@@ww2wall561 I just finished reading George Baker's autobiography. His first wife was a very successful costume designer, Julia Squire. 4 daughters. While married to her, he had a 5th daughter with Sally Home, an actress. He lived with both (not in same house) for years. Six years later, he finally divorced Julia and married Sally. Sally died of cancer, tragically sick in 1991-92, and she did appear in one of the Wexford episodes in a very small role. When both wives were dead, he married Louie Ramsay.
Me too. I'm having fun watching the tv series. I am from America and I really like all of the British comedy series like The Benny Hill Show and the Mystery Series Midsomer (sp) Murder, Rosemary & Thyme, etc.
@@kimieharland8207 I like watching The reruns of Midsomer with John Nettles in. Not very keen on the new ones though! Rosemary & Thyme are one of my favourites too. I also love watching Murder She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury and Columbo with The Great Peter Falk in!
@reality check 🤔"TDK" is an initialism of the original Japanese name of the company: Tokyo Denki Kagaku Kōgyō K.K. and was founded in December 7, 1935; 83 years ago .......and you are welcome 😁👍👌
Um... I was born in 1982 and TDK blank tapes were on shelves until a fair amount of time after 2000 so stick that in your prescription bottle and swallow it.
@@NateSean I was born in 1991, and even I remember TDK brand cassette tapes, they were still in use in the mid to late 90s when I was a kid, I think CDs really took off in my town around 97-98
The Dreamboys. Craig Ferguson on drums, I think. Saw them at the Doune Castle, Glasgow and the Bungalow Bar, Paisley. 1978? Only song I can remember was their cover of Iggy Pop's The Passenger, but they used to pack them in.
If you like this, you'll love Dalziel and Pascoe by Reginald Hill. Similar chemistry, actors of equal stature, stories up to par, and superior production values.
I'll check it out!! Thank you! Just for curiosity sake: I am from USA AZ. Do you live in a different country? If you don't want to share, no worries!! Bye Bye 😎
Christopher Ravenscroft was and is excellent at projecting moral rectitude, either as a virtuous hero (he was a spectacular Henry V) or as a puritanical villain, or as a mixture of both, as Burden.
In one scene Gemma Jones's expression reminded me strongly of another actor, and I finally figured out it was Nicholas Jones. Turns out he's Gemma's younger brother. Another British acting family.
@@Blonde_Somnambulist I love to watch anything set in Yorkshire! So beautiful & what an accent! The children from there make great comedy! Hello from SW Missouri 🇺🇸
Waited the whole episode to see the bar I used to live and work in ...no its not London but THE GRAPES ..OXFORD ST SOUTHAMPTON we were not allowed to watch filming
Thank you for posting these gems!!! never knew, about these, and I love British crime mysteries, especially when they are a series. I also love the older era ones are to me the best. Cheers! I have been sick in bed with the flu, and these are getting me through it. Thank you again.
I've read all of the Wexford novels--what a treat to find them here, even if they are set in the '70's. Thanks so much! American TV has never compared with British, imho.
Aren't they set in the mid-80s and the 90s? And even if they are set in the 70s, they're none the worse for that. The Agatha Christie's Poirot series is set in the 1930s!
jean tyler I know, right? The character is perfectly ghastly. Ruth Rendell fleshed out the character in much greater detail in the book, she was really a piece of work.
Very funny. I suppose you think we don't know that "redress" is a verb, and that the phrase means to first give warning, then to take action, and then to make amends/improvement.
I found a list of the Wexford series in order, and yes - "The Veiled One" was rather strange, but as in many series that have numerous episodes, ya gotta mix it up a bit. So, I'm trying to move on order. Thanks for your efforts in these uploads!
@@mauriceharvey4300 I know this was 2 years ago but I'd just like to say I disagree And I enjoy his old music and his newer song and the song for this movie was a bit over used but I enjoyed it because of his voice.
This is absolutely wonderful! I love how the police bustle up on stage and hastily announce "A girl has been murdered!" to 100K festivalgoers. Surprised they don't boo, or start chanting "WE WANT ZENO! WE WANT ZENO!"
Great series...great audio and video! Thank you so much for sharing. I just wish all seasons snd episodes were available on RU-vid...they just skip around...couple episodes from different seasons...we are missing so much!
Thanks for uploading this. We never got the Wexford series here in the US. I saw them when I lived in the UK. I wish they would come out on DVD at least. It was great seeing at least one of these again.
No, I remember the Ruth Rendell Wexford mysteries being on in the USA. Unfortunately, I always missed them, which was frustrating, because I was a huge fan of Rendell's books. Even more frustrating that I missed a chance to know about Capaldi in the 1990s.
Fred Dinenage (of TVS News & Coast to Coast, still presenting ITV News Meridian) appears at 30:57 as himself. The news reporter is Malcolm Brown (also playing himself) who was TVS’ chief continuity announcer.
Mairwen 99 That was a masterful bit of screenwriting! And Capaldi’s a good actor. Wexford is not a terrible husband, but he’s certainly dense. Lucky for him that Dora is so tolerant. I had a similarly demanding & isolating career for decades, and fortunately my husband put up with it, and me.
The really nice thing is that Mike's two kids John and Pat are played by Noah Huntley and Emma Smith throughout the entire series. It's brilliant casting, as at the beginning they are very young, but towards the end of the series they are about 18 to 20. This makes the series extra special. I've always liked Mike's kids, from the time they were fighting the whole time (primary school age) to the last time we see Pat, which is when she's at university. By then of course she and John are pretty close.
I truly love how British actors just work on everything and anything. I love seeing them in different roles and following each actor’s work. Same in Australia. The actors just keep working, well into old age, with little plastic surgery.💕
I do believe the large hotel where Zeno was supposedly staying was shot at Rhinefield House Hotel in the New Forest, the chimneys gave it away, and the town it was set in looked remarkably like Romsey in Hampshire.
Wexford might have been a good detective, but he was a TERRIBLE husband. He probably went home at the end of the episode to Dora telling him she was getting a divorce.
it's funny you should say that because I think his wife is terrible, a moaning, grumpy, harping baggage. I've watched five of these Wexford stories now and she never fails to moan at him, gripe, purse up her lips and grumble at him for being an ordinary hard working conscientious man. I don't know about him poor man but I definitely begrudge her.
Wexford is just gruff. In those days especially British policeman weren't the most polite and most of all, they really didn't know women as well as they do today. Dora married a policeman and she knows what goes along with his choice of employment. She's just feeling sorry for herself. She will come to her senses. Everything isn't always rosie. That's real life.
john buchinsky, me too. That's if you mean the incidental music, e.g. when everyone's following Dawn around (in her lovely mauve suit). Music's absolutely fabulous. And at the funeral too.
Interesting that in many Brit crime shows, the DCI is often the more politically progressive, more open-minded, more empathetic, and better read then his younger side kick, Inspector Wexford is no exception, vast difference from that of American crime show duos.
Yes--especially George Gently and the often appalling John Bacchus (who nevertheless mellows--slightly). The implication seems to be that the more intelligent and experienced one is, the more liberal-minded one becomes. (Trump et al. take note.)
Hahahahaha. American crime show duos seem to require cleavage rather than acting. Jennifer Lopez as a policewoman ⁉️oh, you mean Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker😏
To those who think Wexford and Burden are, er, not very nice people - actually in the novels they have even more faults and their relationship is a lot more fractious than how it's portrayed on TV. But that seems to be the point of a lot of these Wexford stories - the focus is not on some charismatic detective like BBC's Sherlock or Luther, but on the crime itself and the psychology of the people involved. And I kind of like Wexford and Burden being two ordinary, imperfect guys. Incidentally, Peverill, the key witness' husband who is always moaning about his 'work', is played by Donald Sumpter, who was also the Time Lord President to Capaldi's 12th Doctor in Heaven Sent.
A lot of people dislike either one or both of them, but I like them, especially Reg. Mike is basically a kind and good person but he is so Victorian in his outlook ... however Chr. Ravenscroft plays him superbly and invites us to laugh with him at the character of Mike. Reg is a great guy. I never can understand why so many people dislike him. He too is very kind and compassionate, he's well read, cosmopolitan, open to other cultures, loves his wife and kids, loves dogs, and is a normal emotional human being who isn't afraid to speak his mind or show his emotions. George Baker is perfect in the role.
‘SUBLIMINAL ADVERTISING’ is highly Illegal in Australia. AXA flashing on screen, is advertising but if one instance be allowed, it opens the gate for nefarious subliminal tactics.
It should be illegal everywhere. And how about not being able to see anything on sports uniforms but advertising. The advertisers name is bigger than the name of the team.💕
"Harold Goodbody"?? What a very un-cool name. No wonder he changed it. If I'd been saddled with a name like that, I'd have been round at the solicitor's on my 18th birthday to change it! And how typical of Mike to say he hated the 60s and 70s! Mind you, I doubt if he would think the 21st century any better.
I am still glad I grew up in what I think was a unique time in the US. We bought a house for $17,000 and gas was 25 cents a gallon. No homeland security and I could fly round trip to San Francisco for $25.00. The beginning of great TV, musicals, Bob Dylan, kids could play outside, ride bikes for miles. Just a wonderful time from a teenage perspective.
Houses were smaller back then. You didn't make near as much and money didn't go far. Health care was cheap but you died a lot earlier for most maladies.
The words of the song are integral to the crime. Rather than intended to be a zeitgeist of the times. They've suited to the context. Albeit a "crappy song". ☮️
Why do cops like Reg get married except to have a someone to run around taking care of their every need he should have remained single like Inspector Morse....
