Father Brown. Season 1

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Call Number: DVD TV Father Season 1
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Bonus features: Confessions from the Cotswolds, behind-the-scene footage and interviews with the cast and crew.
Disc 1. Hammer of God ; The Flying Stars ; The Wrong Shape -- Disc 2. The Man in the Tree ; The Eye of Appollo ; The Bride of Christ -- Disc 3 The Devil's Dust ; The Face of Death -- Disc 4. The Mayor and the Magician ; The Blue Cross.
Mark Williams, Sorcha Cusack, Hugo Speer, Nancy Carroll.
Celebrated author GK Chesterton's beloved character, Father Brown, is brilliantly brought to life in this charming ten-part BBC series starring Mark Williams (Harry Potter, Doctor Who). With the warmth of The Vicar of Dibley, the intellect of Miss Marple, the humour of Father Ted and the intrigue of Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown is a fresh new take on a classic genre. Set in the 1950s in the heart of the English countryside, Father Brown is a kindly cleric with a particular talent for solving crimes. Many years spent hearing confessions have given him an uncanny insight into the workings of the criminal mind, and in each episode the enigmatic priest discovers the truth of a crime by looking into the truth of the soul, the passions, dark secrets, hidden desires.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen presentation (16:9); Dolby Digital, stereo.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Excellent! submitted by bookworms on August 30, 2016, 6:56am Witty and entertaining, this is not a seat of your pants kind of crime drama, but a very likeable period piece with great characters.

Enjoyable submitted by cbrewster on July 6, 2018, 1:22am I did not expect to like the show. Originally had a hard time liking Father Brown in the beginning. However, I kept watching the show and came to love him. He is not an ordinary priest and doesn't always like to follow the rules, which often gets him in trouble with the higher-ups in the church. But, he has a great understanding of human nature that really makes him likable. He likes to to play the ponies with Sid, a part-time crook, that father Brown is a father figure to. He also spends time with Countess Felicia Montague, one of his congregants. She is always up for the Father's shenanigans because she is often bored with her own life. Mrs. McCarthy, the parish secretary, takes care of Father Brown. Sometimes she gets upset with him for not following the rules, but she often winds up involved in his crime solving.

Wonderful! submitted by jessNU on July 24, 2018, 4:00pm Like another reviewer, I wasn't sure about this show at first. But it is great and reminds me a bit of Murder She Wrote - if you like that, you'll love Father Brown.

Third Review Agrees submitted by ekjensen on July 23, 2019, 9:21am Like cbrewster and jessNU, this simple comfortable British whodunit is delightful viewing. The first season nicely introduces Father Brown, a small village Roman Catholic priest, who always crosses paths with the victim and murderer. He is always nosing in on the local police authorities jurisdiction over the cases and helping them (in a Miss Marple-Agatha Christie style) with/without their approval. We are also introduced to supporting characters, Mrs McCarthy, parish secretary and renowned strawberry scones baker, Lady Felicia, high heeled and low heeled local aristocrat lover of men, and Sid, part time crook who graduates to the position of Lady Felicia's chauffeur. The sets and clothing are appropriate and stylish to the 1950's. Easy addictive viewing if you like a mystery in yet another British style.

a good time submitted by yufamily on August 15, 2019, 2:38pm Father Brown is a lovable character

It's OK submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 15, 2019, 4:21pm While the plots are mostly interesting, there are times that the solution feels contrived. The show does a good job of making the characters look as if they really are living in 1950s England in terms of the scenery and clothing, the social attitudes of the characters are not at all accurate. England was much more anti-Catholic at that time, and far less accommodating to single women and people with disabilities.