The Murders at Lynch Cross - starring Sylvia Syms & Terence Alexander (1985)

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  • @ColleenD78
    @ColleenD78 5 місяців тому +170

    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 💗💗💗

    • @marylou3995
      @marylou3995 3 місяці тому +6

      It’s how the UK used to be !

  • @niccymak8243
    @niccymak8243 5 місяців тому +175

    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.

    • @charlesmagicien4330
      @charlesmagicien4330 5 місяців тому +16

      Well said. I concur.

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts 4 місяці тому +1

      But every half an hour not fifteen minutes I think.

    • @amazingtheatre1262
      @amazingtheatre1262 4 місяці тому +1

      You are joking. This is a feeble ripoff of The Mousetrap

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts 4 місяці тому +6

      @@jakecavendish3470 I tried watching some brainless, American drivel earlier and they had an advert breaks before the opening credits had finished! And quite literally, the adverts ran for as long as the brief programme segment and three minutes later there was another break! It was from the early nineties so goodness knows why anyone bothers at all now! It was far too awful a programme to persevere with anyway! However bad life is here, it's never America! 😁

    • @hamerjohn
      @hamerjohn 4 місяці тому +1

      @@amazingtheatre1262 I don't think so. I have seen The Mousetrap

  • @susanfriend-k5m
    @susanfriend-k5m 5 місяців тому +114

    Many thanks, a gem from the past when TV was great. Like a delicious meal for the mind.

    • @ColleenD78
      @ColleenD78 5 місяців тому +13

      Perfectly said ❤

    • @moonroxxit
      @moonroxxit 5 місяців тому +2

      Television was great … ???

  • @MrSINHALESE
    @MrSINHALESE 5 місяців тому +33

    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.

    • @bubble6853
      @bubble6853 2 місяці тому +1

      Bet your not that old!!!! I'm not and I love these

  • @jamiewhittle1787
    @jamiewhittle1787 5 місяців тому +59

    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.

    • @amazingtheatre1262
      @amazingtheatre1262 4 місяці тому +2

      Haha. You’re obviously joking. That was terrible

    • @jamiewhittle1787
      @jamiewhittle1787 4 місяці тому +1

      @@amazingtheatre1262 no look at the actors they’re all world class British actors and at the time in the 70s with the technology the dialect demographic this was as good as it was gonna get but it’s still entertaining because it’s old it has charm it has a character it’s not like the stuff today that’s just pumped out mass produced shit Pthat tweet tweet there just to be different. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

    • @amazingtheatre1262
      @amazingtheatre1262 4 місяці тому

      @@jamiewhittle1787 we’ll agree to disagree

    • @amazingtheatre1262
      @amazingtheatre1262 4 місяці тому

      @@jamiewhittle1787 I’m guessing you’re one of the actors. In which case I’m sorry for offending you but you have to concede you’ve done better work for that was simply awful

    • @fatin9413
      @fatin9413 2 місяці тому

      ❤​😊😊😊😊@@amazingtheatre1262

  • @MartinCook-rs1ps
    @MartinCook-rs1ps 5 місяців тому +45

    Joanna David and Jill Bennett gave great performances in their last scene together. Standouts in a great cast.

  • @novak-wq9dw
    @novak-wq9dw 5 місяців тому +54

    Ty, from Canada. I love all UK programs.

  • @YumchaGirl
    @YumchaGirl 4 місяці тому +23

    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.

  • @JehanineMelmoth
    @JehanineMelmoth 5 місяців тому +34

    What a fine ensemble piece! Thank you.

  • @BassistPaul
    @BassistPaul 5 місяців тому +53

    Brilliant, undertstated Terence Alexander - a mainstay of UK film and TV. Sadly often overlooked.

    • @jamescrowley8637
      @jamescrowley8637 5 місяців тому +2

      I quite agree. Versatile.

    • @williamf4544
      @williamf4544 5 місяців тому

      @@jamescrowley8637 I dont think we needed to know how he rolls sexually - No need at all and very disrespectful sir

    • @lorrainecrampton1632
      @lorrainecrampton1632 4 місяці тому +4

      ​@@williamf4544What are you talking about? I assume you're referring to the comment about being versatile. 'Versatile' means being able to adapt to something different. You obviously think it has other connotations which I can't quite fathom 🤨

    • @annamarielewis7078
      @annamarielewis7078 4 місяці тому +1

      He was a mainstay of nine seasons of Bergerac.

    • @annamarielewis7078
      @annamarielewis7078 4 місяці тому +1

      @@williamf4544what? No, mention of his sexuality whatsoever.

  • @pinkbeautytwinkle
    @pinkbeautytwinkle 5 місяців тому +63

    No one can do mystery and psychological suspense like the British!

    • @murielle4251
      @murielle4251 5 місяців тому

      Yes, the British with their twisted minds. Till today they mostly twist the world politics and profit from it.

  • @coragazmen7073
    @coragazmen7073 5 місяців тому +11

    Thanks for all this old movies,this old British shows are so priceless 3:05

  • @maria_haarajoki
    @maria_haarajoki 5 місяців тому +14

    I really enjoyed watching! Thank you so much!

  • @michaelquinn1031
    @michaelquinn1031 2 місяці тому +7

    Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺

  • @stephenwilliams1269
    @stephenwilliams1269 5 місяців тому +11

    Marvellous play with great cast. Thank you for sharing.

  • @ericakilbournebroodie
    @ericakilbournebroodie 5 місяців тому +18

    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 🌴

    • @thedolly7596
      @thedolly7596 5 місяців тому +3

      Hello Newbie from over the pond 😊 from another Newbie in the UK ❤

  • @janiekcarney5482
    @janiekcarney5482 5 місяців тому +6

    Thank you. I’m enjoying these on Saturday afternoon. Great.

  • @bamesangma7714
    @bamesangma7714 3 місяці тому +4

    Absolutely loved it! Rewatching it now. Would love for you to bring more such content.

  • @ara8253
    @ara8253 2 місяці тому +5

    A first view of this excellent play. Many thanks.😊

  • @sozanmarshall2832
    @sozanmarshall2832 5 місяців тому +10

    Marvelous you can't beat British drama great story great actors

  • @jnuttso1
    @jnuttso1 5 місяців тому +7

    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 👍😁

  • @maryphelps7381
    @maryphelps7381 3 місяці тому +1

    Many Thanks to Everyone who Showcased Quality & Talents thru Decades of Broadcasting & Production .

  • @naturelover4214
    @naturelover4214 5 місяців тому +6

    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.

  • @janjerge1484
    @janjerge1484 5 місяців тому +16

    NO ONE does mystery, intrigue & suspense like the British!! Such subtlety, & what fabulously, luxurious surroundings!! Did you see the ending coming??

  • @kimmccabe1422
    @kimmccabe1422 5 місяців тому +13

    British. Mystery. I love it even at the credits! They just do it best!

  • @usernameinfo4therevenge
    @usernameinfo4therevenge 5 місяців тому +71

    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.

    • @fidomusic
      @fidomusic 5 місяців тому +16

      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.

    • @VLind-uk6mb
      @VLind-uk6mb 5 місяців тому +11

      @@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.

    • @scottandrews9453
      @scottandrews9453 5 місяців тому +11

      He played the Inspector in two Miss Marple mysteries with Joan Hickson.

    • @VLind-uk6mb
      @VLind-uk6mb 5 місяців тому +6

      @@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.

    • @geoffbrown9054
      @geoffbrown9054 5 місяців тому +4

      He also played Posthumus, in 'I Claudius' 1976

  • @kathleenellenford4816
    @kathleenellenford4816 5 місяців тому +5

    Thank you this wonderful program,

  • @jenniferjohnson4913
    @jenniferjohnson4913 5 місяців тому +4

    Thank you for posting!

  • @cgpyper7536
    @cgpyper7536 4 місяці тому +4

    Everything so nice, lined-out, resolved, and lovely. What a lot of schemers done in by another lot of ingenious perverts! Thank you CBT.

  • @s.a.t.15
    @s.a.t.15 5 місяців тому +15

    Love this! British movies outrank American movies with a few exceptions.

  • @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401
    @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 5 місяців тому +5

    Absolutely chilling..another great British psychology Masterpiece.

  • @brettsidaway2691
    @brettsidaway2691 5 місяців тому +36

    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

    • @elizabetharce5041
      @elizabetharce5041 5 місяців тому +4

      Horrid clanging piano “music” !!

    • @robynconway1286
      @robynconway1286 11 днів тому

      It is a cleaver knife not machete. Machete is used by farmers. Cleavers are chefs knives.

  • @mrskenscott9643
    @mrskenscott9643 5 місяців тому +8

    That was GREAT! Thank you.

  • @melokc7257
    @melokc7257 5 місяців тому +5

    Great acting. Play is well timed. Would of loved to see this in a theatre.

  • @HaydnGuite
    @HaydnGuite 5 місяців тому +5

    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 ❤ 😊

  • @small_joys2022
    @small_joys2022 5 місяців тому +3

    These old stories were so easy to decipher. Now a days it's next to impossible!

  • @GillianFontaine
    @GillianFontaine 5 місяців тому +6

    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

  • @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401
    @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 5 місяців тому +4

    Love the piano/harp music....such contrast to film.

  • @sarahsnowe
    @sarahsnowe 5 місяців тому +17

    I stayed at a hotel like this once. Unfortunately, it was before Trip Advisor.

  • @Rachel-yc5hplovesIsrael
    @Rachel-yc5hplovesIsrael 3 місяці тому +4

    Excellent, thank you!

  • @sheibanineda2488
    @sheibanineda2488 5 місяців тому +20

    There is also Joanna David, the great actress playing😊

    • @fidomusic
      @fidomusic 5 місяців тому

      I remember her as Morse's love interest in the episode "Dead on Time".

  • @kimberlykasimoff1447
    @kimberlykasimoff1447 4 місяці тому +4

    I really enjoyed this. Who would have thought what was actually going on. Very clever plot.

  • @dawnyWestScotland
    @dawnyWestScotland 5 місяців тому +12

    Loved this so much! 💙☀️

  • @anglophils645
    @anglophils645 5 місяців тому +10

    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.

  • @MuslimahX79
    @MuslimahX79 5 місяців тому +5

    Thank you so much for uploading .

  • @cdmc965
    @cdmc965 4 місяці тому +4

    I was surprised! I enjoy British T.V. Thank-you from a Texas grandmother.

  • @juliehastie9817
    @juliehastie9817 5 місяців тому +13

    Wow that's great old school love it just great

  • @carlesq.
    @carlesq. 5 місяців тому +13

    thanks for sharing

  • @CM-zl3fk
    @CM-zl3fk 3 місяці тому +3

    Thank you. 🏵

  • @stephenwitherington879
    @stephenwitherington879 5 місяців тому +13

    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.

    • @robertsmith-qb2ke
      @robertsmith-qb2ke 5 місяців тому +1

      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...

  • @anodyne57
    @anodyne57 4 місяці тому +2

    Alan Macnaughtan could hold my attention just standing there. Does so much with great subtlety.

  • @geoffbrown9054
    @geoffbrown9054 5 місяців тому +5

    Finally I know what to do after desperately escaping from a gas filled, wood panelled room - brandy in the finest glass.

  • @dadodydo
    @dadodydo 5 місяців тому +32

    The great Sylvia Syms.

    • @davidburbage3348
      @davidburbage3348 5 місяців тому +1

      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?

    • @rotagorretni
      @rotagorretni 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@davidburbage3348Sylvia Sidney, perhaps, from Hitchcock and Fritz Lang films. Similar name, similar eyes. Even UA-cam seems to pair them

  • @Framinator
    @Framinator 4 місяці тому +3

    Perfect way to spend a quiet evening in front of the fire. Thank you for uploading

  • @samsum3738
    @samsum3738 5 місяців тому +9

    This establishment makes Fawlty Towers seem like The Savoy Hotel .

    • @MrYorickJenkins
      @MrYorickJenkins 3 місяці тому +1

      haha it is not often that a youtube comment makes me laugh! Thanks

  • @DuanTorruellas
    @DuanTorruellas 4 місяці тому +4

    ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ✨️

  • @arjunaasmara2172
    @arjunaasmara2172 5 місяців тому +8

    British makes the most best thrillers and horrors

  • @delphinidin
    @delphinidin 5 місяців тому +4

    That ending was fascinating - leaving you wondering if the murderer was a good person or not at the end.

  • @greenlover4522
    @greenlover4522 5 місяців тому +3

    Thanks for upload

  • @jajones-ford2226
    @jajones-ford2226 5 місяців тому +9

    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.

    • @seycas118
      @seycas118 5 місяців тому +3

      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👏👏💕

  • @Inverted.surfer
    @Inverted.surfer 5 місяців тому +4

    We are now living in the age of incompetence !!!

  • @sadler76
    @sadler76 5 місяців тому +16

    I've really enjoyed it. Can you please upload an episode of Victorian Scandals featuring Twiggy.

  • @dilly1863
    @dilly1863 5 місяців тому +3

    Oh that loud piano pounding background is spoiling this!!!!!!

  • @monbrat3064
    @monbrat3064 5 місяців тому +3

    I LOVE THIS..... this reminds me of PBS murder mystery theater 😊

  • @davidandrews8963
    @davidandrews8963 4 місяці тому +4

    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 🌊⚡🥂🇬🇧♥️⚔️🛡️🚬👽❓🛸

  • @esterherschkovich6499
    @esterherschkovich6499 2 місяці тому +1

    When TV was brilliant ❤Not trash we have nowadays..repeats😮another cookery program!!

  • @kimjames6028
    @kimjames6028 5 місяців тому +4

    The filming acting etc reminds me of tv on a late Saturday or Sunday afternoon as a young girl…

  • @yomama8873
    @yomama8873 3 місяці тому +4

    Good movie 🤩🤩💖

  • @jeremypearson6852
    @jeremypearson6852 2 місяці тому +1

    I think this story is very close to Agatha Christies The Mousetrap, that I was able to see in London this past June. Then again, many British mysteries have been set in a country house cut off by snow in winter. An expat in Florida.

  • @jeannesaalfrank9416
    @jeannesaalfrank9416 5 місяців тому +4

    Never saw that ending coming!

  • @davidburbage3348
    @davidburbage3348 5 місяців тому +9

    12:34 I see what you mean about the music!

    • @jacquiesbrood
      @jacquiesbrood 5 місяців тому

      There was enough suspense without the very loud music - spoilt it for me too. Such a shame

  • @nedludd7622
    @nedludd7622 5 місяців тому +2

    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.

    • @ClassicBritishTelly
      @ClassicBritishTelly  5 місяців тому +1

      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!

  • @Gingercat224
    @Gingercat224 5 місяців тому +9

    I like John Castle’s role better as a detective in Miss Marple’s “ A Murder is Announced “, and “The Body in the Library”

  • @maradall
    @maradall 5 місяців тому +3

    Very Agatha Christie-ish! (Except she would have ended it differently, I think... )
    And very well done... thank you for uploading!

    • @fidomusic
      @fidomusic 5 місяців тому

      Yes, the story reminded me of "And then there were none".

  • @lindahornbeck5318
    @lindahornbeck5318 4 місяці тому +4

    I love UK television.

  • @chriscooper4116
    @chriscooper4116 4 місяці тому +5

    Super! No question of taking my eyes off the screen until the last victim had been butchered.
    I have just one question: how did the schemers arrange the snow for that weekend? Perhaps they had a plan B in case the weather was fine.

  • @nonenoneonenonenone
    @nonenoneonenonenone 2 місяці тому +1

    Excellent music.

  • @franceslynch8815
    @franceslynch8815 5 місяців тому +4

    This looks great. I wonder is it true, it sounds so real.😊
    Edit, no it's not true but it was brilliant.👍

  • @carolmanning8367
    @carolmanning8367 5 місяців тому +6

    CANT BEAT BRITISH MOVIES, SERIALS I.M.O.

  • @gemmadidit4118
    @gemmadidit4118 5 місяців тому +3

    I'm am 😖OUTRAGED 😤 by the ending and also... thoroughly entertained😜😁.

  • @rrksk
    @rrksk 5 місяців тому +16

    Wtf is this crazy loud piano music that makes it impossible to hear the low voices

    • @hellen8443
      @hellen8443 5 місяців тому +3

      True I couldn’t continue watching the video myself.

  • @trmlesq1321
    @trmlesq1321 5 місяців тому +7

    Music is overly loud and distracting

  • @dirkbogarde44
    @dirkbogarde44 5 місяців тому +8

    That's some cast.

  • @ssie-Jons-nb52si
    @ssie-Jons-nb52si Місяць тому

    This is one Hell of a movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 well I liked it 😮😊😊😊😊

  • @VictoriaAlfredSmythe
    @VictoriaAlfredSmythe 5 місяців тому +9

    wow

  • @elizabethstuart8401
    @elizabethstuart8401 3 місяці тому +2

    Lunch is underneath! 😂😂

  • @cintiatravassos8450
    @cintiatravassos8450 4 місяці тому +2

    Could you please upload the last episode of the series? It is not available anywhere. Thank you very much!

  • @Splendiferous-qh6rr
    @Splendiferous-qh6rr Місяць тому +1

    Peculiar that the doors can be locked with a key from outside the room.

  • @aliyahwsful
    @aliyahwsful 5 місяців тому +3

    Well that ending I didn't see coming...

  • @DianeConsidine
    @DianeConsidine 5 місяців тому +3

    Great stuff.

  • @marleahmeyer3998
    @marleahmeyer3998 4 місяці тому +3

    THE BACKGROUND MUSIC IS TOOO LOUD AND VERY DISTRACTING FROM THE STORY.

  • @LauraChristinaWarren
    @LauraChristinaWarren 5 місяців тому +4

    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.

  • @crystalmiller4577
    @crystalmiller4577 3 місяці тому +3

    ❤❤❤

  • @Splendiferous-qh6rr
    @Splendiferous-qh6rr Місяць тому +1

    They have Kerosene Lanterns. Not many have them now.

  • @joanbeeldens6131
    @joanbeeldens6131 5 місяців тому +18

    Irritating background music

  • @Splendiferous-qh6rr
    @Splendiferous-qh6rr Місяць тому +1

    Oh no! There's a gas leak, the exit door is locked! Will they exstinguish the candle?!

  • @susanjaeger9851
    @susanjaeger9851 4 місяці тому +2

    THAT, was wondering else.

  • @geoffbrown9054
    @geoffbrown9054 5 місяців тому

    Even in that house coat Barbara Jefford is magnificent.

  • @derekeaton-yl9ni
    @derekeaton-yl9ni 5 місяців тому +5

    Good old fashioned play😅

  • @shadrana1
    @shadrana1 4 місяці тому

    I remember John Castles from one of the Holmes stories.