I enjoyed this MM a bunch. the murders were maybe a tad more ridiculous than usual, but that's well within the spirit of "English murder mystery killings" as John Nettles whimsically explained them. I was a journalist on the crime beat, and most murderers are as dim as they are unscrupulous. There's usually even less planning than there is remorse. It's all impulse. So the imaginative doing-aways in MM is what makes them sparkle. This episode benefits from a rare nude scene by a comely lass under 60 and a spirited English Music Hall song done quite well by Charlie Covell. I thought she was singing Gilbert & Sullivan at first, but it wasn't, it's The Galloping Major, 1906, and you can catch several versions on YouTube. You can just imagine someone singing it in Charlie Chaplin's tour with the Fred Karno troupe.
Review of Shot at Dawn
