The Murders at Lynch Cross - starring Sylvia Syms & Terence Alexander (1985)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The Lynch Cross Moorland Hotel is the scene for 'The Murders At Lynch Cross'. Set against a backdrop of thick, relentless snow a murderer is on the loose. The hotel is celebrating it's grand opening. As a publicity stunt, free weekends have been offered through a newspaper competition. The guests, Doctor and Mrs Warwick, Miss Turner, Mr Smith and Mrs Barrington very quickly realise that their stay at Lynch Cross could prove to be longer than they anticipated. In fact, they begin to fear that they may never leave again.
Broadcast 15th November 1985
UK quality TV. What we have lost is so sad. Writing, cast list and story that make you know you will want to relax, enjoy and not be disturbed by breaks of adverts and trailers.
Well said. I concur.
I think this was on Granada though so it will have had ad breaks originally
I absolutely am LOVING the older british shows you're posting. Thank you so much for all these priceless gems! The writing and actors are truly top notch, just so enjoyable 💗💗💗
Just wonderful! These older shows have quality that newer shows lack. What a great cast!
Just so
No one can do mystery and psychological suspense like the British!
Yes, the British with their twisted minds. Till today they mostly twist the world politics and profit from it.
The cast and that was just amazing absolutely outstanding pure British talent and so creepy but brilliant I’m glad I stumbled on this. Thanks for posting if there’s any more like this please post.
The cast were all actors who had spent years in Rep theatre learning their craft before appearing on screen. ! Nowadays
they go from Drama school to TV with Zero
experience and complete lack of technique !! Dave Tennant..?!? Now our leading
actor...?!? Words fail me...
Joanna David and Jill Bennett gave great performances in their last scene together. Standouts in a great cast.
Jill Bennett was married to John Osborne
around this time. The relationship was
rather stormy ( understatement ! )
Read his autobiography...!!
Many thanks, a gem from the past when TV was great. Like a delicious meal for the mind.
Perfectly said ❤
Television was great … ???
Brilliant, undertstated Terence Alexander - a mainstay of UK film and TV. Sadly often overlooked.
I quite agree. Versatile.
@@jamescrowley8637 I dont think we needed to know how he rolls sexually - No need at all and very disrespectful sir
What a fine ensemble piece! Thank you.
John Castle, one of those great not-quite famous actors who appeared in loads of stuff, often as someone who was unhinged. Imdb says he is still around, aged 84.
Underrated character actor. Was good in everything he did. I remember him starring in an episode of The Prisoner in 1967! The episode was called The General.
@@fidomusic I still remember him in The Lion in Winter. One of Henry II's three sons. He was my favourite, but it was Anthony Hopkins who went on to be the big star.
He played the Inspector in two Miss Marple mysteries with Joan Hickson.
@@scottandrews9453 Yes: in A Murder is Announced he was a stranger to her; in The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side he was her nephew.
He also played Posthumus, in 'I Claudius' 1976
NO ONE does mystery, intrigue & suspense like the British!! Such subtlety, & what fabulously, luxurious surroundings!! Did you see the ending coming??
These are the type of mystery programs from Britain that really makes me be in my comfort zone while I’m making jewelry… my absolute favorite! ❤️ newbie from Jacksonville,Fl 🌴
Hello Newbie from over the pond 😊 from another Newbie in the UK ❤
Ty, from Canada. I love all UK programs.
Never trust anyone who chops carrots with a machete! Packs about 4hrs worth of plot into its 52 mins and sometimes steers close to parody of the murder-in-the-snowbound-hotel subgenre but good fun and, as the comments, below plenty of stalwart British TV talent. Thanks again for posting
Horrid clanging piano “music” !!
I stayed at a hotel like this once. Unfortunately, it was before Trip Advisor.
I really enjoyed watching! Thank you so much!
The great Sylvia Syms.
I first saw her in "The Queen" ; been looking for other things she was in. From her presence as the Queen Mother, I figured she was an actress of notable stature. Her name seemed familiar, too; I think I've seen her in some films from the 30's or 40's?
30s and 40s..?!?! She's not THAT old.!!
She was born in 1934 and made her first
films in the mid 50s....!!
@@davidburbage3348Sylvia Sidney, perhaps, from Hitchcock and Fritz Lang films. Similar name, similar eyes. Even UA-cam seems to pair them
Thanks for all this old movies,this old British shows are so priceless 3:05
British. Mystery. I love it even at the credits! They just do it best!
Oh what a delight to watch! John Castle would have to be one of the most handsome, beautiful actors ever and is a favourite of mine. And the lovely Sylvia Sims who only received passed away. Thank you for posting such quality tv.
There is also Joanna David, the great actress playing😊
I remember her as Morse's love interest in the episode "Dead on Time".
Thank you. I’m enjoying these on Saturday afternoon. Great.
Marvellous play with great cast. Thank you for sharing.
Around 11.00 stage, reference is made to the 'Heathcliffe Room'. Some hotels do this, giving over the name of a famous writer or character in a well-known writer's work. I stayed in a hotel in Shanklin, Isle Of Wight some years ago & was escorted to the 'John Keats Room' (he stayed in that very room on more than one occasion). To me, it's like handling an old volume owned by someone of note. One could almost feel his presence there; not in a creepy way; just that he was there. Curious.
Hopefully they'd changed the sheets since his stay... Expect a Googling will reveal the hotel's name. Have stayed in Shanklin once or twice with my late partner, but the place I recall was part self-catering, and had the bonus of red squirrels on site... Not heard of this show, but the copyright date would suggest I was probably at college at the time...
I've really enjoyed it. Can you please upload an episode of Victorian Scandals featuring Twiggy.
Marvelous you can't beat British drama great story great actors
Notable British character actors Alain MacNaughtan and John Castle appear in this top notch TV drama. Actress Joanna David is the wife of British actoe Edwaard Fos of the well known Fox actung dynasty which includes James Fox, Emilia Fix and Lawrence Fox.
Just an update: Joanna David and Edward Fox have been together since 1971 and have two children together (a girl in 1974, and a boy in 1989). They were officially married in 2004.
Both Joanna and Edward Fox are amazing actors and it was lovely seeing her in this production👏👏💕
I love Brit films and teles. It's like going back to my great English school in Sri Lanka. Ofcourse I'm an old man now.
Nostalgia and a sense of belonging to a great old world, no longer exists.
If you haven't seen it, watch "The Tamarind Seed", from 1974. It's a Cold War thriller, with an excellent cast, including the great Sylvia Syms. Its score by John Barry, is beautiful. The film is free, on UA-cam.
Thank you this wonderful program,
I didn't think I would enjoy it, but I have to say it was enjoyable I wanted to know more. The cast and script was excellent. And it was a very calm & relaxing completely forgot about the fact there very no ads, that was a bonus.
Loved this so much! 💙☀️
I like John Castle’s role better as a detective in Miss Marple’s “ A Murder is Announced “, and “The Body in the Library”
Love this! British movies outrank American movies with a few exceptions.
They USED to perhaps.? Unfortunately acting and writing standards have sunk to
such depths over the past 10 years that is
no longer true....!!
Wow that's great old school love it just great
A Granada TV production produced by legendary Carry On veteran Peter Rogers and featuring one of our finest actresses. A close-knit team this seems God bless you Sylvia ❤ 😊
thanks for sharing
This establishment makes Fawlty Towers seem like The Savoy Hotel .
That was GREAT! Thank you.
Thank you so much for uploading .
Most enjoyable, thanks.
Wtf is this crazy loud piano music that makes it impossible to hear the low voices
True I couldn’t continue watching the video myself.
The white table cloth my mother had on the table it's pretty lace😅 a good murder mystery
I really enjoyed this. Who would have thought what was actually going on. Very clever plot.
Thank you for posting!
British makes the most best thrillers and horrors
Love the piano/harp music....such contrast to film.
There is only one type of television for me and that is classic it is much better quality and a lot easier to watch compered to today's stuff which is to loud and violent for me so its a big thank you from me to you for sharing all these wonderful programmes and bringing me many hours of entertainment 👍😁
Really good TV so many excellent plays created then many of the actors have now passed but always remembered on screen a different world back then
The filming acting etc reminds me of tv on a late Saturday or Sunday afternoon as a young girl…
Alan Macnaughtan could hold my attention just standing there. Does so much with great subtlety.
Excellent
We are now living in the age of incompetence !!!
CANT BEAT BRITISH MOVIES, SERIALS I.M.O.
Great acting. Play is well timed. Would of loved to see this in a theatre.
These old stories were so easy to decipher. Now a days it's next to impossible!
What is that odd Indian music that keeps coming in and out. Sometimes it's louder than the dialog and doesn't seem to fit.
12:34 I see what you mean about the music!
There was enough suspense without the very loud music - spoilt it for me too. Such a shame
Absolutely chilling..another great British psychology Masterpiece.
The loud piano playing made it hard to watch 😩
Intrusive
I read your statement of purpose, so I would like to propose the best British series I have seen. It is "The Casebook of Dr. Findley" in the 60's. It was on a UA-cam site last year until it suddenly disappeared. I have not found it since. That is a true classic, like no other I have seen.
Nothing that appears on Classic British Telly is available to buy on DVD or though an official streaming service. All existing episodes of Doctor Finlay's Casebook are available to buy on DVD so we won't be featuring any here, sorry!
That's some cast.
Oh that loud piano pounding background is spoiling this!!!!!!
Irritating background music
Music is overly loud and distracting
Never saw that ending coming!
Could you please upload the last episode of the series? It is not available anywhere. Thank you very much!
The late 70s to early 90s were the best days of classics like this The licence fee was actually worth paying back then But now it's just completely shit Our screens clotted up with talentless wannabes who will never be This Classic British Telly channel is most excellent thank you and more of the same please 🌊⚡🥂🇬🇧♥️⚔️🛡️🚬👽❓🛸
Music was annoying
OOOOO! delicious little twist at the very end
wow
That ending was fascinating - leaving you wondering if the murderer was a good person or not at the end.
We can see where faulty towers got their ideas from
except fawlty towers came out 10 years before this did :P
@@JayJay-jl8pn oh I thought this show was older than FT. It seems so.
They copied it then. Thanks for clarifying- my apologies 😊
@@desleykakoulidisgallaway3382 I think this is copied from the famous locked-room or isolated house genre beloved of many golden age writers. The most famous of course being what is now known as "And Then There Were None."
Thanks for upload
Dear oh dear...!! Our local village drama group did " Murder At the Vicarage "
last winter......THIS was almost as good...! !
This looks great. I wonder is it true, it sounds so real.😊
Edit, no it's not true but it was brilliant.👍
This is enjoyable but the background music is deafening at points, can barely hear the lines
Shovel yourselves out for heaven's sake-- they'd never survive here in Canada : )
You have no idea how snow closes down parts of the UK, where things like snow tires, snow blowers and even shovelling out drifts are unknown.
And even when it rains they run like its acid falling from the sky - They have to make everything into a big drama
@@williamf4544 Not so. They snap open their omnipresent umbrellas and carry on. Rain they can deal with.
similar to an Agatha Christie story,
Tosh ! ..But of the highest quality .! Something - perhaps the only thing - that
Britain excels at.....?
Oh do shut up
I LOVE THIS..... this reminds me of PBS murder mystery theater 😊
I'm am 😖OUTRAGED 😤 by the ending and also... thoroughly entertained😜😁.
Good old fashioned play😅
3 blind mice ....
Even in that house coat Barbara Jefford is magnificent.
Well that ending I didn't see coming...
Do the program makers expect us to lip read ? The music is so overpowering its almost impossible to hear what`s being said.
Finally I know what to do after desperately escaping from a gas filled, wood panelled room - brandy in the finest glass.
THE BACKGROUND MUSIC IS TOOO LOUD AND VERY DISTRACTING FROM THE STORY.
23 mins approx :
Am I detecting
" Red Herrings"
slowly
accumulating ?
🇬🇧🤔🦉😊📖🐟🇬🇧
Follows in a similar reverse style - the plot of Agatha Christie's "Murder On The Orient Express"....
Very Agatha Christie-ish! (Except she would have ended it differently, I think... )
And very well done... thank you for uploading!
Yes, the story reminded me of "And then there were none".
Great stuff.
Doesn't John Castle look remarkably like Prince Andrew here?
At 14:00+, break a window and get fresh air in, for heaven’s sake!
Presumably it was too late to light the gas...
==== SPOILERS ====
Poor old John Castle is murdered again (as he was in I Claudius).
And the professionals.
Spoiler Alert!
@@ria1636 Oops, I've made a fix. Thanks for pointing this out
@@paulnolan1352 Yes. You've got a great memory. :)
@@user-vp3vs6ey3r Lots of 🧡.
This is like And Then There None by Agatha Christie. AKA The Mousetrap and also Ten Little Indians.
Isn't it "The Mouse Trap" by Agatha Christie?
Hmm.. only 20 minutes or so into this. Anyone seen The Mousetrap? Because I think the author did!
This is really good fun!