Kathryn Morris UK

Cold Case S03E04 – Colors HD Screencaps

Ooops. I made a mistake last week in posting the winner from a poll that hadn’t actually closed at the time. I meant to post this one last week. The end result wasn’t effected, just the order of posting. Sorry.

So, where was I? Or, where should I have been? Ah yes, Colors.

American dramas such as Cold Case really like their baseball themed episodes don’t they? I can see they are a rich vein for stories as it is an American national sport and is played by everyone from young children to highly paid professional athletes. There is lots of scope for tales of improving ones circumstances (aka ‘The American Dream’™) and over-coming adversity. They also allow for exploring the darker elements of jealous, hate and greed as well.

Colors presents the case of a murdered young black baseball player from 1945. Clyde Taylor had been very successful in the segregated Negro leagues and was on the verge of moving to the majors, a big issue in those days. 60 years on can the squad track down his killer?

If only they’d ended the episode (number of four of Cold Case season three) with a montage of the police team playing baseball… Oh well, maybe later

We didn’t quite crack the century with this set of 99 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps for the KM UK Summer Of HD 2014 now in the Gallery.

Cold Case S03E11 – 8 Years HD Screencaps

Early in 8 Years, episode 11 of Cold Case‘s third season, Lt. John Stillman makes a bit of a joke about Olivia, Lilly’s one eyed cat (see above). Karmic retribution comes swiftly as John’s ex-wife Rita makes a surprise visit to the station. Did anyone notice a certain similarity?

Speaking of the boss, 8 Years was one of the handful of CC episodes to contain music by a single artist. In this instance the plot was worked around the songs by Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen. I’m not au fait with this young person music but I gather it is popular. Quite how it fits in with a crime that occurred way back in 1988 I can’t imagine

This must also be one of the few episodes of CC to include the title in the opening sequence when it shows time has passed with the caption “8 Years Later”. The gap shows how the lives of four close friends have changed and culminated in the death of one of them.

After revisting the past to solve the case the show ends with various squad members revisiting the past in the own lives. John meet his ex, Nick (Jeremy Ratchford) succumbs to temptation, and as for Lilly… Her reminiscing with a witness about a wild/romantic interlude in her past gets her thumbing through the photo album. Who could the shy be-helmeted gentleman be?

This latest post as part of the KM UK Summer Of HD 2014 brings us 127 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps in the Gallery.

Update: Ooops. I jumped the gun. I was supposed to post the most recent poll winner, which was Colors, here. That will be posted next week now.

Cold Case S03E01 – Family Full HD Screencaps

Ten weeks into this thing and we finally reach the beginning.

Yes, we’re covering the Cold Case season 3 opener ‘Family’ this time.

A teenager has a possible new lead on the murder of her own father, a teenager himself, who died the day she was born in 1988. After being abandoned by her mother that night the girl has been in the foster system her whole life. Questions are raised about whether the victim was her father. Meanwhile Lilly’s back to work after the funeral of George Marks, the serial killer from the latter half of season 2. Could this case bring up Lilly’s own parent-related issues.

Speaking of family, the squad find a change to theirs as new detective Josie Sutton (Sarah Brown) joins them. There are rumours about the reasons she left her previous assignment and Vera (Jeremy Ratchford) is spreading them. Scotty, however, is the one that wants to ‘spread ’em’ 😉 Sarah only lasted 4 more episodes before her character was written out. Since Cold Case Sarah has appeared in various films and TV shows including Castle and CSI, with periods on soaps The Bold And The Beautiful and Days Of Our Lives, as well as a return stint on General Hospital. Appropriately, given the weekend’s Wimbledon finals, Nick wants “new balls please” as a tennis-playing witness gets a little flirty.

Who is the father? Who’s the killer? Will mum and daughter reconcile? And what about the creepy nurse?

KM UK’s Summer Of HD 2014 goes full HD with a new set of 176 1080p Lilly screencaps now to be found in the Gallery.

Murder She Wrote – Sat/Sun ITV3

Picture the scene: you’ve sat through enough football and tennis the past couple of weeks to bore even the most ardent fan of either sport. England have proved incapable at football, again, and our tennis hero has been re-branded as Scottish. It’s late on Saturday and you need a change of pace from the repeat showing of action films that have filled the evening schedules. What can you do? Fear no longer. Help is at hand.

Murder, She Wrote is not normally late night TV viewing but the UK’s ITV3 channel has decided to try and goose its ratings at the midnight hour by putting on an episode. The episode in question is one of the very last from the 12th and final season, has the title of What You Don’t Know Can Kill You, and sees Kathryn in a guest starring role.

So, if you find yourself up as Saturday becomes Sunday then tune into ITV3 for a bit of gentle sleuthing with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and the folks of Cabots Cove, which is clearly one of the most dangerous places in America. England has its own equivalent in Midsomer from Midsomer Murders (one of the most watched shows in the world!) with a body count for the small county that must be past the century in the 100 episodes so far.

Or record it and watch it before the tennis on Sunday.

My detailed review (spoiler alert!) of this Murder, She Wrote episode can be seen in this post from back in 2009. Of course there is also already comprehensive coverage of MSW: WYDKCKY in the KM UK Gallery.

It doesn’t happen often enough but here on KM UK we like to mention appearances of Kathryn’s work on the TV screens of Great Britain in our Media Alert posts. If you spot something upcoming, preferably on channels available on the Freeview system that everyone has access to, then please let me know via the contact form.

Cold Case S03E03 – Bad Night HD Screencaps

Mimi Kennedy is one of those actresses you almost certainly recognise (from the image above if nowhere else), even if you don’t know her name. In a career that has so far spanned nearly 4 decades, and is still going strong, Mimi has been in just about everything but is probably best known for her role in the long-running sitcom Dharma & Greg. Mimi played Abby, the ageing hippy mother to Jenna Elfman’s Dharma. Apparently she was originally up for the other mother job in D&G, the uptight Kitty. Instead that went to the equally wonderful Susan Sullivan, who you will know as Martha in the TV show Castle.

Elena (Mimi) goes to the CC squad about the murder of her son Angus back in 1978. At the time it was thought to be a copycat killing, mirroring the newly released movie Halloween. The tensions within a group of friends caused crippling injuries suffered by Angus’s girlfriend in a car crash when he was driving surface. Who was responsible for the crash? Who killed Angus?

In a plot-line lay-by for Will Jeffries (Thom Barry) the case brings up the death of his wife.

An on-set photo and a still accompany 132 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps in the Gallery.