Thank you Rudolph for sharing wonderful British series! Nostalgia/reliving younger days /a different time. PD JAMES characters freeing my mind fro.m self quarentine in difficult uncertain times. 💕 Be safe and best wishes to All.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh, having published his second volume of poetry, retreats to the remote Larksoken headland where his recently deceased aunt, Jane Dalgliesh, left him a converted windmill. However, a psychopathic mass murderer, known as the Norfolk Whistler, is on the loose and seems to have arrived at Larksoken when Dalgliesh finds the body of the nearby nuclear power plant's Acting Administrative Officer during an evening stroll on the beach via wikipedia
I also hated the mother a little, for not saying, "You go get her -- now!", but I cut her some slack because i know how hard it is to deal with a bully.
It was a quite a bit different in the 1980’s. I was a teenager then and got around the city & the country alone at night without any problems. I feel sad for the young people of today - we had so much more freedom.
@@krankywitch I hitch hiked from Cache creek to Lilloet, to Darcy, Pemberton , Squamish past Whistler turn off to North Van. Gorgeous freedom in wild beauty/ 2 women gave me a ride. My most favourite adventure of long ago.
How lovely to hear the old ladies at the beginning actually sound Norfolk/Suffolk. Most actors now just have a generic 'country ' action that sounds like absolutely nothing!
Did you know that Gemma's brother, Nicholas, is also an actor? (He's good as smooth villains.) Their father was also a well-known actor; you might enjoy "Miranda," a 1948 comedy in which he, Googie Withers and John McCallum are sublime. I've seen it on YT, tho it's not here now -- perhaps check back in a few months.
This was the first PD James novel I read. Just loved it. This adaption is adequate but not great. Some of the characterizations are a bit over the top.
No adverts, no chopped down or shrunken screen, and no pleas to 'support' the channel (pay for their cost of living because they can't be arsed to get a proper job) on patrion. This is absolutely heavenly. Take notice UA-camrs, this is how it should be done. Great upload too. Remember watching this when it came out (I was 11), great to see it again. From the days when there were things on TV actually worth watching. Brilliant.
Devices and Desires (TV Mini Series 1991) Whilst on holiday on the English coast in Norfolk, Commander Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the hunt for the serial killer - The Whistler - amidst a backdrop of mystery and intrigue surrounding the running of a local nuclear power station. - IMDB
This is typical British mystery - lots of storylines slowly converge, multiple crimes/vendettas/injuries have to be detangled. And yes, they can be annoyingly over-complicated!
Sometimes I have to watch it more than once. Try John LeCarre’s stuff and there’s opaque but it is realistic as heck. LeCarre versus Ian Fleming= Smiley versus Bond.
youtube took down the Murder Mysteries channel . Poirot , Wexford, Miss Marple , this , the whole lot . if not HD , they were all at least 720p quality . i got use to it . watching this now in 360p seems such a let down sigh ...
As much as I love this series, the writing is very flawed - to have women wandering about at night and in isolated areas when a serial killer is about is just beyond ridiculous. It really is so silly. Also, Dalgliesh being unaware of 4 murders in the area at the beginning is unbelievable - he’s a senior officer at Scotland Yard.
A word of warning - this is absolutely littered with Google sponsored ad banners that come up about every 2 minutes. I suppose they don't REALLY interfere with the plot but they are very irritating. I watched this same episode about a year ago and there were no ads. What happened to the UA-cam pledge to do away with ads? That aside, this is fine viewing. Roy Marsden is an excellent Dalgleish.
Is this a British thing? When asked (@12:06) what's going to be on the menu for the upcoming dinner party, the hostess says, reluctantly, "Well . . Mr Dalgleish might be a guest, so I'll have to whisper." Why must the dish of the dinner party remain a secret from a prospective guest?
Must be. I wouldn't dare serve food to a group without revealing the menu ahead of time! The various dietary restrictions, medical, chosen, and attention seeking, would be on full display after It's too late to make changes!
Wow! I’ve watched a few of these but this one was certainly the hardest episode to follow. And P. D. James wrote a cyber attack thriller; aren’t her books a bit older than cyber breaches???
Sue, is it the one that goes " now the day is over, night is drawing nigh, shadows of the evening steal across the sky."? I remember it from prep and junior schools as well (this was back in Jamaica in the 80s though).
Have you seen Shetland? Hinterland? Fearless? Safe House? One of us? Good shows, all relatively recent, and all suspenseful. Older but great: Lynley; Lewis; Prime Suspect.
As much as I like the lead actor in "luther", it is like many recent British crime series, very violent. Unfortunately, British TV has decided to copy the current Hollywood schlock. The one sterling exception is the brilliant, "Vera".
@@JJ21210 None of the shows you said are as scary as some of the shows we had when I was growing up. The vibe, music and overall tone of the shows. I’m not saying the shows now are not good, just the older ones were very sinister. Cracker is another example, that stuff was raw dark stuff.
Most ads are placed *by* the CR holder, as a condition for allowing the vid to stay up. (I know this from 5 years and six of my own channels -- I never monetized, bc I didn't own the content -- seems sleazy to me.) I can't swear that this uploader didn't monetize his uploads, but it seems highly unlikely (his channel has that ''labor of love'' feel about it). Either way, I encourage you to install a free, safe adblock extension (I like uBlok Origin) -- it makes life online much better.
I don’t have one single solitary ad. Ad-blocker+Premium membership?= NO ADS. I don’t care if they make a billion dollars off me; which I seriously doubt as I FOLLOW ONLY MYSELF.
I just spent four days in jail and this book was the only thing that got me through it. So hype there is a show adaptation!
keep trucking! you're on the right path
Blimey ❤
Wow.
PD james was a wonderful mystery writer. This is one of her best books to me but arent they all? Missing her now. ❤ RIP
Thank you Rudolph for sharing wonderful British series! Nostalgia/reliving younger days /a different time. PD JAMES characters freeing my mind fro.m self quarentine in difficult uncertain times. 💕 Be safe and best wishes to All.
Thank you for uploading. Roy Marsden is the only Adam Dalgliesh for me
💯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
For me too.
Interesting. I recall reading an article on Ms. James in which she herself stated that Marsden wouldn't have been her first choice to play Dalgliesh.
@@elldre3 Really? Which actor did she have in mind? (No hate I´m just very curious) 😃
@@lindahansen45 Indeed. I recalled that she named Martin Shaw.
One of her best pieces. Love reading this lady and these adaptations are goooood. True to the form.
Another engrossing story. Thank you so much.
Thank you from Alaska. I so love the British shows.
Thanks for uploading. This is getting me through quarantine and universal societal madness. Much more interesting than anything I found on Acorn, etc.
PD James is a favourite author. Love the way the story unfolds. Just classic! Thank you.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh, having published his second volume of poetry, retreats to the remote Larksoken headland where his recently deceased aunt, Jane Dalgliesh, left him a converted windmill. However, a psychopathic mass murderer, known as the Norfolk Whistler, is on the loose and seems to have arrived at Larksoken when Dalgliesh finds the body of the nearby nuclear power plant's Acting Administrative Officer during an evening stroll on the beach via wikipedia
As usual, a little late on my part but, you have my deepest gratitude!
These are such a treat.
My Mobile Disco from 25years ago... happy memories..
the soundtrack at the beginning is so sad and mysterious at the same time!
Reflective, or meditative rather than sad, perhaps. It's just too beautiful for sadness.
Thanks for these PD James series Rudolf.... such enjoyment 👍🏻... looking forward to watching the restx
nice to hear the haunting soundtrack
Not one ad. Where am I, in the Twilight Zone?
Ha ha these were the days.😄
Under a fiver for that round. Those were the days.
Imagine making a teenage daughter come back home alone late at night. What kind of a father is he? Doesn't he realize what can happen to her?
I also hated the mother a little, for not saying, "You go get her -- now!", but I cut her some slack because i know how hard it is to deal with a bully.
Only a story...
Dr Moriarty, I absolutely agree with you!
It was a quite a bit different in the 1980’s. I was a teenager then and got around the city & the country alone at night without any problems. I feel sad for the young people of today - we had so much more freedom.
@@krankywitch I hitch hiked from Cache creek to Lilloet, to Darcy, Pemberton
, Squamish past
Whistler turn off to North Van. Gorgeous freedom in wild beauty/ 2 women gave me a ride. My most favourite adventure of long ago.
Thank you.
Ohhhh Dalgleish has upgraded to a Jaguar 🤗🖒
How lovely to hear the old ladies at the beginning actually sound Norfolk/Suffolk. Most actors now just have a generic 'country ' action that sounds like absolutely nothing!
Watched 7/18/21 - no ads. Many thanks from a senior lady in SoCal 🇺🇸 🕵️ 🎥
Gemma and Suzanna, two lovely and intelligent actors, I love them!
Did you know that Gemma's brother, Nicholas, is also an actor? (He's good as smooth villains.) Their father was also a well-known actor; you might enjoy "Miranda," a 1948 comedy in which he, Googie Withers and John McCallum are sublime. I've seen it on YT, tho it's not here now -- perhaps check back in a few months.
They're actresses. That's why we have the name for them, so we don't have to say " female actors" . 😂
Missing this old Dagliesh. Read all the books.
A great story of which I never tire!
amazingly good choice for the actor they chose for Dagliesh.
+jan smiths miss york is sublime as ever!!!
I agree, I thought Roy Marsden was excellent as Dalgliesh. I read he disliked the character. though.
@@dougcase7545 I have never known him to be anything but Great, especially in Edge of Darkness. Superb.
@@rosheaheather9855 When he was Bob Peck? Roy Marsden was not IN Edge of Darkness.
Ohhhh Dalgleish has upgraded to a Jaguar 🤗🖒
Glyn Parker: Morse ALWAYS had a Jag and he was only an Inspector. Just 'cause it was an old Jag it was a classic and worth a mint today.
Couldnt handle the books..but love these
I don't know what Dame Diana Rigg wore when she introduced Devices and Desires.
……those folk speaking about ads, do you know that UA-cam Premium is worth the cost, as you get NO adverts’ ever………
And did you know that you can get youTube without ads just by switching to Brave Browser or using Ublock Origin Chrome Extension?
This was the first PD James novel I read. Just loved it. This adaption is adequate but not great. Some of the characterizations are a bit over the top.
Roy Marsden is so kissable :)
He sure is
No adverts, no chopped down or shrunken screen, and no pleas to 'support' the channel (pay for their cost of living because they can't be arsed to get a proper job) on patrion. This is absolutely heavenly. Take notice UA-camrs, this is how it should be done. Great upload too. Remember watching this when it came out (I was 11), great to see it again. From the days when there were things on TV actually worth watching. Brilliant.
Ameen to that!!
Except these will probably be taken down because they break some copyright laws or something.
Why should everybody be arssed to work?
Geez entitled One Not okay
Devices and Desires (TV Mini Series 1991)
Whilst on holiday on the English coast in Norfolk, Commander Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the hunt for the serial killer - The Whistler - amidst a backdrop of mystery and intrigue surrounding the running of a local nuclear power station. - IMDB
Never been so confusded about any storyline as this one😑
This is typical British mystery - lots of storylines slowly converge, multiple crimes/vendettas/injuries have to be detangled. And yes, they can be annoyingly over-complicated!
Sometimes I have to watch it more than once. Try John LeCarre’s stuff and there’s opaque but it is realistic as heck. LeCarre versus Ian Fleming= Smiley versus Bond.
Fabulous.
youtube took down the Murder Mysteries channel . Poirot , Wexford, Miss Marple , this , the whole lot . if not HD , they were all at least 720p quality . i got use to it . watching this now in 360p seems such a let down sigh ...
As much as I love this series, the writing is very flawed - to have women wandering about at night and in isolated areas when a serial killer is about is just beyond ridiculous. It really is so silly. Also, Dalgliesh being unaware of 4 murders in the area at the beginning is unbelievable - he’s a senior officer at Scotland Yard.
A word of warning - this is absolutely littered with Google sponsored ad banners that come up about every 2 minutes. I suppose they don't REALLY interfere with the plot but they are very irritating. I watched this same episode about a year ago and there were no ads. What happened to the UA-cam pledge to do away with ads? That aside, this is fine viewing. Roy Marsden is an excellent Dalgleish.
If you use Google Chrome you won't have any adverts.
Not one advert w/ Adblock
SSJ -- Install a free, safe adblocker (I like uBlock Origin) -- it will make life better on every site you use.
Susan St John I haven't even one. Why not? 😕
No ads on mine!!
The violin is haunting x
CORRR-BLIMEY!!!
No-one can do a Norfolk accent!
Same goes for Suffolk, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, the rest What we get is the standard TV drawl filed under Bumpkin, C. It's hopeless 😂
My cousins have a Norfolk accent , i love it ❤
Nice to see a younger Harry from Between the lines.
First thing I ever saw him in. I have been a fan ever since.
Devices n desires epi 2
Nuclear? Lol.. yeahsure. There is no such thing.
Thanks for posting - but there are too many advertisements that interrupt the film. It must have happened at least 20 times.
Strange, No adverts watching it in the USA
Use Google Chrome - no adverts!
No ads on mine. I have an ad-blocker and am a Premium member. But I watched it all day without one ad!
Is this a British thing? When asked (@12:06) what's going to be on the menu for the upcoming dinner party, the hostess says, reluctantly, "Well . . Mr Dalgleish might be a guest, so I'll have to whisper." Why must the dish of the dinner party remain a secret from a prospective guest?
So that it's a surprise, of course.
Must be.
I wouldn't dare serve food to a group without revealing the menu ahead of time!
The various dietary restrictions, medical, chosen, and attention seeking, would be on full display after It's too late to make changes!
Wow! I’ve watched a few of these but this one was certainly the hardest episode to follow. And P. D. James wrote a cyber attack thriller; aren’t her books a bit older than cyber breaches???
Anyone know what the opening score is called and who’s work it is?? I love it. It’s mesmerizing.
Do do enjoy these English detective series.Dalghleish Frost Lewis Morse.Poirot
A completely different version of the same book: ua-cam.com/video/-4REKWvRMeI/v-deo.html
Starts of with dalgleesh as a tedious condescending do-gooder cringe cringe
I kept expecting Dalgliesh to stop and help an old man cut the grass.
Thank you!
'Shadows of the evening STEAL across the sky'.
Sang this in junior school many many years ago, still remember it.
In the US or the UK? They might have different words over there.
Sue Harvey As a kid in England we used to sing steal across the sky but that doesn't mean it's correct,try Google it probably has the answer
Sue, is it the one that goes " now the day is over, night is drawing nigh, shadows of the evening steal across the sky."? I remember it from prep and junior schools as well (this was back in Jamaica in the 80s though).
@@lighthousecollector Try it on UA-cam -- there are several sung versions, some with lyrics.
I love the theme music and wish there was more of it someplace.
Why don’t they make British crime like this anymore , this use to scare the shit out of me back in the day. 😂😂😂 Luther is the only near thing for me.
Have you seen Shetland? Hinterland? Fearless? Safe House? One of us? Good shows, all relatively recent, and all suspenseful. Older but great: Lynley; Lewis; Prime Suspect.
J J Add Happy Valley to that list?
As much as I like the lead actor in "luther", it is like many recent British crime series, very violent. Unfortunately, British TV has decided to copy the current Hollywood schlock. The one sterling exception is the brilliant, "Vera".
Dalziel and Pascoe was just dark upon dark, shot through with inappropriate jokes from Dalziel 😄
@@JJ21210 None of the shows you said are as scary as some of the shows we had when I was growing up. The vibe, music and overall tone of the shows. I’m not saying the shows now are not good, just the older ones were very sinister. Cracker is another example, that stuff was raw dark stuff.
(The 'Nail Bomber', I mean.)
Wow good mini series ❤❤❤ thankyou
Was there only one espisode
Tom Georgeson is a fine actor, but his Irish voice is ludicrous.
How pitiful the characters in the series are portrayed; because there is no life without the saving grace of Christ here on earth or hereafter..
A bit much with the advertising - given this is copyrighted material 😐😐😐 Nice to watch but not with you profitting from it. Sorry.
Most ads are placed *by* the CR holder, as a condition for allowing the vid to stay up. (I know this from 5 years and six of my own channels -- I never monetized, bc I didn't own the content -- seems sleazy to me.) I can't swear that this uploader didn't monetize his uploads, but it seems highly unlikely (his channel has that ''labor of love'' feel about it). Either way, I encourage you to install a free, safe adblock extension (I like uBlok Origin) -- it makes life online much better.
I don’t have one single solitary ad. Ad-blocker+Premium membership?= NO ADS. I don’t care if they make a billion dollars off me; which I seriously doubt as I FOLLOW ONLY MYSELF.
IT WAS A PSYOP.