{"id":162,"date":"2009-10-16T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-10-17T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T16:05:05","slug":"somebodys-anniversary-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/somebodys-anniversary-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody&#8217;s Got an Anniversary Coming Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 2010 will be special. It&#8217;s the anniversary of a beloved detective.\u00a0 In September of 1910, G.K. Chesterton wrote a short story that appeared in the Story Teller. The story featured an unassuming priest who had a knack for solving crimes. And so was born, Father Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Father Brown made more than 50 appearances in short stories, which were complied into five seperate books. Father Brown has been in movies, and with a greater staying power than his contempories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For a detective franchise to turn 100 is an extraordinary thing. The only other detective I know of who has been around longer has been Brown&#8217;s fictional countryman Sherlock Holmes.<\/p>\n<p>You can rest assured that next year, we will celebrate the first appearance of Father Brown. Ideally, it&#8217;d be in September, but there are two episodes of the Old Time Radio <em>Adventures of Father Brown<\/em> that starred Karl Swenson and we will work these episodes in to our programming sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p>Father Brown was the first of many clerical detectives. This site\u00a0has a <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/philipg\/detectives\/contents.html\">ponderous list of clergy detectives<\/a>, most of which would get into some interesting theological discussions with the good padre. However, they all owe their very existence to the first clergyman of detective fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Watching this video clip of Father Brown, his influence as the unassuming albeit brilliant detective is clear. Lieutenant Columbo owes quite a bit to Father Brown.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P-BNonixFao&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2010 will be special. It&#8217;s the anniversary of a beloved detective.\u00a0 In September of 1910, G.K. Chesterton wrote a short story that appeared in the Story Teller. 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