The more l watch this series - repeatedly, mostly in order - the deeper my appreciation for the whole shebang. Where would we be without the hundreds of years heritage that is the British theater…
I think that Tracey is one of the nicest characters I have ever seen! I could have thrown my arms around her at the end..so utterly natural. Why didn't she go on to a glittering career? Utterly convincing.🥰
Fun fact: Penny Downie (Dalgleish's junior) and Matthew Marsh (the actor brother), seen together in scene from 10:36, are adversaries in "A Certain Justice," a 1998 ep of Dalgleish.
When the grandmother hugs the granddaughter about midway through…. My own grandmother was "hard" like this one, but oh so loving to me! She just had high expectations for her family.
A commenter to Episode 2 accurately pointed out, that a constant feature in the Dalgleish mysteries is everyone's hostility to the police and lying at every opportunity. I imagine that isn't true of most murder investigations, but it is omnipresent in this series.
These films were all shown on the local stations across the Nation in the tv series called Mystrey. If you do not remember, it is probably because you were in diapers, or short pants digging a hole in the backyard with a stick.
S1.E3 ∙ Episode #1.3 / 6.9 Fri, Oct 28, 1988 Commander Dalgliesh and Insp. Miskin continue their interviews with those associated with the case. Gordon Halliwell, the family chauffeur, came to the Berowne family after serving with the deceased Hugo in the army. He freely admits that he and Sir Paul didn't along. Barbara Berowne's brother Dominic Swayne has an alibi. Dalgliesh also questions him about the death of the Berowne family's servant, Diana Travers, who drowned. Swayne says she wasn't an unemployed actress as she claimed. Berowne's daughter Sarah didn't get on with her father and were estranged owing to political differences and the way he treated her mother. The pathologist won't rule out the possibility of suicide though he tells Dalgliesh it's most likely murder. Teresa Nolan the nurse who looked after Sir Paul's mother, admits to him that she had an abortion a few weeks before, but refuses to identify the father. She is later found dead, an apparent suicide.
4:29 "You keep yourself fit, don't you?" -- as he peels off his sweatshirt to better show his big belly (and double chin). For heaven's sake, why didn't they cast someone who was fit, or alter the script? He looks like he's _strong_, but that isn't the same as physically fit.
