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It's set in 1953/4 according to information given in the shows. Elizabeth is on the throne and Churchill is PM.
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It's set in 1953/4 according to information given in the shows. Elizabeth is on the throne and Churchill is PM.
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I've just been catching up on series 1. I'd forgotten just how bad a policeman Valentine is. How the heck did he become a detective? He couldn't detect the nose on his face while looking in a mirror.
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Only just started watching this and it has fast become a guilty pleasure.
I love the silly bits, when the inquisitive nun in the poisoning episode said they referred to one of the other nuns as Sister Abacus she and Father Brown laughed out loud while the Inspector just looked bemused. And the episode with the electrocuted mayor - Father Brown is in the pub and is asked if he played darts, when he says yes a number of locals leave their table very quickly. Silly, but it makes me smile. |
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I've just been catching up on series 1. I'd forgotten just how bad a policeman Valentine is. How the heck did he become a detective? He couldn't detect the nose on his face while looking in a mirror.
The same goes for just about any professional policeman in a show about an amateur detective |
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He has to be portrayed as a bad detective in order to show how good a detective Father Brown is.
The same goes for just about any professional policeman in a show about an amateur detective |
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WPC 56 from the same production team is repeated tomorrow. Set in the fifties, more realistic and a tad more violent. Only five episodes with five new ones the following week.
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WPC 56 from the same production team is repeated tomorrow. Set in the fifties, more realistic and a tad more violent. Only five episodes with five new ones the following week.
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With great excitement I got the complete Father Brown Mysteries from the library. Hats off to the people who adapted them for tv because they are as dull as ditchwater, and Father Brown himself doesn't stand out at all (and barely even appears really at least in the ones I've managed to plough my way through).
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With great excitement I got the complete Father Brown Mysteries from the library. Hats off to the people who adapted them for tv because they are as dull as ditchwater, and Father Brown himself doesn't stand out at all (and barely even appears really at least in the ones I've managed to plough my way through).
The original series from 1974 doesn't seem very exciting either (don't know if it's closer to the books). This new show, i think, just takes the idea of a priest investigating murders. It's sort of Cadfael in the 1950s! |
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The original series from 1974 doesn't seem very exciting either (don't know if it's closer to the books).
This new show, i think, just takes the idea of a priest investigating murders. It's sort of Cadfael in the 1950s! |
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The original series from 1974 doesn't seem very exciting either (don't know if it's closer to the books).
This new show, i think, just takes the idea of a priest investigating murders. It's sort of Cadfael in the 1950s! I thoroughly enjoyed the Cadfael books, but I've never seen the series (I must try and find them). Reading those books really got me into reading historical - preferably Mediaeval - crime books
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I love these adaptations.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Cadfael books, but I've never seen the series (I must try and find them). Reading those books really got me into reading historical - preferably Mediaeval - crime books ![]() This latest incarnation of Father Brown though isn't really a book adaptation but simply based around the G K Chesterton character. Personally I like both the More version and the more comedic new one too. BIB. It is the same for me. The Ellis Peters books opened up the world of historical crime fiction to me. |
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I love these adaptations.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Cadfael books, but I've never seen the series (I must try and find them). Reading those books really got me into reading historical - preferably Mediaeval - crime books ![]() On the subject of Mediaeval crime, I'd love to see an adaptation of Bernard Knight's Crowner John stories. I enjoyed the Father Brown mysteries though I could never get into the books. |
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On the subject of Mediaeval crime, I'd love to see an adaptation of Bernard Knight's Crowner John stories.
I heard that C J Sansom's Shardlake books were going to be made into a tv series but I don't know if it's going ahead. |
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I want to see Susanna Gregory's Matthew Bartholomew books on tv.
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I want to see Susanna Gregory's Matthew Bartholomew books on tv.
I heard that C J Sansom's Shardlake books were going to be made into a tv series but I don't know if it's going ahead. The first two Shardlake books have been adapted for radio. In Dissolution he was played by Jason Watkins and in Dark Fire Justin Salinger took over the gig. Getting back to Father Brown.... Season 3 started this week |
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Getting back to Father Brown.... Season 3 started this week
New season 3 thread if you want to join in |
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Father Brown WILL return!
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://www.bbc.co.uk/faqs/father_brown Rachel Flowerday @buskeroo Just to say that I can FINALLY confirm - as per BBC website - #FatherBrown series four is going ahead! Thanks for all your support... ![]() https://twitter.com/buskeroo/status/574876288487407616 |
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Father Brown WILL return!
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://www.bbc.co.uk/faqs/father_brown Rachel Flowerday @buskeroo Just to say that I can FINALLY confirm - as per BBC website - #FatherBrown series four is going ahead! Thanks for all your support... ![]() https://twitter.com/buskeroo/status/574876288487407616 That's great news thankyou.
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For anyone interested, Alibi are repeating series one again starting on Monday night (1st June) 9pm. Looking at the tv schedule on the Sky listings it says episode two, not sure if the first episode has been on already but the voice over said it was starting on Monday. Not sure why they're skipping the first episode.
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For anyone interested, Alibi are repeating series one again starting on Monday night (1st June) 9pm. Looking at the tv schedule on the Sky listings it says episode two, not sure if the first episode has been on already but the voice over said it was starting on Monday. Not sure why they're skipping the first episode.
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Bumping thread.
Brand new series starting Monday 4th Jan at 01:45pm, daily. |
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Bumping thread.
Brand new series starting Monday 4th Jan at 01:45pm, daily. Quote:
Thanks for the heads up! Father Brown should be in primetime anyway!
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I only get to see this on Mondays (my only free day) and then I miss it the rest of the week. Yes it should be prime-time, or at least tea-time/early evening. Easily a worthy replacement for the nth f ****ing repeat of Flog It.
I think it will be on iPlayer if you have access to that, for the other episodes. For those watching it when broadcast, please note the earlier transmission time of 01:45pm. |
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