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Mystery!

Mystery! (also written MYSTERY!) is a television anthology series produced by WGBH Boston for PBS in the United States.

Mystery!
Title card (1989)
GenreAnthology, mystery
Presented byGene Shalit, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg
Country of originUnited States, United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production companiesWGBH
(component programs produced by various entities including the BBC and ITV operators)
Original release
NetworkPBS
Release1980 (1980) –
2006 (2006)

The series was created as a mystery, police and crime drama spin-off of the already established PBS show Masterpiece Theatre. From 1980 to 2006, Mystery! aired mostly British crime series purchased from or co-produced with the BBC or ITV and adapted from British mystery fiction. In 2002, due to pressure to include more American material, a series based on the novels of US mystery writer Tony Hillerman was produced, but the vast majority of Mystery! programming has always been and continues to be British literary adaptations co-produced with UK-based production companies.

In 2008, PBS combined Mystery! with its predecessor Masterpiece Theatre under the umbrella title Masterpiece, which includes the sub-brands Masterpiece Classic, Masterpiece Mystery!, and Masterpiece Contemporary.

Edward Gorey, Derek Lamb, and the Mystery! opening sequence edit

Mystery! is noted for its animated opening and closing title sequences with original drawings created by cartoonist Edward Gorey and animated by Eugene Federenko, Derek Lamb, and Janet Perlman,[1] with music by Normand Roger. A PBS veteran, animator Lamb had also created programming for series like Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and The Great American Dream Machine.

Gorey’s first attempt at creating a storyboard of the opening was estimated to run 10 minutes. Because executive producer Joan Wilson was looking for a 75-second sequence, Gorey was eventually asked to hand over the drawings and allow animators to use his work as inspiration. Gorey, known for his eccentric and stubborn nature, recounted:

When we first started talking about it, I gave them a scenario for the credits, but they said, 'Thank you, very much, dear, but this will take half an hour.' I told them it wouldn’t if they put in on at a reasonable rate of speed, but they didn’t seem to care for that idea very much. So Derek Lamb or somebody concocted the final scenario and I had very little to do with it.[2]

The Lamb/Gorey sequence has changed several times since 1980. It consisted of a non-linear series of animated period country house tableaux. The scenes include a formal ball, a crowd of umbrella-toting funeral attendants, three investigators, a croquet game in the rain, and a moaning damsel in various scenes of distress. Over time, the sequence became more streamlined, shorter, and slightly more colorful. For the Hillerman episodes, the American flag was worked into the opening title sequence.

Today, the Masterpiece opening sequence is almost identical across the sub-brands. Each opening fades in and out of scenes of popular characters from each series. The Mystery! version still features the Gorey/Lamb characters.

Inception and early history edit

Mystery! was the second British anthology to come to WGBH Boston after Masterpiece Theatre. In 1979 Mobil Oil head of corporate affairs Herb Schmertz offered the idea of an all-British crime series show to WGBH manager Henry Becton. Mobil Oil was already the underwriter for Masterpiece Theater and had seen success with high-profile British series, including The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R. By 1979, WGBH was bringing in a diverse array of British programming, to the point that Mobil saw an advantage to creating a unique time slot for the crime/police drama genre.[3] Mobil spent 2.3 million in 1979 and 3.2 million in 1980 toward the shows it sponsored on PBS,[4] including for the kickoff of Mystery! Not everyone was especially enthusiastic over the genre division between Masterpiece Theater and Mystery! Then Masterpiece Theater host Alistair Cooke initially bemoaned the loss of the crime genre:

I tell you one thing that makes life a little more difficult in choosing was since the arrival of Mystery. We’re not able to have the change of pace and tone that we had when we could have had Thomas Hardy and Balzac and then had Lord Peter Wimsey. You know that’s denied us know [sic], of course, because it goes to Mystery.[5]

One of Mystery!'s early successes was Rumpole of the Bailey. Other noted successes include The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett in the title role, Inspector Morse with John Thaw, Brother Cadfael starring Derek Jacobi, and Prime Suspect starring Helen Mirren. Agatha Christie sleuths Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) and Miss Marple (at various times Joan Hickson, Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie) have also been featured.

Mystery! won both the 1988 Anthony Award and the 1991 Anthony Award for "Best Television Show".[6]

Hosts edit

The first host of the show in 1980 was Gene Shalit. In the first broadcast, February 5, 1980, Shalit opened with the introduction: “Good evening. We’re about to set out on a series of entertaining mysteries—15 weeks of suspenseful, sophisticated, crafty conundrums that are darkly diabolical or amusing adventures with introductions that suddenly seem alarmingly alliterative.”[2]: 10  Shalit left the show in 1981.

Vincent Price took the reins in Mystery!’s second year. Price’s introductions included haunted house gags, including walking through cobwebs and ducking under spiders and bats. He came to Boston twice a year to tape openings and closings for the show. Actress Katherine Emory called Price “the sweetest scary man I ever met".[2]: 11  Price was in his seventies when he hosted the show, and eventually had to step down due to failing health in 1989.

Diana Rigg took over as host in 1989, and had the opportunity to introduce two mystery series in which she was the star: Mother Love and The Mrs Bradley Mysteries. Rigg had previously won a BAFTA Award for her work on Masterpiece Theater’s 1985 Bleak House adaptation. She left Mystery! in 2003.

Beginning in 2004, Mystery! aired without a host. When the show was re-branded under the Masterpiece umbrella in 2008, actor Alan Cumming became the host.

Funding trouble: 1996-2007 edit

In the summer of 1995, Mobil announced that it would stop funding Mystery! at the end of the season. Its underwritten series Masterpiece Theater and Mystery! had been losing audiences for some time.

"Many times, over the years, we've watched our best mini-series debut with a flourish … only to see the audience gently or not so gently erode over the weeks," executive producer Rebecca Eaton said, citing last year's Middlemarch as an example.".[7]

Although Mobil had been experiencing restructuring, cutting 1,250 employees, the company refused to blame its actions on cost cutting. The company announced that it would stay with Masterpiece Theater at least through 1999 though it didn’t leave as underwriter until 2004.[8] After the ExxonMobil merger in 1999, the company reoriented its philanthropic mission to support public health and environmental causes, dropping its commitment to public television. PBS had avoided adding 30-second advertisements before programming blocks, despite underwriters’ requests for more robust representation on the channel. Mobil swore that the decision had nothing to do with PBS’s hesitancy in implementing 30-second advertising spots for its underwriters. Since 1980, Mobil had covered the entire cost of acquiring, repackaging and promoting British dramas for PBS, which had typically cost the company around $10 million a year.[9] Without Mobil, Masterpiece Theater and Mystery! were left without consistent support until 2011.

As a result of Mobil's initial break from Mystery!, Eaton and her staff began looking for newer, more “relevant” stories to tell in both shows. They also looked to past successes for help. Prime Suspect had gained a strong following in the U.S. as well as England, so PBS re-ran Series 4 on Masterpiece Theater during the 1995-1996 season.

PBS shifted Mystery! in 2002 from its Thursday prime-time slot during the regular American TV season to Sunday nights in the summer. Mystery! continued as a summer series from 2002 to 2004 with shows like The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Foyle's War.

2008 format change edit

In 2008, the series was absorbed into Masterpiece (the former Masterpiece Theatre) and began using the banner Masterpiece Mystery! In addition, its theme music was changed. It now carries a signature theme based on its sister program's former theme.[10] This version is hosted by Alan Cumming.

Rebecca Eaton reflected on the 2008 changes in an interview with Diane Rehm, citing Mobil’s departure, a competitive media landscape, and trouble branding Masterpiece Theater and Mystery! to new audiences. Eaton said:

“I realized that this ship of whom I was the captain was at risk of going down, and that I had to do something. And I truly did not know what to do and had no money to do anything anyway. But we got a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS which we were pretty much allowed to do anything with...we spent it on doing some research into how people perceived Masterpiece. And discovered that they used to watch it, they loved it, they regarded it very highly. They weren't watching it so much anymore. They thought it was too hard to find...And a lot of people were put off by the title. They thought, oh it sounds like it will be very challenging. It sounds like homework....We didn't change the content because we realized whenever anybody, particularly younger viewers watched it, watched Madame Bovary or Sense and Sensibility or Bleak House, they loved it. It was just sort of getting past the rather forbidding title of Masterpiece Theater and the confusing anthology nature.”[11]

In popular culture edit

  • Mystery! was parodied by Sesame Street's "Mysterious Theatre" sketches in the early 1990s, hosted by the Muppet character Vincent Twice (whose name was always said twice), a parody of Vincent Price.
  • The 1990s Mystery! opening was parodied on a 1998 episode of fellow WGBH program Arthur entitled "Binky Rules."

List of series presented on Mystery! edit

American Mystery! Specials edit

The American Mystery! Specials featured three stories set in the United States. They were based on Tony Hillerman's Navajo Tribal Police stories featuring Joe Leaphorn, played by Wes Studi, and Jim Chee, portrayed by Adam Beach:

References edit

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (June 1, 2006). Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators. Applause Books. pp. 283–284. ISBN 978-1-55783-671-7.
  2. ^ a b c Miller, Ron (1996). MYSTERY!: A Celebration, San Francisco, CA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 1996. ISBN 0-912333-89-8.
  3. ^ Hilmes, Michele. Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting. New York: Routledge, 2012).
  4. ^ Fraser, C. Gerald (May 9, 1980). Mobil asks PBS to reconsider showing film about Saudi Princess. New York Times, A10.
  5. ^ Knox, Simone. “Masterpiece Theatre and British Drama Imports on US Television: Discourses of Tension.” Critical Studies in Television 7, no. 1 (2012): 32.
  6. ^ "Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees". Bouchercon.info. October 2, 2003. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  7. ^ "Release". Cpd.org. June 30, 2015.
  8. ^ "Current.org - ExxonMobil withdraws from "Masterpiece Theatre"". Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  9. ^ "Current.org - Dramas seek funders, 2003". Archived from the original on December 8, 2014. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  10. ^ Jensen, Elizabeth (December 10, 2007). "'Masterpiece Theater,' Now in 3 Flavors: Classic, Mystery, Contemporary". Nytimes.com. Retrieved January 22, 2008.
  11. ^ "Rebecca Eaton: "Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind The Scenes At Masterpiece Theatre And Mystery! On PBS" - The Diane Rehm Show". The Diane Rehm Show. Retrieved December 29, 2015.

Bibliography edit

  • Eaton, Rebecca (2013). Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! at PBS, Viking Adult.
  • Hilmes, Michele (2012). Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting. Routledge.
  • Knox, Simone (2012). “Masterpiece Theatre and British Drama Imports on US Television: Discourses of Tension.” Critical Studies in Television 7:1 (29-48).
  • Miller, Ron (1996). MYSTERY!: A Celebration, WGBH Educational Foundation, 1996. ISBN 0-912333-89-8.
  • Neves, Sheron (2013). “Running a Brothel from Inside a Monastery: Drama Co-Productions at the BBC and the Trade Relationship with America from the 1970s to the 1990s,” PhD dissertation, University of London-Birkbeck.
  • Weissmann, Elke (2012). Transnational Television Drama: Special Relations and Mutual Influence Between the US and the UK. Palgrave Macmillan.

External links edit

  • Official Masterpiece website
  • Mystery! at IMDb  

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Mystery also written MYSTERY is a television anthology series produced by WGBH Boston for PBS in the United States Mystery Title card 1989 GenreAnthology mysteryPresented byGene Shalit Vincent Price Diana RiggCountry of originUnited States United KingdomOriginal languageEnglishProductionProduction companiesWGBH component programs produced by various entities including the BBC and ITV operators Original releaseNetworkPBSRelease1980 1980 2006 2006 The series was created as a mystery police and crime drama spin off of the already established PBS show Masterpiece Theatre From 1980 to 2006 Mystery aired mostly British crime series purchased from or co produced with the BBC or ITV and adapted from British mystery fiction In 2002 due to pressure to include more American material a series based on the novels of US mystery writer Tony Hillerman was produced but the vast majority of Mystery programming has always been and continues to be British literary adaptations co produced with UK based production companies In 2008 PBS combined Mystery with its predecessor Masterpiece Theatre under the umbrella title Masterpiece which includes the sub brands Masterpiece Classic Masterpiece Mystery and Masterpiece Contemporary Contents 1 Edward Gorey Derek Lamb and the Mystery opening sequence 2 Inception and early history 3 Hosts 4 Funding trouble 1996 2007 5 2008 format change 6 In popular culture 7 List of series presented on Mystery 8 American Mystery Specials 9 References 9 1 Bibliography 10 External linksEdward Gorey Derek Lamb and the Mystery opening sequence editMystery is noted for its animated opening and closing title sequences with original drawings created by cartoonist Edward Gorey and animated by Eugene Federenko Derek Lamb and Janet Perlman 1 with music by Normand Roger A PBS veteran animator Lamb had also created programming for series like Sesame Street The Electric Company and The Great American Dream Machine Gorey s first attempt at creating a storyboard of the opening was estimated to run 10 minutes Because executive producer Joan Wilson was looking for a 75 second sequence Gorey was eventually asked to hand over the drawings and allow animators to use his work as inspiration Gorey known for his eccentric and stubborn nature recounted When we first started talking about it I gave them a scenario for the credits but they said Thank you very much dear but this will take half an hour I told them it wouldn t if they put in on at a reasonable rate of speed but they didn t seem to care for that idea very much So Derek Lamb or somebody concocted the final scenario and I had very little to do with it 2 The Lamb Gorey sequence has changed several times since 1980 It consisted of a non linear series of animated period country house tableaux The scenes include a formal ball a crowd of umbrella toting funeral attendants three investigators a croquet game in the rain and a moaning damsel in various scenes of distress Over time the sequence became more streamlined shorter and slightly more colorful For the Hillerman episodes the American flag was worked into the opening title sequence Today the Masterpiece opening sequence is almost identical across the sub brands Each opening fades in and out of scenes of popular characters from each series The Mystery version still features the Gorey Lamb characters Inception and early history editMystery was the second British anthology to come to WGBH Boston after Masterpiece Theatre In 1979 Mobil Oil head of corporate affairs Herb Schmertz offered the idea of an all British crime series show to WGBH manager Henry Becton Mobil Oil was already the underwriter for Masterpiece Theater and had seen success with high profile British series including The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R By 1979 WGBH was bringing in a diverse array of British programming to the point that Mobil saw an advantage to creating a unique time slot for the crime police drama genre 3 Mobil spent 2 3 million in 1979 and 3 2 million in 1980 toward the shows it sponsored on PBS 4 including for the kickoff of Mystery Not everyone was especially enthusiastic over the genre division between Masterpiece Theater and Mystery Then Masterpiece Theater host Alistair Cooke initially bemoaned the loss of the crime genre I tell you one thing that makes life a little more difficult in choosing was since the arrival of Mystery We re not able to have the change of pace and tone that we had when we could have had Thomas Hardy and Balzac and then had Lord Peter Wimsey You know that s denied us know sic of course because it goes to Mystery 5 One of Mystery s early successes was Rumpole of the Bailey Other noted successes include The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett in the title role Inspector Morse with John Thaw Brother Cadfael starring Derek Jacobi and Prime Suspect starring Helen Mirren Agatha Christie sleuths Hercule Poirot David Suchet and Miss Marple at various times Joan Hickson Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie have also been featured Mystery won both the 1988 Anthony Award and the 1991 Anthony Award for Best Television Show 6 Hosts editThe first host of the show in 1980 was Gene Shalit In the first broadcast February 5 1980 Shalit opened with the introduction Good evening We re about to set out on a series of entertaining mysteries 15 weeks of suspenseful sophisticated crafty conundrums that are darkly diabolical or amusing adventures with introductions that suddenly seem alarmingly alliterative 2 10 Shalit left the show in 1981 Vincent Price took the reins in Mystery s second year Price s introductions included haunted house gags including walking through cobwebs and ducking under spiders and bats He came to Boston twice a year to tape openings and closings for the show Actress Katherine Emory called Price the sweetest scary man I ever met 2 11 Price was in his seventies when he hosted the show and eventually had to step down due to failing health in 1989 Diana Rigg took over as host in 1989 and had the opportunity to introduce two mystery series in which she was the star Mother Love and The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Rigg had previously won a BAFTA Award for her work on Masterpiece Theater s 1985 Bleak House adaptation She left Mystery in 2003 Beginning in 2004 Mystery aired without a host When the show was re branded under the Masterpiece umbrella in 2008 actor Alan Cumming became the host Funding trouble 1996 2007 editIn the summer of 1995 Mobil announced that it would stop funding Mystery at the end of the season Its underwritten series Masterpiece Theater and Mystery had been losing audiences for some time Many times over the years we ve watched our best mini series debut with a flourish only to see the audience gently or not so gently erode over the weeks executive producer Rebecca Eaton said citing last year s Middlemarch as an example 7 Although Mobil had been experiencing restructuring cutting 1 250 employees the company refused to blame its actions on cost cutting The company announced that it would stay with Masterpiece Theater at least through 1999 though it didn t leave as underwriter until 2004 8 After the ExxonMobil merger in 1999 the company reoriented its philanthropic mission to support public health and environmental causes dropping its commitment to public television PBS had avoided adding 30 second advertisements before programming blocks despite underwriters requests for more robust representation on the channel Mobil swore that the decision had nothing to do with PBS s hesitancy in implementing 30 second advertising spots for its underwriters Since 1980 Mobil had covered the entire cost of acquiring repackaging and promoting British dramas for PBS which had typically cost the company around 10 million a year 9 Without Mobil Masterpiece Theater and Mystery were left without consistent support until 2011 As a result of Mobil s initial break from Mystery Eaton and her staff began looking for newer more relevant stories to tell in both shows They also looked to past successes for help Prime Suspect had gained a strong following in the U S as well as England so PBS re ran Series 4 on Masterpiece Theater during the 1995 1996 season PBS shifted Mystery in 2002 from its Thursday prime time slot during the regular American TV season to Sunday nights in the summer Mystery continued as a summer series from 2002 to 2004 with shows like The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Foyle s War 2008 format change editIn 2008 the series was absorbed into Masterpiece the former Masterpiece Theatre and began using the banner Masterpiece Mystery In addition its theme music was changed It now carries a signature theme based on its sister program s former theme 10 This version is hosted by Alan Cumming Rebecca Eaton reflected on the 2008 changes in an interview with Diane Rehm citing Mobil s departure a competitive media landscape and trouble branding Masterpiece Theater and Mystery to new audiences Eaton said I realized that this ship of whom I was the captain was at risk of going down and that I had to do something And I truly did not know what to do and had no money to do anything anyway But we got a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS which we were pretty much allowed to do anything with we spent it on doing some research into how people perceived Masterpiece And discovered that they used to watch it they loved it they regarded it very highly They weren t watching it so much anymore They thought it was too hard to find And a lot of people were put off by the title They thought oh it sounds like it will be very challenging It sounds like homework We didn t change the content because we realized whenever anybody particularly younger viewers watched it watched Madame Bovary or Sense and Sensibility or Bleak House they loved it It was just sort of getting past the rather forbidding title of Masterpiece Theater and the confusing anthology nature 11 In popular culture editMystery was parodied by Sesame Street s Mysterious Theatre sketches in the early 1990s hosted by the Muppet character Vincent Twice whose name was always said twice a parody of Vincent Price The 1990s Mystery opening was parodied on a 1998 episode of fellow WGBH program Arthur entitled Binky Rules List of series presented on Mystery editMain article List of Mystery episodes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett broadcast as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1984 1985 7 1985 1986 6 The Return of Sherlock Holmes 1986 1987 7 1988 1989 6 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 1991 1992 6 Sherlock Holmes The Master Blackmailer 1992 1993 1 Sherlock Holmes The Last Vampire 1993 1994 1 Sherlock Holmes The Eligible Bachelor 1993 1994 1 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1995 96 6 Agatha Christie Stories 1982 83 4 1984 1985 6 Agatha Christie s Marple with Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie 2005 4 2006 4 2007 4 2009 4 2010 3 Agatha Christie s Miss Marple with Joan Hickson 1985 1986 2 1986 1987 2 1987 1988 3 1988 1989 2 Agatha Christie s Partners in Crime with James Warwick and Francesca Annis 1984 1985 5 1985 1986 5 Agatha Christie s Poirot with David Suchet 1989 1990 10 1990 1991 9 1991 1992 8 1992 1993 6 1993 1994 6 1994 1995 4 1995 1996 1 1996 1997 1 1998 1999 3 1999 2000 1 2009 2 2010 3 2013 5 Agatha Christie s The Secret Adversary with James Warwick and Francesca Annis 1986 1987 1 Arthur amp George with Martin Clunes and Arsher Ali 2015 3 Brat Farrar with Mark Greenstreet 1986 1987 1 Breathless with Catherine Steadman Zoe Boyle Natasha Little Jack Davenport Iain Glen 2014 6 Cadfael with Derek Jacobi 1994 1995 4 1996 1997 1 1998 1999 5 1999 2000 5 Campion with Peter Davison 1989 1990 4 Case Histories with Jason Isaacs 2011 3 Cause Celebre with Helen Mirren 1988 1989 1 Chandler and Company 1995 1996 4 Charters and Caldicott 1985 1986 1 Dalgliesh with Roy Marsden 1985 1986 1 1986 1987 2 1987 1988 1 1989 1990 1 1991 1992 1 1993 1994 1 1995 1996 1 1996 1997 1 1998 1999 1 1999 2000 1 2000 2001 1 Dalgliesh with Martin Shaw 2004 1 2005 1 2006 1 A Dark Adapted Eye with Helena Bonham Carter 1994 1995 1 The Dark Angel with Peter O Toole 1990 1991 1 Death Comes to Pemberley with Matthew Rhys and Anna Maxwell Martin 2014 3 Dead Gorgeous with Helen McCrory and Fay Ripley 2003 1 2005 1 Deep Secrets with Colin Salmon 1997 1998 1 Die Kinder The Children with Miranda Richardson 1990 1991 1 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with David Hemmings 1981 1982 1 Dying Day 1982 1983 1 Endeavour with Shaun Evans 2012 1 2013 4 2014 4 2016 4 2017 4 2018 6 2019 4 2020 3 2021 3 2022 3 The Escape Artist with David Tennant 2014 3 Father Brown with Kenneth More 1982 1983 4 Forgotten with Paul McGann 2001 2002 1 Foyle s War with Michael Kitchen 2004 6 2005 4 2007 4 2008 3 2009 2 2010 3 2013 3 Gallowglass with Michael Sheen and Paul Rhys 1995 1996 1 Game Set and Match with Ian Holm 1988 1989 1 Grantchester with James Norton and Robson Green 2015 6 2016 6 2017 6 Heat of the Sun with Trevor Eve 1998 1999 5 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates with Patricia Routledge 1997 1998 1 1998 1999 1 1999 2000 6 2000 2001 16 2003 3 Inspector Alleyn Mysteries with Simon Williams and Patrick Malahide 1991 1992 1 1993 1994 3 1994 1995 2 Inspector Lewis with Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox 2006 1 2007 3 2008 3 2009 3 2010 3 2011 3 2012 3 2013 3 2014 3 2016 6 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries with Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small 2001 2002 2 2003 4 2004 4 2005 8 2006 4 2007 6 2008 6 Inspector Morse with John Thaw 1987 1988 3 1988 1989 3 1989 1990 3 1990 91 3 1991 1992 3 1992 1993 3 1993 1994 4 1994 1995 3 1995 1996 2 1996 1997 2 1998 1999 3 1999 2000 2 2000 2001 2 2001 2002 3 2004 2 2005 2 2006 2 Into the Blue with John Thaw 1997 1998 1 1998 1999 1 Jericho with Robert Lindsay 2006 4 2007 2 Lady Audley s Secret with Lucy Graham 1999 2000 1 2000 2001 1 The Lady Vanishes with Tuppence Middleton 2013 1 The Life and Crimes of William Palmer with Keith Allen 1998 1999 1 The Limbo Connection 1982 1983 1 Lord Peter Wimsey with Edward Petherbridge 1987 1988 3 Malice Aforethought with Hywel Bennett 1981 1982 1 Malice Aforethought with Ben Miller 2005 1 2006 1 The Man from the Pru with Jonathan Pryce 1990 1991 1 Maigret with Michael Gambon 1992 1993 6 1994 1995 6 Melissa with Peter Barkworth 1982 1983 1 Miss Morison s Ghosts with Wendy Hiller 1982 1983 1 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries with Diana Rigg 2003 4 Mother Love with Diana Rigg 1990 1991 1 Murder Rooms The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes with Ian Richardson 1999 2000 2 2000 2001 2 2001 2002 4 My Cousin Rachel with Christopher Guard and Geraldine Chaplin 1985 1986 1 Oliver s Travels with Alan Bates 1996 97 1 1998 1999 1 Praying Mantis with Jonathan Pryce 1984 1985 1 Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren 1991 1992 1 1992 1993 1 1993 1994 1 Quiet as a Nun with Maria Aitken 1982 1983 1 The Racing Game with Mike Gwilym 1980 1981 3 1981 1982 3 Rebecca with Jeremy Brett and Joanna David 1980 1981 1 Reilly Ace of Spies with Sam Neill 1983 1984 Rumpole of the Bailey with Leo McKern 1980 1981 4 1981 1982 6 1984 1985 6 1987 1988 6 1989 1990 6 1992 1993 6 1994 1995 7 The Sally Lockhart Mysteries The Ruby in the Smoke amp The Sally Lockhart Mysteries The Shadow in the North with Billie Piper 2007 1 2008 1 The Sculptress with Pauline Quirke and Caroline Goodall 1997 1998 2 Second Sight with Clive Owen 1999 2000 1 2000 2001 4 2001 2002 2 Sergeant Cribb with Alan Dobie 1980 1981 3 1981 1982 5 1982 1983 5 Shades of Darkness with John Duttine 1983 1984 7 She Fell Among Thieves 1980 1981 1 Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman 2010 3 2012 6 2014 3 2016 2 2017 3 Silk with Maxine Peake 2013 3 Sweeney Todd 1982 1983 1 Touching Evil with Robson Green 1998 1999 1999 2000 6 2000 2001 4 2001 2002 6 Trial by Fire with Juliet Stevenson 2000 2001 1 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman with Helen Baxendale 1999 2000 4 Wallander with Kenneth Branagh 2009 3 2010 3 2012 3 2016 3 We the Accused 1982 1983 1 The Woman in White 1984 1985 1 The Wyvern Mystery with Derek Jacobi 2000 2001 1 Zen with Rufus Sewell 2011 3 American Mystery Specials editThe American Mystery Specials featured three stories set in the United States They were based on Tony Hillerman s Navajo Tribal Police stories featuring Joe Leaphorn played by Wes Studi and Jim Chee portrayed by Adam Beach Skinwalkers 2002 1 Coyote Waits 2003 1 A Thief of Time 2004 1 References edit Lenburg Jeff June 1 2006 Who s Who in Animated Cartoons An International Guide to Film and Television s Award Winning and Legendary Animators Applause Books pp 283 284 ISBN 978 1 55783 671 7 a b c Miller Ron 1996 MYSTERY A Celebration San Francisco CA WGBH Educational Foundation 1996 ISBN 0 912333 89 8 Hilmes Michele Network Nations A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting New York Routledge 2012 Fraser C Gerald May 9 1980 Mobil asks PBS to reconsider showing film about Saudi Princess New York Times A10 Knox Simone Masterpiece Theatre and British Drama Imports on US Television Discourses of Tension Critical Studies in Television 7 no 1 2012 32 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention Anthony Awards Nominees Bouchercon info October 2 2003 Retrieved March 14 2012 Release Cpd org June 30 2015 Current org ExxonMobil withdraws from Masterpiece Theatre Archived from the original on April 14 2013 Retrieved December 29 2015 Current org Dramas seek funders 2003 Archived from the original on December 8 2014 Retrieved December 29 2015 Jensen Elizabeth December 10 2007 Masterpiece Theater Now in 3 Flavors Classic Mystery Contemporary Nytimes com Retrieved January 22 2008 Rebecca Eaton Making Masterpiece 25 Years Behind The Scenes At Masterpiece Theatre And Mystery On PBS The Diane Rehm Show The Diane Rehm Show Retrieved December 29 2015 Bibliography edit Eaton Rebecca 2013 Making Masterpiece 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery at PBS Viking Adult Hilmes Michele 2012 Network Nations A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting Routledge Knox Simone 2012 Masterpiece Theatre and British Drama Imports on US Television Discourses of Tension Critical Studies in Television 7 1 29 48 Miller Ron 1996 MYSTERY A Celebration WGBH Educational Foundation 1996 ISBN 0 912333 89 8 Neves Sheron 2013 Running a Brothel from Inside a Monastery Drama Co Productions at the BBC and the Trade Relationship with America from the 1970s to the 1990s PhD dissertation University of London Birkbeck Weissmann Elke 2012 Transnational Television Drama Special Relations and Mutual Influence Between the US and the UK Palgrave Macmillan External links editOfficial Masterpiece website Mystery at IMDb nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mystery amp oldid 1219137494, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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