This country sure indeed beautiful ... Love every minute of this story ...

Just watched all of these... Really enjoyed them... Was nice to watch something that just concentrated on what really matters; a good story and good acting. No unitrusive mood setting music, no CGI... Just great drama.

@Muck006

2 жыл бұрын

There are also several subjects and you keep on guessing until the end.

“It was his misfortune to suffer from a rotten neighbour!” How true. He was an odious man. Wonderfully intriguing, terribly gripping, enjoyed it terribly.

I enjoyed the series of Lord Peter Wimsey very much. Watched the entire episodes without stop! 😄😎

Wimsey's driving gauntlets . . . c'est formidable!

@Muck006

Жыл бұрын

I really wish I had some of them (in a heavy duty version) for gardening/woodworking ... my welding gloves only go up the sleeve half as much.

@terrortorn

4 ай бұрын

You can see why cars required a "glovebox".

@richardcleveland8549

4 ай бұрын

@@terrortorn More like a gauntletbox!

The car was always very rare. It is a Bentley Speed Six "Le Mans Tourer", built between 1928 and 1930. There were at least two other body designs, but I believe there were only 182 of them built altogether.

@Muck006

Жыл бұрын

There were LOADS of manufacturers of cars in those days and most of them were hand-crafted with some rather astonishing versions. One of the really extraordinary ones was the "Rumpler Tropfenwagen" from 1928, created by a german aircraft designer who couldnt build aircraft due to the treaty of Versailles. Thus he created a really slippery car (it looks like an airplane wing from the top), which had the best air-drag coefficient of a production car until the 1970s. There are only two of them left IIRC (out of a similar production run like the Bentley).

@CEng-ge6sw

Ай бұрын

But what was the police car? It is even more rare than the Bentley and the poor picture quality makes identification very difficult. I think it is an A......

"Bang. You're dead, Bunter." "Very good, my lord." *lies down on the floor*

@deranged4255

2 жыл бұрын

23:30. Bunter is always ready to serve.

Quality, quality, quality.

Thank you very much for this excellent episode !

Splendid. Thank you so much for allowing us to watch all those Lord Peter Wimsey productions. They've been wonderful.

I'm very happy about the ending (Wimsey's summing up). And I'm sure that's just what did happen later on in court. Thank you "Lord Peter Wimsey" for sharing these fantastic murder mysteries.

@mfjdv2020

6 жыл бұрын

The reconstruction bit is rather long-winded though ... and were all cars open in those days? Must have been bloody cold.

@censusgary

5 жыл бұрын

I’m a bit disturbed at the notion that if you have unpleasant neighbors, it’s OK to kill them (even if you only intended to beat them up), but it does seem that somebody was bound to kill Campbell sooner or later.

@nancycrayton2738

5 жыл бұрын

@@censusgary The thing is - the man came into his home. He was the aggressor. He was a bully with a dangerously short fuse. Ferguson defended himself. He knocked him down but did not mean to cause him to hit his head against the stove which killed him. Self defense. He should not hang for it.

@JanetteHeffernan

5 жыл бұрын

@@nancycrayton2738 The summing up was a travesty. In the book it is thrilling and the murderer does not take part. Too much dramatic licence on this occasion. Would have done better to have stuck to the book.

@bluegent7

3 жыл бұрын

@@censusgary The only objective was to hinder harm to oneself, not even to beat the other up. The latter must have finally seemed like the only necessary, and justified, method needed, under fear, duress and improvisation, to avert danger against life, health and property, in ones own home. Our home being our castle, and our bodies and property our own, must be the be age old maxims given by nature and still applicable today. The police must prove the more severe intent of murder, which they likely couldn't. Edit: The meticulous planning for alibi is probably not enough, it was done after the fact and in great haste, and didn't even succeed.

Thanks for the info re the beautiful car. I love those old cars & have been fascinated by them & how they were built. I’m so glad that English TV & Movies have them restored &. beautiful machines in the period Shows of different eras.

I really enjoyed these! Thank you for posting them :)

Love all episodes were all great thanks for sharing

That funeral cortege went across the graveyard at a sufficiently fast pace to make it eligible for a Dave Allen sketch.

Delightful. Capitally, delightful. I found the little tricks Lord Peter uses absolutely wondrous. Ms. Sayers writes a good tale with clever twists. As Sherlock would say, observation Watson. Look at everything around you. Well how do you know what tails are telling? Watch everything, notice everything.

Really like this version of `Lord Peter Wimsey'; the actor who plays Wimsey is good, as is the one who plays Bunter. I was hoping that Bunter and the serving girl would end up together.

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

Read Jill Paton Walsh's continuation of the Wimsey series -- they are fabulous (JPW is a great author in her own right) -- and you will see who Bunter ended up with.

Par excellence. TY.

How fun to watch these old gems! Thanks for making them available.

It's lonely from calan! As McGowan!

finally, one that doesn't end with the suspect committing suicide to evade the disgrace!

@glen7318

3 жыл бұрын

Only 2 of the books end with that... Bellona Club and Murder Must advertise

As Red Skelton said at the funeral of Harry Cohn, "Give the people what they want and they will come out every time."

Gowan with the rubber cap on his head made me laugh.

Thank you for posting these.

I'm glad that these are now on KZread. I first watched these in the US when they were broadcast on PBS's "Mystery" back in the 1970's'. I thought they were great. I do find that Ian Carmichael had a slightly effeminate aspect to his character. So I thought it was very funny when the lingerie salesman offered Lord Peter his card, in case he ever needed some women's lingerie. Lord Peter thought for a second or two, then accepted it and said, "Well, you never know!"

@mavisemberson8737

2 жыл бұрын

He was a ladies man in his youth!!! You mistake the time period and the countries manners

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

@@mavisemberson8737 And of course he does get married...

I love the look of this miniseries. I think it's my favorite of the series starring Ian Carmichael. I watch it during the Fall and smoke my pipe filled with Rattray's Scottish tobaccos. Red Virginias and Perique, produce a red wine tanginess with a touch of spice.

thanks for posting.

Brilliant 👍👍👍👍

I hope there episodes to come!😌

Now read the book or listen to the Audiobook although in some ways this travesty will spoil it a bit. DL Sayers was a brilliant detective writer and this book must be one of the best ever. Still, when it stuck to the book it did have a few good moments.

@ayishas4385

Жыл бұрын

I agree. It's understandable that they had to simplify a lot of it to make it work in movie form, but the book is excellent. I wish I hadn't watched this first, because it meant I knew the whole time who did it, which took some of the suspense out of the book. However, the book was still very worthwhile: they take so much out of the story for this rendition -- much more than some of the other adaptations, which end up being closer to the books -- that there was lots for me to enjoy about the book despite knowing from the beginning who would be implicated in the death. Something I really appreciate about Sayers' writing is how she always allows the police their due: in so many mysteries, it's just the spectacular private detective who has any smarts; in Sayers' books, it's always a collaborative effort; LPW is never the sole genius, and I find that so much more interesting and real.

@Muck006

Жыл бұрын

There is a difference between "shortening a book to make it work because many things CAN NOT BE SHOWN and because TELLING IS BAD IN MOVIES/TV" and "altering the story entirely into a _based upon the book_ adaptation". *SHOW ... DONT TELL ... is important.* [Amazon's new/current abomination of an "adaptation" of j.R.R. Tolkien's work is guilty of "telling and not showing" and you can easily see why it is BAD!]

@ayishas4385

Жыл бұрын

@@Muck006 Well said.

Lord Peter frequently had an agreeable 'rough justice' ending that would be impossible to get away with today (ie: murderers' demise at the end of Bellona Club....etc)...... More's the pity.

Really loved this series. Does anyone have any suggestions for other such similar programs ? Would really appreciate any recommendations. Thank you

@mfjdv2020

3 жыл бұрын

You could try Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford Mysteries which are on here. They are set in the 1980s and 1990s. Or Agatha Christie's Poirot. Or Agatha Christie's Marple. They're all fantastic.

@shirleysavitts9647

3 жыл бұрын

I found this and more of Lord Peter Wimsey by typing in the search engine. This works with most all film if KZread has it. Good Hunting.

@susandevine3907

3 жыл бұрын

Acorn TV has many. Cheap to subscribe.

@sameenansari9007

3 жыл бұрын

@@susandevine3907 thank you. Will look into that

@cidchase2689

2 жыл бұрын

Murdock Mysteries and The Great Detective. I especially love the series, "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries".

Carmichael plays Lord Peter really fabulously, he is just nothing like him physically. Not a big problem though.

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

My feelings exactly about Ian Carmichael. When I first saw these, back in the 70s, I had read them all and thought he was all wrong physically (like Patrick Malahide as Alleyn) but he charmed me very quickly and I thought he had the essence. I do like Edward Petherbridge too, though -- he looks right and I have always liked him as an actor.

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The multi-arched bridge (railroad?) at about 32:00 - is that one of Isambard Brunel's?

@decodolly1535

2 жыл бұрын

If they actually filmed in Scotland, probably not. IKB mostly worked for the GWR in Devon & Cornwall and also some work in Wales.

@richardcleveland8549

Жыл бұрын

@@decodolly1535 Thanks. Amazing man, IKB was. A genius at everything he touched.

@eleanorg9547

9 ай бұрын

It’s the Big Water of Fleet Viaduct near Dumfries. I haven’t been able to find out the engineer.

The bald fella was stinker in callan.

How could a painter stick tubes of paint in his pockets without ruining his clothes?

@Lytton333

3 жыл бұрын

Tube caps..

@mfjdv2020

3 жыл бұрын

Tubes of paint are invariably sold with caps on them :-)

@mavisemberson8737

2 жыл бұрын

They had coats for painting with large pockets for the tubes

@ayishas4385

Жыл бұрын

Theoretically, the tube caps. HOWEVER, if you read the book, it specifically mentions that the insides of his pockets would get paint on them because of this messy habit, from which I assume that he wasn't very careful to see that he'd wiped off excess paint before he re-capped them. Painters have different comfort levels with mess. As a painter myself, I can tell you that my room is, alas, almost always messy, but my painting is meticulous; I almost never get paint on my clothes or anywhere else it isn't supposed to be. On the other hand, one of my cousins is also a painter, and despite having busy little boys, her house is a spotless work of art, but her painting clothes are like a canvas -- she uses her jeans to clean her brushes on.

@Muck006

Жыл бұрын

@@ayishas4385 Maybe you should suggest to your cousin the use of a heavy duty apron? That should be cheaper to replace ... and easy to take off if guests suddenly arrive.

This was my least favorite among the series. There were just too many non essential ,friviolous woman in the story line. JMO

@coloraturaElise

Жыл бұрын

The pair of spinster ladies did actually serve a purpose in the book, since they met Ferguson at the art show in Glasgow, and after explaining how he showed them around, Peter is able to pick up on a few details that he later used to implicate the killer.

I don't think it's very respectful to call a couple of middle-aged ladies 'Miss' without adding their surname. Bunter should address them as 'madam'.

@Muck006

2 жыл бұрын

Again your inability to accept different social standards in decades past ... and DEMANDING conformity to YOUR standard. There is a reason why "spinsters" are treated differently ... but rebranded communists of the feminism type are not willing to accept that responsibility of women for society. Without that attitude we would never have come this far ... because the human species would have died out long ago. Spinsters AND feminist career-cat ladies are simply "dead ends for society".

@texasred2702

2 жыл бұрын

@@Muck006 you're forgetting the time period. A whole generation of men was killed in WW1 and as a result there were a lot of "spinsters" around and they figure prominently in the literature of the time. No doubt some of them would have been that way anyway, there have always been unconventional women as well as men, but many of them didn't have much choice. As for the "Miss" address, they were given the benefit of the doubt as to being chaste. A respectable woman was expected to be, whether or not she was.

@T0NYD1CK

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect those "misses" were, in fact, a couple although I am not sure how that might affect things. In those days, it was not compulsory for one of the couple to have purple hair and be overweight. That is a later idea.

@mavisemberson8737

2 жыл бұрын

A servant always addressed unmarried ladies as Miss. Read some older books for heavens sake :-)

@ayishas4385

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it's disrespectful. He knows their marital status. Now, there might be occasions when he would call an unmarried spinster "Madam" -- for instance, if she were significantly older than he was -- but I have a feeling that these ladies wouldn't want to feel past their prime, and his calling them "Miss" is a deliberate choice to convey to them that he still thinks of them as his age or younger. Nowadays in many European cultures, it's considered more polite to call a woman "Ma'am" or "Madame" or "Mevrouw" than "Miss" "Mademoiselle" or "Mejevrouw", but in this era it was not considered rude to be accurate about a woman's marital status.

A well educated man using ain't and don't! Poor writing!

@mfjdv2020

3 жыл бұрын

Contractions such as ain't and don't were frequently used by the aristocracy since the Regency or maybe before. As you say, Peter is a highly educated person, with a First in History at Oxford. Using those contractions is just one of his affectations.

@glen7318

3 жыл бұрын

not at all

@mavisemberson8737

2 жыл бұрын

Certainly not. The upper classes often used ain't and don't.!

@steveg8322

2 жыл бұрын

To tweak the nose of the fastidious grammarians.

@Muck006

Жыл бұрын

Some customs change from lower class to upper class. Lobster was considered "poor man's food" back in the days IIRC.