Dalziel and Pascoe

[Joe Chi Minh]

Do you get a detective series called Dalziel and Pascoe in America? Dalziel's the star - a Yorkshireman with a very dry, sardonic wit.

At the end of the instalment on tonight, Dalziel (or DL, as it's pronounced), he asked the young upper-crust homicidal psychopath, if he felt any responsibility for anything that had happened; at which he laughed and replied, "Not at all! I'm a child of the eighties! There's no such thing as society, remember?"

A brilliantly barbed crack at Thatcher and her "philosophy"! (It's a wonder he didn't imitate her recitation of the Prayer of St Francis!) Dalziel's face broke into a wide smile. He obviously relished the the connection. Then blew the smoke from his cigarette into his face!

Another brilliantly truculent series is "Judge John Deed". A couple of instalments have been sticking it to the cell phone companies in no uncertain terms, about their cynical erection of aerial masts near school playgrounds.

[trof]

1. Yes, but...

we find the Yorkshire accent unintelligible.
Just kidding about the show, not the Yorkshire part.
I don't know if it's on BBC over here.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. It's a pity more of you didn't see it!

I think the humour appeals to politically-minded types. At least left-wingers.

[IcyPeas]

2. We used to get it over here...

on A&E (arts & entertainment channel) but they haven't shown it in a couple of years. I was probably the only one watching it..... :) I like most of the British mysteries too that are shown on public television channels here (l.a.)

[billyskank]

4. Greetings

to fellow Brit: :hi: