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At least it wasn't the Hood. May 24, 1941, Hood was sunk in three minutes with 3 survivors out of a crew of 1418. One of those three was Ted Briggs, whom I remember from many stories about the Hood, and also the Bismarck... Anyway, thank you Show for not putting him on the Hood.

It was revenge because it was not in the royal dress code.

The current series is set in 1939. Next episode is September, which i when war was declared over there after Hitler invaded Poland. Helen's father was away and due back in the next day or two.

Every now and then in the fandom of an historical show I find myself compelled to type "historical context" (even though I know it is generally useless). The Thursdays when we first met them were the British version of an American baby boomer family - war was over, they survived, they had kiddies, Fred's move to Oxford made his career somewhat safer, and they had a house and a good retirement program in the works. Then, tragedy -- the Sixties. Joan had a starter job at a bank: nice boss, nice boyfriend, and suddenly the bank is robbed, the boss is killed, and the boyfriend had been pumping her for inside information so his gang could rob the place. She felt used, stupid, and guilty, and not having grown up in an era of true crime novels, tv, and podcasts, she was as easily duped as the next person. In fact, it was customary in such case to blame her as a fool, or an accomplice playing the poor pitiful me card. So, having followed all the rules that society said were the milestones of a good llife, she ran away and broke more rules. Sam finished school and joined the army, a young man's milestsone. All right and well enough, but post-war British Army meant Northern Ireland. If you are old enough to remember, the British in NI were as welcome as the US in Vietnam. Fred worrying about Sam and Win living for the weekly letter takes me back to the year my uncle was deployed in Vietnam. He was Air Force, he was an HQ REMF, he worked and lived in the middle of a huge base, and my grandfather spent every waking moment glued to the news and waiting for a knock at the door (Uncle came home just fine, and went on to be Career). Fred believed his brother's latest grift, even though it was stupid. And it was still apparently a guy thing that The Man made all the money decisions all by himself (that one I've never understood, as it's the smartest one in our family who does that, including my mother and both grandmothers). He put their old age to absurd risk and he's lucky she didn't make sandwiches with rancid food. And as for Win, she followed all the rules and the societal guarantees didn't happen. Win is an example of someone who can be good and kind and even long-suffering, but doesn't have the internal fortitude to Keep Buggering On - that was all supposed to end with the war, or at least with rationing. Sam will make it or not, be scarred or not, we will probably get no more of a hint then they can squeeze into the final season. Joan has worked her way into her future; her experience as a useful idiot to an unscupulous man and as chattel to a rich jackass have prepared her to help women and families in crisis - if nothing else it has given her an unsentimental attitude toward drunks - and I really loved her with Strange. Strange is actively living his life and life choices, and will indeed by CS someday. Fred and Win will probably survive into retirement, but it wo't be the happy dancing they were planning. And that's the Thursdays. I never expected Endeavour to have a happy ending, as Morse pretty much established that. Bright is my favorite though. With the unending sad life events, which he persistently responds to with Grace, and his unfailing decency, I so 💖 him. He was a hardass at the beginning, but his response to Morse's father's dying put him firmly on the list of people I wish were my boss. His response to the collapsed building was immediate and perfect. And now he's living out the rest of his career with serenity, running interference with upstairs, checking the pulse of his cops, including Morse and Thursday - dammit, why was he never my boss? Sorry/not sorry for the length, but I guess this is my farewell ode to the series (even though I WILL be watching series 9).

I think the only time they did just one was LL Cool J, and his family story - his father shooting his mother, his mother being adopted, and his mother being a great-niece of the Hall Of Fame boxer John Henry Lewis.

It's scheduled on BBC America for Nov 26. My uninformed guess is that this fall GN has scheduled two off weeks instead of the usual one, so BBCA did one off week and bumped Eddie to what would have been the usual off week of this week (which it is, because they didn't do a new episode on Nov 19). I repeat, uninformed guess.

Damm, Harriet's passed. She was The online fan liaison for NCIS & JAG back in the early 00s. If she was 94 when she passed, then she was in her late sixties / early seventies back then. Lovely woman.

The S&G reunion tour was about 20 years ago (I saw it in DC). I hand-waved that the agents were all too young to know or care about S&G (millennials have such a stunted 😇 cultural life). As for missing network shows, most primetime in the U.S. is available for a few weeks free after broadcast. NBC.com, ABC.com, CBS.com, PBS.org, the CW, and if memory serves, FOX. I thought it was a well-written reset.

That series finale, BTW, was broadcast on Christmas Day. It was so unexpectedly... British.

There's a line in the film Ice Station Zebra where the British agent (Patrick McGoohan) says to the American nuclear submarine captain (Rock Hudson): "The Russians put our camera made by *our* German scientists and your film made by *your* German scientists into their satellite made by *their* German scientists." It was then put in a polar orbit and took pictures of every bit of the Earth's surface, so the Soviets would have details of the West, but if the West recovered it first, they'd have the same details of the Not-West. The film wasn't bad, the book was better, and this line slays me on every viewing.

I'm catching up, so just watched this. I guess it's a symptom of why the show was canceled, because the story (in two! replies) isn't being mentioned, but: 1) that aerial shot of Mobile was indeed Mobile - I used to drive that stretch of I-10 yearly, and while I have never seen the skyline, I remember those interstate-speed curves soooo well that I still have nightmares, and 2) it's been19 years, but that was a re-telling of the DC Sniper(s), right down to it being blue car. The story wasn't bad nor badly done, but I knew it was a DC Sniper(s) reboot from the Petty Officer's killing - there was no way the guy could have been identifiable in camo and blue cloth.

Isn't he hosting something next Sunday? I think it's the Grammys.

I watch it for free on IMDB.

As I recall (and just verified on IMDB), JS's first television credit was on the pilot for Miami Vice. And in that role, a very young and skinny Jimmy Smits also played the first person to be killed on Miami Vice.

It would have been in Panama City Beach, not Panama City. 300K is not a bad price for beachfront with a view here. And that layout is not for a family of six to live in. It is for six people to vacation in. Its primary usage and way to pay for itself is as a short-term rental. Also, these shows usually lies about the price as well as everything else.