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    The Jack Benny Show

    The Jack Benny Show

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    The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, was a radio-TV comedy series which ran for more than...

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Avengers - Season 1 in TV

May 20, 2021  
The Avengers - Season 1
The Avengers - Season 1
1961 | Thriller
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
TV Season Rating
Only three episodes of this first season are believed to exist, so it's hard to speak with great authority as to its quality - but the ones we have are brisk, efficient thrillers, as good as the videotaped Honor Blackman episodes (and possibly more coherent). This is 60-year-old TV so the production can be primitive in places, but much of the acting holds up.

Again, judging solely from the three surviving episodes, the arc of the season seems to go from fairly 'straight' stories (Girl on a Trapeze doesn't feature Steed at all) towards the kind of tongue-in-cheek, off-beat material the series is best remembered for (Tunnel of Fear is rather more extravagant, with more of a focus on Steed as an entertaining eccentric). You can almost see the producers figuring out the potential of Patrick Macnee, not that Hendry isn't completely reliable. Not the show in its iconic form, but you can see how it started heading that way very early.
  
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Dean (6927 KP) rated Jonathan Creek in TV

Aug 31, 2020 (Updated Aug 31, 2020)  
Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek
1997 | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
10
7.7 (40 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Cast chemistry (2 more)
The ideas behind the crimes
Funny
Brilliant Mystery Drama
A brilliant TV show, one of my favourites and one you can easily watch again. This is more of a how they did it as well as a Whodunit?
The title character works as an ideas man for a stage performing illusionist. Often working out very complex crimes with a reporter friend. Often these are locked room murders or other baffling cases that don't make sense. The ideas behind most stories are really good and it's fun trying to work them out. There is plenty of comedy as well and the cast work great together.
The last 2 series weren't as good as the earlier ones but still enjoyable. The best ones though are the longer special episodes, especially "The Grinning Man". If you didn't catch them all or missed it completely it's worth checking it out if you are a fan of Agatha Christie style murder mysteries. Available on BBC iplayer and Alabi on demand.