There's a character in an episode of the British spy series Callan who's a disgraced gay former doctor who performs abortions, fixes gunshot wounds etc. and is known only as "The Groper."
Also the name of a real person that I have always enjoyed is an English actress named Ambrosine Philpotts.

That'd be a series worth reading if you based the detective on the real Eric Gill, designer of Gill Sans. He had an "interesting" personal life.

Also: Charles Guiteau, who shot Garfield, was hanged; the guy that tried to kill FDR but killed the mayor of Chicago got the chair.

Manhunter, Super Troopers, and The Year of the Sex Olympics.

No, just merry.

Varys is Ethel Merman?!

When I was a kid in the '70s there were nacho cheese, taco, and plain old salt. Taco and nacho cheese were definitely different.

They showed it three years ago or so as part of a Cinerama festival at the Dome in L.A. Interesting technically is about all I can say about it. It was a lot of fun to watch This is Cinerama though.

An entire third of the book of Moonraker is devoted to playing bridge, and it's one of the best things Fleming ever wrote, so tastes vary.

Oddly enough, Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott are also in a remake of "Twelve Angry Men." Guess they liked the courtroom drama!

No one's mentioned Stalag 17 either, one of my favorite non-Christmas Christmas movies. Maybe not first-rate Billy Wilder, but even pretty good Billy Wilder is pretty damn good.

One thing I noticed a few years ago when I finally saw the movie on the big screen is that the guy holding the little old lady as she gets punched in the stomach is eating an enormous slice of cake.

The Academy of TV (the one that does the Emmys) has done that with dozens of people in TV and they've got most of the interviews up on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/use… — actors as well as producers and other behind the scenes folks. Some very interesting stuff. The John Frankenheimer interviews are a lot of fun.

That rings a bell with me too, but I think it's an episode of Wild, Wild West, which I saw a lot more of as a kid than U.N.C.L.E., which didn't get shown much in the LA area for some reason.

And watch Sapphire and Steel, one of the greatest fantasy series of all time, with McCallum and Joanna Lumley, years before Ab-Fab.

Dennis the Menace, I Spy (which came out in 2002, but still), Maverick, Wild Wild West come to mind. I'm sure there's more.

Already done by The Avengers in 1965 – "The Girl from Auntie," complete with murderous little old lady on bicycle who stabbed people with knitting needles and [SPOILER] turns out not to be a little old lady.

Yes indeed!

She was a fine actress, but an irritating and poor Jeopardy contestant. We can't all be good at everything.

There is a Celebrity Jeopardy with David Duchovny, Stephen King and Lynn Redgrave. King and Duchovny play well. Redgrave, not so much.