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"Blood at the Wheel" begins with a lady driving a racing car and one of the wheels falls off! Obviously, someone tampered with it and the car hits a tree. But she SHOULD have survived the accident...but didn't. The autopsy explains this...someone strangled her AFTER the accident! However, unlike most mysteries, Phryne has two unusual problems...Jack is very distant and uninvolved compared to most cases AND there is a LOT of sexism. Apparently many of the men in the racing business think women cannot race...as if their wombs will be ejected due to the high speeds!

This is a very good but not an outstanding episode...well worth seeing but not one that is a standout among others. An unusual mystery...and a chance to actually see Dot pretending to be a Russian race car driver!!

At 78 minutes and shot in vivid color, I wouldn't consider "Cripple Creek" a B-western...even if the stars are clearly second or third-tier actors. It's sort of a B+ movie...if there was such a thing, as a true B would have run from 50-70 minutes and certainly would not have been in color.

The town of Cripple Creek, Colorado is experiencing teething pains in 1893. It seems that after gold was discovered, all sorts of gold shipments have disappeared due to banditry. So, it's not too surprisingly that the Secret Service would send an agent (George Montgomery) to investigate and he brings along a couple friends for backup.

This is a decent and entertaining western...with no serious surprises but a consistently high quality for a western. Not at all a must-see but worth seeing if you enjoy the genre.

I was surprised that of all the Sherlock Holmes stories that they would make "The Bruce Partington Plans". After all, they filmed two similar previous stories with Jeremy Brett ("The Naval Treaty" and "The Second Stain")...all about missing state secrets or treaties.

The story begins with something only a state problem could accompany...Mycroft coming to 221B Baker Street to see his brother, Sherlock. This also happened with "The Naval Treaty".... Mycroft leaving his sanctuary of the Diogenes Club. It seems a man was found dead...and with some state secrets on his body. But some of the stolen documents are still missing...such as the plans for a revolutionary submarine.

This is a decent but very familiar episode. Worth seeing but one that is easy to mix up with the other two similar stories. Well done apart from that.