often that we shorten our sign offs to WLYB? That’s easily been 35 years now.
The early Law and Order and Murdock.
Broadchurch and Grantchester, among many others!
Murder She Wrote
Kojak
Still loving the original Columbo
Murdoch Mysteries
True Detective Season 1.
Endeavor, of course—love public televison.
Any Agatha Christie detective, Morse, the original Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock.
Love the British shows, PBS is my go to channel. The Closer is my go to American TV show. Love Brenda Leigh Johnson.
Monk with TONY SHALOUB
The new Perry Mason!
Poker face was by far and away the best detective show I’ve watched lately.
All of the Miss Marples on PBS
Psych!
murder she wrote
Rizzoli & Isles
Definitely COLUMBO, but MONK is a close second.
Shetland! Jimmy!!!!
Line of Duty
Foyles War, set in WWII Britain . Acting and stories superb. Knitwear worn by Sam is the icing on the cake for us fiber people.
I loved The Thin Man with Nick and Nora Charles and the dog Asta. That’s how old I am….it was a mystery, wasn’t it?
Actually, Columbo. I loved the apparent stumblebum of the character. Plus, it was my mom’s favorite TV series.
I’m another NCIS fan, always watching the original (old & new), New Orleans (old), and Hawaii. You get attached!
NCIS!!
Hmm…maybe Bosch.
prime suspect
I liked Sherlock, Unforgotten and now Endeavor.
NCIS
The rabbit hole that is Law and Order…
Ok does a PI count? He solved things in a detective-y way. Magnum PI for the win!
My favorite detective changes and the latest is William Murdoch from Murdoch mysteries. It’s set in the past with wonderful period fashions and sets. Murdoch is very clever and almost always right.
favorite Detective show at the moment, Father Brown.
I have been watching Murdoch Mysteries set in Toronto in early 1900’s. Detective Murdoch is constantly inventing new mechanisms to solve murders and theyb are all precursors to modern day technology. Its a gas.
This question is, quite frankly, rude — because how can I possibly pick a favorite? I love Poirot and Miss Marple and both of the Barnabys in Midsomer Murders. Shetland has, well, Shetland and Jimmy Perez, though that’s all about to change. I loved Unforgotten, and Nicola Walker’s new Annika is great with the chummy asides to the audience. Death in Paradise is fun with all the wacky detectives and supporting cast. I could go on, but I guess the theme here is that, for my money, the Brits do it best. (I could also talk about the Canadians and the French, but I won’t.)
The family loved a good CSI in the day but recently my husband and I found Will Trent and it is so darn good. Smart writing, deep story lines and great who dunnits.
Colombo in the 1970s and now enjoy Prime Suspect
Growing up, I liked Columbo and The Nightstalker. More recent family favorites are Psych, Monk and of course Sherlock.
Anything with Nicola Walker in it!
Agreed!
There are so many to choose from, but two that have really stuck with me are Monk and the Brother Cadfael mysteries (associative pun unintentional). While I love the Spenser books, I was not a fan of the tv show, although I enjoyed Avery Brooks as Hawk.
So many to choose from and I have watched and read so many . . . Luther and Longmire are particular favorites.
Monk
Detective (and spy) series are my hands-down favorites, impossible to choose, but my gateway drug to Nordic noir was Wallander. And and another series I was very sorry to see end was Shetland— gorgeous and great!
Shetland on PBS.
Oops, it’s on Prime.
My favorite was Castle, from a while back
There is no way to pick one. For me the entire genre of British detective show is a favorite.
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Although I love Morse and many other of the Brit detective shows, my favorite right now is Will Trent because of the quirky qualities of the characters and the secrets they try to hide from each other.
Pearl
White Collar
Law and Order hands down
My favorite detective show is BECK on MHz Choice. He’s a middle aged man with no style and not flashy at all! He gets the job done by catching these criminals.
Midsummer Murders
And I forgot to add, BOSCH! Now seeing BOSCH is addicting!
Homicide
So dark. So real.
I like detective stories that have some light humor. Some banter
There’s a whole string of British mystery shows that are favorites but I think Annika has them all beat. Love the setting and the luscious ‘asides’ that Annika makes about what is happening in the episode. I hope they make more episodes.
There was a really good but short lived Sherlock Holmes series with Benedict Cumberbach that was fantastic!
Love watching old episodes of murder, she wrote! Jessica Fletcher is the best detective
True Detective, season one. Genre-builder and genre-breaker, all in one!
Gosh, so many detective shows! I love a good Brit detective show. Shetland, Happy Valley (which was not a happy place), the DI Lynley series. Just so many choices!
Veronica Mars!!
Sherlock (both Cumberbatch and Jeremy Brett), Inspector Morse, Cracker…
All of the ones mentioned. Slow Horses by Mick Herron hasn’t been mentioned. Try it!
Toss up between Rockford Files or Mannix! Remember those!?
Murdoch Mysteries
Miss Fischer because I have such fond memories about watching it with my youngest daughter at a time when it was hard for us to get along.
Dragnet
Favorite detective show Line of Duty. Going through withdrawal since I spaced out watching to savor it.
Quincy, M. E.
Perry Mason, an oldie but goodie!
My favorite detective show is Bosch! Watching it all over again now.
Peaky Blinders
Vera & Shetland
Oh, so many to choose from. The Brokenwood Mysteries, I guess, for all the interesting characters and character development, and because my husband likes them, too, and we can watch together.
Monk
I loved Bosch….all seasons. It is a great show set in Los Angeles.
Criminal Minds and Bones were my favorites!
Sherlock Holmes movies. Or books. Or Enola Holmes movies. Fun!
The Swedish Kurt Wallander series
My life is Murder set in Australia and New Zealand is fun. Midsummer Murders is great too. We recently rewatched all 23 seasons.
So Help Me Todd
Shetland!
Colombo & The Rockford Files!
Poirot by Agatha Christie
Oh boy… Columbo; Monk; original NCIS; Bosch is superb.
I too love mysteries. Favorites on TV are Miss Marple and Hercule Poitot.
In the book department I love P>D>James. She was an incredible writer
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Another good one is Louise Penney and Inspector Ganesh.
I’ll nominate an audio book series — Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna series. Grisly scandinavian noir but Jonna is a true hero, a force for goodness surrounded by truly shocking evil. Best “knit to this” I’ve found…
I like so many of those mentioned already! But how about “Wire in the Blood” with the dreamy Robson Green!
Midsomer Murders, Brokenwood, and now adoring Pie in the Sky…give me all the countryside death and deceit!
Sherlock
“Law & Order: Criminal Intent” because of Vincent D’Onofrio’s layered portrayal of brilliant and troubled Detective Robert Goren, especially in recurring encounters with his mother (Rita Moreno); wily villain Nicole Wallace (Olivia d’Abo) and deranged former mentor Dr. Declan Gage (John Glover).
Foyle’s War.
Endeavor
So many! Columbo, Sherlock, Monk…
Um, how has NO ONE has mentioned Lupin yet?! (You can even turn on the dubbing if you can’t knit to subtitles. The *puristes* will shun this option but you do you.) That’s my current fave though I’ve watched many, many of the other shows recommended. Also, if you’re on Peacock, you should check out Mrs. Davis. So zany, so delightful, so perfect for Knit to This (you’ll want some garter stitch/stockinette in the round, for sure). Thank me later.
Criminal Minds!
River had me entranced; Shetland was marvelous.
The description you gave of Poker Face made me think of The Pretender. It was more of a thriller-type mystery show than a detective show, with the main character solving mysteries as he tried to find his family, all while staying one step ahead of the corrupt think-tank that kidnapped him as a child. It’s still one of my favorite TV shows of all time. All four seasons are included on Amazon Prime.
Criminal Minds
Favorite detective show? Bosch!
Major Crimes
Shetland ❤️
I love to read the classic PD James, Dorothy Sayres, and Ngaio Marsh series, but I think the mysteries I like to watch the most was a shortish series about two women–Rosemary and Thyme? maybe? Some flower-themed name. My mom sent me the dvds back when that was a thing. They were great–entertaining but not too scary (I’m a wimp).
Monk 🙂
Monk
Endeavor, with Vera a close second
So many to choose from,Vera I think she is awesome.
Bosch. Husband and I have been watching an episode or two per week (while I’m knitting, of course!)
Inspector Morse, of course! lololol
Midsomer Murders – for its sheer body count.
Grantchester on PBS
Monk
Psych is by far my favorite. It was really clever and all the 80s references were a hoot.
Monk with Tony Shalhoub is a favorite.
Love detective stories! For pure fun I’ve gotta go with Poker Face! On the sillier side I’ll mention Only Murders in the Building because Steve Martin and Martin Short are brilliant at comedy, if not solving crime. And Selena Gomez holds her own with those masters.
For serious crime drama I have to go with Broadchurch and the original Prime Suspect.
For fun and a twisty good time I loved Poker Face! For supreme silliness – not exactly a detective show – I loved Only Murders in the Building. Steve Martin and Martin Short are masters of comedy, if not of crime solving. (and Selena Gomez holds her own with these two!)
For masters of acting you can’t get better than Broadchurch and the original Prime Suspect.
Midsummer Murders!!!
Mine will always be Murder She Wrote, it signaled a quiet end to the week and lots of knitting.
Perry Mason!
I love the genre but River, Bosch and Broadchurch are among the favorites. Gosh almost forgot the scandi noir FORTITUDE – combo crime mystery and sci fi nightmare. Yeehaw!
Vera
Hatheway, Inspector Lewis’s sidekick.
The Closer is my all time favorite mystery series!
I’m currently rewatching The Mentalist. Loved White Collar and was so bummed when it ended! Also, Bones, and Rizzoli and Isles – haven’t watched those in forever!
LOVE Vera !!
Original young columbo
Enola Holmes, if a movie series counts. She’s plucky!
I truly love them all!! If I have to pick…. NCIS, Columbo, Matlock, Woman’s Murder Club, CSI…. and on and on and on!
Foyle’s war, NCIS, magpie murders…
Monk! I loved the OCD detective. I was so sad when it ended…
My daughter and I enjoyed watching Castle together. It was one of the few things we did together (she was a teen).
Just for fun: I always say to her, “Who loves you, baby” and she says me – and some bald man she can never recall the name of.
Rosemary & Thyme – dated, but lovely scenery and cozy whodunits
Vera – from BBC
The Coroner, on Britbox!