Masterpiece Mystery on PBS

Enter Alan Cummings:

Cold-blooded murderers are not generally known as avid collectors of fine bone china. But this is the city of Oxford, and even the lowest form of cannibalistic, brain-devouring maniac thinks that rare Wedgewood is only good enough for casual picnics by the river. Inspector Lewis, on the other hand, is a paper plate man; a dour, Geordie proletarian who isn't afraid to wipe his anus with the wrong hand in polite company ... much to the chagrin of Sergeant Hathaway, moodily strumming his guitar in the nude while interrogating a number of suspicious connoisseurs of eighteenth-century Delft decanters, one of whom just might have decapitated the ex-wife of the second cousin of the gay lover of the troubled Ombudsman of Aloofus College, before mysteriously painting her severed head orange and dyeing the hair green, and then planting this grisly object in grounds of the Bodleian Library, along with an ominous birthday card addressed to Lewis' favorite television comedy actor. And so, Masterpiece Mystery on PBS is proud to present: Inspector Lewis in "The Carrot and the Schtick."

Comments

[Brian]

My first trip to D.C. a British dignitary asked, "What do you like most in Washington?" and I answered "The old buildings." so thus exploding the taxi into laughter.

[Laurent]

I preferred Inspector Morse.

[Cowtown Pattie]

Ah, I prefer Inspector Lestrade!

[american fez]

Maigret is pretty much untouchable, if you ask me, but never done well on TV.