What a treat! If you are fortunate enough to have been around when this was made, you will know that this high level of television was more or less expected. Im so grateful for those responsible for safeguarding the existence of films from the past! It's no wonder that I seek these out, given the current rubbish churned out today. Thank you for this gem! 💎
Dudley Foster was an accomplished actor with a prolific output on 1960's television especially. Greatly underrated. With acute pronunciation that today's overrated serial actors might heed and learn from.
Have really enjoyed this. I love dramas from when they used to make programmes that everybody could watch and enjoy and understand the plot! Please keep them coming. Love Classic British Telly. Wish someone could find Something in Disguise from 1981.
Thanks for this entertaining mini series. I've never seen John Thaw so young. Big Morse fan and big Francis Durbridge (Paul Temple) fan watching from the U.S.
Perfect! A superb ending and a little smile at the very end I kept checking throughout the day to see if this installment had posted yet! Can't remember the last time I was so anxious to see the next episode! I will remember this for a long time! Bravo!
Wow! What a roller coaster! So many twists and turns! All day looking forward to the last episode it didn't disappoint! I haven't felt that level of TV excitement since waiting for the next episode of Dr Who on Saturday evenings back in the '60s and '70s! Thank you again. Wouldn't that make a great West End play adaptation!
@@ClassicBritishTellyhey up mate I'm not so sure I bumped into the first one this afternoon then looked to your channel so got to watch all this wonderful series, thank you very much for showing this
Gripping stuff. I could barely wait for each episode upload. Full of the usual Durbridge twists and turns, and John Thaw with a posh accent. More please
Enthralling. Like everybody else, I was looking out for the latest episode each evening. And completely ridiculous, of course. I couldn't make head or tail of the last-episode revelations. Doubtless I'll be able to piece together a few fragments when I'm trying to get to sleep tonight. Dudley Foster's Inspector Clay was my favourite character - marvellously sinister.
Excellent! Thanks so much for the time and effort to share this most entertaining and suspenseful drama. Very much appreciated❤️ We don’t have TV shows like this in the States anymore.❤️We have lots of CSI lol
Wonderful storytelling, I just finished watching the whole mini series and I didn't get up not even once. To say the truth I wanted more, thank you, for the posting of such great TV series. I, also enjoy the comedies you uploaded and I only discovered your channel this week. Keep up the good work. 👋😎👍
A wife and a mistress both with similar names? Interesting. Well, my first guess was right but not the motive. I thought he wanted Diana for himself. This definitely was much more of a gripping drama than his other works. Thanks for posting this series. Cheers!
John Thaw looking much older than his 24 years here - but according to his wife, Sheila Hancock, John had a very tough childhood, so that could account for his premature ageing, poor chap. His mother just abandoned him and his younger brother, when John was just 7 years old. Their father was often away, truck driving, and the boys were left to fend for themselves - sometimes they were fed by the neighbours, sometimes they went without. No one bothered about these young lads - not even their teachers at school. A very rough Manchester upbringing - an appalling start to life for poor John, who never forgave his mother. In this series, he is trying extremely hard to sound posh, and to suppress his Mancunian accent, and you can hear the tension in his voice, as he watches every syllable he utters. Even when he played Morse, years later, i could still sense how ill at ease he was doing an upper class accent. He was much more convincing as that cockney ruffian, Jack Reagan, in The Sweeney. Sheila Hancock said he never spoke poshly at home, and was much more like Reagan than Morse, in real life. Unfortunately, just like Reagan, he was also a chain smoker - which killed him far too young. He was a truly talented actor - and we need more actors of his calibre today.
You can tell the importance of Francis Durbrige to the B.B.C. at this time. Look how many different set's were used just for 5 episodes. For Durbridge 5 episodes must have been a walk in the park. He was used to writing a series that would go on for many weeks. Notice how the cast all spoke proper English with well rounded vowel's. We now need an extra episode just to tie up all the loose ends. Cheers, Chris Perry.
Most British people back then spoke regional accents, even quite local ones. The BBC's use of RP in its presenters and dramas could be seen as providing a single understandable speech pattern - or ignoring most of its viewers.
Sorry this was the last episode - I'd have liked it to go on longer! My only disappointment was that the brilliant and beautiful Sylvia Syms had so little screen time in this episode.... an appearance by her at the very end would have rounded off the series to perfecion.
Great entertainment, well acted. Slightly spoilt by the ending, where the hell did the culprit think he was running to, not convincing. Thanks for the upload I really like these 60’s tv dramas/mysteries.
Not sure. I liked 1-4, then the finale got a bit silly, and the overall premise is one of those dreadful MacGuffins, which are always unfulfilling. Thanks very much for the upload, amazing quality too!
Yes wondered how a small provincial garage owner can afford a nearly new E type and to buy a couple of shops . Wonder what happened to the estate agency business, what happened when the Italian girl got the lot.
Sorry,but what about Paxton and his actually shooting the husband...that was never resolved and it seems, by the ending, he and his a more walked off unhappily ,albeit free and not benefitting from their crimes!!!!??? Hasn't anyone ever noticed it!?
Yes, I noticed,. Paxton was murdered by Diana in this episode, so it was moot that he murdered her husband, but she murdered Paxton & that wasn't resolved before it ended.
@@twoshedsglen This has caused more excitement than anything else we've uploaded, from all over the world. So just as a one off we're doing it old school at a set time!
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So excited! This is proper telly! And even having to wait for the next episode! What a treat! Big thank you for this true gem!
Well worth a 24 hour wait.Thanks for uploading the thrilling finale' In the olden days we used to have to wait a week between episodes !
What a treat! If you are fortunate enough to have been around when this was made, you will know that this high level of television was more or less expected. Im so grateful for those responsible for safeguarding the existence of films from the past! It's no wonder that I seek these out, given the current rubbish churned out today.
Thank you for this gem! 💎
I was, and it was. TV has been in decline ever since, sadly…..
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Can’t wait. TV was so much fun in those days.
Dudley Foster was an accomplished actor with a prolific output on 1960's television especially. Greatly underrated. With acute pronunciation that today's overrated serial actors might heed and learn from.
What a fabulous series! I was hooked from the beginning.
Such espionage, wonderful finale. I enjoyed every minute of it, thank you so much for the upload.
Great little story really got into it pity no more episodes but will probably watch it again thank you 😃
Well you really roped me in every day. Good yarn thankyou.
Great series - captivating from the first to the last scene! Thank you for uploading this amazing show!
Have really enjoyed this. I love dramas from when they used to make programmes that everybody could watch and enjoy and understand the plot! Please keep them coming. Love Classic British Telly. Wish someone could find Something in Disguise from 1981.
Me too mate
Thanks for this entertaining mini series. I've never seen John Thaw so young. Big Morse fan and big Francis Durbridge (Paul Temple) fan watching from the U.S.
Two words - bloody brilliant!!! Wish it was a series, not just a one-off drama but thank you SO much for uploading.
Brilliant. Just binge walked all 5 episodes. Much appreciated, thankyou for sharing. 👍
Great, thanks for making this available. Most enjoyable. 👍
Found this at 4pm Binge watched along with Liverpool v Hammers Brilliant
Sooooooooooooooooo good!
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Thank you for uploading.
Jolly good show! Thanks for posting it
Perfect! A superb ending and a little smile at the very end
I kept checking throughout the day to see if this installment had posted yet! Can't remember the last time I was so anxious to see the next episode! I will remember this for a long time! Bravo!
Inspector Clay knows who the murderer is and is just setting traps! Cannot wait to see episode 5 !!!!
100% THANK YOU❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the upload. 🌷 May I ask for more mysteries by Francis Durbridge.
Excellent!
Wow! What a roller coaster! So many twists and turns! All day looking forward to the last episode it didn't disappoint! I haven't felt that level of TV excitement since waiting for the next episode of Dr Who on Saturday evenings back in the '60s and '70s! Thank you again. Wouldn't that make a great West End play adaptation!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! These shows were never designed for binge watching, and are so much more fun when you have to wait!
@@ClassicBritishTellyhey up mate I'm not so sure I bumped into the first one this afternoon then looked to your channel so got to watch all this wonderful series, thank you very much for showing this
Really enjoyed this, each night a new episode and tonight the finale; wonderful.
Really enjoying this serial ... thank you so much !
Gripping stuff. I could barely wait for each episode upload. Full of the usual Durbridge twists and turns, and John Thaw with a posh accent. More please
Kept me guessing right up until the end. Wonderful story telling.
Fabulous. Thank you.
Super Thank you❤😊 love it
Great show,thank you they should do a remake
Really enjoyed this series. I did figure out the bad guy from the get go.
Enthralling. Like everybody else, I was looking out for the latest episode each evening.
And completely ridiculous, of course. I couldn't make head or tail of the last-episode revelations. Doubtless I'll be able to piece together a few fragments when I'm trying to get to sleep tonight.
Dudley Foster's Inspector Clay was my favourite character - marvellously sinister.
What a nest of bastards. There was only the housekeeper that was wholesome. .. unless she was having an affair with her married sisters husband.
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Aaah! the next series...LOL
Brilliant stuff, thank you.
Excellent! Thanks so much for the time and effort to share this most entertaining and suspenseful drama.
Very much appreciated❤️
We don’t have TV shows like this in the States anymore.❤️We have lots of CSI lol
Really good 😊. Watching it from Bergen Norway 🇧🇻
Really enjoyed this, thank you 😊
Yeh, great series. Thanks.
Wonderful storytelling, I just finished watching the whole mini series and I didn't get up not even once. To say the truth I wanted more, thank you, for the posting of such great TV series. I, also enjoy the comedies you uploaded and I only discovered your channel this week. Keep up the good work. 👋😎👍
Thank you for this most enjoyable drama with ending from Benny Hill.
This was excellent: thrilling, mysterious and with well-justified twists I didn't see coming. High quality entertainment.
Top series thanks for uploading
These Francis Durbridge stories are great fun, with no end of twists and turns!
Excellent, thanks you.
Really enjoyed this!
Thank you for uploading.
Enjoyed this series, thanks.
Absolutely brilliant, can we please have more like this? Thank you.🤗🥂
Fun to watch
A wife and a mistress both with similar names? Interesting. Well, my first guess was right but not the motive. I thought he wanted Diana for himself. This definitely was much more of a gripping drama than his other works. Thanks for posting this series. Cheers!
John Thaw looking much older than his 24 years here - but according to his wife, Sheila Hancock, John had a very tough childhood, so that could account for his premature ageing, poor chap. His mother just abandoned him and his younger brother, when John was just 7 years old. Their father was often away, truck driving, and the boys were left to fend for themselves - sometimes they were fed by the neighbours, sometimes they went without. No one bothered about these young lads - not even their teachers at school. A very rough Manchester upbringing - an appalling start to life for poor John, who never forgave his mother. In this series, he is trying extremely hard to sound posh, and to suppress his Mancunian accent, and you can hear the tension in his voice, as he watches every syllable he utters. Even when he played Morse, years later, i could still sense how ill at ease he was doing an upper class accent. He was much more convincing as that cockney ruffian, Jack Reagan, in The Sweeney. Sheila Hancock said he never spoke poshly at home, and was much more like Reagan than Morse, in real life. Unfortunately, just like Reagan, he was also a chain smoker - which killed him far too young. He was a truly talented actor - and we need more actors of his calibre today.
Jack _Regan_ . No relation to the US President.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Painfully pedantic people like you, need to get a life!
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Been waiting all day for this 😅
Thanks
You can tell the importance of Francis Durbrige to the B.B.C. at this time. Look how many different set's were used just for 5 episodes. For Durbridge 5 episodes must have been a walk in the park. He was used to writing a series that would go on for many weeks. Notice how the cast all spoke proper English with well rounded vowel's. We now need an extra episode just to tie up all the loose ends. Cheers, Chris Perry.
Most British people back then spoke regional accents, even quite local ones. The BBC's use of RP in its presenters and dramas could be seen as providing a single understandable speech pattern - or ignoring most of its viewers.
Sorry this was the last episode - I'd have liked it to go on longer! My only disappointment was that the brilliant and beautiful Sylvia Syms had so little screen time in this episode.... an appearance by her at the very end would have rounded off the series to perfecion.
Yeah, there should have been an appearance by her getting arrested for murdering Paxton.
Thanku 🙏🇭🇲 Really Enjoyed
Great entertainment, well acted. Slightly spoilt by the ending, where the hell did the culprit think he was running to, not convincing. Thanks for the upload I really like these 60’s tv dramas/mysteries.
Popcorn at the ready.................
Great actors Great story
Inspector morse done a murder
Took time of from Redcap !
Wait ... I'm confused. I thought handguns were hard to get in Britain yet everybody (except the police) seems to be packing!
Handguns with a licence were legal until the early 1980s.
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Great, classy serial! More twists than 20 mi of WVA country back road!
I enjoyed the series
Miss Tracey 😅
I'd love to know the brand of the delightful Gladstone briefcase that 'Tall boy' was carrying. Ideas, anyone?
Gladstone TV Bags Ltd.?
Really excellent, and the cinematography was top-notch. I wonder if this was filmed with videotape or actual film?
Exteriors would have been shot on film; the interior scenes were likely on videotape but it’s difficult to say.
Not sure. I liked 1-4, then the finale got a bit silly, and the overall premise is one of those dreadful MacGuffins, which are always unfulfilling. Thanks very much for the upload, amazing quality too!
I guess Francis Durbridge must have read “Murder must Advertise”. The surname Tallboy is quite unusual.
So joyfully innocent❤
Well, I sure hope Diana #2 doesn't share the will now. 🤭
super complicated....they dont make em like this anymore
Wonderful, 1st. Class TV. Series. When entertainment was exactly that😊😊😊
A bit rushed through, silly at times but mostly enjoyable. The choice for the Valesco woman, though, was underwhelming to say the least 😒
Jefferey's murder was unsolved. And how did anyone know Paxton killed Stuart at the mansion and snatched his body ? Unexplained.
Yes wondered how a small provincial garage owner can afford a nearly new E type and to buy a couple of shops .
Wonder what happened to the estate agency business, what happened when the Italian girl got the lot.
When is the last episode being uploaded?
On the basis that this isn't an attempt at wit....this IS the last episode....!
Wow, was 10..dont remember this. Parental censorship perhaps 🤔 😅😂
Ooh nearly did a spoiler, sorry 😅
A time when the BBC meant something
the butler did it😂
That was hilarious!
Sweeny Jon thaw
Sorry,but what about Paxton and his actually shooting the husband...that was never resolved and it seems, by the ending, he and his a more walked off unhappily ,albeit free and not benefitting from their crimes!!!!??? Hasn't anyone ever noticed it!?
Paxton was killed in this episode.
Yes, I noticed,. Paxton was murdered by Diana in this episode, so it was moot that he murdered her husband, but she murdered Paxton & that wasn't resolved before it ended.
I thoroughly enjoyed that, and, unusually for me, thought the soundtrack pretty good as well.
why are you making us wait?
It's on in 90 minutes time!
@@ClassicBritishTelly doesn't answer my question though. thanks I'll go and play a football match
@@twoshedsglen This has caused more excitement than anything else we've uploaded, from all over the world. So just as a one off we're doing it old school at a set time!
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So that it's like when it was broadcast at intervals, keeping us in suspense.