http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Montalbano_(TV_series)

oh i see...we are really going back in time then...'early days' in the fight against the ill....

1999

that is how long ago, THE FOG was made....earlier than 1999...we must have all been so young then....it was made about 20 years ago, i reckon....and then released 'when it was safe to do so' in 2005....



"Inspector Montalbano (Italian: Il commissario Montalbano) is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano (English: Young Montalbano)."


and the funny thing is...having met georges cluny....the hollidays were to laugh that he would have made a perfect inspector montalbano....a role that would have really suited him....