《马尔柯姆的一家》是美国福克斯广播公司的一部情景喜剧,由林伍德·布默原创,曾七次获得艾美奖、一次获得格莱美奖、7次获得金球奖提名。剧集在2000年1月9日开始播映,至2006年5月14日第7季播映完毕历时6年半。
剧集的主人公是马金(Malcolm,弗朗基·穆尼斯饰),他在四兄弟中排行第三(第五季志明出生后共有五兄弟),父母分别是夏尔(Hal,布赖恩·克兰斯顿饰)和露丝(Lois,简·卡奇马雷克饰)。家中长子范斯(Francis,克里斯托弗·马斯特森饰)离家在军校就学,列斯(Reese,贾斯廷·贝菲尔德饰)、马金和杜尔(Dewey,埃里克·佩尔·沙利文饰)留在家中,马金在家里的三兄弟中排行中间,剧集也因以得名(Malcolm in the Middle直译为马尔科姆在中间)。剧集前期集中描述作为天才青少年的马金如何面对古怪的生活,后期则逐渐更深入地探讨剧中其他人物。
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.