"Father Brown" (BBC in 2013), Season 1, #1

Jueves, 8 de enero de 2026: 

 I watched the following drama in the Japanese-style room at night.

 It was recorded on the built-in HDD of my DIGA (made in 2017). It will be broadcast on BS12 from 8:00 PM on January 5, 2026.

 This is the first episode of Season 1 of the drama "Father Brown" (produced by the BBC in 2013. Original language: English with Japanese subtitles. 10 episodes in total).

 The story is set in a beautiful English countryside village that everyone would love to live in at least once. It's a rural village in the early 1950s.

 There are hardly any electric wires and towers, no vending machines, and no advertising billboard or advertising posters. It's a beautiful rural landscape.

 A steam locomotive from that time runs, with passengers on board. The station platform has also been recreated to look just like it did back then. It's wonderful that a "period drama" can be filmed on location in such a place.

 The sight of a classic British car driving briskly is also cool. If I could buy one at a low price, I'd like to drive a car like that too. However, watching the Discovery Channel's "Classic Car Restoration," it's clear that it would be extremely expensive to improve the locomotive so that it could be legally and safely driven on Japan's roads today. There are probably very few people in Japan today who are capable of carrying out the work.

 I don't know whether red fire alarms and extinguishers were installed at rural British stations at the time. Since the filming took place at the stations while the steam locomotive was actually running, the authorities may not have given permission to cover up or remove the fire alarms and extinguishers currently installed on the station platforms with posters or other objects.

 It seems likely that the stations chosen did not have yellow lines for the visually impaired on their platforms.

 Even in the countryside, Japanese stations are full of posters, notices, and vending machines. Even unmanned stations have vending machines.

 The steam locomotives currently running in Japan (preserved working vehicles) are vehicles that were in operation from the 1960s to the early 1970s and have the latest smoke collection devices attached to the top, giving them a different feel from the steam locomotives that ran before World War II. 

 Japan's current population is 120 million. It is impossible to see the impressive sight of steam locomotives speeding along bravely, spewing out clouds of smoke, as was the case in the past. The steam locomotives that pull tourist trains in Japan today are little more than toys.

 The original author, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, was born in 1874 and passed away in 1936.

 Casual viewing of the drama makes us think it is set in the English countryside about 100 years ago (after World War I).