worst depiction of Britain in a us Tv series

[madeleymade]

Anyone ever see Columbo: Dagger of the Mind? It's usually cited as the worst episode by British people, because it is set in London. What are yer thoughts?

[platostotal]

Originally Posted by madeleymade

Anyone ever see Columbo: Dagger of the Mind? It's usually cited as the worst episode by British people, because it is set in London. What are yer thoughts?

Yep, it's set mostly in a theatre(doing Shakespeare of course, as there are no other British playwrights) but it's still COLUMBO so it's pretty good, but you do expect a chimney-sweep to show up... guvner.

[madeleymade]

I agree, any other similar episodes of uas tv detective shows you rememeber?

[platostotal]

A 2 part BEWITCHED was set at Loch Ness, so long ago I don't remember much, BATMAN also had a 2 parter set in 'Londinium' but that was campy fun. There's bound to be a lot more that will come to me.

[madeleymade]

Oh, yes Lord Phogg and Glynis Johns as Lady Peasoup! Any more?

[platostotal]

Not sure but didn't STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION do a Sherlock Holmes episode, and the Irish copped it again in SONS OF ANARCHY, the club travel to Ireland and get treated to lots of "oi seen wate yuse air dooing" type dialogue, and it's apparently full of I.RA. priests trading babies. Post 9/11 it's not so common to see U.S. tv treat Irish terrorists remotely sympathetically anymore.

[madeleymade]

I remember the last original Columbo, the Conspirators with Clive Revill as an Irish folk singer who used to be an IRA member. Actually, doesn't sound that far fetched, knowing how many folk songs are about 1916 and Michael Collins and the original IRA and the bloody English who stole our people and langauge and so on...
A nice contrast between the Irish Americans and the Italian American Columbo.

[madeleymade]

any more

[Bringer Of Funerals]

Watch the straight to dvd film THE EVIL BENEATH LOCH NESS where they try to do a Scottish accent - brilliant comedy lol

[James Morton]

Originally Posted by madeleymade

I remember the last original Columbo, the Conspirators with Clive Revill as an Irish folk singer who used to be an IRA member. Actually, doesn't sound that far fetched, knowing how many folk songs are about 1916 and Michael Collins and the original IRA and the bloody English who stole our people and langauge and so on...
A nice contrast between the Irish Americans and the Italian American Columbo.

I remember that episode
Ourselves Alone was written in the book, meaning Sinn Fein
and something to do with a flag on the ship which Columbo was after that gave Revill's character as the killer