The Avengers in Midsomer Murder?

Big Bear · Post by **Big Bear** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:23 pm

Just read the description of tonights episode of Midsomer Murders on ITV at 8pm, sound familar?!

A prestigious golf club is the setting for murder when a player is murdered on the 13th hole. Barnaby and Jones discover assault is rife amongst the snobbish members, who are dismissive of the local villagers and only allow them onto the course for a few hours a week. Before long, another body turns up, making the detectives determined to catch this terror of the fairways.

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:08 pm

Yes, it sounds very like a Poirot story!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_on_the_Links

JohnSteedFr · Post by **JohnSteedFr** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:18 pm

God !! I hope we'll see it soon here !

Easy to guess what inspired the producers...

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:50 pm

Big Bear wrote:Just read the description of tonights episode of Midsomer Murders on ITV at 8pm, sound familar?!

A prestigious golf club is the setting for murder when a player is murdered on the 13th hole. Barnaby and Jones discover assault is rife amongst the snobbish members, who are dismissive of the local villagers and only allow them onto the course for a few hours a week. Before long, another body turns up, making the detectives determined to catch this terror of the fairways.

yeah, sounds like a partial rip off..oops, borrowing from the 13th hole..

Post by **Allard** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:16 pm

I've just seen it, it was already on the Dutch public broadcaster in May, but then I missed it.

Indeed with a murder at the thirteenth hole, a unpleasant golf club member and somebody gets a golf ball shot at his head, just like in the Avengers.

Whiskers · Post by **Whiskers** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:28 pm

Another Avengers link - it featured John Standing from "School For Traitors".

Dandy Forsdyke · Post by **Dandy Forsdyke** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:40 pm

... and John Nettles auditioned for the role of Mike Gambit.

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:38 am

Dandy Forsdyke wrote:... and John Nettles auditioned for the role of Mike Gambit.

how close was he ( Nettles ) was to landing the role ?

who else was considered-and-or-screen tested ?

Timeless A-Peel · Post by **Timeless A-Peel** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:28 am

mousemeat wrote:
Dandy Forsdyke wrote:... and John Nettles auditioned for the role of Mike Gambit.
how close was he ( Nettles ) was to landing the role ?

who else was considered-and-or-screen tested ?

He made it to the interview/audition stage, but was never screentested if The Ultimate Avengers list is to be believed. Only Gareth, Lewis Collins, and Harry Meacher were actually screentested, but if Brian Clemens is to be believed, he wanted Gareth for Gambit the instant he caught him in Upstairs, Downstairs.

Dandy Forsdyke · Post by **Dandy Forsdyke** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:35 am

I wonder if Brian Clemens was an Upstairs Downstairs fan? He cast Gordon Jackson in The Professionals.

I caught a repeat of UD on ITV3 one afternoon last week. I can see why BC was impressed by Gareth. He could be quite menacing as Frederick but then also the opposite.

I like John Nettles in Midsomer Murders and Bergerac, but he wouldn't have been right for Mike Gambit in my opinion. He looked very different in the 1970s, when I remember him in The Liver Birds.

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