Murder She Wrote.

oneweb

lol, I just have to comment on how dumb they make out the sheriff to be!
Jessica: maybe the blunt instrument was used to hit X over the head.
Sheriff (in a pensive fashion): Hmmm, you could be right. That may explain the wound. Cop1, cop2, get the area closed off (etc, etc...)

Webmonkey

Oh god that programme used to depress me on my boring saturdays when i was a child

Owenw

Originally posted by Webmonkey
Oh god that programme used to depress me on my boring saturdays when i was a child

And Matlock was even worse drivel
And that awful Know your Sport quiz

Think I'll stop now and crawl into the corner

Jam

I often wonder how come noone ever suspected her, everywhere she goes there's a murder..

oneweb

Originally posted by Jam
I often wonder how come noone ever suspected her, everywhere she goes there's a murder..

Excellent point! lmfao

ixoy

Originally posted by Jam
I often wonder how come noone ever suspected her, everywhere she goes there's a murder..

And on a simliar vein of trotting out the old Murder-She-Wrote jokes... can you imagine being her friend and hearing she's coming to visit? You'd be like "Ah FU*K", and go off and just order your damned coffin because you're dead pal!

BuffyBot

Ah yes, back to by unemployed-watching-daytime-TV days and guessing whodunnit cos it was that or Today with Des and Mel (much worse drivel).

Chewing gum for the eyes and it kept me quite on a Sunday evening as a child when I used be plonked in front of my grandparents 2 channel telly and made watch it to keep quiet os for once by parents could actually talk while we visited

Imposter

A station in germany are still showing it. (Super RTL iirc)
Sometimes they go mad and put 2 shows on together, or maybe it just seems like it's going on forever.

But there its so cleverly titled "Murder is her Hobby" (Mord ist ihr Hobby).

Busy Hands

Of course they managed to get in the obligitory Oirish episode of Murder She Wrote. This was all the rage in the 80's when we were portrayed as a backward little straw chewin' country. These shows were great news for the likes of Eamonn Morrissey & David Kelly of course, who managed to appear in pretty much all of them, propagating the stereotype while lining their traitorous pockets!

BuffyBot

Originally posted by Busy Hands
Of course they managed to get in the obligitory Oirish episode of Murder She Wrote. This was all the rage in the 80's when we were portrayed as a backward little straw chewin' country. These shows were great news for the likes of Eamonn Morrissey & David Kelly of course, who managed to appear in pretty much all of them, propagating the stereotype while lining their traitorous pockets!

To make your day Busy Murder She Wrote, The Celctic Riddle.

Yup, they've made 4 TV movies since the series was cancelled

Elmo

Ya god be with the days

Murder She Wrote
Matlock
Jack And The Fat Man
McGuiver
Hart To Hart

Ha yes great TV, They just don't make programs like the used to:D

I often wonder how come noone ever suspected her, everywhere she goes there's a murder..

I think she was in one or two of the episodes, but she got to clear her good name.

Owenw

Originally posted by Elmo
Ya god be with the days

Murder She Wrote
Matlock
Jack And The Fat Man
McGuiver
Hart To Hart

Ha yes great TV, They just don't make programs like the used to:D

Thx be to Allah!

Has anyone seen how bad Knight Rider looks nowadays! It was on Bravo during the summer and I had to turn it off after 5 mins! Hasslehoff in plaid shirt and tight jeans and that 80's hairstyle made me want to wretch! :eek:
And then there's the gay car... "Look out behind you Michael!"
OMG!

Webmonkey

hehe I used Love Knight Rider and Air Wolf but now i cannot put up with them, saw them on there one time lately.

They used make me feel so confident in myself and watching Air Wolf made me wanting to grow up flying a helicopter ....
Oh the memories......and oh yes no1 can forget the A-Team

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Imposter
A station in germany are still showing it. (Super RTL iirc)

shown on RTÉ and BBC1 as well in the afternoon

surprised Barnaby Jones hasnt been mentioned yet. all the lunch times that was shown

Cork

I was only in the shopping centre last week - a girl had a "murder she whote" phone tune.

It was sort of cool.

Murder She Wrote was not all that bad. It revived the Murder Mystery TV genre.

Sort of Ageta Christe for the 80's.

JB Fletcher is a very good actress. The Manchurian Canidate is one great film.

Robbo

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
shown on RTÉ and BBC1 as well in the afternoon

surprised Barnaby Jones hasnt been mentioned yet. all the lunch times that was shown

Diagnosis Murder is far superior...

AcEy

I think she murders the people herself, its a little
convinient the way a previously innocent village
gets damned with her imminent approach.

Capt'n Midnight

Sorry but I've seen Magret Rutherford playing the part so I can't stand MSW.

And if you were a friend of the Harts and they offered to call over - you'd be dead or doing time within a week.

I just don't get this fasination for killing people, considering the level it is aimed it ... I much prefer the Ellery Queen type mysteries.

Some time I'll dig up a bit from Flann O'Brien (the best of Myles) must be about 60 years old by now - excellent skit on detective stories..

aptappellative

I have to say, I LOVE watching Murder She Wrote! I know it's badly written and old fashioned but it's just soooo enjoyable! Got into a terrible habit of watching it every week day during the summer, and I do get the piss taken out of me, but there's just something about Jessica Fletcher! She's great! But I did have the misfortune of seeing one or the feature length film versions which got me all excited untill it turned out to be crap!(what a surprise says you) It was very boring and far too long, and Jessica really wasn't looking her best. But still, all hail Mrs Fletcher!:D

smiaras

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Elmo

bedknobbs and bromsticks.

she's is in lots of movies.

But I think you'll find your right.

El Marco

Originally posted by smiaras
Isn't she the weirdest looking bird around though? I'd love to see what she looked like when she was younger cause she looks like shes been a double brown bag girl all her life

Quite the catch, I must say.

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smiaras

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Kai

Ive seen a few episodes of it there during the summer. I can tell 90% of the time who the killer is half way through. At some point she always asks "Wheres X?" and god damn it if X isnt the down right dirty murdering swine all the time.
i won a 5 quid bet on it once actually. oh the good times.

byte

Can't say I've ever liked it. Am I right in thinking it has moved from ITV to BBC1?

Mossy Monk

you would be absolutely correct in your thinking

i never knew ITV showed it

celticfc

I've never been a big "Murder she wrote" fan myself either.
I much prefer some '60's & '70's crime shows like Columbo, Petrocelli, Ironside, Quincy, Mission Impossible, Cannon & a few others that just aren't coming to me ATM.

BTW, I can remember when it used to always be on ITV. I think it moved to the BBC a year or 2 back & Quincy moved from BBC to ITV at about the same time.

byte

Yeah, Quincy and Columbo I would watch if there was nothing else on. I did watch Quincy quite a bit when it was on BBC1 some years ago.

Oswald Osbourne

Originally posted by smiaras
Isn't she the weirdest looking bird around though? I'd love to see what she looked like when she was younger cause she looks like shes been a double brown bag girl all her life

No arguements here!

http://us.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1276/Mptv/1276/6019-0008.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0037120

That was her when she was around 18 in the movie 'National Velvet'. Ironically (and if my memory of that film serves me) she was meant to be the goodlooking character in the film.

Still, on the bright side at least we now know what Christina Ricci's gonna look like in 60 years time.

sceptre

Originally posted by smiaras
I'd love to see what she looked like when she was younger cause she looks like shes been a double brown bag girl all her life

She has. She had a small role in Gaslight (1944) when she must have been about 20 and she didn't really look any better. Moving on, in 1956 they cast her as princess Gwendolyn in Danny Kaye's The Court Jester*. She looked as old in 1956 as she did in 1986.


everyone remembers The Court Jester. Kaye as the bungling jester, Basil Rathborne as the evil baddie, Glynis Johns looking doable for once in her life (despite the annoying voice) and the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace and and the flagon with the dragon. One of them (who knows, who cares) contains the brew that is true

joseph brand

ha ha ha ah ha haahhh, she looks like the Dad in Mary Poppins, (also starred in Herbie).

Murder she wrote, should have been renamed to:

Depression she caused.

Watching it on a Sunday made think the world was horrible, and crimes so easy to solve!

Should only be shown in old folks homes, cheer them up, "least we don't look as bad as her".

Owenw

Originally posted by joseph brand
Should only be shown in old folks homes, cheer them up, "least we don't look as bad as her".

The shock of changing from Matlock to Murder She Wrote would surely be too much for the likes of Grandpa Simpson

George White

BuffyBot wrote: »

To make your day Busy Murder She Wrote, The Celctic Riddle.

Yup, they've made 4 TV movies since the series was cancelled

Morrissey and Kelly never appeared in MSW. They were filmed in California. The ones you think of are in Remington Steele, which had people like Frank Kelly in them.

Instead, you had in MSW, the likes of Rod Taylor and Martin "Countdown" Jarvis getting their larynxes around a Cork accent. And Fionnula Flanagan playing the same character with a different name, every episode....

George White

sceptre wrote: »

She has. She had a small role in Gaslight (1944) when she must have been about 20 and she didn't really look any better. Moving on, in 1956 they cast her as princess Gwendolyn in Danny Kaye's The Court Jester*. She looked as old in 1956 as she did in 1986.


everyone remembers The Court Jester. Kaye as the bungling jester, Basil Rathborne as the evil baddie, Glynis Johns looking doable for once in her life (despite the annoying voice) and the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace and and the flagon with the dragon. One of them (who knows, who cares) contains the brew that is true

I know someone who genuinely has a ginourmous crush on the 19y/o Lansbury in Gaslight. She seemed to age twenty years in five years. Between COurt Jester and Blue Hawaii/Manchurian Candidate, playing Elvis and Laurence Harvey's mums when she was 10 and 4 years older respectively.

Elmo

I hope the mods don't close the 10 year old thread after all MSW gets repeat so often.

Welsh Megaman

A 10-and-a-half-years thread bump!

:eek:

Is that a boards record?

Angela Lansbury turned 110 around that time :pac:

grey_so_what

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Angela Lansbury turned 110 around that time :pac:

I won't hear a bad word about Angela....Isn't she alive and well and living in West Cork for years??....:)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001450/awards

Check her out in "The picture of Dorian Gray"....fine looking lady!...:) (Hurd Hatfield did a cameo in an episode of MSW btw!)

brian_t

The "A killing in Cork" episode is on next Monday on ITV3 at 7pm.

Especially for the Bank Holliday no doubt