He was the best Holmes of any generation. Very overlooked series. The upside is that they made a ton of those before he died so there is a nice library just a click away.
Posted on 04/12/2011 10:39:44 PM PDT by DGHoodini
Just thought it might be a good time for another Netflix 'Watch Anytime' round up of suggestions by FR members. My new few are:
'Tripoli' 'Eureka' 'Medium' 'All creatures Great and Small'
Wings, Futurama, Man V. Food
Jeeves and Wooster (except a couple of season 4, when they mostly run out of gas)
Man on Wire
A Man named Pearl
Young at Heart
The Way We Get By
Children of Heaven
Run Fat Boy, Run - British comedy
Hot Fuzz - British action comedy
In Bruges (graphic, yet funny, twisted British humor...)
Ooops, Jeeves and Wooster not available for streaming... too bad.
For TV shows, I have been rewatching some old favorites:
Strangers With Candy
Arrested Development
Columbo (The 70’s NBC Mystery Movie of course, not crappy 80’s stuff)
I liked Wings. Too bad they are only streaming the 6 episodes, and not the whole shows seasons.
OK, I missed the ‘streaming” part but, great movies never the less.
Are you ready?
I adore Netflix because it has “different’ stuff.
For Anglophiles and documentary lovers:
Pride and Prejudice - an old BBC version. The Mr Darcy is not good (lets face it, Colin Firth defined it) but the Elizabeth is very nice and I really like the rest.
Ken Burns “The Shakers”.
Expiring very soon - Dolley Madison, the American Experience.
The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Series. If you’ve never tried it, and love mystery, this is the place. Start with “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
The Joan Hickson Miss Marples. Perfection.
Blithe Spirit
MacBeth (with Picard set in a avantgarde USSR). My kids actually watched this with me.
Old Movies You May Not Have Seen:
Tin Pan Alley (I LOVE Alice Faye and Betty Grable) Fun singing here with John Payne and Jack Oakie also.
My Man Godfrey (William Powell was the man)
Walk Don’t Run (hopelessly out of date but I love it.)
Movies Most People have Seen but it’s fun to watch again:
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Arsenic and Old Lace (give an extra star if it’s Halloween. Can a movie have 6 stars?)
Tora Tora Tora
Chariots of Fire - extra star if you like Vangelis
Weird things that are really good:
Tin Man (SciFi retelling of the Wizard of Oz)
Dead Like Me -R rated! And Weird. Really weird. But strangely reflective and really, really good with great writing. And the coolest music.
Jericho, Fawlty Towers, BSG, Dick Van Dyke Show, Trailer Park Boys.
Uhhhmmm, I think we are talking at cross purposes. It’s not for suggestion to Netflix, it’s for suggestions to other FReepers, of what is availiable on NetFlix streaming *now*.
Had me going there, thinking they had added J%W...
Uhhhmmm, I think we are talking at cross purposes. It’s not for suggestion to Netflix, it’s for suggestions to other FReepers, of what is availiable on NetFlix streaming *now*.
Had me going there, thinking they had added J%W...
He was the best Holmes of any generation. Very overlooked series. The upside is that they made a ton of those before he died so there is a nice library just a click away.
Bella.
Jeremy Brett was such a fine actor. The defining Sherlock!!!
He inspired me to write a series of stories.
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