Verily, in article <10rhdmg$2u7do$1@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com
deliver unto us this message:

The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

I watched Agatha Christie's Poirot, s1e01, "The Adventure of the Clapham >Cook." Poirot was excellent. Hastings was also good, though he didn't
get a chance to do much. Miss Lemon was not the elderly woman from the >source material, but she was fine as a younger woman. In the end, the >mystery is solved and the bad guy captured.

Was this the 1989 tv series for London Weekend Television? This was
superior entertainment. Of course, as David Suchet was in his early 40s,
he's far younger than the impossibly elderly character from the novels.

Probably. I didn't look into its origin, but it's from 1989.

Poirot wasn't elderly for most of them. He and Hastings started in the
prime of life, then gradually aged. Poirot's age wasn't really a factor
in detection until Curtain, the posthumous one, when Christie wrote him elderly.

The original series ran six seasons but the number of episodes got cut
back after the third season and declined in quality.

That's regrettable, but also normal.

You may recall that Christie wrote final novels for both Poirot
and Miss
Marple early in WWII then withheld them from publication till her
death.

Yes, Curtain and Nemesis. I didn't like Miss Marple as much as I did
Hercule Poirot, but she wasn't bad. Death on the Nile is probably my
favorite Miss Marple.

Leela! Louise Jameson corrupted my youth. I've had nothing but impure thoughts about her ever since. Supposedly she and Tom Baker didn't get
along off screen but on screen their chemistry was excellent. They gave
her a lousy writeout.

Yes, that was one of the lamest companion exits. It was about as well
set up as Susan's exit.

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On 4/12/2026 9:38 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <899901880.797705064.573154.anim8rfsk-
cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this
message:

I also sampled Star Trek New Voyages, on YouTube. This is another fan
continuation of ST:TOS.

I thought they put a stop to these?

It's not new. I have heard that Paramount cracked down.

Ah. Thanks.

You ranted and railed about the group that was trying to make a fan
movie so you should remember. :)

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Law & Order - "Beyond Measure" - I didn't fully follow the plot of this
one but it had something to do with the murder of a security guard
during a botched museum robbery.

Good grief. I saw it and remember nearly nothing except that the
Catholic Church interferred in the prosecution because they wanted the
stolen Maguffin back and Baxter forced Price to offer a favorable plea.
The stolen artwork would have shown up eventually and the Church still
would have been around.

It was a ridiculous episode and reminded me of BLUE BLOODS with the police obsequiously bowing to the demands of church officials.

They had an ironclad case of 1st degree murder for the shooting of a
quasi-law enforcement officer and Baxter folds like a cheap shoot over the killer's extortionate demands.

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