The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and other crimedramas

When I was young my grandparents always watched German Dramas like Der Alte, Tatort and Derreck. I never liked this kind of series as they were a bit bloody. I don't like to see that kind of series. I was very young at the time and they also never let me watch with them as I always knew who did it. The same thing happened when my sister and I watched Baantjer, a very populair Dutch crime drama. I always made jokes about who did it and I ended up having it right 9 times out of 10. I never watched and crimedramas ever since. Then I discovered Nathaniel Parker and I found out that he played in a British crimedrama called The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. The first episode I saw was A Suitable Vengeance and I loved it. Not only I saw Nathaniel Parker, but I loved the story and the plot. The most important thing was that they didn't show any blood or how the murder was committed. I became a fan of the series. Then I started to look around for other series and discovered Midsomer Murders and Frost. The last one was an eye opener for me. I had no idea about the character and the actors in the series but I started to watch an episode when it was on TV. It was like I was looking in a mirror and found an older and male version of myself. I loved Frost from the moment I saw him. Not the looks, but the character. Lynely has both the good looks and the character, but Frost was really wonderful. The way he treats his boss Mr Mullet was just hilarious. And George Toolan was a nice bonus. My altime favorite Frost episode is No Other Love. That one has it all. The end is very sad as one of his colleagues is murdered. The way they filmed that was like I never saw before. At first I thought it was Frot himself that was killed, but it was poor Clive Barnhard that was killed. Another great episode is when Frost has to look after a dog called Kai. He and Kai make a very good team.

Unfortunatly for me Frost is going to end this year. David Jason is 68, and there is nothing wrong with that, but one time it has to come to an end. I am sure they make a wonderful episode of it. Less can be said of the final Lynley episodes. They are very good and gripping, but the BBC announced the end of the series so they were never able to make a proper ending to the series. It is too bad that the BBC is cutting Lynley and spending their money on other things. I understand that it is expencive to make these series, but they make a lot of money for the BBC too. Lynley was one of the best sold series to foreign countries. It is very scary to read my own thoghts on Lynley in interviews by Nathaniel Parker. I discussed the end of the series, and before that the lack of promotion by the BBC for the series with friends. I was deeply dissatisfied with the way the BBC treated the series. Never a cover on the RadioTimes, while they have 20 Doctor Who covers a year (if not more). They didn't do anything to promote the last series. I was very surprised to see my own words coming out of the mouth of my favorite actor. When I met Nathaniel in May last year I asked him if he was able to read minds. I told him that we have the excact same thoughts about this. It gave him a good laugh. Due to lack of information on the Lynley series I decided to start my own website for the series. After some problems I am working on the site for 2 years now and it has over 30.000 visitors. I place a lot of information on the series there, but also on Nathaniel and Sharon Small, the leading actors of the series. Nathaniel is very happy with the suport as he thanked me for it when I met him in Windsor. I am more than happy to have the site up. The series might have ended, but the site keeps going on. The only crimedrama that is left for me is Midsomer Murders and I hope that John Nettles stays in very good health and don't decide to stop the series. I have DVD's of all the series, but it is always nice to see my favorite crimedramas on TV. The BBC waste its money now on programs that are really rubish in my opinion. I think it is better to put some money in a good crimedrama than in a 13 in a dozen show. I prefer to see a good film or crimedrama, and I don't want to see skating with the stars, dancing with the stars, shopping with the stars and whatever they call these programmes. I always liked the BBC for their good drama series, but it seems that they have given up on most of them. At least the good crimedramas. The other dramas like Cranford, Bleak House and Little Dorrit were wonderful and I hope they go on with that. For the many fans of the Lynley series I send the link to my Lynley fansite.


http://www.theinspectorlynleymysteries.net/