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Just wondering what happened to Inspector Lynley on PBS. Havers was shot in the last one we saw, and now it has disappeared. Is it coming back? Joan Wilkinson via email The BBC ceased production on The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, which starred Nathaniel Parker as the titular aristocratic detective and Sharon Small as his working- class sidekick, Sgt. Barbara Havers, in 2008. PBS broadcast the last two episodes on Masterpiece Mystery that summer. We’re guessing that what you’ve been seeing is a run of repeats on a PBS affiliate station. The folks at that station would be the ones to ask about plans to air more Lynley episodes. And there are more; Havers’ shooting came at the end of the third season ( or series, as the Brits call them), and there were three more after that.
One of my favourite comedies is Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. Years ago, I saw an addendum at the end, in which the cast discussed the making of it. Will it be broadcast again or is it on a DVD? Ed Belcher It could have been a 2002 episode of Backstory, a series that ran on AMC and told the histories of certain movies. It’s been some time since the channel repeated that series, but something similar is available on the DVD and Blu- ray editions of the Brooks comedy classic. Making FrankenSense of Young Frankenstein is a featurette that runs close to 45 minutes and has a number of the film’s principals, from both sides of the camera, talking about the production that famously used some of the equipment from the 1931 Frankenstein movie.
I’ve been enjoying Matthew McConaughey’s award show speeches lately. What was the first movie he was in? Judy Lewis The first one on record is a cult classic, which not every actor can say about his first big- screen role. It was writer- director Richard Linklater’s 1993 comedydrama Dazed and Confused, which also featured Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Milla Jovovich, Joey Lauren Adams, Rory Cochrane and Adam Goldberg. Before that, McConaughey had his first listed credit for a 1992 episode of the television series Unsolved Mysteries. He played the murder victim in the story Larry Dickens.