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Poirot – The Cornish Mystery

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  • Title: Poirot – The Cornish Mystery
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to early 20th Century London and another case for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The day after a visit by a frightened woman (Amanda Walker) who believes her husband is poisoning her and planning to make off with his beautiful new assistant (Laura Girling), Poirot (David Suchet) and Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) arrive to find their client dead. The police look to the husband as the obvious culprit, but Poirot believes something even more nefarious is afoot.

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Neagley – Team Building Exercises

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  • Title: Neagley – Team Building Exercises
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In an episode that continues Neagley’s (Maria Sten) partnership with Riley (Greyston Holt), while she continues to ignore the work for the firm who is paying for her, we get a flashback to events at the compound which led Tommy Crane (Jhaleil Swaby) to leave, and likely led to his death. In a show centered our central character  uncovering the truth, the sequence feels a bit out of place, although honestly it doesn’t provide anything that Neagley won’t eventually work out on her own.

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The Avengers – Mr. Teddy Bear

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  • Title: The Avengers – Mr. Teddy Bear
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the adventures of British spy John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his various partners. The first episode of the show’s Second Season introduces anthropologist turned spy Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) in the first of several appearances as Steed’s most common partner over the next two seasons. There’s a playful banter between the pair from the start, but you can also see Steed’s glee in riling up his partner on occassion.

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Batman: Caped Crusader – The Laughing Death

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  • Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – The Laughing Death
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The Season Two finale sees Gotham ripping itself apart as the Joker‘s (Matthew Needham) monsters attack both friends and foe alike. While others struggle to stay alive (and uninfected), and Alfred (Jason Watkins), keenly aware of its effects, works on a cure, we get the big face-to-face confrontation between our antagonist and Batman (Hamish Linklater) and learn all the chaos is nothing more than the Joker attempting to teach, who he sees as a kindred soul, an important lesson.

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Batman: Caped Crusader – Dead Before Dawn

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  • Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – Dead Before Dawn
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After an entire season of teasing his presence, the Joker (Matthew Needham) makes a very public debut killing Hattie Tetch (Laraine Newman) and her entire crew during a live broadcast of her TV-show before announcing he would kill Mayor Jessop before dawn. Batman (Hamish Linklater) arrives at the broadcast in time to take down the henchmen, and glimpse his new nemesis, but the Joker manages to escape. However, he won’t have to wait long for another confrontation.

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