Team America World Police et al

Marvelous (very) foul mouthed satire - if like me you were a child of the Thunderbirds generation(s) growing up with Gerry Anderson's puppet (and subsequently live action) shows this is even more piquant. Enjoy - but do not watch with your mother or grandma...

For more foul not suitable for children big kids shows try South Park - The Movie, or indeed the South Park TV series.

While we are on the subject try Family Guy. I love the Star Wars episode.

Great Crime Authors

Agatha Christie - hugely enjoyable of course, but beyond her realm

Michael Innes - not to be confused with Hammond - wrote some wonderful donnish crime books.
His sequence of (Sir) John Appleby books are especially good.

Simon Brett - your Mum and I like his Mrs Pargetter novels, and I enjoy his Charles Parris and Fethering novels.

I chanced across Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter mysteries several years ago - proof that great detectives can be gay.

We are so glad that you already love Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

Sci Fi Films

The original Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi

Dark Star - less well known these days but a great little cult film

Forbidden Planet - one of the best from the 1950's

Android - a film I keep hoping to catch again on TV - (with Klaus Kinski)

The Sting

If you like Hustle and the Real Hustle check out The Sting

And while we are on Redford and Newman - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is also a modern classic movie.

Cartoons

If - by Steve Bell
Boonedocks
Doonesbury
Ctrl Alt Del*
Garfield
Dilbert
Nemi

Comedy Shows

Family Guy*
The Young Ones
Monty Python

South Park **


The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

TV Shows - Drama

Hill Street Blues
Homicide - Life on the Street
Dexter *
A Very Peculiar Practice

The Prisoner
Deadwood**
The Wire**

Being Human

Newer Films - Comedies

Team America World Police**

A Fish Called Wanda
Airplane
Life of Brian

Classic Films

Casablanca
It Happened One Night
His Girl Friday/The Front Page
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bringing Up Baby

Ealing Comedies
Passport To Pimlico
The Man In the White Suit
Whiskey Galore
The Lady Killers
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Titfield Thunderbolt