PaladinNites   Posted at 2020-02-04 20:06:22(254Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Cozy Mystery Cafe offers this from Australia a most unique detective show.The setting, acting, scripts add up to a fascinating TV series. Singing, dancing, romance, mystery, drama -- it's all here. The Devil is in the details; They spent a million dollars per episode, and brother it shows. The sets, clothes, cars, trains, airplanes - 1920's recreated with beautiful cinematography  Based on author Kerry Greenwood's historical mystery novels it stars; Essie Davis, as Phryne Fisher a glamorous private detective in 1920s Melbourne. Known for her sharp wit and pearl-handled pistol, which she uses to fight injustice in Melbourne during the 1920s. The glamorous sleuth makes her way through the city's alleyways and jazz clubs while she fights crime as part of a larger personal mission. Nathan Page as Detective Inspector John "Jack" Robinson, a police detective who works reluctantly with Miss Fisher. Ashleigh Cummings as Dorothy "Dot" Williams, Miss Fisher's paid companion. Hugo Johnstone-Burt as Constable Hugh Collins, Inspector Robinson's right-hand man. Richard Bligh as Mr. Butler, Miss Fisher's loyal butler, an excellent household manager who provides good advice when needed, and a veteran of the Australian Imperial Force who can put up a fight if required to. Three series to date, with a feature film due out this year. Episodes; "Cocaine Blues" In the 1920s, Miss Phryne Fisher returns to Melbourne after several years abroad in the Great War. Shortly after her arrival, she is invited to a luncheon with John and Lydia Andrews, as well as her Aunt Prudence. She arrives at the Andrews' manor only to learn that John was found dead that morning on the bathroom floor. Lydia is quite shaken and has no idea what has happened. The police suspect foul play and it is later revealed that John was poisoned with arsenic. Phryne learns from Lydia's maid, Dorothy "Dot" Williams, that a housemaid named Alice Hartley recently left the Andrews' employment - a vital clue which soon leads to a cocaine smuggling ring and an illegal abortionist, known as "Butcher George". "Murder on the Ballarat Train" Phryne and Dot are travelling by train to Ballarat, so Phryne can collect her new Hispano-Suiza car. However, during the journey comes, an unconscious woman drugged with a chloroform-soaked cloth. A body hanging from a water tower where the Ballarat Train had earlier stopped. Phryne analyzes the clues to try and discover who the murderer is. "The Green Mill Murder" While Phryne is at the Green Mill dance hall, a man is murdered and her dance partner becomes a suspect. Phryne must use all her skills, including her ability to fly a plane, to uncover a trail of blackmail and murder. "Death at Victoria Dock" Phryne witnesses a shooting at the docks in the middle of a strike. Time to learn a lot about Latvians. "Raisins and Almonds" A young man, is found dead at the Eastern Market, Phryne is plunged into the diverse worlds of Jewish politics, the hope of a Zionist State, alchemy, and poison. A formula written in ink that appears only when heat is applied to the page; A favorite poem called Raisins and Almonds; the find of aconite, a fatal poison, in the binding of the book with the poem; and an idea to make rubber. "Ruddy Gore" At a gala performance of Ruddygore, Phryne meets the gorgeous Lin Chung, who has rescued the theatre's leading man from some thugs in a dark alley. But there is more than meets the eye here. "Murder in Montparnasse" The episode opens with a hit and run killing. An artist who died a mysterious death.The French police have reopened the case and we learn some history of Miss Fisher's time away. "Away with the Fairies" The editor of a ladies' magazine is murdered, a dear friend of Phryne's. The case has roots in WWI, and that photograph. "Queen of the Flowers" Phryne is teaching a manners class to a group of disadvantaged girls. But then one of them washes up dead on the beach. "Death by Miss Adventure" A clothing factory worker named Daisy is killed by the factory equipment. Hints of illegal overtime work. Roderick Gaskin, owner of the factory, dies and falls dramatically from an upper floor, landing in front of Dot. His death proves due to bleach added to the vial of digitalis, his heart medicine. Miss Fisher gets a letter from Murdock Foyle serial killer, the man who killed her sister, now in prison, promising to tell Phryne what happened to Janey if Phryne gets him out of jail. "Blood and Circuses" Phyrne goes undercover at the circus to investigate the death of Miss Christopher, a magician's assistant and a hermaphrodite. Phryne is the beautiful woman who stands at the board while the expert throws knives around her on the board. While examining the box used for the disappearing woman trick, she recalls that she watched that trick, totally mesmerised by it, when her sister Janey disappeared. The strongman Samson, really Seth, remembers the young Phryne from when he let her and her sister sneak in, and is her guide into the circus. Murdoch Foyle escapes prison as part of a plot to come after Phryne. "Murder in the Dark" Phryne investigates when a member of her aunt's staff is murdered two days before the engagement party for one of Phryne's cousins. Meanwhile, Dot pursues hints that Murdock Foyle is still alive. "King Memses' Curse" Phryne enters a world of Ancient Egyptian-inspired mysticism and murder, where Foyle remains at large and dangerous. Jack is ambushed and he awakens bound and gagged in an underground tomb. Phryne continues to follow the trail of clues and to investigate Foyle. He seems to always be one step ahead of her. She ends up meeting an array of booby traps set up by him on the way. Phryne has no idea Jack is tied up. How will the two ever stop Foyle when he is so clever? Series 2 "Murder Most Scandalous" When Deputy Commissioner George Sanderson, Jack's ex-father-in-law, is implicated in the murder of a gentlemen's club hostess. Meanwhile, Phryne tries to perfect her fan dance, so she can go undercover at a gentleman's club run by Madam Lyon. "Death Comes Knocking" Aunt Prudence asks famous psychic Mrs Bolkonsky to contact her dead godson, Roland, leaving Phryne to believe something is amiss. Her friend Freddy Ashmead cannot remember what happened the day Roland died, while a grave digger is murdered when someone tries to break into Roland's grave. "Dead Man's Chest" Phryne, Aunt Prudence, Jane and Dot travel to the seaside town of Queenscliff to stay with Prudence's old friend, Hilly McNaster. Phryne is intrigued when Hilly's son, Gerald, reveals that their holiday mansion has been burgled and two of her staff have gone missing. Then a body is later found on the beach. "Deadweight" Attending a sporting event Phryne and Dot end up investigateing the murder of a boxer. "Murder A La Mode" Phryne and Dot are trying on clothes at the House of Fleuri when the body of Frances Wilde, the main investor in the business, is found on the premises shortly after her murder, with one expensive pearl in her spilled blood. The short list of suspects includes the victim's much younger husband, Madame Fleuri, the seamstress Violet, and Genevieve, the House model. The list of suspects is shortened urther when Violet is later found dead. At an afternoon at a spa to catch up on local gossip, Phryne and the police uncover a string of jewel thefts in Melbourne and also in Sydney. Phryne drops hints at Fleuri's that she will be away for the weekend, leaving her expensive emerald necklace at home. The bait is cast, will anyone bite? "Marked For Murder" When the football team captain is found dead, hanging with the opposing team's scarf around his neck, both Phryne and Jack are asked to investigate, which is complicated by the presence of Jack's ex-wife. "Blood At The Wheel" When Gertrude "Gerty" Haynes (played by Annie Stanford) is found dead behind the wheel of her racing car, Jack initially believes that the death was accidental. This suggestion is rejected by Phryne and Gertrude's brother Claude, a fellow racer. Their belief that there is some other explanation for Gerty's death is later supported by post-mortem results which indicate that she was strangled. Phryne and Dot immerse themselves in the world of race car driving to uncover the truth. "The Blood of Juana the Mad" Dr. Mac asks Phryne and Jack to work together when the body of Professor Katz turns up in an anatomy lecture. While trying to solve the murder, Phryne and Jack also investigate the disappearance of a valuable manuscript. "Framed For Murder" When the lead actor for a film that Phryne is backing is found dead, she is asked to investigate. "Death On The Vine" Phryne and Dot are asked to investigate mysterious photos by the owner of a vineyard; when they arrive, they find their client is dead, in a town full of people who do not want them to investigate, harming them at every turn. When the client's brother tries to expedite the burning of the body, Phryne calls Detective Robinson for aid. Solving the murder uncovers the earlier murder of the client’s father, in the painful aftermath of the Great War. "Dead Air" When a radio presenter is murdered, Phryne is asked to investigate, and meets a familiar face - Jack - at the radio station. Jack is investigating Undercover why so many Radio stations had accidents after receiving threats. "Unnatural Habits" Dot and Hugh find a girl's body floating in the river, which brings them and Phryne to discover a human trafficking ring. "Murder Under the Mistletoe" Dot, Mac, Phryne and Aunt Prudence travel to the Australian Alps for a skiing vacation and to celebrate Christmas in July, and because Prudence wants to sell off the family interest in the closed gold mine. Soon they find the other guests, and themselves, being targeted by a mysterious murderer. Series 3 "Death Defying Feats" A magician's assistant, Pearl, is beheaded on stage after someone tampered with the trick guillotine at the MacKenzie magic show. To flush out the murderer of Pearl, Phryne agrees to perform in the mermaid's water tank trick. "Murder & the Maiden" A woman is found dead near a RAAF base, while Phryne is investigating claims of sabotage and a missing officer for the Air Force. Autopsy shows the woman died of the poison ricin in cigarettes, a death over several days. Her identity is unknown, until her clothes lead to the seamstress who made them, working at a local club where immigrant Russians meet. The air force officer flew with Phryne during the war, and saved her life once, which creates tensions with Jack Robinson. The rumours at the base were that one now-missing officer was having a homosexual affair with another officer. After Hugh suggests a disused sentry box on the base as the door which might be unlocked by the key found with the woman's body, he and Robinson find military clothes discarded there, leading to the notion that the dead woman had worn that uniform. "Murder & Mozzarella" Nonna Louisa, the chef at an excellent restaurant, is strangled. Phryne and Jack look at two feuding restaurants for the murderer. The Camorra, a ruthless Italian gang, is involved. Autopsy of Louisa reveals that she died from eating poisonous mushrooms, but not the ones she used in the dish she was cooking, but those in her breakfast. The grandparents in each family running the two restaurants came from the same village in Italy, and many in the two families fall in love with the wrong person, per family expectations, feeding a feud. "Blood & Money" Phryne investigates the world of street urchins when a young boy, Paddy, hires her to find his missing brother Ned. Two homeless boys are found murdered, boys in the same street gang. The Ladies Auxiliary of the hospital is deciding on which projects to fund; one doctor is advancing ways to help men injured in the war. A veteran under treatment for burns all over his body is then found dead from too much morphine. His latest skin graft did not take, putting him in great pain. Phryne figures out that the skin grafts are coming from someone else, as the veteran's body is totally burned. The grafts may be coming from the boys. "Death & Hysteria" Phryne's Aunt Prudence opens her home to the psychiatrist Dr Haydon Samuels and allows him to conduct his sanatorium for 'hysterical', wealthy women. Patient Betsey Cohen is found murdered by electrocution in her room. Aunt Prudence calls the police and then Phryne, who arrives with Dot. Phyrnne finds an electric device, a percussor, made by Dr Perkins in the conservatory; its wires had been tampered with, explaining Betsey Cohen's death. But there is a dark closet yet to be opened "Death at the Grand" When hotel concierge Frank McNab falls to his death, the police find Phyrne's bag and her father at the center of the murder. Might be some things Phyrne's father failed to mention to her. "Game, Set & Murder" Phryne hosts a tennis tournament to raise money for female tennis players at her Aunt Prudence's mansion. Belinda Rosewell, the practice partner of Constance, a rising tennis star, dies at the start of the tournament. Belinda was killed by the bite of a spider, in her shoe. The murder investigation reveals Phryne's hidden fear; she cannot tolerate spiders. "Death Do Us Part" When a prize-winning scientist, Quentin, is found murdered on the same night the man intent on murdering Henry Fisher escapes police custody, Phryne and Dot work every step with Jack Robinson and Hugh. Dr Mac's autopsy reveals that the scientist was killed with polonium, a highly poisonous radioactive substance, put in his eye drops. Another contender for the scientific prize, Osman Ofendi is killed as he is phoning Miss Fisher to tell her where her father is being held, after he slipped out of her house. Series trailer; Best Paladin Last edited by RedBaron58 on 2020-02-04 20:21:26 | |
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| PLG1962Posted at 2020-02-26 03:06:39(251Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| I kinda didn't like this show as each episode was too short so there wasnt really enough time to expand on the mystery Did you know there was a film made which starts in Australia tomorrow, as i type this Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears as well as a spin off set in the 60's with her niece Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries | |
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| PaladinNitesPosted at 2020-02-26 03:20:47(251Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Yes I am waiting on that film to be release on Acorn. That "modern" Ms Fisher I made it thru only 2 episodes Best Paladin | |
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| PLG1962Posted at 2020-02-26 05:27:25(251Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Which is one more than I made through re the spin-off :P | |
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