I've been haunted by the theme music to this since I was a child and it was broadcast on a Sunday. One of the most beautiful themes ever to a TV series.
Same wit me! I was a teenager when I started to read PD James' novels, and as a young woman l was delighted when I could watch these mostly well made tv-adaptations. The music is indeed hauntingly beautiful!
Ditto. I was 12 when this was aired, and I remember being bored by it and actually volunteering to go to bed! Watching it at 52 is a very different experience
I remember watching this as a teenager, I loved this show and Roy Marsden is perfect in the role of Adam Dalghliesh. Thank you so much for uploading these.
Working midnights at hospital , going to grad school in the day and this was my only distraction in the mid 1980s. . A great, fun mystery. Thank you PD James, et. al.
Hi Rudolf - I put all of your Dalgliesh episodes on a public Playlist in episode order and gave you credit for your work. Please LMK if you want me to make it Private. Just thought it would make it easier to binge watch. Thanks for all your hard work!
I watched four of the five parts about a week ago and I felt a little turned off because I had just finished the book,. I am back now and enjoying it with an open mind.I think I should have waited several months before attempting the TV adaptation. Almost all of the parts are there, it's just the way they've had to show them that really threw me off and instantly jaded me. But now, here I am and I feel so glad to be able to watch this series. I haven't seem part five yet. Thank you, *Rudolf Forsythe* for sharing this.
PD James understands evil in everyday settings and ordinary people: the poison pen, the snoop, the snitch, the blackmailer, the whisperer, the gossips, the insinuate, the sly and of course, the cowards that open wide the gate to hell on earth. Watch out especially for those with God in their mouths and a blade in their hands!
Watching the girl give the guy the brush-off in the first 2 minutes of the show, reminded me of the many English women I worked with in the UAE back-in the 80’s. They would pickup and drop men like just so much fluff on their clothes. Utterly ruthless, I always thought.
It is interesting to see a rare appearance by Graham Faulkner, Zeffirelli's Francis of Assisi, as a nursee. It was one of his last participations in a production. He was such a good actor, but here he has very little to do. It is a pity that he was not offered great roles as the one in Brother Sun, Sister Moon.
After the Pearl Harbour attack the American authorities made arrangements for the evacuation of unnecessary military personnel . A big Hospital ship was commissioned and half the passengers were unmarried pregnant nurses and female members of the armed forces. Same thing went on in the UK.
Have you thought of that as it is a heart problem he is there for, giving him a phone could be for business which would probably kill him trying to talk.
This was written before everyone had a phone stuck in their ear, when many people did not even have a phone at home. People managed to live without continual reassurance they were missed. You. no doubt, would have never make it after 12 :)
Love Dalgleish's copper's attitude. They've lost every scintilla of respect today, of course. They'd have to use force to get the public to do anything now.
The sick man in the hospital is Colonel von Strohm from 'ello 'ello. Strange to see one of the funniest men play such a serious roll. I keep imagining him saying "the stolen Madonna with the big boobies" if you've never seen the show, he and Captain Geering were fantastic as onion sellers😂
It's probably quite sexist, but part of me misses the little hats nurses wore. I wonder what kind of hats one could have made the men wear to be more egalitarian.
Mark Atkins Yeah. Probably didn't raise many eyebrows at the time as OFAH was still struggling to find a broad audience. Apparently Buster Merryfield is also in this which is a little coincidental. The guy playing Dalgleish was in OFAH years later playing one of the Driscoll brothers.
I watched this as a bit of a nostalgia thing, because I can remember seeing bits of it back in the 1980s. Hope no one gets upset by me saying this, but compared with modern acting, the performances here really are quite hammy. There are a couple of good leads, but for the most part this series looks like a local amateur dramatic production. I know that old people are supposed to complain that everything was better when they were younger, but I really think that acting has come on leaps and bounds since my youth. Am I going to watch the other episodes? Damn right I am, and I shall enjoy them. Edit: having wstched all the episodes, I've changed my mind about the acting. It's just that in the first couple of episodes the young characters are so prominent, and of course they are played by young, inexperienced actresses. It gets a lot better from episode 3.
I think she is sanctimonious&s smug if she was a do-gooder she would have immediately reported the girl or at least try to understand why she kept the cash instead she took the role her judge&jury. I think she thought they would split it loath such hypocrisy aaaaggghh!!!!
For me Roy Marsden is the one and only Dalgliesh. A hard act to follow. The new series isn’t half as good… and that Masterson-character, so annoying. He ruins the hole serie.
I've been haunted by the theme music to this since I was a child and it was broadcast on a Sunday. One of the most beautiful themes ever to a TV series.
Same. Hearing this again at an age of 40+ gave me goosebumps.
@@borg_cube And at age 60+
Yes. It’s hauntingly beautiful. 🎶🎶
Same wit me! I was a teenager when I started to read PD James' novels, and as a young woman l was delighted when I could watch these mostly well made tv-adaptations. The music is indeed hauntingly beautiful!
Back then Sunday's were eerily strange on the box.....sombre shows !!
I was only 11 in 1984. Lovely rediscovering it now. Drama on tv used to be so well done.
Ditto. I was 12 when this was aired, and I remember being bored by it and actually volunteering to go to bed! Watching it at 52 is a very different experience
I remember watching this as a teenager, I loved this show and Roy Marsden is perfect in the role of Adam Dalghliesh. Thank you so much for uploading these.
Working midnights at hospital , going to grad school in the day and this was my only distraction in the mid 1980s. . A great, fun mystery. Thank you PD James, et. al.
Best theme music ever …. New series doesn’t cut it at all… watching this makes me feel so nostalgic
Very true I couldn’t finish watching the new series.
I didn't know there was a new series. Who plays Dalgliesh?
@@fishfootfaceI believe it's Bertie Carvel.
Joss Ackland can carry a movie all on his own,! 👏👏🇬🇧
Another Tinker Tailor alum .. 👍❤️
"I think we should keep our mouths shut and our minds open." here here.
I love old hospital training and hierarchy. Best years of my life. I was a three stripper at a Repatriation Hospital in 1984, wore exactly those caps.
I presume you meant 3 striper and not 3 stripper? I’ve met some strippers in my time but never a 3 stripper!
@@StevenHolmes-s3e have to admit I had a similar reaction ...
The music is just wonderful and each episode is so slow and detailed. Lovely. Much thanks for downloading without commercials ❤️💕
I remember being disturbed by the theme tune and opening credits of this show. A very bleak but good detective show from my childhood ✌️
I still remembered the theme before it came on.
I remember just listening to the music and the theme this used to be on a Friday night back in the early 80s just after the ten o’clock news
Wow this does take me to when I was nine years old.I loved watching this so it's great to remind myself what a great adaptation this was.
Yeah agree the exact same. This was a hit TV show back then. Everyone at school watched it. Lovely times with my family. X
@@mirandafriday4023 Fun to find another Miranda enjoying these stories
Grand dad from fools n Horses! Coronal from Allo Allo! What a treat!
Lot of class acts in this series, very impressed.
Hi Rudolf - I put all of your Dalgliesh episodes on a public Playlist in episode order and gave you credit for your work. Please LMK if you want me to make it Private. Just thought it would make it easier to binge watch. Thanks for all your hard work!
Almost like Foyle's War ..the music ...and solving the murders...I miss Michael Kitchen
Jay Ocean So do I. 😕
Me too !!
Makes me want to reread PD James. She was a brilliant writer.
Thank you for these marvelous mysteries...so appreciate!
Thank you so much. I watched it years ago and enjoyed it so much. The picture quality and sound is perfect:))
I’ve watched this version, and the updated version from a couple of years ago. I’m not sure why, but I prefer this older version.
Thank yu for these videos brillant and still can test the time of day.
Thank you for this treat.
I love these and thank you for uploading 😻
thank you for all the series....I really enjoyed them.....one love
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I watched four of the five parts about a week ago and I felt a little turned off because I had just finished the book,. I am back now and enjoying it with an open mind.I think I should have waited several months before attempting the TV adaptation. Almost all of the parts are there, it's just the way they've had to show them that really threw me off and instantly jaded me. But now, here I am and I feel so glad to be able to watch this series. I haven't seem part five yet. Thank you, *Rudolf Forsythe* for sharing this.
Hats off to that actress undergoing the nasal gastric thing. I would be running off the set by now.......
I hope the actress didn't actually have to do it. It's horrible, no matter how reassuring people are.
Brilliant Thank you
Thank you. Best for the new year.
Thank you sir - much appreciated!
Thanks for this video! Very gripping mystery. I like the Detectives Ford Granada! Apparently they are very rare cars now!
Thank you for these videos.
Roy Marsden and Joss Ackland in conversation is like a 1980s commercial break talking to itself.
What does this mean?
@@carolslade9600 Between them, they did the voiceovers for a lot of adverts in the 1980s.
@@applemask well they both have great voices
PD James understands evil in everyday settings and ordinary people: the poison pen, the snoop, the snitch, the blackmailer, the whisperer, the gossips, the insinuate, the sly and of course, the cowards that open wide the gate to hell on earth. Watch out especially for those with God in their mouths and a blade in their hands!
No..watch for those with a blade in their hands..and no God on their lips nor in their hearts..No God
that is, besides pride and the love of money.
She was a very strange woman
So many familiar faces. Can't quite place them all though.
AD is so cool in a terrible situation!
Thank you for these
Thank you!
Watching the girl give the guy the brush-off in the first 2 minutes of the show, reminded me of the many English women I worked with in the UAE back-in the 80’s. They would pickup and drop men like just so much fluff on their clothes. Utterly ruthless, I always thought.
It is interesting to see a rare appearance by Graham Faulkner, Zeffirelli's Francis of Assisi, as a nursee. It was one of his last participations in a production. He was such a good actor, but here he has very little to do. It is a pity that he was not offered great roles as the one in Brother Sun, Sister Moon.
exactly!
Such vibrant person -so quenched here
I was quite relieved when that bible thumping blackmailer croaked.
LOL 😄
She was horrible.
Less than 20 minutes in and I know who I WANT the murder victim to be.
After the Pearl Harbour attack the American authorities made arrangements for the evacuation of unnecessary military personnel . A big Hospital ship was commissioned and half the passengers were unmarried pregnant nurses and female members of the armed forces. Same thing went on in the UK.
Enjoy , be entertained, no adds!!!!
26 minutes before the first ad break😂. Now it’s more like 6 minutes.
Another British tv good cast
Roy Marsden one of the Driscoll brothers
What does this mean?
Haha, the bossy and rude patient at the start was the German general from Allo! Allo!
i am only a few min in and all I know is if I was in hospital and begged for a phone to call my loved ones I wold expect it to be done for me.
Have you thought of that as it is a heart problem he is there for, giving him a phone could be for business which would probably kill him trying to talk.
This was written before everyone had a phone stuck in their ear, when many people did not even have a phone at home. People managed to live without continual reassurance they were missed. You. no doubt, would have never make it after 12 :)
@@wendyo2561 exactly what I was going to say
You're clearly just one of those people with a sense of entitlement so great, that you "expect" everything to be done for you.
I just finished watching the new series. Now I am here to compare. Weirdly, I misremembered that this series was black and white.
I think this is the youngest I've seen Deborah Findlay, she looks maybe mid 20's here but she's actually 37 when this was released.
Love Dalgleish's copper's attitude. They've lost every scintilla of respect today, of course. They'd have to use force to get the public to do anything now.
The public have lost their bloody minds today as well. So "deuce".
It would be a great help if each series was in order.
I agree. I took some time to make my own playlist and put them all in order, and can now binge watch in order of the books.
Whatever would they do without Dalgliesh and his smug sidekick?
Nobody leave the room!
Wondering how these episodes would look if they were on film.
Why was pulling the tube out wrong? Even the doctor recognised that it was poison, likely from the milk in the tube.
Because they could have instilled something to neutralize the poison.
Who was more guilty, Christine or her blackmailer?
The sick man in the hospital is Colonel von Strohm from 'ello 'ello. Strange to see one of the funniest men play such a serious roll. I keep imagining him saying "the stolen Madonna with the big boobies" if you've never seen the show, he and Captain Geering were fantastic as onion sellers😂
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It's probably quite sexist, but part of me misses the little hats nurses wore. I wonder what kind of hats one could have made the men wear to be more egalitarian.
They didn't wear those in the US in the 80s.
The old uniforms were adorable!
Anyone spot the cameo by Grandad from OFAH?
Mark Atkins Yeah. Probably didn't raise many eyebrows at the time as OFAH was still struggling to find a broad audience. Apparently Buster Merryfield is also in this which is a little coincidental. The guy playing Dalgleish was in OFAH years later playing one of the Driscoll brothers.
32:55
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19.54 a great scene.
Is the patient who is worried about talking under sedation in the 'allo 'allo series ?
Yes, The late Richard Marner, AKA Colonel Kurt von Strohm. Died 18 March 2004, One day after his 82nd birthday.
Thank you, wacokid :)
I watched this as a bit of a nostalgia thing, because I can remember seeing bits of it back in the 1980s. Hope no one gets upset by me saying this, but compared with modern acting, the performances here really are quite hammy. There are a couple of good leads, but for the most part this series looks like a local amateur dramatic production. I know that old people are supposed to complain that everything was better when they were younger, but I really think that acting has come on leaps and bounds since my youth.
Am I going to watch the other episodes? Damn right I am, and I shall enjoy them.
Edit: having wstched all the episodes, I've changed my mind about the acting. It's just that in the first couple of episodes the young characters are so prominent, and of course they are played by young, inexperienced actresses. It gets a lot better from episode 3.
They won’t let him phone his wife? Wow!
I know, right?!
A new version released in 2021.
What does she say at 7:14?
Matron: "You're cutting it a bit fine, girls!"
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Eighteen minutes in and I know who I want to kill ! lol Miss Goody Two Shoes
lol, she is a bit overboard!!
Lol!
typical Russian they hate us as British......what would happen now in the year 2016 being called a bitch etc ...
I think she is sanctimonious&s smug if she was a do-gooder she would have immediately reported the girl or at least try to understand why she kept the cash instead she took the role her judge&jury. I think she thought they would split it loath such hypocrisy aaaaggghh!!!!
That passage put me off the show
How smartly dressed the nurses were. The only thing that is a bit odd is the white hats the senior nurses are wearing that look a bit like pavlovas.
For me Roy Marsden is the one and only Dalgliesh.
A hard act to follow.
The new series isn’t half as good… and that Masterson-character, so annoying. He ruins the hole serie.
Girls who play Heather and Chris are cute, even if they are probably old enough to be somebody's Grandmother now. Don't know the actresses though.
How could he tell from scene that she was having cardiac arrest because of being poisoned?
Her eyes were syanotic sure sign of poisoning
Arnold, how could you ever get romantic over a man named Arnold (or George for that matter)!!
I did - he was totally lovable. But he did not like his name either, and was called Noldi. (He was Swiss).
You made me smile!!! tnx.
Valerie Cummings. Actually, I doubt I could get romantic over any man with a bod like that!!! I like them slender and intellectual!!!
Eli Nannestad. Nice way around it. I actually got very romantic over a 'George'.
alice hudson what a dinosaur of a comment
So Wikipedia was the murderer .
lol
Where’s the 2nd part?
Where it's supposed to be.
Which was better, Dalgliesh or Morse?
I don't know much about Shaw's Dalgliesh, but Marsden's earlier version and Morse were very indifferent and condescending to their assistants.
as was sherlock holmes and charlie chan.
McGrottomaster I always thought Holmes was a bully to Watson.
I liked the Martin Shaw version of Dalgleish much better. Just can't seem to care about Roy Marsden.
Roy Marsden hands down. He strikes a commanding figure.