McBride: Murder Past Midnight

This Hallmark movie, although it got quite a bit of structure from the "Perry Mason" TV movies, was slow but pleasant, with several plot turns that could be seen coming from a foot away. What it had going for it was its cast, including John LaRoquette, William McNamara, and a totally unrecognizable Daryl Anderson, aka "The Animal" from the old Lou Grant Show. Newcomer singer/actress Jamie Ray Newman (formerly of General Hospital) had a nice role, and long-time character actor Rod McCarron made an appearance. Nicest of all, two women of a certain age, Marta Dubois and Diane Robin, get to flirt shamelessly with LaRoquette. Dubois is a regular in this series and a love interest of McBride's - good to see an age-matched couple. There was some heart, too, as evidenced when McBride inherits Jessie, a client's dog. All in all, it's refreshing to see that these old-fashioned, purely entertaining types of mysteries with recognizable casts have a home on Hallmark. I look forward to another installment.

"McBride: Murder Past Mighnight" 2005: The acting was very wooden in this movie. The actors are seemingly competent actors; so may be it's the director. All I know is, the delivery of the dialogue is like fingernails on a chalkboard. The story is pretty good, but the mystery is tad obvious and predictable. The photography and camera work is very bad. // The Bushwacker 8/15/2021.

Not that the show was bad but it doesn't strike me as a wholesome show like the others I have watch on up. I'm new to up faith & family this particular episode had a lot of cleavage, smoking sexual content it just didn't seem like a family show. I will give McBride a nother chance by watching a different episode to see how the others are but if they are like this one I believe if up faith & family wants to keep its reputation it needs to take this off their line up. The actors were all ok but as stated before this to me is not considered a family oriented show way to much smoking,and sexual content to be considered family.

John Larroquette, who delivered MANY funny lines in Night Court, gets to play the role of a criminal attorney in this movie (and series) and gets quite a few clever lines. Nothing was quite laugh out loud, but many were "look at each other and smile".

Here he starts out on a jury and decides the defendant is not guilty, or at least he's not sure she's guilty. In a departure from most mysteries of the type, the victim isn't dead! Just in a coma, with his young wife on trial for attempted murder, not murder.

In a classic Perry Mason or Agatha Christie style plot, there are suspects aplenty, and McBride has to wade through them all with an unusual device of having him "present" during earlier scenes that are being described to him.

Quite entertaining. We saw SOME of these years ago, but not all. So I was happy to see them all shown in a row earlier this week on Hallmark Mysteries.

What a wonderful show and Matt Lutz is a great actor. I am anxious to see another series of McBride. We need more of this Matt Lutz!!! Great job, great suspense, great actors.......what more can you ask for???? John Laroquette is really perfect for his role. We need more shows like the old Perry Mason, Barnaby Jones etc. I do believe Matt Lutz had some other roles in movies I have seen recently. I would love to see this series come to prime-time TV, UPN or something other than Hallmark Channel as it is not always available. Keep up the great work, in producing this type of movie or series. Again, Matt Lutz is going to go places.