Mystery

Invitation to a Murder

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  • Title: Invitation to a Murder
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Invitation to a Murder

Set in 1934, a group of strangers are brought together by a reclusive billionaire to his private island estate. The guests include florist, and mystery novel aficionado, Miranda Green (a frumpy Mischa Barton), an American journalist (Chris Browning), a lawyer (Seamus Dever), and three others (Bianca A. Santos, Giles Matthey, and Grace Lynn Kung). The last character of the film is the estate itself, well-shot but underutilized until the film’s final act. 

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Jake and the Fatman – The Man That Got Away

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  • Title: Jake and the Fatman – The Man That Got Away
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Jake and the Fatman - The Man That Got Away

Flashback Friday takes us back to 80s Las Angeles, a large and in charge district attorney, and his special investigator with a taste of the finer things in life. Robert Culp guest-stars as talent defense attorney Harrison Gregg who attempts the perfect murder in killing his ex-wife’s (Julie Cobb) lover and framing her for the crime. Then, agreeing to defend his ex-wife, Gregg attempts to get her to plead guilty as part of a plea-bargain sentencing her to several years in prison all while pretending his actions are in the best interests of his client.

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Scooby-Doo – Wednesday is Missing

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  • Title: The New Scooby-Doo Movies – Wednesday is Missing
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Scooby-Doo - Wednesday is Missing

Wayback Wednesday takes us back to another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. Often referred to as the “lost” episode of the series because Warner was never able to get the rights to release it on DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming, “Wednesday is Missing” is an odd episode that attempts to be both a Scooby-Doo mystery and a backdoor pilot of sorts for the eventual The Addams Family cartoon. It serves the latter better than the former and in many ways is probably best forgotten as its certainly one of the weakest classic Scooby-Doo episodes ever made. 

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Mr. Monk and the Other Woman

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  • Title: Monk – Mr. Monk and the Other Woman
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Mr. Monk and the Other Woman

Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). Over nearly the entire episode, Monk fights Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) over the identity of the person who broke into an office building, burned a file, and killed a lawyer. Stottlemeyer is fixated on the man (Nicholas Campbell) whose file was burned, however the facts don’t line up for Adrian (who is proven correct after he turns up dead). Suspicion then turns to the man’s neighbor, who again Stottlemeyer is 100% certain of, and that’s where things get interesting.

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Jake and the Fatman – Laura

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  • Title: Jake and the Fatman – Laura
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Jake and the Fatman - Laura

Flashback Friday takes us to 80s Las Angeles, a large and in charge district attorney, and his special investigator with a taste of the finer things in life. After starting out with an unrelated win for McCabe (William Conrad)  in court, and the introduction of Jake’s (Joe Penny) old partner (Alan Campbell) and fiancée (Brynn Thayer) at a party he throws in their honor, we witness Laura kill him in an alley attempting to pin the crime on a local gang kid stealing some electronics equipment. 

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