History Series / Grantchester

** Sidney has his moments as well.

Due to the lack of names for episodes of this series despite the books giving the mysteries themselves names, these are our names for each episode of the series (those marked with an asterisk are either based loosely or not at all on a mystery found in the books):

# "The Shadow of Death"
# "A Question of Trust"
# "First, Do No Harm"
# "Friends of Dorothy"*
# "A Matter of Time"
# "Wartime Friends"*

# "Love and Arson"*
# "The Perils of the Night"
# "Falsely Shouting Fire"*
# "Fractured Friendship"*
# "Acquitted Too Late"*
# "Judgment Day"*

Due to the lack of names for episodes of this series despite the books giving the mysteries themselves names, these are our names for each episode of the series (those with the FanNickname pothole are either based loosely or not at all on a mystery found in the books):

# "[[FanNickname Friends of Dorothy]]"

# "[[FanNickname Wartime Friends]]"

# "[[FanNickname Love and Arson]]"

# "[[FanNickname Falsely Shouting Fire]]"
# "[[FanNickname Fractured Friendship]]"
# "[[FanNickname Acquitted Too Late]]"
# "[[FanNickname Judgment Day]]"

-->'''DC Atkins''': “You’re not obliged to say anything if you do not wish to do so, but what you do say may be put into writing.”

* WunzaPlot: One's a priest, one's a copper. Together, they solve crime!

* StarCrossedLovers: Sidney and Amanda are in love but are forced to ignore their feelings because Amanda’s wealthy father would never approve of her marrying someone of such humble means. Amanda, instead, enters into an arranged engagement with the son of her father’s business partner and the two have to acknowledge that they'll only ever be friends.

* {{Oxbridge}}: Set in Grantchester, just south of Cambridge, and Sidney cycles around Cambridge regularly. In the books, in addition to being a vicar, Sidney holds an academic post at his old college, Corpus Christi

* HeroesLoveDogs: Sidney owns a chocolate lab, a gift from Amanda, that he names Dickens after Mrs. Maguire’s favorite exclamation.

''Grantchester'' is an Creator/{{ITV}} mystery program that first broadcast in 2014 based on ‘’The Grantchester Mysteries’’ stories written by James Runcie. It also airs on Creator/{{PBS}} in the US.

* StealthPun / VisualPun: In the first episode, Sidney sees a prostitute being booked at the police station and has a friendly conversation with her (and she also shows up in the last episode of the first series, and Sidney remembers her). It's quite likely that there is a reference here to a kind of stock British costume party called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tarts and Vicars]]", but no one in the show references that (probably because the show's setting likely antedates this kind of party).

* BehindTheBlack: In the pilot episode, the murderer tries to push a woman onto train tracks, but Sidney jumps in from the side to save her just before she falls. To grab her in time, he must have been practically standing next to her, yet somehow remained unnoticed by either the murderer and her intended victim (both of whom would have recognized him).

''Grantchester'' is an Creator/{{ITV}} mystery program that first broadcast in 2014 based on ‘’The Grantchester Mysteries’’ stories written by James Runcie. It also airs on Creator/PBS in the US.

''Grantchester'' is an Creator/{{ITV}} mystery program that first broadcast in 2014 based on ‘’The Grantchester Mysteries’’ stories written by James Runcie.

* ArmouredClosetGay: One mystery revolves around how homosexuals had to keep their desires secret because homosexuality (classified as Gross Indecency) was a crime in 1950’s Britain.

* TransparentCloset: Leonard’s sexuality becomes an open secret amongst the characters, although the man himself is unsure of it himself.

-->’’’Sidney’’’: “Are we alcoholics, Geordie?”\\
‘’’Geordie’’’: “Probably.”

-->’’’Mrs. Maguire’’’: “You stupid man! You stupid stupid man!”

-->’’’DC Atkins’’’: “You’re not obliged to say anything if you do not wish to do so, but what you do say may be put into writing.”

* NoNameGiven: Geordie[[note]]pa nickname for people from the Tyneside region of Northern England as well as the dialect they speak[[/note]] only goes by his nickname and his actual name is not heard at any time during the first series.