That’s only because after 5 seasons, they were still getting through the discovery phase…
And definitely don’t take a vacation on the seemingly idyllic island of Saint-Marie in the Caribbean. There have been a minimum of 109 murders over the last decade, a huge percentage of them being tourists. Seen in the documentary series called Death in Paradise.
Eh, dead is dead. Who cares how they got that way?
And were any of them mysteriously nibbled after death?
Cats are smarter than that. If they nibble, the finish the whole corpse. Great way to destroy the evidence. Sometimes they have to get some friends involved to hurry the process, but if they’re patient enough even a single cat can polish off a whole human in a couple months.
And if you bring in a leopard, the corpse’s face will be the first to go. Perfect!
There’s a new mystery show on CBS, Elsbeth. She’s one of those quirky types who notices the key piece of evidence everyone in the entire NYPD overlooked. Friday night was Episode #2 and while there was only one victim she figured out All the suspects did it
Well, there was one were Koko ate the shrimp the dead man was highly allergic to. There by causing all manner of hyjinx trying to figure out how the guy got dead.
You are. Quite a few times he got the guilty party to stand up in the court room and confess while Perry was grilling someone ELSE on the witness stand. That is real talent.
“Rifleman kill count”, eh? What I noticed is how many shots he wasted. I only watched a small part of that, and I swear there are a few people it took him five shots to kill. Tsk.
The Rifleman though, a bit like Dirty Harry, was always on the side of Good and everybody he ever shot was a scoundrel who needed killin’. So he’s got that goin’ for him.
Yeah, the body count in Midsomer would exceed the population of the United Kingdom at the rate their murderers were removing people.
Hehehe, Thursday night is the local PBS affiliate’s night to show British mystery shows, including this one. When my wife and I notice it’s Thursday, we’ll often ask “This is the night everyone in Brittan dies, what do you want to watch instead?”
Hmm, is that true? Lucas boy had the biggest bad guy kill count in tv westerns? Interesting.
On Barnaby Jones, there were a few cases where the initial death is clearly manslaughter or accidental death. The person may have not even been required to serve time in the mildest cases. Nevertheless, there was always a second murder at the half hour mark to cover up the first death.
At the end of the episode, the killer would shoot once at Barnaby attempting to flee, and miss. Then Barnaby would shoot the killer in the arm. The exception was if the killer was a woman, then either a male accomplice would do the shot at Barnaby, or Barnaby would talk the female killer out of shooting. There was also one early episode where the killer shot at Barnaby twice. Barnaby did kill that perp.
And he uses my favorite long gun. Love that Rifleman. I just can’t take that kid in that show. I sometimes wish he’d just unload on the kid. 
The Ace Attorney series of video games is loosely inspired by Perry Mason in that the main character is a defense lawyer who defends wrongfully accused clients, and true to form each of the four to five “cases” in each game involve a murder. The third game throws you for a bit of a loop in one case where you wind up defending someone accused of a burglary, but once you get him off the hook the alibi you’ve established for him implicates him in a murder and you wind up having to defend him again.
Incidentally, if you think Perry Mason gets a lot wrong about the legal system, Ace Attorney is much worse. The games were originally set in Japan and based on the Japanese legal system, where (until fairly recently) there was no trial by jury and over 90% of prosecutions result into a guilty verdict, but for the US release they rewrote it to take place in Los Angeles and the result is a mishmash of the American and Japanese legal systems that resembles neither, lawyers are also able to investigate crime scenes and interrogate witnesses, and in various games you admit testimony from parrots, radios, and ghosts.
You can always watch Quincy M.E., they fall at his feet(or his morgue)
Not always - it could be someone in the gallery and very occasionally, outside the courtroom. But they’re on the witness stand most of the time.
Banacek was on mystery TV show that wasn’t about murders: it was about theft, usually one that seemed impossible. Unfortunately, the solution to the theft was always the same.
The object was stolen before everyone thought it was.
I think I’d be OK; as a middle aged male white English visitor to the island, I reckon my chances are fair that I would turn out to be the policeman, rather than the victim.