14 thoughts on “If You Like Miss Fisher, Try The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries

  1. And David Tennant married Peter’s Davison’s daughter, Georgia. And they met while filming an episode of Doctor Who called “The Doctor’s Daughter” (and of course…she is, sort of)!! Squee, indeed.

  2. I loved the series and was sorry they only did five. Costumes were 100 out of 10. Something that Miss Fisher and budget pales in comparison. I agree it is very like Downton Abbey in costume yummyness.
    One of my favourite period detectives are Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey. Harriet Walter was bang on as Harriet and I loved Petherbridge’s Lord Peter. He was more as Ms Sayers wrote.

    I highly recommend it.

    1. Oh, yeah, the Lord Peter mysteries. Excellent choice. And the BBC seems to have done a great job on the settings, too. Not sure about the details of costuming, but they look right.

  3. Peter Davison had a historical murder mystery series, too, called Campion. The costumes weren’t the most amazing thing on the planet, but the series is good.

  4. I’ve never heard of this show before, but it sounds like something I’d love! Thanks for writing about it!

    This is a random diversion, but speaking of plus fours, I’m glad Frock Flicks profiled Indian Summers a few months ago. I maybe wouldn’t have heard of it otherwise. Anyway, I finally got a chance to watch it this past week, and I really enjoyed it! Going back and reading the Frock Flick recaps was also very educational. :)

  5. I remember catching this series a few years ago and loving it. Thanks for reminding me. Not tv related really but I just went and looked up the books since I’ve finished the Miss Fisher series. Wow, they could really use Miss Fischer’s artist for their covers. I would have never picked them up if I hadn’t seen the tv series. The paperback covers make me think of Miss Marple’s even less stylish older sister after a day cleaning the basement and not a glamorous woman of the 20s.

    1. To be fair, Mrs Bradley in the books is VERY unstylish – or at least she has a LOT of taste but it’s really abominably bad taste. Awful colour combinations, etc.

      The books are fantastic but also really bat-poo crazy – Gladys Mitchell is a very unusual writer. She flicks between brilliant and weird in the same book and sometimes is both, and sometimes she’s just weird.

      1. Ah, that explains it. I was fooled by Diana Rigg and her ability to make anything glamorous.

  6. I remember watching these a long time ago (first run?) before I was deep into this 20s thing. Watching them again: 1. Diana Rigg, have adored her since watching The Avengers as a child without a clue of what was happening, but she was so cool. 2. I do agree that the writer and TV show runners of Miss Fisher owe a debt to this production. The snake under the catering dome thing = the spider under the diaphram. Nuff said. 3. I personally
    couldn’t pull off those helmet cloches she wears, but they are AWESOME. 4. I want a car with a complete bar in full view. 5, She, like I, believes that one of the secrets to a happy marriage is separate bathrooms.

  7. Love this, especially the “Opera” episode. Yes, she banishes the third wall. Nobody does supercilious like Dame Diana. Why, oh why, didn’t they make more? I believe I’ve seen it in one of those PBS catalogs. Obscure Brit series are often available if one wishes to buy. Best. Hats. Ever. Circa the 1920s anyway. But nice try Miss Fisher. I once saw Mr. Petherbridge pushing a stroller in Stratford-on-Avon–elegantly, of course.

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