This is the fifth installment of my favorite, serious TV shows. I’m probably forgetting some great shows. Some I never saw.
Agatha Christie’s Marple
Beyond Paradise
Dangerous Assignment
Death in Paradise*+
Doctor Blake’s Mysteries
Elementary*
Great Courses (Really great lecture series)
Johnny Carson+
Late Night+
Madame Blanc
Mr. Selfridge
Pie in the Sky
Queens of Africa
Shakespeare and Hathaway
Sister Boniface*+
Storyteller*+
Tales of Para Handy+
Time Team+ (Easily the best archeology show. Okay, okay, not much competition, but it’s good.)
Vera
* = I wish there were an unlimited episodes for these shows
+ = Primarily serious, these shows have a strong element of humor as well.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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