Refreshing isn't it. I can't while away my work hours as a night security guard for the MOD with modern stuff. I really need full immersion to suspend my disbelief to totally ignore the job I'm paid to do. With this kind of quality , the scallywags could steal the entire ammunition dump and I would even notice!
PD James writes splendidly about the things people really say and do, not just the British but real people working real jobs, in real relationships upended by all seven of the deadly sins. They do get in the way of human decency and a certain justice.
I remember this episode with Rebecca Saire ( wife of Roger Allam) Great actress, also love Roy Marsden and Wendy Hiller- allways a force to be reckoned with ❤❤
I really enjoyed the books. My deceased elderly neighbor's daughter gave me boxes if her mother books. Westerns & detectives: Brits & American, all published under Dashiel Hammet's name. Some were 1st editions.
Wendy Hiller. What a brilliant actress she was. Haven't seen a single performance I have not greatly admired and enjoyed. Separate Tables, the Russian Countess in Murder on the Orient Express. My personal favorite of hers is All Passion Spent.
WENDY HILLER !!!! One of the best things about the earliest Dagliesh programs are baby-faced legends, but seeing Wendy from about same time as as the series adaptation of Vita Sackville West's novel "All Passion Spent" makes my day. If you love her and haven't seen it - find it! Dame Wendy is also the narrator of recorded book.
I looked up that name, and found a lot of full murder mysteries! Thank you! If it’s anything like Vera, Midsommer Murders….ill be in absolute heaven watching them over this winter. I never heard of him, so I appreciate it very much. I loved Vera and I watched every episode I could that utube would let me. I was sad I finished them! I’ve been on the hunt to find the same types of shows since. Nobody does murder mysteries like the British….♥️
Oh thank you thank you thank you. Ive been looking for this show for years and years the only thing i could rember was the intro so it wasn't much to go on so thank you for including it as many youtubers remove the opening credits to shows.
Great series, I'm glad he used the old format even though it didn't sharpen the pixels. Hate it when they stretch to fit the screen and everyone looks fat and wide.
I ❤ coming upon a convergence of two favorite things which wouldn’t necessarily be associated. In this case, the great actress from decades back, Wendy Hiller, and the more modern mystery author from Oxfordshire, PD James.
Barbara was engaged to one man, then married his brother when the man died and took the dead man's best friend as her lover. Such a small familiar circle.
Something about the scene with Dalgliesh and the inspector Miskin in the car reminded me of Silence Of The Lambs and the interaction between Hannibal and Clarice and the way Hannibal profiled Clarice.
I also like Scandinavian shows. Finland, Sweden, Estonia. They dont always have the stupid white guy, The Black Doctor, good guy, mixed race couples, the smart wife with the stupid mate. Its just not real life. Theres exceptions to reverry rule, but Americans are afraid to show a white man as the hero. If they need a sex pervert...hes white. If they need a hero..hes black. RIGHT! Ask Jesse Peterson.
If theres any fans of these PD James drama's that finds her books a bit difficult to read/get into then I recommend any book by Margaret Yorke. Very similar to PD James but a lot easier to read, less concentration & not as many pages!
They are similar but not as alike as others. I often have trouble telling people apart in British shows. Many times I stop and look up who is acting! (The most confusing pair, to me, are David Rintoul and Pip Torrens.) I don't watch enough US shows to know, but I suspect it's the same with them. Young female actresses tend to be very, very generic.
Lisa: That's very interesting. When I first started watching a lot of UK productions, I sometimes confused Pip Torrens and William Chubb: pbs.twimg.com/media/CGa0i24UkAE_uGV.jpg And I see a slight resemblance between Penny Downie and Deborah Findlay (around the eyes) in their 1980s work.
@Dr Moriarty one can take off a coat / jacket with shoulder pads & even remove them ... a tattoo is for life ... only for me in the senior service as far as I concerned ...
@Dr Moriarty Yet - _oddly enough_ - the shoulder-padded women of those days still found willing and acceptable mates, as do the tattooed women of this era. They seem not to have noticed your rejection. 😉
Picturesque London! Which has always drawn like a magnet all sorts of people. Unfortunately, most of all not good ones. Will always stay imprinted in my mind
I like British TV series, they show nudity like in real life, and they actually say sex. Can't stand when the expression 'They slept together". Big different between 'SLEEPING TOGETHER" and THEY WERE HAVING SEX".
Still, it is quaint that Dalgliesh and his assistant, the Inspector, frequently (in several of the other mini-series) use the euphemism “to make love”, instead of “to have sex” - even when describing the most casual of sexual encounters.
Synopsis:When the Quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighbourhood derelict of the lowest order?
He's a baronet, and according to wikipedia, "A baronetcy is not a peerage, so baronets like knights and junior members of peerage families are commoners and not peers of the realm". (Also, he was an elected MP before he inherited the title, but I don't know whether that's a factor.)
Hmm . . . Here is another episode with a brother and sister embracing (wow, she's a stunning woman!), kissing on the lips, and acting in an extraordinarily intimate manner. Something of a theme in P.D. James' work. Hau viddi British -- "As far as I'm concerned, religion died in the mud of Flanders."
Good grief, it was only a peck. Don't you hug your parents and siblings? Perfectly normal as I was growing up, including such pecks on the lips, and never a hint of what you're suggesting. Not everyone has bad intentions.
I watched “A Certain Justice” on this channel, but for whatever reason comments were not permitted for that set of episodes. My major complaint about that production of the story is that it really lacked subtly. The characters, especially the primary antagonist, tended to be awfully broadly drawn and left little to the imagination. As Dagleish television productions go, I was disappointed by that.
