Local TV questions....

[A Joseph Ross]

On 9/13/2013 2:17 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> I think you've got that confused... Hercule Poirot was a fictional 
> *private* detective, a la Sherlock Holmes (who Christie admitted to 
> taking as a model). I don't think those shows were ever licensed for 
> US exhibition by anyone other than WGBH's "Mystery!" (later 
> "Masterpiece Mystery") although you never know. (WGBH is currently 
> re-airing the Granada Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett from 
> the mid-1980s, which they originally acquired for "Mystery!". I 
> remember watching those shows on snowy WNPI-TV from Norwood, New York, 
> about 100 miles away, because we couldn't get locals WETK 33 and WCFE 
> 57 due to horrendous multipath. It's been fun to see them again, and 
> remember how much the producers tinkered with Doyle's plots.)

Poirot was a former Belgian police inspector who came to England because 
of Germany's occupation of Belgium.  I thought he was, at least 
sometimes, called "Inspector" because of his former position, but I 
could be remembering wrong.  The show was on NHPTV until last year, when 
NHPTV disappeared from Boston-area cable.

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