FWWM
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Post by FWWM on Dec 16, 2004 14:38:41 GMT
Although I love Murder She Wrote almost as much as life itself, today's episode annoyed me somewhat. "Leon's been arrested?! Why, that's absurd! What on earth is he being charged with?" Considering every single friend, acquaintance and long lost relative that Jessica Fletcher's ever had has turned out to be either a murderer or a murder victim, you'd think she'd have guessed.
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Post by toby3000 on Dec 16, 2004 16:50:11 GMT
One episode the Sheriff said something along the lines of 'There's not much serious crime in Cavet Cove'.
The bad thing about Murder She Wrote is the fact that Doctors seperates it from Neigbours, whcih always leaves me in the dilemma of whether to turn off or to endure it.
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Post by Cherubic on Dec 16, 2004 18:09:07 GMT
Did anybody see the murder she wrote film last week? I think it was on ITV2. Angela Lansbury played both Jessica Fletcher and her Deep South ancestor who kept slaves but was nice to them really and said I do declare! a lot. She was attempting to clear the name of a slave who may or may not have escaped to freedom.
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Jonny
Jane Asher
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Post by Jonny on Dec 16, 2004 19:12:09 GMT
If Jessica Fletcher ever shows up at your house- RUN THE FUCK AWAY
Every day she visits someone. Every time someone dies. She's linked to more deaths than Harold Shipman
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Post by toby3000 on Dec 17, 2004 21:07:10 GMT
If Jessica Fletcher ever shows up at your house- RUN THE FUCK AWAY Every day she visits someone. Every time someone dies. She's linked to more deaths than Harold Shipman And yet she still gets invited to a whole array of social events
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Post by toby3000 on Jan 18, 2005 15:16:21 GMT
What the fuck was going on today? She wasn't even in it, except to say 'I heard about these other people who solved a murder once.' What the fuck? Were they hoping to make a spin off?? She'd better be back tomorrow.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 12, 2006 21:56:23 GMT
To answer this question a mere 18 months late, Lansbury was routinely given one or two episodes a season off between seasons 3 and 8ish. Making 22 episodes a year is quite a lot of work for an older lady.
Anyway, I've been working my way through my third season DVD collection (sample 'Jessica's week off' episodes being one where she's bed-bound for the duration and another where she tells us about a story that she's written, bless her - oddly, they were shown in consecutive weeks) and would like to point out that it contains two genius things. One is the Magnum PI crossover episodes, which is bizarre on the DVD because they've included the wrong version of part one, which now ends with Jessica looking like a tit and Magnum PI being right all along. Then the second part opens with a completely different ending as a recap and the story continues. Still, at least they included it.
The other genius episode is The Days Dwindle Down, which is your standard 'framed for a murder he didn't commit, now he's out of jail and Jessica needs to prove his innocence' BUT with an AMAZING twist. The entire main guest cast - the murderer, the wife, the son, the wrongly jailed man - are all taken from the cast of an old movie about... a murder! They're playing the same characters, and clips from the movie are shown as flashbacks. This is the most genius thing I have ever known.
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Post by [james] on Jul 12, 2006 22:08:37 GMT
Bungle, I'm coming round your house to watch it. Thank you.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 12, 2006 22:14:26 GMT
You're quite welcome. The people in my life will only watch episodes where Lansbury plays a relative of Jessica's as well as Jessica. Another episode has Lorna Luft and Patrick Macnee in it too. It's my heaven.
The best episode ever is, of course, the first season episode where a young college guy is constantly trying to get into Jessica's knickers. Amazing ending, that one. Lansbury's an astonishing actress. I really must write to her for an autograph...
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Post by [james] on Jul 12, 2006 22:16:38 GMT
You only live 45 minutes away - Lansbury will be mine! She is quintessential student viewing, even if all my friends disagree.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 12, 2006 22:32:40 GMT
I love the books you can buy which are 'by' Jessica herself. They're not really up to much (some are OK though) but it's great having a book on my shelf by the famous J.B. Fletcher.
That's not breaking the fourth wall, that's demolishing it, grinding it to a pulp and denying that it ever existed.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 12, 2006 22:40:52 GMT
They've got some quality graphics designers on board too The same photo of Jessica is pasted on to every random person's torso on just about every book in the series.
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Post by [james] on Jul 12, 2006 22:52:13 GMT
Ohmygosh, that's so amazingly rubbish.
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Post by baronrustybox on Jul 12, 2006 23:34:12 GMT
JESSICA.IS.GOD.
but yes, eveyone dies around her. maybe she has the clap...
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Post by Adrian on Jul 13, 2006 11:05:48 GMT
In the "Jessica's episodes off", does she still have the Last Laugh at the end which freezes and the credits go up?
It happens in every episode, and it would be such a shame to see it not happen.
A
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Post by I Hate Lana Lang on Jul 13, 2006 12:36:01 GMT
Murder, She Did
Have any of you seen the episode set in Bates Motel where Jessica uses her knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock to solve the crime? Amazing shit!
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Post by jem on Jul 13, 2006 12:45:52 GMT
I always though the world was crying out for a Diagnosis murder/ murder she wrote cross over. Dick Van Dyke and Lansbury are both legends, their characters know everyone and are very socialble. It would be easy to have their paths cross in some way.
The could out fox the police and become a murder solving duo!
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Post by Joel on Jul 13, 2006 20:30:24 GMT
Do you know how much money Lansbury got paid per episode of 'Murder, She Wrote'?
£330,000 She deserved every penny.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 13, 2006 21:02:26 GMT
NO!?
That's amazing.
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Post by baronrustybox on Jul 13, 2006 23:45:24 GMT
the lazy cow! on uktv she used the same button trick she used before to catch the killer. it was the soccer team one if anyone saw it. she went to a party and got pissed off her face. love it
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Post by Bungle on Jul 14, 2006 0:11:17 GMT
Oh she does that button thing all the time! She does it in one of the Irish set episodes too.
I'm always explaining to people that they need to watch out for the sudden close up and jaunty little bit of music around 9 minutes from the end where someone says something completely innocuous ('would you like a glass of wine?') to which JB then says 'that's it!' and runs off, happy as a pig in shit. She then has a showdown with the killer (often the loopy secretary, who has come to investigate JB looking through the office... it's a setup, natch) where she points out that she knew that Ms Clarkson had to be the killer, as she noticed that the corkscrew was in the washing up bowl at her flat, but as she knew that Ms Clarkson didn't drink ('maybe that's why no man's ever interested in me Mrs Fletcher', she sighed to Jessica earlier in the show), and so why else would she have the corkscrew, which she used to trepan poor old Mr Willis. Mr Willis who was actually Ms Clarkson's father. 'When I confronted him with it, he treated me like a child. He didn't care after all I'd done for him. I was so mad... oh, Mrs Fletcher, I didn't mean to do it, honestly I didn't!'
I'd love to write a MSW episode. I write in cliches, it would be good for me.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 19, 2006 17:48:45 GMT
In the "Jessica's episodes off", does she still have the Last Laugh at the end which freezes and the credits go up? It happens in every episode, and it would be such a shame to see it not happen. A In Murder In A Minor Key (the first of these largely Jessica-less episodes) she smiles at the camera under the Exec Producer credit, but it's not a laugh. She's just starting to tell us her next story about a wrestler and a priest (or is it a monk?), but then thinks it's best to wait until next time, bless. I have a suspicion that this didn't make it as a MSW episode. I love the way she opens the episode by addressing the viewer directly ('Oh, there you are!'). It's just brilliant, and makes me feel like one of her friends. This matters to me.
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Jul 20, 2006 8:47:58 GMT
On an episode I saw the other day, Jessica attended a computing class and was told in the most patronsing manner possible what the internet was. She was very impressed. But then her monitor told her that she had a "fatal disk error" and at the suggestion of a baldie bloke who was chatting her up, she set about humorously investigating why it had died.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 23, 2006 1:42:35 GMT
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Post by [james] on Jul 23, 2006 8:19:13 GMT
On an episode I saw the other day, Jessica attended a computing class and was told in the most patronsing manner possible what the internet was. She was very impressed. But then her monitor told her that she had a "fatal disk error" and at the suggestion of a baldie bloke who was chatting her up, she set about humorously investigating why it had died. I saw that one! I love watching old(ish) TV shows dealing with technology. They always try and drop in as many 'hi-tech' terms as possible such as RAM, hard-drive and moniter and the plot contrivance which involves the technology often makes no sense (like how the phoneline was used to read their blackmailable secrets).
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