Death Of An Expert Witness Episode 3 22 Apr. 1983

[@elviramcintosh9878]

This is brilliant! The way the acting and the pace of the episode pushes the story along. While in a sense we are spared the details of the tragedy in Dagliesh's life, the scene at the church has a greater impact than if we had witnessed the birth and death of his family. He is one of those rare human beings who must live his pain inwardly. Makes one stop and spare a thought for the countless real-life detectives that carry a personal burden and yet carry on with their gruesome job. But someone has to do it.

[@jimilormand9242]

perspective allows us to see life from other people's view as well as our own. thanks for your understanding and insight

[@themirrorsofmymind]

9:30 I love it when _Mr. Middlemass_ tells _Dr. Lorrimer_ (Geoffrey Palmer) off! Stephen Thorne holds his own with the great G. Palmer and the two of them make the scene epic!

[@paolatrentadue3034]

Uaoooo!!In the cast I recognize the famous actress Brenda Blethyn,she was so you young.....but always talented

[@janhall1641]

I'm having a lovely old time watching this. Many thanks.

[@numbereightyseven]

... and that is a lovely old turn of phrase.

[@qhsperson]

Howarth: You sound like the butler, inspector.
Massingham: As a child, I was rather good at impersonating our family butler.
Point, Massingham.

[@leeyinmei8418]

Agree lovely program

[@VLind-uk6mb]

Just got to that bit and was tempted to add your very point. Excellent.

[@sueferris3685]

We need more men crying at the drop of a hat in these series. The women seem to get most of the soggy roles. And thanks for the upload of this great binge-worthy drama!

[@u.synlig]

18:25 - 19:00. I’m so impressed that she didn’t do the stereotypical thing, and scream, squeal or faint.

[@ekcentrik]

That local detective is rather slimy.

[@janetannwhincup934]

I’m enjoying this a great deal thank you for sharing ☕️🧤🧣🌻❄️🎄☃️🌨🎉🎊🎀🌈

[@fredrikcarlstedt393]

" Work is the best antidote to
sorrow " ; Sherlock Holmes,
Adventure of the Empty House .

[@marcelladillard3556]

Said Sherlock Holmes, the addict . .

[@elizabethbower2168]

Would it be too much to ask if each serial was grouped together in alphabetical order? Instead of having to search through a whole list of unconnected videos… Many thanks

[@VLind-uk6mb]

There are a couple of links with playlists.

[@lindahansen45]

Love this. Thanks

[@libbyworkman1666]

The snake bracelet on Dominica’s arm was a big clue, wasn’t it, about how this affair would turn out.

[@sueferris3685]

Dalgliesh coming and going in the helicopter was effectively dramatic.

[@lizclegg7556]

Why did the young girl, the pathologist's daughter, want Lorrimer dead? Neither of her parents had a grudge against Lorrimer and she had never met him? Or was it Lorrimer calling when her parents were arguing, causing her father to answer and her mother to leave?

[@lighthousecollector]

Lorrimer had a go at her and her brother when they were waiting for their dad at the lab . This isn't shown in the film but is referered to by others several times

[@libbyworkman1666]

Still, it was her two parents she was totally focused on. When she sat with that lifelike effigy of doctor Lorimer and stabbed it slowly with the knitting needle it just did not fit with what was upsetting that particular child.

[@johndrake2729]

Seems everybody on this show, from the cleaning crew to the little girl, wanted Lorrimer dead.

[@eunicechan2486]

Except the receptionist Brenda

[@elizabethbower2168]

He was a nasty spiteful man

[@johndrake2729]

@@elizabethbower2168 Yep.

[@Splendiferous-qh6rr]

Right. No GPS to track your every move! Do you live in a 20 minute city right now?

[@Splendiferous-qh6rr]

Oh! He's Destroying evidence!

[@melodiefrances3898]

Ikr? Dang!

[@raphaelbernard7954]

Vera was pretty

[@chriscross5617]

Didn't like the way they simply skipped over the most important event in Dalgliesh's life. It didn't make sense. One line of dialogue (22:10) and that was that.

[@irishking1414]

Thé book god dammit the book you fool

[@annamarielewis7078]

I think all of the stuff about him marring and her passing away was in other episodes.

[@elizabethbower2168]

He was always a widower in the books… This is fanciful interpretation by BBC

[@melodiefrances3898]

Yeah, that was jarring.

[@mariapelleya7410]

Thank you!!

[@patriciaamaro7337]

Angela (dr. Lorrimer cousin) is Inspetor Vera!!!!

[@briannumme9337]

patricia amaro omg, yes! That obnoxious whine!

[@Kahdeksanpenninen123]

That is what I came to look. It's a young Brenda Blethyn.

[@ddmcpaisley6299]

Someone commented on the 2nd episode about Barry Foster, thinking that is was John Thaw...I read that and kept looking for the limp and had to finally go look at the credits to discover if it was Morse...yay, I'm not crazy...similar look and sound...but no John Thaw.

[@MrLyndarenaud]

I don't see any resemblance at all! Sorry! Two extremely good actors but totally different!

[@lighthousecollector]

@@MrLyndarenaud I agree they are very different

[@victoriousrufus6747]

D McPaisley how can anyone mistake John Thaw to Barry Foster? Mistaking an apple for an orange?

[@inganorden1816]

@ddmcpaisley6299: As soon as l saw that blond hair, l remembered where l had seen Barry Foster before. In a Hitchcock movie titled "Frenzy". I will not spoil anything by giving away the plot. Much later l saw G. Palmer in a sitcom with Judi Dench, where they played long-lost sweethearts. She, now middle-aged, ran a typing service with her daughters, he had an autobiography to be processed, that's how they got together again. Just a little bit of trivia.😊 Love British shows!

[@Splendiferous-qh6rr]

47:35 the copper is planting evidence! Was he commanded to do that?

[@Splendiferous-qh6rr]

From whom did she learn that?

[@lindas.martin2806]

Thank you for posting this, they are old favorites. If possible, could you post the newer versions too? Both great!

[@JJ21210]

The two from the 2000s are on yt; you have to search for them by name.

[@sarran1955]

Hello,
(52.02) Lada's bonnet shoots up when helico lands!!
P.D.James, Dalgleish, and Marsden....what more could you want..
Cordialement,

[@jamesmackenzie8271]

Enjoyed the movie. Thanks.

[@qhsperson]

How sad to have only one person, besides immediate family, who mourns you when you die.

[@ddmcpaisley6299]

One LOYAL person vs. loads of insincere folkes and one may have been rich indeed.

[@MrLyndarenaud]

It's a little better than having no one at all!

[@huizhechen3779]

You're dead, you know, so you cannot know and cannot care. Only the living care, so they have to deal with it. Doesn't matter anyway.

[@libbyworkman1666]

It was his grandmother’s ring, they were married and his wife was about to give birth, and THAT is when he decides to give her the ring? And before that he yells poetry at her during a phone call? It’s obvious there are no women among the screen writers.

[@jennifersiagian]

14:50 I really like that color Lime green on the walls ( I once painted a room that color)

[@patricialove4418]

👍

[@u.synlig]

_Bring comfort (coldly, and impersonally) to the bereaved._

[@ekcentrik]

I love the this series. But I am never interested in the personal life of the detective. It slows down the investigative plot.

[@Wkkbooks]

seems to be some major cuts here & in episode 2 as well. Suddenly there's 6 weeks of letters between Lorimer and the sister? Did Dalgliesh's wife and baby sie?? I'm glad they cut that -- would've been sentimental slow & unncessary.

[@MrLyndarenaud]

He probably wrote to her 3 times per day when she did not come back for seconds.

[@elizabethbower2168]

The detective was always depicted as a widower in the books so giving him a pregnant wife was just a fanciful addition by the TV company

[@Wkkbooks]

@@elizabethbower2168 My god! I can't remember ever watching this. Just watched episode 1 -- it's completely unfamiliar. Moreover I can barely understand them all!

[@jasanders5877]

😢 I HAVEN'T SEEN ONE, COMMENT 🥵 ON THE FACT THAT ADAM'S, WIFE DIED 😮😱.
We're meant to guess, was it a couple of days, months year's 😢 😱🥶 that he was back at work, like nothing had happened 😢..
To me its rather bazaar, that it's just by passed..
I've enjoyed most of the series 😊 I've watched.
This one is messy.
Flip flops all over the place 😢..
That local, DEC what an UNTENABLE angry man
Oh 😳😲 dear Mon Ami, imagine if all the cops were behaving like that 🙏

[@melodiefrances3898]

I wasn't sorry to see that character go ...

[@elizabethroberts6215]

……the bullying arrogant Inspector cop played by actor Malcolm Terris. He had a lead role in excellent UK series’, ‘When the Boat Comes In’, as the Union rep who eventually unalived himself………

[@jasanders5877]

😱😳😲 OMG you don't make it easy, to find first episode 😮😳.
It's like a bad dream gone wrong 😮.why can't you just put things in order 😢

[@libbyworkman1666]

I want my own helicopter.

[@marilaucher9989]

Clifford is the biggest wus in the history of mystery.

[@suzannesadiiqa]

'This is the only entrance' at 27.05! what rubbish!......a house as big as that would have many entrances.

[@janhall1641]

It's not a house any longer. It's been re-decked as a highly secure government lab.

[@lynneceegee8726]

"All the other doors were blocked up when this security system was installed" in reply to Dalgliesh's query.

[@lynneceegee8726]

Of course, you are correct. However, I'm just pointing out that it was part of the script, and not a continuity mistake. And a small thing in the scheme of things, eh? A good plot, acting, direction a little slow but par for the course for its date. Enjoy!

[@maryt2196]

I'ts the only entrance.....for security.....only one way in....but other doors for exits?

[@francessullivan2559]

govt buildings are exempt?

[@setnaffa]

I have never seen such a bunch of joyless sots in my life... Especially Lorrimer and the lesbians...

[@EVALLOYD]

Mike Morgan: One of the lesbians, Lorimer's cousin, is played by Brenda Blethyn who went on to have a very succesful career.

[@u.synlig]

Great namn for a band: _Lorrimer and the Lesbians_

[@lindahansen45]

@@u.synlig 😂😂

[@fayhart6355]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@LoJo]

38:45 Snappy comeback, British style. ☕

[@myominoo71]

That Clifford guy is such a wimp.

[@paulgavin3603]

Tyrants like Lorrimer bring out only the bad in people

[@MrLyndarenaud]

He has been demoralized by a very bitter man who needs to hurt others so, that he will feel better about himself! He kept at him day in and day out. He made it seem as if the poor man could do nothing right!
It does not make him a wimp! He just lost his confidence....in himself.

[@mattneillninasmom]

Did Dalgleish really have to have such a homely-looking wife? No charm, no visible redeeming qualities or features - is that because the script calls for her to die, so it supposedly doesn't matter? Every other female in the film is attractive, well dressed, made up - except for her.

[@VLind-uk6mb]

I think she is very sweet-looking. And the series abounds with plain women -- the cleaner, the housekeeper at Dr. Kerris', even Stella, and Brenda's mother is no beauty -- nor is Kerris' wife. I personally think Howarth's sister has a most unattractive face, largely due to her expressions. Anyway, people look all sorts, and most people do not judge a woman by her make-up, clothing or even features -- there is such a thing as character, and personality.

[@raphaelbernard7954]

A bunch of psychos

[@irishking1414]

It’s great to be a lezzer

[@clovelly1946]

I hate the music they use with this and Dalgiesh.

[@lynneceegee8726]

soooooo….why watch?

[@johndrake2729]

It's a classic, along with Morse's theme song.

[@johndrake2729]

Dalgliesh and Morse are both classics.

[@Karloffrules]

I agree. When I hear it, I smell a musty old house full of slightly mildewed drapery...I FF passed it.

[@JJ21210]

Barbara-Louisa walker: This *is* Dalgleish. ?

[@u.synlig]

_Bring comfort (coldly, and impersonally) to the bereaved._