Month: November 2013

EP1106: The Line Up: The Karger Cops a Clinker Case

William Johnstone

Guthrie and Karger search for a burglar and learn the hard way that a witness who thought the burglar was carrying a gun was right.

Original Air Date: August 5, 1952

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EP1105: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Matter of the Medium Well Done, Part Five and Bella Donna was a Poison

Bob Bailey

Johnny closes in on the fraudulent medium and her motive.

Original Air Date: May 18, 1956

A TV cop finds a real life murder mystery on his hand.

Original Air Date: 1958

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EP1104: Nick Carter: Death after the Dark

Lon Clark

A young woman is killed and all the blood is drained from her body. Is this the work of vampires?

Original Air Date: February 19, 1944

An ex-con cabby comes to Nick for help when he finds one of his passengers murdered in the back of his cab.

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EP1103: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Matter of the Medium Well Done, Part Three and Four

Bob Bailey
Johnny gathers more information to prepare to confront a medium who has persuaded a wealthy young woman to change her insurance.

Original Air Dates: May 16 and 17, 1956

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EP1102: Amazing Mr. Malone: Never Judge a Book By Its Cover

George Petrie

A shady mob boss hires a private detective to find a missing woman. The detective falls in love with her and then she’s murdered and his wife is the police’s prime suspect.

Original Air Date: July 6, 1951

 

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EP1101: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Matter of the Medium Well-done, Part One and Two

Bob Bailey

Johnny is brought in when an insurance agent because afraid that a young policyholder is in danger when she changes her beneficiary to a medium

Original Air Dates: May 14 and 15, 1956

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EP1100s: Cavalcade of America: The School for Men

Gregory Peck
A vacation police officer helps his brother (who is a police officer in another town) catch a serial killer using skills acquired in an FBI training school.

Original Air Date: May 5, 1947

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EP1100: The Line Up: The Charles Crocked Clobbering Case

William Johnstone

Guthrie investigates a murder of a man who’d been on a date.

Original Air Date: July 29, 1952

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Telefilm Review: The Hollow

This is the final film in the ninth series of Poirot, originally broadcast in 2004.

In, “The Hollow” Poirot is staying at a cottage in the country. After being invited for a return visit, Poirot finds a doctor dead and his wife holding a gun. The doctor’s secret mistress tells the wife to thrown the gun to the water which in the end doesn’t matter as it’s not the murder weapon.

Poirot seeks to untangle the truth of the very complicated relationships but runs into resistance and new suspects at every stage.

Overall, I thought this was a solid production and it rose above the typical mystery of its sort where the characters of wife and the other woman can be cardboard cutouts. The husband is really just a very selfish person in his private life with the only thing coloring that is his more noble professional efforts as a doctor. However, both the wife (played by Gerda Christo) and the mistress (played by Megan Dodds) were fully fleshed out as complex and fully developed characters. The interaction between the mistress and Poirot was particularly well done. It was also a thrill to see Edward Harwicke (Watson from the Grenada Sherlock Holmes series) in it.

I had two complaints about this. First was the ending which featured Poirot allowing the murderer to walk away and get something after their identity has been revealed based on their promise not to go anywhere and tragedy results. It really is out of character not that Christie’s original ending would have worked but they had to come up with something better. Also they added in a sex scene that while not r-rated and not even showing actual flash was just unnecessarily gratuitous and titillating which doesn’t suit this series at all.

Overall, despite these flaws, The Hollow is a great adaptation of a book that’s not usually considered one of Christie’s best.

Rating: 4.25 out of 5.0

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EP1099: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Silver Blue Matter, Part Five and Dr. Tim Detective: The Man from Hiroshima

Bob Bailey

Johnny knows who’s behind the theft and it’ll break a woman’s heart.

Original Air Date: May 11, 1956

What’s spoiling Dr. Tim’s X-ray films?

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP1098: Nick Carter: The Missing Harold Ascort

Lon Clark

Nick investigates a kidnapping where the kidnappers have a personal score to settle with Nick.

Original Air Date: February 12, 1944

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EP1097: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Silver Blue Matter, Parts Three and Four

Bob Bailey
Johnny’s investigations uncovers more information on a young man in a slum with more heartbreak for his sister.

Original Air Dates: May 9 and 10, 1956

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EP1096: Amazing Mr. Malone: Handsome is As Handsome Does

George Petrie
A woman comes to Malone to help and she needs it when she’s charged with the murder of her husband’s mistress.

Original Air Date: June 29, 1951

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EP1095: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Silver Blue Matter, Parts One and Two

Bob Bailey

Johnny investigates the theft of silver blue mink furs near a slum neighborhood where cooperation is hard to come by.

Original Air Dates: May 7 and 8, 1956

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EP1094: The Line Up: The Drinkler Kidnapping Case

William Johnstone

A businessman is kidnapped and held for ransom and the police must step in when his fight has a breakdown.

Original Air Date: July 22, 1952

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