Masterpiece Mystery! will start airing Season 3 of Inspector Lewis – beginning this Sunday (tomorrow) night on your local PBS station. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Inspector Lewis, he used to be Inspector Morse’s side-kick. The Inspector Lewis 90-minute episodes are inspired by Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse mystery books. Counter Culture Blues is a 2008 ITV production. (This is its first airing in the USA.)
With the passing of John Thaw (Inspector Morse), we would have understood if the production of these wonderful television movie episodes had stopped. I am so glad ITV decided to continue making these really good episodes based on Colin Dexter‘s Inspector Morse mystery books.
Instead of having Inspector Morse at the helm of the investigations, Morse’s sergeant has been promoted, and given a side-kick of his own. Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are very convincing as Inspector Lewis and Detective Sergeant Hathaway. Lewis is a working-class bloke while Hathaway is a Cambridge graduate, and very much like Lewis’s previous partner, Inspector Morse.
This particular episode boasts the truly versatile Joanna Lumley. Lumley has such a diverse repertoire >>> She was terrific as one of Roald Dahl’s terrible aunts in James and the Giant Peach, fabulous as the aging drug and alcohol laden hippie in Absolutely Fabulous, and touchingly desperate in A Rather English Marriage. All in all, I cannot wait to see what she does portraying a dead rock star who, perhaps wasn’t that dead…
Shirley says
Danna……it seems I always miss these PBS new Mystery Shows, I know its on Sunday nights, but what channel and time, please….Thank you……..smile.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Sorry, Shirley, but the best I can tell you is that Masterpiece Mystery! is on the PBS station in your area, and it probably airs at 8:00 PM… Since all of the Public Broadcasting Service stations vary from location to location, I can’t be sure of your particular details…
asa says
The plot of following clues to a King Charles Treasure which was left while he was pursured by Cromwell was used in a prior mystery. In the earlier version, a servant, who has been trying to find the loot gets trapped where the treasure is hidden and has starved to death there. The detective(s) find the treasure by following clues…including calculating for a tree that was cut down. Does any one out there remember this story?
Danna - cozy mystery list says
asa,
I want to say it was a Sherlock Holmes show… Let me think about it for a while. I remember that there was a lot of calculating the angles, the tree’s growth, ETC… I just caan’t place who the sleuth was. The maid was involved, but the servant only needed her to help him raise the heavy cellar/trap door… which she then… (I won’t give away the ending…)