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11 September 2010 1:18 PM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

Thanks to Acorn Media, I’ve been exposed to all sorts of television I wouldn’t have gotten to see otherwise. Touching Evil. Hope Springs. Life on Mars. They’re all great pieces of television, and they’re all very, very British.

But that’s the interesting thing about all of them; they don’t fit the American viewer’s usual stereotype of British television. You know what I’m talking about: the grainy film, the monochromatic sets, the hairsprayed men with toothbrush mustaches — the stuff you usually see on public television. Those were all absent from the aforementioned series, mostly because they were all made within twenty years ago — long after the PBS triteness evolved.

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster, however, is a television series that was made in 1984 and 1985, remaining delightfully stuck in that quaint phase of crime-solving septuagenarians. I say “delightfully,” because it’s almost old enough to »

- Sam McPherson

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