TV detectives

[Serial_Apologist]

Llandoger Trow, anyone?

Ooo aaaah!

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandoger_Trow

[Northender]

Filmed (at least in part) in the towns in which I first saw the light of day (and spent the first 18 years of my life)! There's one episode where her husband, Robert (played by Derek Benfield) is employed as a supermarket trolley stacker - outside the very supermarket where I bought my first LP of the Emperor Concerto (the one Joseph Cooper controversially chose on BaL) and Previn's Gershwin Concerto and Rhapsody in Mauve (the cheap ink had run by the time I got home).

Eeeeyeck; I feel riit dooditherin!

Gosh, that takes me back! Are you referring to the programme in which he kept referring to 'Pianist X', and the conductor turned out to be Deutsche Grammophon's studio director Otto Gerdes - or am I conflating two different events from the same era?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Gosh, that takes me back! Are you referring to the programme in which he kept referring to 'Pianist X', and the conductor turned out to be Deutsche Grammophon's studio director Otto Gerdes - or am I conflating two different events from the same era?

I think the Gerdes story is another one. The LP I bought was this one:

http://www.musicstack.com/item/26146887

... for the princely sum of 50p!

And, for the life of me, I can't remember the soloist's name! (Elisabeth something???)

EDIT: Hanae Nakajima! (And Rato Tschupp does/did exist:

http://www.operacollectors.com/servl...S+-+Conductors

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Lawrence Fox as Hathaway is rather good. tahe roles are reversed in Lewis. the side-kick has become the intellectual.

[VodkaDilc]

Lawrence Fox as Hathaway is rather good. tahe roles are reversed in Lewis. the side-kick has become the intellectual.

Not much effort to be more of an intellectual than Lewis. I like Hathaway - lots of character flaws hinted at, but never quite spelled out!

[amateur51]

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
Ken Stott as Rebus
Agree with Rumpole about Maigret - would Roger Allam "do"?
Carmichael as LPW
Marsden as Dagliesh
Brett as Sherlock and to upset a few
Branagh as Wallender.

Great list anton - Allam would certainly 'do' but I want to create something outstanding for him

There are some on here who'll misconstrue that, I just know it

[Serial_Apologist]

Can't remember who did Chief Inspector Lockheart of the Yard in the late 50s TV (Edgar Lustgarten?) series "No Hiding Place" - satirised in Private Eye as Knacker of the Yard. That was my gateway to adult evening viewing - loved all those pipe-smoking trilbies, and the stiff Britishness which makes people smile today, but was in fact just as smileworthy back then.

[amateur51]

Can't remember who did Chief Inspector Lockheart of the Yard in the late 50s TV (Edgar Lustgarten?) series "No Hiding Place" - satirised in Private Eye as Knacker of the Yard. That was my gateway to adult evening viewing - loved all those pipe-smoking trilbies, and the stiff Britishness which makes people smile today, but was in fact just as smileworthy back then.

That was Raymond Francis

I picked up and repeated the line "You tell those blackballing bastards that" from an episiode & my father gave me a good talking to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_rXXSp5N-c

Great music - pity about the scripts. You could tell that Eric Lander would never get promotion until .... he grew a decent moustache!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Baltimore:Life on the Street

one of the great series jlw .... impeccable ensemble and very gripping ... sprog no 1 and i were gripped every monday evening then gridiron ... we used to think that life did not get much better ... on tv any way ...

[Northender]

I think the Gerdes story is another one. The LP I bought was this one:

http://www.musicstack.com/item/26146887

... for the princely sum of 50p!

And, for the life of me, I can't remember the soloist's name! (Elisabeth something???)

EDIT: Hanae Nakajima! (And Rato Tschupp does/did exist:

http://www.operacollectors.com/servl...S+-+Conductors

It's all coming back to me now ... Otto Gerdes conducted the Dvorak New World Symphony on the old Heliodor label.
Amazing how this Forum works - we seem to have moved prestissimo from TV detectives to what we might call 'oddball' recordings.