What is on Walker’s TV as he writes this blog post, America asks.

The TV series above. It’s been my habit for some time to turn to some old TV show or movie at this time of day, as a sort of white noise. Quite often it’s been some old British crime TV series. I watched, for instance, several episodes of an ancient series called “Z-Cars” (pronounced, of course, “Zed cars”), which in its earliest seasons featured a beardless Brian Blessed as a uniformed cop – one of his early acting jobs.

Now I’ve found this 1985 British miniseries set in Norway, entitled “Maelstrom.” It was broadcast in the US, on one of the cable networks, back in the late ’80s, and I recorded it on VHS at the time because, after all, it was set in Norway, and it wasn’t awful.

It stars an English/Swedish actress named Tussi Silberg as a British woman who discovers that a Norwegian millionaire she’s never heard of has left her some property and a dried fish factory. Mystified, she flies over there, where she finds everyone welcoming, and nobody seems to begrudge her a share of the family’s rather large fortune. But strange occurrences… occur, and behind it all there’s the continued puzzle of what possible connection the old man might have had to her.

It’s not bad. The acting’s fair, except for some histrionics at the end. The psychology is pretty naïve. And, of course, there’s the beautiful Norwegian scenery.