@@nancychiavetta1351- They did planned to do 'Busman's' as the Finale for the series, but I've read the Production had problem getting the License for the book, so they end up scrapping the 4th episode and end it with 'Gaudy'.
@inisipisTV yes. Too bad. Busman's Honeymoon is easily one of the best of thepl mysteries AND the most entertaining. What characters ! Mrs Ruddle, the Vicar, the chimneysweep, Bunter at his finest.
There are two of whom without a shadow of a doubt, I find play the role of Lord Peter Whimset, with absolute sublime and sincere dedication. Ian Carmichael and Edward Petherbridge. Thoroughly entertained by them both.
@@sheargillsparkie9588 Carmichael for the voice, no doubt. His early radio portrayals were perfection. But I’m afraid in terms of the whole package, it’s Petherbridge alone is my perfect Wimsey.
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Yes, it's extraordinary. Thank God for Britain and all it's done for the world. Of all the cultures I've visited around the planet, their history being read, British values, together with the founding of America and it's Constitution, is my favorite. Abolishment of slavery, modern democracy and parliamentarism, and sympathetic, gentlemanly attitudes, the Scottish and English Enlightenment, et c. In Victorian times the Empire was the conscience of the world introducing order, justice and progress. There are of course bad rumors, but they are highly politically motivated.
These series are so relaxing to me before bedtime with a pot of tea & a sweetie. Harriet Walter also appeared as a prison therapist in an episode of Inspector Morse as well as Head Mistress in Hercule Poirot…”Cat Among The Pigeons.”
Jumping in before I get completely immersed, just to say one of the many things I immediately appreciate is that the people responsible allowed Harriet to be as she is in the books. They didn’t ‘beautify’/ glamorise her, with bright red lipstick etc, or insist on a wardrobe not suitable to the literary character. Sir Edward Petherbridge was born to play this role, and his portrayal is admirable; his appearance, characteristics are faithful to the role. He’s such a natural, it’s a challenge sometimes to believe he’s acting at all! We feel his heart pain with him, desperately want to see his love openly returned, but the romance rejection doesn’t take over, and Lord Peter never descends to pathos, or self pity. Scripts follow the books quite well, all of the productions are faithful to the fiction, and extremely well done. I don’t disrespect Ian Carmichael’s acting, he just isn’t Wimsey for me. Thank you very much for this upload and the others. Your time and trouble are appreciated.
@@xmaseveeve5259 Sayers actually writes about Harriet repairing her make up and using a powder compact. In the thirties, women were allowed to wear makeup as long as it didn’t look as though they were wearing makeup, so it had to be subtle.
Harriet Walter is a wonderful actress, and I have long admired her. However, I do think that she was never more gorgeous than with this brilliant portrayal of the endlessly fascinating Harriet Vane.
@@rachelgarber1423. I would never have taken her for Fanny. Thank you so much. TH-cam has most of sense and sensibility on videos now and I watched it just this last week. I would never have recognized her.
Yes! We know she’s a strong character so it would seem fake if she ran away screaming, but there’s no silly cold blooded behaviour. She does the logical, needed tasks but unwillingly, and her physical and mental distress are really well done!
@@bilindalaw-morley161 Exactly. It’s one of the only realistic film portrayals I’ve seen of someone “doing the necessary” while obviously trying not to throw up.
I thought exactly the same thing. So sick of the over rective responses of screaming on loop. I suppose some people might but it's more a reaction to threat rather than bad surprise. This was natural and certainly in character
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@@lauragranger9813Absolutely. I have never seen anyone dead from less than natural cause, but people close to me have died...only selfish people make it "about themselves ". Lots of those people about nowdays.
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Another splendid production. I note just 2 minor characters: old Gaffer Trewin (played by Arthur Hewlett) who stares cryptically when Harriet finds a phone & snooty hotel receptionist (Sarah Crowden) who tries to dismiss, then fawns over Harriet. Two sublime rural/provincials who add such color & tone to the piece
The best Lord Peter! The whole thing is superb - what a delight it is to enjoy such wonderful acting by every single person in the cast! Thank you for uploading!
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@@esmeephillips5888 I will obey you if you obey me. I guess you have a very controlling father. Was I writing to YOU? NOOOOO. STOP being stupid and lecturing others as to what they should do. Go yell at your parents.
@@wordwarrior2350 You were urging everyone not to watch a show you SAY is bootlegged. If that admonition was not addressed to me, I shall go on watching it, grinch. Meanwhile, don't get sore and lapse into juvenile psychobabble bc somebody noticed your spamming, spoilsport.
I just adore the shoes from this era. As a small child I was always admiring the examples in my local museum in Northampton. The elegance and fine workmanship have never been beaten. If I had money all my shoes would be handmade, all my underwear silk and all my sheets fine linen. A girl can dream......
Hi Sue, after reading your comment I paid particular attention (or tried to) to the shoes worn in this part 1 but couldn't really see a lot, as of course the camera's on people's faces not their feet! But I love shoes myself and I've got about 60 pairs :-) What I really do enjoy looking at in this series are the lovely old cars. I believe Lord Peter did have a Lagonda in the books. But they all seem to be open-top (even in winter) and the exhaust fumes are terrible.
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What stylish adaptations of wonderful books. A real sense of a golden age, not least BBC spending money for this kind of Sunday night drama. These two could not be better, nor Bunter. Thanks for uploading these!
I loved reading Sayers' Peter Wimsey books. Petherbridge perfectly portrays a truly attractive Wimsey and yet with all the asinine cliché upper Brit bloke mannerisms..
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I just love this series, and all programming like it. They're all just so....English! Thank you for making it available. With appreciation from an American Anglophile. 😊
I have enjoyed these movies so much that I have watched the entire series twice so far it is also prompted me to go out and buy Dorothy Sayers mysteries in hardcover. Thank you so much for uploading this series.
How marvelous that this series prompted you to buy the originals. You will find (or have found by now) that there is even more to the stories than you could have imagined and now have a picture of Lord Peter, Harriet and Bunter in your mind that fits them perfectly. I am almost jealous of you getting to read the books for the first time.
Petherbridge and Walter are divine together. Such stylish adaptations of Sayers novels. The BBC used to be beyond the cheap Hollywood approach. Alas no more.
Mari Christian We are living in another, yes, crasser, more vulgar era, but the BBC does represent that rather well. I thought Happy Valley w Sarah Lancashire riveting.
@@glen7318 of course she is difficult but she has good reasons to be so, very plausible to me and not at all irritating. Sorry not sorry for that opinion.
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TY for upload- I delight in seeing the elegance, style, architecture, gardens, lifestyle, automobiles, all of it of yore added to good acting and story line-
That first 10 minutes is instructive. It's too bad that the smartphone has inflicted so much casualness on photography, but then this is an educated lady who kept her head.
These are just marvelous. I’m hooked. They are smart, fun, suspenseful and filled with such compelling, delightful, sophisticated characters. Thanks so much for posting these.
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Agreed! I saw her, in a discussion/debate, give two readings of the same passage from Macbeth (ripping the baby away and bashing its brains out) within minutes of each other. Had me raging then crying!! A wonderful actress!
There are SO many wonderfully talented and memorable Character Actors in these Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey films! - Rowena Cooper, Sarah Crowden, Sheila Burrell, Dylis Hamlett, Carol MacReady and Charmin Ray, just to name a few. 🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️
Hard to picture Sarah Crowden (the hotel receptionist) as that aging creature in Downton Abbey who insults the Countess of Grantham by being snippy about Rose marrying someone Jewish...
@calihartley2010 Both your thoughtless, insulting words and your idea of the roots of American music, then and now, are based on ignorance. I'm assuming you have not been in touch with reality during this century or the last. Your loss.
Antoine looks a lot like Clifton Webb - who actually was a dancer at one point in his career. When he quit, his partner switched over to ... Rudolf Valentino ! I'm not joking . This was long before either of them got into the movies, of course.
That beach where she finds the body looks like Holywell beach in Cornwall. The 2 rocks that can be seen out to sea are known by some as Carters’ Rocks.
Marvellous character. My grandma told me about the “modom” brigade of her childhood in the 1920s and this just made it so real. I could suddenly see all the dreadful dpt store assistants she spoke of
9:40: Oh, those old box cameras! And winding on the film each time! You had to set the shutter time and the distance for each photo as well. I used to have one which my dad had as a young lad, which was about the same era as this film is set (mid-1930s). Mind you, it took excellent photographs.
I love this movie. I wish they didn't make changes from the book. In the book Harriet went looking for Lord Peter after the trial, Not the other way around. She wanted to thank him.
As someone who grew up on a beach, I cringe everytime I see her pick up that woolen blanket and stuff it straight into her pack without shaking off the sand.
I love the way civilians take over all the juicy murder cases from the police as a matter of course in these novels. It's as if the police chief says, "Oh no, your lordship, we wouldn't think of investigating the murder, it's not what we're paid to do after all, we just make sure the pubs close on time and that cars drive on the wrong side of the road...you go ahead and have fun and solve this one for us, like a good citizen."
These novels were about amateur detectives, they weren't police procedurals so there is always going to have to be some reason why the police are willling to work with an outside person.
@@lauragranger9813 Well, take that, Sherlock, and Poirot, and Campion, and all the other amateur detectives that have enriched a lot of our lives! It's fiction, mate.
Having quickly read the comments as an italian born viewer who grew up in Australia and came back to italy in 1972 at 19 years of age, woefully filo American may I say that I've come to reverse my opinion in favour of the "anglosaxon celtic and nordic" cinema and authenticity of all that is english, welsh, scottish and irish for whatever its worth or isnt worth at all ( referring to myself ofcourse ) . Every scene, clothing is moving and enjoyable. So historically "european" regardless of monetry "systems" or you name it . Bravo!
The only real shows with real humanity, decency and qualities or the last of these were in the 80's, something happened in the 90's - they changed everything in a weird way.
Communism started to take over ... just as with the entire british society. You just have to think about the inaction of the police in the grooming gang cases all over and the culmination with the cancellation of David Starkey by the same university which promoted another professor for saying racist anti-white things ... To unravel and understand this you just need two things: Yuri Bezmenov AND "the long march through the institutions".
@@Muck006 The left has cut off its own nose to spite its face. In the US too. Beyond ridiculous. Ugly and idiotic. Sorry to say so, but true. And it is that extremism that has brought about a horrid right wing backlash of equal idiocy. What a sight to see, it would be funny if it weren't so horrible and dangerous. There is nothing wrong with a well-ordered society. It doesn't have to be fascist. People always learn too late. Fall of Rome.
Imagine hiking around the coast of England, lugging that obviously heavy, enormous backpack, wearing a lady’s warm tweed suit, stockings and heeled shoes. No wonder she dozed off after lunch!
It is crucial to the plot, that our good Lord was able to identify the owner (the first owner, that is) of the murder weapon. It is symptomatic of the way mysteries are dramatised, however, that large gaps are (unfortunately for the viewer) left in the plot, and there's no explanation of how he knew the owner or how to find him. Perhaps the deduction was explained in the book.
High priced items from a very posh and exclusive barber's shop would be able to be traced easily. The barber would have records of the items sold to one of his very exclusive clientes , specially a fine article such as a razor . Bunter being a gentleman's footman ( and not just any gentleman, Lord Peter is a Dandy )identified immediately who had that sort of razor in London and from there it was easy.
It only soothes the obvious guilt of bad timing over playing ones dramatic persona to elicit more than ones fair share of drama and vulnerability!..a shot of soda just adds insult to injury! When they have given up all hope of refineing their nervous breakdown to correspond to the convention of the time..
Glen has clearly never read the books or he would realise Edward Petherbridge plays the role to perfection. A titled gentleman in the era of the Golden Age of Mysteries would indeed have been quite aristocratic in demeanour. Apart from that I felt that Ian Carmichael was a bit clownish.
@@clareredfarn8613 There’s literally _one year_ between Edward Petherbridge and Ian Carmichael when they were playing Wimsey! Petherbridge was 51, Carmichael 52. So if one is too old, so is the other!
what a wonderful story ..wee clues spoon fed so unemotionally. Love it. I have never heard of a Legoda car which is what Sir. Peter is driving.. I realize it is a English car, are they still around? Prestigious car was it?
I'd love for them to do a new adaptation of these. But I feel not while these two are still alive because they did it so perfectly. I've already mentally cast Laurence Fox as Peter. Can't think who for Harriet
Laurence Fox??? I think he’d be completely wrong! For one thing, he’s too young, and Petherbridge was far too old when these were done; if he’d been 15 years younger he would have been much better. And “Bunter” is completely miscast, to the point that I can’t watch his major scenes and have to fast forward through them! Harriet Walter was excellent, I totally agree there.
@@voraciousreader3341Laurence Fox is 45 ( as of 2023) and Edward Petheridge was 51 in 1987 when this was filmed. Lord Peter was 45 when he married Harriet so presumably he was early to mid forties during this story. So perhaps Edward Petheridge was slightly older than ideal (but he is still my favourite Lord Peter). The timeline in the books differs from the TV series because in the books the three stories covering the courtship were spread over about 5 years ( with other investigations interspersed) whereas, in the TV series, they appear to be one after the other. I think Laurence Fox would be very suitable if they did a remake: he has an interesting face but is not conventionally handsome in a Cary Grant kind of way. Lord Peter and Harriet are both survivors of difficult life experiences and I think this is what makes the story arc so wonderful and poignant: one knows that when she finally says yes they are mature people who are making a commitment to love and cherish each other.
@@minui8758 haha really? I haven’t paid attention to his personal life. Often makes their performance work unenjoyable to me once I know about them. Who would you recommend?
@@lauragranger9813 Freddy Fox perhaps but he’d be unconvincingly short and would have to work very very hard to capture the nervy cut glass edge, he’s a bit relaxed as is
I have watched this many times and am always puzzled and slightly offended in the beginning...that she could walk away without so much as a thank you? Especially knowing how deeply he cares for her...
@@marycassidy1695 Right! I don't know why they changed that. Also, it's not that he *had* to leave, but he made himself scarce so as not to pressure her by gratitude and the emotion of the moment.
I love Dorothy L Sayers and this series but just for a few seconds I thought why doesn't she use her mobile before realising even a landline was a rarity in those days. Despite what today would be considered a slow life I think I would have enjoyed it despite being so entrenched in the 21st century thinking about mobile phones.
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I just wish they made more of these adaptations! The casting is perfect, the acting excellent and the costumes beautiful.
I wish they'd been able to squeeze in "Busman's Honeymoon".
@@nancychiavetta1351- They did planned to do 'Busman's' as the Finale for the series, but I've read the Production had problem getting the License for the book, so they end up scrapping the 4th episode and end it with 'Gaudy'.
@inisipisTV yes. Too bad. Busman's Honeymoon is easily one of the best of thepl mysteries AND the most entertaining. What characters ! Mrs Ruddle, the Vicar, the chimneysweep, Bunter at his finest.
I am so happy to stumble upon this series. A hidden gem.
This series has stood the test of time. Terrific acting and great plots.
I have just read the carcass Book..an absolute delight, then straight back to TH-cam to watch the series..such a pity so few programs were recorded.
Edward Petherbridge is the perfect Lord Peter Whimsey. Thank you so much.
There are two of whom without a shadow of a doubt, I find play the role of Lord Peter Whimset, with absolute sublime and sincere dedication. Ian Carmichael and Edward Petherbridge. Thoroughly entertained by them both.
@@sheargillsparkie9588 Carmichael for the voice, no doubt. His early radio portrayals were perfection. But I’m afraid in terms of the whole package, it’s Petherbridge alone is my perfect Wimsey.
Wish they had been able to get the rights to Busman's Holiday for this cast. They were perfect.
@@baskervillebee6097 I thinyou mean 'Busman's Honeymoon'
@@walkerhjk
You're correct. Thank you.
What a great show. British TV drama's are the absolute best.
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They used to be. Not now.
The seawater washing away red from the body is a lovely touch.
I love old British movies. I love the culture, the language, the politeness. Beautiful.
Thank you for sharing.
Yes, it's extraordinary. Thank God for Britain and all it's done for the world. Of all the cultures I've visited around the planet, their history being read, British values, together with the founding of America and it's Constitution, is my favorite. Abolishment of slavery, modern democracy and parliamentarism, and sympathetic, gentlemanly attitudes, the Scottish and English Enlightenment, et c. In Victorian times the Empire was the conscience of the world introducing order, justice and progress. There are of course bad rumors, but they are highly politically motivated.
Hear hear. And what have the Romans ever done for us in return?
Sadly it has all changed with the possible exception of the scenery and even that is being slowly ruined.
These series are so relaxing to me before bedtime with a pot of tea & a sweetie. Harriet Walter also appeared as a prison therapist in an episode of Inspector Morse as well as Head Mistress in Hercule Poirot…”Cat Among The Pigeons.”
Jumping in before I get completely immersed, just to say one of the many things I immediately appreciate is that the people responsible allowed Harriet to be as she is in the books. They didn’t ‘beautify’/ glamorise her, with bright red lipstick etc, or insist on a wardrobe not suitable to the literary character.
Sir Edward Petherbridge was born to play this role, and his portrayal is admirable; his appearance, characteristics are faithful to the role. He’s such a natural, it’s a challenge sometimes to believe he’s acting at all! We feel his heart pain with him, desperately want to see his love openly returned, but the romance rejection doesn’t take over, and Lord Peter never descends to pathos, or self pity.
Scripts follow the books quite well, all of the productions are faithful to the fiction, and extremely well done.
I don’t disrespect Ian Carmichael’s acting, he just isn’t Wimsey for me.
Thank you very much for this upload and the others. Your time and trouble are appreciated.
I agree with you wholeheartedly about Sir Edward Petherbridge. Prior to seeing this I was unfamiliar with him, but he is just superb as Lord Peter.
'She' is wearing makeup.
@@xmaseveeve5259 Sayers actually writes about Harriet repairing her make up and using a powder compact. In the thirties, women were allowed to wear makeup as long as it didn’t look as though they were wearing makeup, so it had to be subtle.
@@jogregg2392 He is NOT "sir." Never been knighted.
I totally agree. Petherbridge was much better.
Nobody mentions the music by Joseph Horowitz. It perfectly captures the romance and the sinister - absolutely beautiful.
Also wrote the theme of Rumpole of the Bailey. Died last February, aged 95.
Harriet Walter is a wonderful actress, and I have long admired her. However, I do think that she was never more gorgeous than with this brilliant portrayal of the endlessly fascinating Harriet Vane.
She’s actually aged really well. Look for her more recent roles such as in Cat Among the Pigeons
She's the reason I got into this series. TH-cam algorithm showed me her on the thumbnail, I needed to see the series.
@@jarthur5094She played Fanny Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility. Perfectly odious person but done well.
@@rachelgarber1423. I would never have taken her for Fanny. Thank you so much. TH-cam has most of sense and sensibility on videos now and I watched it just this last week. I would never have recognized her.
She brilliant in that too @@jarthur5094
Harriet Walter plays that discovery of the body scene SO well! Utterly believable.
Yes! We know she’s a strong character so it would seem fake if she ran away screaming, but there’s no silly cold blooded behaviour. She does the logical, needed tasks but unwillingly, and her physical and mental distress are really well done!
@@bilindalaw-morley161 Exactly. It’s one of the only realistic film portrayals I’ve seen of someone “doing the necessary” while obviously trying not to throw up.
I thought exactly the same thing. So sick of the over rective responses of screaming on loop. I suppose some people might but it's more a reaction to threat rather than bad surprise. This was natural and certainly in character
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@@lauragranger9813Absolutely. I have never seen anyone dead from less than natural cause, but people close to me have died...only selfish people make it "about themselves ".
Lots of those people about nowdays.
You just cannot beat a delicately balanced tale of mystery and affection!
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Another splendid production. I note just 2 minor characters: old Gaffer Trewin (played by Arthur Hewlett) who stares cryptically when Harriet finds a phone & snooty hotel receptionist (Sarah Crowden) who tries to dismiss, then fawns over Harriet. Two sublime rural/provincials who add such color & tone to the piece
The hotel receptionist was perfectly cast as all the characters were.
Dorothy Sayers was a wonderful author and her Wimsey books are a delight to read. This series is the best adaptation of her work.
Fred LaVenuta An opinion...
@@mckavitt NOT the best adaptation...
@@glen7318 It has the shivery-est theme tune though...
@@nicholasalexander4743 what's a better translation
Just love the witty banter in this series~
A perfect pairing in these two characters. Brilliant acting & performances all round.❤️
The best Lord Peter! The whole thing is superb - what a delight it is to enjoy such wonderful acting by every single person in the cast! Thank you for uploading!
I rather disagree. I much prefer Ian Carmichael as Wimsey from the dramatizations the BBC did in the early 70's
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@@wordwarrior2350 Quit spamming, spoilsport.
@@esmeephillips5888 I will obey you if you obey me. I guess you have a very controlling father. Was I writing to YOU? NOOOOO. STOP being stupid and lecturing others as to what they should do. Go yell at your parents.
@@wordwarrior2350 You were urging everyone not to watch a show you SAY is bootlegged. If that admonition was not addressed to me, I shall go on watching it, grinch. Meanwhile, don't get sore and lapse into juvenile psychobabble bc somebody noticed your spamming, spoilsport.
My favourite LPW novel. I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read it. This was a very enjoyable adaptation.
I just adore the shoes from this era. As a small child I was always admiring the examples in my local museum in Northampton.
The elegance and fine workmanship have never been beaten.
If I had money all my shoes would be handmade, all my underwear silk and all my sheets fine linen. A girl can dream......
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Hi Sue, after reading your comment I paid particular attention (or tried to) to the shoes worn in this part 1 but couldn't really see a lot, as of course the camera's on people's faces not their feet! But I love shoes myself and I've got about 60 pairs :-) What I really do enjoy looking at in this series are the lovely old cars. I believe Lord Peter did have a Lagonda in the books. But they all seem to be open-top (even in winter) and the exhaust fumes are terrible.
I notice Harriet's walking shoes too. I wish I could buy some like that.
I like the long blouse with the long scarf outfit she wears in this. With a long, skirt, but not too long. Simple, but still elegant.
How about making the clothes yourself? It isnt that hard ... and if you tailor them for your measurements it will fit perfectly!
There are a lot of tailoring channels to get inspiration and tips: th-cam.com/channels/hyWv5fy8utAWVhRPVV85XQ.html
Thanks clandestienfilm these are such class actors Harriet Walter is just fantastic Edward Petherbridge is the absolute perfect partner for her.
What stylish adaptations of wonderful books. A real sense of a golden age, not least BBC spending money for this kind of Sunday night drama. These two could not be better, nor Bunter. Thanks for uploading these!
I loved reading Sayers' Peter Wimsey books. Petherbridge perfectly portrays a truly attractive Wimsey and yet with all the asinine cliché upper Brit bloke mannerisms..
Sunday night. Sweet.
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I remember as an early teen ADOOORING Petherbridge when this first came out....oh BBC, you were fabulous then!
you'd think BBC would want to be fabulous and adored again, wouldn't you?
@@harmoniabalanza it's not meant to be. It's meant to do its job.
The one needing adoration is you.
I just love this series, and all programming like it. They're all just so....English! Thank you for making it available. With appreciation from an American Anglophile. 😊
I have enjoyed these movies so much that I have watched the entire series twice so far it is also prompted me to go out and buy Dorothy Sayers mysteries in hardcover. Thank you so much for uploading this series.
How marvelous that this series prompted you to buy the originals. You will find (or have found by now) that there is even more to the stories than you could have imagined and now have a picture of Lord Peter, Harriet and Bunter in your mind that fits them perfectly. I am almost jealous of you getting to read the books for the first time.
I just love DLS and this amazing duo she created... I have read all her books with Lord Peter and Harriet .
Petherbridge and Walter are divine together. Such stylish adaptations of Sayers novels. The BBC used to be beyond the cheap Hollywood approach. Alas no more.
Mari Christian We are living in another, yes, crasser, more vulgar era, but the BBC does represent that rather well. I thought Happy Valley w Sarah Lancashire riveting.
Mari Christian "..........totally agree, and I’m a North .American
Shirley Mason As am I & in general I agree w the pertinent judgement of much that is Hollowwood.
Couldn't be made today. We all know why.
Harriet Walter is the perfect Harriet Vane. Thank you.
The character Harriet Vane makes me want to slap her silly.
She is so irritating.
@@Hithere-ek4qt I don't find her irritating at all.
@@mrs.molesley1171 She is not meant to be that likable.. she has been hurt and scarred and she is prickly and difficult
@@glen7318 of course she is difficult but she has good reasons to be so, very plausible to me and not at all irritating. Sorry not sorry for that opinion.
She is only extremely independent but one does
wish she would lighten up a bit where Peter Wimsey is concerned.
I love that no one ever seems to say goodbye on a phone call. They just hang up, lol. Brilliant drama though.
Thought that was an American thing?
The snobbery of the hotel lady is hysterical.
I can watch this again and again! Thanks for posting!❤
Thank you for uploading these. They are favorites and I watch them again and again. Wonderful!
I remember these on Masterpiece Theater, then on the old, better version of Arts & Entertainment network. It is good to find them here.
Are any of you aware that these videos are not from BBC, as most movies and/or series are NOT from their originators or copyright holders?
If they were they would be the name BBC or whomever they belonged to. These are uploaded by "ClandestineFilm". That should be more than a hint to any moron. Please don´t subscribe.
Oh, I am lucky today.
Finally I have found an interestiong film. A country mile of searching....
TY for upload- I delight in seeing the elegance, style, architecture, gardens, lifestyle, automobiles, all of it of yore added to good acting and story line-
Love British shows. They are usually very well done.
The casting,sets,and acting are great
That first 10 minutes is instructive. It's too bad that the smartphone has inflicted so much casualness on photography, but then this is an educated lady who kept her head.
These are just marvelous. I’m hooked. They are smart, fun, suspenseful and filled with such compelling, delightful, sophisticated characters. Thanks so much for posting these.
Are any of you aware that these videos are not from BBC, as most movies and/or series are NOT from their originators or copyright holders?
If they were they would be the name BBC or whomever they belonged to. These are uploaded by "ClandestineFilm". That should be more than a hint to any moron. Please don´t subscribe.
Hooked? Indeed!
Am absolutely windblown crazy for Harriet Walter. Then & now.
She is just as jumbled and vulnerable as Lord wimsy! Perfect match!
She’s aged really well quite elegant
Agreed! I saw her, in a discussion/debate, give two readings of the same passage from Macbeth (ripping the baby away and bashing its brains out) within minutes of each other. Had me raging then crying!! A wonderful actress!
There are SO many wonderfully talented and memorable Character Actors in these Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey films! - Rowena Cooper, Sarah Crowden, Sheila Burrell, Dylis Hamlett, Carol MacReady and Charmin Ray, just to name a few. 🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️
Hard to picture Sarah Crowden (the hotel receptionist) as that aging creature in Downton Abbey who insults the Countess of Grantham by being snippy about Rose marrying someone Jewish...
I particularly cherish the tea dance at the Resplendent. Fred and Adele, indeed!
@calihartley2010 Both your thoughtless, insulting words and your idea of the roots of American music, then and now, are based on ignorance. I'm assuming you have not been in touch with reality during this century or the last. Your loss.
I’d love to know what this piece of music they were dancing to is.
I have enjoyed these .just love his devotion to her
I very much enjoyed the 1st of these dramas; looking forward to watching them all. What a treat!
THANK YOU SO MUCH. It's so killer hot here in Michigan, I don't want to clean, lol. So I am bingeing on this lovely series
Nothing like a cool British mystery to make you feel better!
Many thanks for posting, this really is superb TV.
Beautifully produced, in every respect....
People own the bridge, Cars drive through the water! That's the way I love it !
Thank you so much for doing this. It’s masterly. The BBC should show this again and again
Ethel Waterman and her Waterbabies are a Swinging Band, I very much appreciated Cherie and Antoine in their Dancing Display, simply marvelous.
Antoine looks a lot like Clifton Webb - who actually was a dancer at one point in his career. When he quit, his partner switched over to ... Rudolf Valentino ! I'm not joking . This was long before either of them got into the movies, of course.
@@maggiesmith856 Thank you! I am swooning over this tidbit!
That beach where she finds the body looks like Holywell beach in Cornwall. The 2 rocks that can be seen out to sea are known by some as Carters’ Rocks.
Sarah Crowden is wonderful as the receptionist.
Marvellous character. My grandma told me about the “modom” brigade of her childhood in the 1920s and this just made it so real. I could suddenly see all the dreadful dpt store assistants she spoke of
Wish they’d had a chance to complete the series
I can't find my other comment. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for the upload and that I love Petherbridge as Wimsey.
I love the music in this episode.
The game of romance. She send out the signal to send for him and try to send him away. The push and pull between these two.
Thank you very much for uploading these.
9:40: Oh, those old box cameras! And winding on the film each time! You had to set the shutter time and the distance for each photo as well. I used to have one which my dad had as a young lad, which was about the same era as this film is set (mid-1930s). Mind you, it took excellent photographs.
'You press the button, we do the rest.'
What Sundays used to be,am chilling and watching..thank you 💐💐
I love this series very much!
I love this movie. I wish they didn't make changes from the book. In the book Harriet went looking for Lord Peter after the trial, Not the other way around. She wanted to thank him.
Loved the dancing 😂
As someone who grew up on a beach, I cringe everytime I see her pick up that woolen blanket and stuff it straight into her pack without shaking off the sand.
Particularly as she keeps her camera in the same bag!!
And who could fall to sleep with a rock as a pillow 😂😂 I also live by the beach and rocks are not comfortable 🤣
No mention of the stunning costumes, the authentic props, and the great acting!
The music is lovely also, There's nothing like 1920's Jazz Age music.
It was probably filmed this way to save time.
Thanks for uploading these superb Peter Wimsey episodes. The cast is wonderful.
Thank you. I'm enjoying this
Very classy thanks!
I love the way civilians take over all the juicy murder cases from the police as a matter of course in these novels. It's as if the police chief says, "Oh no, your lordship, we wouldn't think of investigating the murder, it's not what we're paid to do after all, we just make sure the pubs close on time and that cars drive on the wrong side of the road...you go ahead and have fun and solve this one for us, like a good citizen."
These novels were about amateur detectives, they weren't police procedurals so there is always going to have to be some reason why the police are willling to work with an outside person.
It is only a story not real
@@tango6nf477 That doesn't mean it cant be realisitc....
HAHA so true.
@@lauragranger9813 Well, take that, Sherlock, and Poirot, and Campion, and all the other amateur detectives that have enriched a lot of our lives! It's fiction, mate.
Superb..
Thank you so much!!!
How damnably spiffing to have found another episode old bean
Thanks for uploading these!
Love it.
Yes, these are the best Lord Peter Whimsey! I watched one from another time, a different Lord Peter, and it wasn't half as good as these.
Wish I was living in those days
Yes, if one was wealthy and could stop time in 1939...
Wish the BBC had filed the whole Wimsey canon with Petheridge.
Warrendoe 6
Absolutely yes! He is the most credible and somehow, the most romantic one
Absolutely. He is Lord Peter.
I have read the book. Love this
Well played by all
Miss Harriet Vane rings my bell. Love the hair.
Wish they had been able to do Busman's Holiday
“You’ll get cut off, soon!!!”…..LOL!!!!
I so ship Harriet and Peter 😍they're my all-time favorite detective couple next only to Nick and Nora Charles of the Thin Man series.
Only nick and Nora were silly and funny
Both have great banter.
Having quickly read the comments as an italian born viewer who grew up in Australia and came back to italy in 1972 at 19 years of age, woefully filo American may I say that I've come to reverse my opinion in favour of the "anglosaxon celtic and nordic" cinema and authenticity of all that is english, welsh, scottish and irish for whatever its worth or isnt worth at all ( referring to myself ofcourse ) . Every scene, clothing is moving and enjoyable. So historically "european" regardless of monetry "systems" or you name it . Bravo!
Lovely! Lovely!👏
The only real shows with real humanity, decency and qualities or the last of these were in the 80's, something happened in the 90's - they changed everything in a weird way.
Communism started to take over ... just as with the entire british society. You just have to think about the inaction of the police in the grooming gang cases all over and the culmination with the cancellation of David Starkey by the same university which promoted another professor for saying racist anti-white things ...
To unravel and understand this you just need two things: Yuri Bezmenov AND "the long march through the institutions".
@@Muck006 The left has cut off its own nose to spite its face. In the US too. Beyond ridiculous. Ugly and idiotic. Sorry to say so, but true. And it is that extremism that has brought about a horrid right wing backlash of equal idiocy. What a sight to see, it would be funny if it weren't so horrible and dangerous. There is nothing wrong with a well-ordered society. It doesn't have to be fascist. People always learn too late. Fall of Rome.
What awfull snobs you all are.
@@margareteileenclarke2873 or human beings and not satanic beings.
@@writeract2 I would rather say that something happened at the turn of the century, from 2000 on. The 1990s were fine.
Imagine hiking around the coast of England, lugging that obviously heavy, enormous backpack, wearing a lady’s warm tweed suit, stockings and heeled shoes. No wonder she dozed off after lunch!
It is crucial to the plot, that our good Lord was able to identify the owner (the first owner, that is) of the murder weapon. It is symptomatic of the way mysteries are dramatised, however, that large gaps are (unfortunately for the viewer) left in the plot, and there's no explanation of how he knew the owner or how to find him.
Perhaps the deduction was explained in the book.
Yes, Michael Meo, you really should read the books to get the background to the stories and the incidents within them.
High priced items from a very posh and exclusive barber's shop would be able to be traced easily. The barber would have records of the items sold to one of his very exclusive clientes , specially a fine article such as a razor . Bunter being a gentleman's footman ( and not just any gentleman, Lord Peter is a Dandy )identified immediately who had that sort of razor in London and from there it was easy.
@@dindinprivate3477 Now there's someone who doesn't appreciate a story out of his own small time or (probably) small place in the world. Pity, that.
@@pennagain6207 My dear Penn - If reading is to you a 'small' source of information, you should pity your own limitations.
@pocketjohnson Thank you.
My grandmother had a "walking" outfit almost identical.
Thank you from Manhattan ©2024
It is most convenient that large double-brandies counteract hysteria and grief.
It only soothes the obvious guilt of bad timing over playing ones dramatic persona to elicit more than ones fair share of drama and vulnerability!..a shot of soda just adds insult to injury! When they have given up all hope of refineing their nervous breakdown to correspond to the convention of the time..
Isn't it!
Brandy was the most effective antidote to shock - it's a cardiac stimulant.
@@clareredfarn8613 And a good brandy is an absolute treat for the palate as well.
I thought it was hot tea.
With lots and lots of sugar
Delightful!
Thank ee Bunter!
Love it!🇨🇦🌺
Much prefer these to the ones with Ian Carmichael.
I agree. Carmichael was excellent but about 20 years too old.
@@clareredfarn8613 I dont tihnk it mattered. But I find Ed Petheredge too affected....and he doesnt look that young either. He is meant to be over 40
Glen has clearly never read the books or he would realise Edward Petherbridge plays the role to perfection. A titled gentleman in the era of the Golden Age of Mysteries would indeed have been quite aristocratic in demeanour. Apart from that I felt that Ian Carmichael was a bit clownish.
@@clareredfarn8613 There’s literally _one year_ between Edward Petherbridge and Ian Carmichael when they were playing Wimsey! Petherbridge was 51, Carmichael 52. So if one is too old, so is the other!
Each to their own, Carmichael was Wimsey, timing was better, Petherbridge relied on the monocle prop too much and it detracted from the story.
what a wonderful story ..wee clues spoon fed so unemotionally. Love it. I have never heard of a Legoda car which is what Sir. Peter is driving.. I realize it is a English car, are they still around? Prestigious car was it?
The make of car is a Lagonda - a luxury/expensive marque which began in 1906. Beautiful vehicles!
@@zoefoster1873 Thank you Zoe Foster. Luxury and expense glowed from that vehicle as they drove away. wow. I shall look that one up.
Actually, Lord Peter drives a Daimler. Had it named 'Mrs. Merdle'.
Thanks a bunch!
I'd love for them to do a new adaptation of these. But I feel not while these two are still alive because they did it so perfectly.
I've already mentally cast Laurence Fox as Peter. Can't think who for Harriet
Laurence Fox??? I think he’d be completely wrong! For one thing, he’s too young, and Petherbridge was far too old when these were done; if he’d been 15 years younger he would have been much better. And “Bunter” is completely miscast, to the point that I can’t watch his major scenes and have to fast forward through them! Harriet Walter was excellent, I totally agree there.
@@voraciousreader3341Laurence Fox is 45 ( as of 2023) and Edward Petheridge was 51 in 1987 when this was filmed. Lord Peter was 45 when he married Harriet so presumably he was early to mid forties during this story. So perhaps Edward Petheridge was slightly older than ideal (but he is still my favourite Lord Peter). The timeline in the books differs from the TV series because in the books the three stories covering the courtship were spread over about 5 years ( with other investigations interspersed) whereas, in the TV series, they appear to be one after the other. I think Laurence Fox would be very suitable if they did a remake: he has an interesting face but is not conventionally handsome in a Cary Grant kind of way. Lord Peter and Harriet are both survivors of difficult life experiences and I think this is what makes the story arc so wonderful and poignant: one knows that when she finally says yes they are mature people who are making a commitment to love and cherish each other.
Fox wouldn’t work at all. You can’t expect to be taken seriously after all the tosh he’s got up to. Which is a shame because otherwise I’d have agreed
@@minui8758 haha really? I haven’t paid attention to his personal life. Often makes their performance work unenjoyable to me once I know about them. Who would you recommend?
@@lauragranger9813 Freddy Fox perhaps but he’d be unconvincingly short and would have to work very very hard to capture the nervy cut glass edge, he’s a bit relaxed as is
In most of the mysteries I've watched, people love to drink smoke, eat, and dance. Nice life, except for the greed that leads to murder.
Harriet vane burns away like straw at the mere kiss of Lord wimsey! Poor thing Ms Vane never had a chance!
I have watched this many times and am always puzzled and slightly offended in the beginning...that she could walk away without so much as a thank you? Especially knowing how deeply he cares for her...
in the book she looked for him but he'd had to leave. Wondered why the TV writers changed it. She was not ungrateful
@@marycassidy1695 Right! I don't know why they changed that. Also, it's not that he *had* to leave, but he made himself scarce so as not to pressure her by gratitude and the emotion of the moment.
@@ayishas4385 EXACTLY!
I love Dorothy L Sayers and this series but just for a few seconds I thought why doesn't she use her mobile before realising even a landline was a rarity in those days. Despite what today would be considered a slow life I think I would have enjoyed it despite being so entrenched in the 21st century thinking about mobile phones.
Vielen Dank!