Father Brown

On the data. Two things. The BBC series is not really an adaptation any more. It began in 2013 with episodes based on Chesterton stories, moved the setting forward forty years to the 1950s and across to a Cotswolds village, and invented a permanent supporting cast. Within a couple of series it had used up most of the usable stories and has been writing its own ever since. It is now past a hundred and thirty episodes, which is more than twice the number of stories Chesterton wrote. That is not a criticism. It is a comfortable daytime mystery series and it is extremely good at being that. But anyone going to the stories expecting the same thing will find something much stranger: short, dense, theological, and built around a man who solves crimes by imagining himself committing them. Chesterton's stories are out of copyright everywhere and are free to read legally. The 1954 film is the other thing worth knowing about. Alec Guinness plays the priest, and he wrote later that a child in a French village mistook him for a real priest while he was in costume, which was one of the steps toward his conversion to Catholicism a couple of years afterwards.

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