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6.9/10   66 votes
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Director:
Kevin Connor
Writers:
Dean Hargrove (characters)
Jeff Peters (written by)
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Release Date:
4 March 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Mystery more
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User Comments:
Good Old-Fashioned Murder Mystery more (1 total)

Cast

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John Larroquette ... Mike McBride

Marta DuBois ... Sgt. Roberta Hansen (as Marta Dubois)

Matt Lutz ... Phil Newberry
Linda Gray ... Victoria Sawyer

Claire Coffee ... Marilyn Fletcher

Sarah Buxton ... Heather Bronson (as Sarah G. Buxton)

Diego Serrano ... Luis Martinez

Paul Norwood ... Norman Collins

Joel Polis ... Harold Paxton
Kathryn Joosten ... Judge Broderick

Lindsay Hollister ... Becky Sullivan

John Thaddeus ... Nick

James Michael McCauley ... Mayor Joseph Theodore (as James McCauley)

Tamara Mark ... Lorraine Theodore
Winston J. Rocha ... Escobar (as Winston G. Rocha)
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Runtime:
USA:120 min | USA:88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Hallmark Entertainment more

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Good Old-Fashioned Murder Mystery, 20 March 2005
7/10
Author: djquigley from United States

Overview: Remember those 1970s Sunday night murder mysteries: McMillan and Wife, McCloud and Columbo? Well, I believe the McBride series is an attempt to hearken back to these. A murder gets committed and its up to the viewer to try to figure out who did it as McBride tries to solve the case.

McBride, ably portrayed by John Larroquette, is a lawyer who seems semi-retired and is associated with a detective squad and police work. There is no gritty realism a la NYPD Blue, but something more akin to Dick Van Dyke's medical doctor detective series, though not quite so campy.

Plot Synopsis: The scenario for this show is Nebraska girl in big nasty L.A. for a day mistakenly gets sent out on call-girl duty when all she thought was that she was an escort for the night. She goes back to confront the Madam who sent her on assignment and finds the woman murdered. She is caught at the scene by a policeman, arrested, and McBride is persuaded to take her case for the defense. It is up to McBride and the viewers to solve the murder.

Concluding Overall Remarks: If the 1970s series appealed to you, this McBride series will appeal as well. It's well written and good early prime time fare -- no gratuitous violence, some courtroom drama, and the denouement at the end, this time told with some artistic flair that as an aspiring director myself I had to appreciate. The artistic effort and slip from realism seemed a little at odds with the otherwise straightforward fare, but I appreciated the effort. If the director and crew had told the rest of the story with the same originality and flare, I might be persuaded to move my score up a notch or two. All in all, good solid entertainment - 7 out of 10.

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