11 Oct 2016 – Driven To Write

Theme – Film: The Mystery of Inspector Morse’s Car

This piece relates not to a film, but to a TV series translated from a collection of detective books. Hopefully readers will allow me a little latitude.

morse-jag — If that were my car, I would not be happy with even John Thaw placing his foot on the number plate.

I think most people know that (Chief) Inspector Morse was originally the owner and driver of a Lancia, not a Jaguar Mark 2 (or was that really a Daimler?). Having read most of the books by Colin Dexter many years ago on the back of viewing a few of the TV episodes (pre-kids, one had time to waste like that), a few thoughts were stimulated by the changes wrought by the TV production company in its literary adaptations. Continue reading “Theme – Film: The Mystery of Inspector Morse’s Car”

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