You can also keep reality shows about 24 hours in A&E or following ambulances – the indignity, real-life pain, blood and guts turn my stomach. One exception – Diagnosis Murder. If it was a book, the series would come under the heading of ‘cosy crime’ – that is victims are murdered in the cleanest of ways. There are no close-up autopsies or talk of decomp. The hero of the 178 episodes is a hospital doctor, fatherly, gentle Mark Sloane – played by the delightful Dick Van Dyke. Although he is Chief... Read this story