NCIS.

What did I watch before NCIS ? Inspector Morse, Midsomer murders with John Nettles and now Endeavour. But for me NCIS is somehow in a class of its own. There is nothing I don't like about it. Story-lines are second to none and very believable in an abstract kind of way,one doesn't know much about international intrigue, yet somehow feels that all is relevant. The characters are sympathetic and pleasingly looking.There was probably my second favourite episode yesterday, when Dr Mallard finds his long lost stepbrother, Nicholas, in a nursing home in the US, being struck by an early stage of Alzheimer's. I had nursed my husband through 8 years of this cruel illness so it was unbearable to watch,but I wanted to see how this excellent series deals with the subject,it is important people understand what having Alzheimer's means,so very few people did when they met my husband. My most favourite of all episodes is the one where Ziva, the Mossad agent, appears, I think, for the last time.She and Tony are kind of saying their good-byes.She tells him - Oh, Tony,you are so... he interjects with one of his usual quips,.... and she continues...loved.....There are moments I find painful to watch and this is one of them. Moments like Jack Nicholson in One flew over the cuckoo's nest having a pillow pressed against his face...I saw the film when it first came out and cannot bear to watch it again. Milos Forman,the Czech director,got an Oscar for it. There is so much grief and sorrow in real life,I do not want to see it on the screen any more.