I've never heard of that Australian one. When did it come out? Did it play anywhere in the U.S.?

There have been two or three dramatizations of the Tony Hillerman Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee mysteries. Wes Studi doesn't portray Leaphorn the way I imagine him, he's too stoic, too slim, too young. In the earlier books where he is alone he is younger, but when he was solving mysteries with Jim Chee he was older, slower. There aren't many Southwestern Indian actors playing these roles, either, so it is a rather mishmash of cultures all supposedly playing Navajo and Pueblo tribal police. At least most of them are Indians playing Indians.

Some of the mysteries we discussed earlier are harder to watch than others. Frost and Cracker fall into that category for me. I haven't been able to watch an entire program in the new Miss Marple series to get a reading on it yet, I've only caught fragments. There is a new mysterm the local PBS played here last summer that I saw a few of, Rosemary and Thyme. Anything with Felicity Kendal gets my attention. I suspect it's a stretch to keep finding botanical murder mysteries, but the ones I saw were cute. Pam Ferris is no slouch, either. I just did a search on her at IMDb, and hadn't realized all of the things I'd seen her in were all her. :)