This is where I, the redactor/editor/bottlewasher, am in a slight quandary. There are no films in the queue just now, no short morning features but there is jazz, coming up soon today. In one sense, it’s overkill to run the Paul Temple which might just be the “best one ever”, to almost “squander” it on an already full Sunday.

Were it a film, I’d not … too late in the afternoon, but this 4 hours 30 mins ten-parter is simply fab … I can’t get away from it myself … and I’m thinking to myself that I should not be keeping this back while I have it … not when I know there are fellow aficionados who’d like it. More after the play …

I do recall we did have it a few years back, likely at N.O. … but why would I not have run it again? 🤔 At that stage, I was not quite as au fait with the series history, with the protagonist pairs, but of late, this “return to”, later series has quite stood out, due to Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson … the producers and cast are marvellous, it retains the old mystique.

Plus the main pair are without as many sharp edges, with less stridency, and she in particular is more 3D. This story? Talk about convoluted. Once you can buy the formulaic, realising it’s a good formula, I’m thinking you might be pleasantly surprised. Plus the bridgeman overexplaining the episode connections is, imho, quite fun.

Anyway, this is for those who’d like to rest their eyes for a few hours. I’ll still start the jazz about 1600.