Fill-in Poll: Mon, 7/25 - Murder, She Wrote?

[PollyannaMom]

Thought I'd post a poll, since I'm missing Slo's while she's at Katie's tournament, and I bet others are as well.

It's inspired by the fact that I watched Murder, She Wrote (specifically "Nan's Ghost, Part 2") over my morning coffee today.

Do you watch, and do you like it? (Multiple votes allowed.)

 

[PollyannaMom]

I love the show, especially because i have fond memories of watching it with my grandmother when it was originally on.

 

[SirDuff]

One of the channels here plays 4-5 episodes in a row every Saturday and Sunday afternoon. I watched a lot when I have COVID-19 and will still watch a an episode or so if I'm home (I don't like it enough to record it). I probably saw an episode or two when it first ran.

 

[design_mom]

I watched it sometimes when it was on originally. It wasn't "must see TV" for me, but I enjoyed it when I saw it. (I picked "it's just OK" but I wish there would have been a choice like "I like it" -- something between "it's just OK" and "I love it.")

 

[fly girl]

I never watched it.

But I get why you enjoy watching it @PollyannaMom. That is how I feel about Golden Girls. My grandma LOVED that show.

and love the fill in for slo.

 

[mjkacmom]

I think I watched it on Sunday nights with my dad. I’ve heard people joke that her family members must’ve been tense when aunt Angela visited since someone was always murdered.

 

[Schneewittchen37]

During the original run, I occasionally watched it. I was probably in elementary school. Anyway, I do remember watching it with my maternal grandparents and my paternal great aunt whenever I visited them on vacation. Old people shows. Even worse, I watched Lawrence Welk reruns and Hee Haw with my paternal grandfather. He loved music and dancing, a bit of a smarmy, slicked back, smooth talking ladies man after my grandmother died. LOL.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

I never got into it when it originally ran. Haven’t even tried with the re-runs.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I watch it almost every night.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I've never seen it.

Thanks for the fill-in, @PollyannaMom .

 

[Kitty 34]

I never watched it but my Mom did all the time.

Thanks for the morning poll. It's as much needed as my morning coffee!

 

[Mysterian]

I've seen some back in the day. It's always a friend of Jessica Fletcher's that gets murdered. Therefore, don't be friends with Jessica Fletcher.

I liked it better than PBS'/BBC's Miss Marple, which is so British that it'll have you driving on the wrong side of the road after one viewing. I've heard that Fletcher is supposedly loosely based on Marple.

 

[_19disnA]

Watched it when it was originally aired. Wasn't aware of the reruns being shown, but nowadays there are so many channels/services around you can probably find most older shows somewhere if you check around long enough. Always liked that style of 'who done it' since as a viewer you could play along, look for clues and also try to solve the murder while watching. It was something the whole family could watch unlike those gory, gruesome, creepy type of crime shows that seem so popular now.

 

[BrianL]

It was watched in myh house when I was a kid so I would sometime watch it, but it wasn't my favorite so sometimes I didn't pay attention. My grandmother LOVED it!

 

[Mysterian]

I never watched it.

But I get why you enjoy watching it @PollyannaMom. That is how I feel about Golden Girls. My grandma LOVED that show.

and love the fill in for slo.

Your grandma loved Golden Girls? *I* loved Golden Girls! I thought most of us 80's kids watched Golden Girls.

A-Team, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, GOLDEN GIRLS, Hunter, The Equalizer.

A-Team is essentially The Golden Girls with guns and explosions. A-Teams' car chases are Golden Girls' kitchen table chats. Murdock= Rose, Face = Blanche, Hannibal = Dorothy, and B.A. Baracus (Mr.T) = Sophia.

 

[Mysterian]

Hey! I just thought.

The Golden Girls (yes I'm still there) characters also resemble the usual archetypes of characters from slasher films.

Blanche is the promiscuous one, the archetype that always gets killed early on.
Rose is the dull one, she goes down in the basement despite the audience telling her not too.
Sophia is the wisecracker/stoner archetype, whose death later in the film eliminates the comic relief from the final act.
Dorothy is the Final Girl, she has what it takes to take on the night!

This roughly works for Designing Woman as well, with Anthony being the one whom they may suspect is the killer ("Due to my 'unfortunate incarceration'"), but he is in fact NOT.

Drink in these thoughts with your morning coffee!

 

[CdnCarrie]

Never watched it.

 

[amcnj]

It’s one of those shows that for some reason I never watched. I don’t know if something else was on at the same time, or it was during a period I wasn’t watching much tv. But I enjoyed Agatha Christie books and always felt this show would be something I would enjoy.

 

[fly girl]

Your grandma loved Golden Girls? *I* loved Golden Girls! I thought most of us 80's kids watched Golden Girls.

A-Team, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, GOLDEN GIRLS, Hunter, The Equalizer.

A-Team is essentially The Golden Girls with guns and explosions. A-Teams' car chases are Golden Girls' kitchen table chats. Murdock= Rose, Face = Blanche, Hannibal = Dorothy, and B.A. Baracus (Mr.T) = Sophia.

Oh yeah, I watched it without her too (I am an 80's kid after all) but she just LOVE LOVE LOVED that show.

She also loved Seinfeld. Yeah, I had a really had a cool grandma. One line we both cracked up at was in The Pen episode. Time stamp 4:19. Yep, that was my grandma. (and she looked like Betty White to boot. Would get that comment a lot when Golden Girls was at its height of popularity.)

 

[Meriweather]

I've never seen it.

Thanks for the fill-in, @PollyannaMom .

Yes, thank you for filling in !!