Inspector Wexford - Murder Being Once Done
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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A chilling murder investigation begins when a young girl's body is found hidden in a vault in a gloomy London cemetery.
Loveday Morgan was strangled with a silk scarf. The only clues in her handbag were a photo and two telephone numbers.
Wexford, convalescing in London, finds himself irresistibly drawn to the case.
His unofficial investigation delves into the lives of those involved to reveal a moving story about adoption and the intense love of parents for their children.
I am a 76 widow in Mexico City and love watching these mysteries. Love Wexford and yes the scene with the blind lady was very moving. All the best to all of you.
Aren't they great?!
Welcome Mexico City! ❤😊❤😊❤
The scene with Wexford and the blind lady is indeed achingly moving. So beautifully written and acted. I’m grateful to be able to watch now what I missed over 35 years ago.
I am 76 in the US and enjoy the series too.
I have been reading the comments under these videos. I just want you all to know how much better I feel knowing you are out there in the world. I hope that being out and about is helping, and that you are all doing well.
It was a long two years of seeing a lot of the ugly things in people.
You all have reminded me that there are also a lot of beautiful people out there, watching great TV on UA-cam, and finding joy.
Bless you.
A Nurse
Grateful to know you are in my world, too. Thank you for your service and please, stay safe.😊
What a lovely post! Thank you for taking care of the sick! God bless you ✝️ hi from SW MO
@purple Irish sweater...what a darling and lovely comment!! As a fellow (or sister,rather) nurse.... I know exactly what you mean!!...
I agree completely.... Except that I, myself ,am more of a "pinkish flushed sweater" ...but hopefully the HRC is helping!😂😂😘
I know how you feel. Retired Nurse
@purpleirishsweater, I so agree
I love that he’s on holiday in full suit, just lying around the house
The words of the blind lady are comforting and full of wisdom. I love this series. Incidentally, I've only just found it a week ago. So very happy I did!
I just found it yesterday!! Haha...good series.
I watched these years ago... They're so good...lots of asides and quips I missed first time around have me chuckling this time( especilly with the help of rewind and closed caption)
Can't count how many times Wexford's age was brought up... sad how the self-confidence is taken away from people ending their careers. Again beautifully acted by George Baker and Christoph Ravenscroft!
The job is part of his identity - People can’t take that away; he accomplished quite a bit for a fictional character. Lol
This is a very well written story, great actors, and characters. Constance Chapman's played Mrs. Lyle the blind old lady, she was amazing when she said to Inspector Wexford, "Don't be afraid, You're younger than you know". Mrs. Lyle was not only speaking to Wexford, but to very generation as they grow older. This was a very powerful moment in the movie. I think Constance Chapman stole the show in this scene. Very well done.
I am in Seattle , WA , 4th week in confinement and the Inspector Wexford's movies are keeping me somewhat sane !
Thank-you Mr, Goddard.
Want to be really sane? Research flat earth, and come to your Heavenly Father through His Word and Guidance, in Jesus Christ.
Thank you for the opportunity to watch these videos. They're greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much for enabling me to watch 'Wexford ' because I never had the time whilst being a working mother and now I am almost 70yrs old it's great to see something. ..I don't know how to put it ...reasonably innocent . I wish I had not lost contact with my flat share friends in London during the 1970s but I often wonder how many of us are dead and (even harder ) whether we would recognise each other after all these years . Perhaps it is better to be forever young. Anyone else notice Jack Nicholson 's poster ?
Tempus Fugit yes, that poster is a popular one here in the states...its him, holding an empty roll of toilet paper...lol...am almost 74 myself, retired 5 years ago..now binge watching this whole series. Can't stand anything on our "tele"... Love any and all these UK series.
@TempusFugit
I have found friends from school online ... after 35 years. One, who had a bog-standard name, through her brother; and that connected me in to the people she knew, and had kept in contact with, from primary school; and was able to link her in with the others I had tracked down: one, from an industry she worked in, similar to me; one from sending Facebook messages to the three or four or five people with that name ... and the right one responded; and one thing leads to another.
You are right hard to find anything decent or logical to watch now these days.
I'm at an age where I'm yearning for yesteryear and simpler, less chaotic times as these. I've been a fan of British crime dramas for years and once I binge on one, I'm on the lookout for the next good series. So glad I found this! When I get off work, I light candles, get a glass of wine and tune in to DCI Wexford...BLISS!
I'm 68, and having lived through the 70's who would have thought looking back that those were better days. But we know they were.
The actress who played the part of the blind lady was perfect! So wise & so believable! The entire series is full of real life looking people, no fake faces & obvious wigs. Such a shame this series is not for sale on DVD. Thanks again for sharing!
I have it on DVD, box set, all of them.
She was so lovely!!!
I lost my father 10 years ago. He WAS Wexford. A crime reporter, however, not a detective, but very close to a British DI. Dad was strapped in with the local police. He filed very similar stories - murders, rape and all the nasty things we humans do to each other. I was Dad's muse, even at the age of 10. Miss him terribly and am grateful beyond measure for your posts. It is like coming home. Thank you, so much. Cheers from LONDON - Canada July 31, 2020
You should tell his story.
@@mjrussell414 I have. Not published yet though. Hope to someday. Thanks for the encouraging words. Stay safe Marilyn.
For all you Americans that watch this , let me tell you that the London portrayed here is not the city of today. All of those terraced houses are now occupied with Tony Blairs immigrants.
In AUSTRIA the same Desaster 🤮
We’ll rise again ⚔️
Terrific episode. For me, that" blind" woman steals the show. She was fantastic.
Yeah, Clive - she was awesome. Get younger as you get older - & have no fear. Brilliant.........
Constance Chapman (the blind old lady) was amazing.
She was adorable! Actress Constance Chapman had quite an extensive career: www.imdb.com/name/nm0152332/
She moved me to tears
The scene between the elderly blind lady and Wexford was excellent. I don't know the actress's name but she brought a tear to my eye when she said "dont be afraid of getting old" then spoke about memories. I do think he should have made time to read one of her loved letters to her.
This was Wexford at its best. Thanks for uploading.
That was an amazing scene and my favorite in the movie. And the whole movie was great!
Skygazer the blind lady’s name is Constance Chapman 🤗🤗🤗
@@jjcl4346 thank you!
That was a really heartwarming scene
Maybe he will come back and read a few letters to her
Mr Wexford is a kind man..
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to watch these episodes we wouldn’t have ever seen. So glad I found your channel.
I so love these Wexford mysteries. Thanks so much for posting them.
I could go off Wexford if he keeps behaving as he does @5:15. He enters a house in which he is staying, and does not even grunt at his wife, Jenny, or even the Bub. it’s amazingly rude to just walk in, acknowledging no one, and break into a conversation by barking a question. His manner with the question is also extremely rude, no,”Sorry to interrupt, but has Mike returned”/etc. He’s addressing his hostess who is facing a week of this. Which is a very long time for guests anyway, without having a grumpy as well.
Thanks heaps for the upload. All the actors are stellar and look like they just walked out of one of the books, especially Burden and Wexford. And it’s so nice to see Mike less of a prude, and so happy.
Would love to be in a type club where we could watch these great shows and recommend something more . I worked all the times these were on so I missed them . Thank you so much ! This was television in its prime .
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Try Frost... I have always watched this Brit series
@Pat Gee love A Touch of Frost 🥰
Poirot is really good, if you like these you'll like them too.
The Sherlock Holmes, 1990s version with Jeremy Brett. 😊
I am enjoying this episode immensely, even if my last name is 'Loveday'.. Strange but a great bit of telly..
But I do think Reg and the 'chaps' are top rate..
Thank you once again @Paul Goddard, for sharing this, 'some meanderings down memory lane' for me at any rate.. Saturday evenings spent with Mum & Dad, trying to work out 'who did it and why'.
Best wishes from Wales ..
I used to work in a rest home there was lady called ms loveday.
Beautiful name!
So sad. Even the villain - pathetic. The sweet old lady, blind but clear eyed and even more upbeat than Wexford, makes all the sadness bearable. Worth watching just to her speak in the third act cracks the case.
Thank you for the Chief Inspector Wexford series. Not seen them before.
Even though these are about murder and subterfuge, they are so lovely to watch as they were made in a time that blood and gore was hinted at and not shoved in your face, seeing all the old cars I grew up with and the way things look in happier times, it’s a very peaceful and nostalgic nod to the 80’s, I was not living in the uk and missed these so nice to finally see them, TY🙂 very clever bit when Wexford interviews the guy in the bed sit Jack Nicholson poster on the wall from the Shining, and Wexford says “what was the boyfriends name?” And the guy says “I don’t know John Jonny!?” Very clever weaving in such an iconic line from the movie, nice Easter egg! 22-11-19 10:43pm
En pointe Butterfly Crafter it was real human God-centered Judaeo-Christian culture world rather than the satanic culture we have now.
The bit I couldn't get my head round was the comment made at 1:14:34, why would Johnny "the murderer" be calling Louise, it's no wonder this took Wexford down the wrong path. I couldn't get my head round that part, maybe I'm just being dim
Thank you for this lovely series. I've chased away lockdown blues watching them. I had read so many of her books as a young girl but missed seeing them in video as I then lived in a country where cable/ satellite/dish TV was banned. Thank God I now live in Free Mumbai.
Ian McNeice (Mr Teal) had the best lines, "Johnny" had the best voice and nuanced expression, Phil Glennister so young said so much without a word, so many twists, babies, plotlines, easter eggs and everyone acted as though there was no camera or production crew in the room. Amazing shows these, thanks so much.
In my opinion, Ian McNiece could make any line he was given "the best line"
He's so very talented! I was literally rolling with laughter at his delivery during "The man who went up a hill but came down a mountain" Have you ever seen it?
@@mariabarker2036 No, I haven't but I'll find it and then I'll know what made you laugh :)
and the episode of hornblower he is in. He elevates the whole thing to the next level@@mariabarker2036
I haven't seen what led up to them staying @ Mikes.
Why can't they get a motel?
Paul ! thank you so very much , soo appreiated x
Covid binge watching. Thanks
When was this filmed ? This London doesn't exist anymore !
Once again Thank you so much Paul. Great movie ;)
I really liked the old blind woman in this episode. I looked for The Unkindness Of Ravens, two episodes before this one, but couldn't find it. Is it available on UA-cam?
I see that there are the Ruth Rendell Mysteries available to watch. I'm looking forward to watching them as soon as I am finished watching Inspector Wexford. The A Dark Blue Perfume episode has the actor who was I believe played the nephew of Miss Marple.
Many thanks for making these available. I am truly enjoying watching them, and really love the opening music.
Wexford :"It's starvation!!!!"
Wexford :Whats for supper ?
Dora: Carrots, coriander soup,water biscuits and half a grapefruit
Wexford:Speechless😞😞
Dora: Diet remember? 😲😲
Of course I love inspector Wexford and the relationship he has with his sidekick but occasionally, as of this episode I ask myself at the end, 'so what happened?' Frankly I don't know. Who murdered ? Who had the baby from whom, now being adopted, also so many babies, so many red herrings, twists & turns in the plot!! Is anyone else brave enough to admit to being clueless when it was finally over????
Yes, they absolutely do leave you with a lot of unanswered questions!!!
I like series ok but the wives are always whining and complaining. Be thankful they work. I love the Morse series Lewis wife doesnt do all that gripping. This woman is always on wexford.
So excellent. Great up load. Thank you. !
Of course I love inspector Wexford and the relationship he has with his sidekick but occasionally, as of this episode I ask myself at the end, 'so what happened?' Frankly I don't know. Who murdered ? Who had the baby from whom, now being adopted, also so many babies, so many red herrings, twists & turns in the plot!! Is anyone else brave enough to admit to being clueless when it was finally over????
I am in the same spot. I've no clue who murdered this girl. I even watched the first part twice.
I wonder if dora will ever rebel against the crumbs she gets thrown.
That was fabulous! I love Reg and the gang ❤
The nostalgia this episode evokes. This is the London of 30 years ago, whiich I knew on an ELT grant, and came to love.
Thank you for uploading this. Soft lockdown now,but glad to find your Chanel. Regards from Indonesia
Once again Paul, a sincere thank you. You are selfless and spread much contentment. Good man/boy/friend. Elizabeth
This is an excellent detective story, full of intrigue and suspense. Fully enjoyed it. Thanks for the uploading. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
Thank you from South Africa..I absolutely adore this series❤️
What an excellent story line. Wexford is always full of surprises. 👍
I don't understand Jenny's problem either.
Would love to see all eleven seasons! Thanks a lot. 🤗
Philip Glensiter..playing a villain..weird so use to seeing him being Police/ Detective ...( never changes his hair style though)
Gail Wilkinson And so young! I’ve never seen him at that age... it’s fun to see his own mannerisms play over a slim and angled face.
Paul thank you so much for posting these, you said you were going to and I am so grateful for them.
Just adore Mrs. Lyall - she’s precious
That was excellent, I was thoroughly gripped all the way through it, thank you. I never even suspected ...
I love the series but this one needed a good editor - it ran too long and went long on the detailed scenes. However amazing this was from a time when they allowed storylines to play out and took the time to play out long scenes and evolutions of plots - kind of in the real time of the way life unfolds. Unheard of today - also the London setting didn't work for me - this duo belongs in fictional Kingsmarkham - in that quiet out of the unpretentious setting.
Thanks so much Paul! I enjoyed that a lot. I thought I knew for sure who was killer! 😅 Lots of twists in this one.
Thank you so much for showing us these great TV shows! Loving them from Antigua!
Another great episode from Inspector Wexford ! Thanks for posting this Paul :)
Reading books and newspapers instead of staring at cell phones....love it!!
Yes Ma'am - they way life should be.
An episode about aging and ageism. Ruth Rendell is brilliant, but I do wonder why women are so subservient in this series. I mean, do the wives just wait by the phone for their husbands' calls? Dora chastises Wexford for not taking her out to see a play. Can't she go to a play by herself? Or how about shopping? She lives in a small village and now she's in London, a shopping Mecca. Oh well.
Different times.
Awfully great episode." As you get older memories get younger"!!!!!
I never believed for a second that Wexford would follow that ridiculous diet.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful old videos the absolutel best. When TV was worth watching.
I agree. It was nice when programmes took time to tell a story 🙂
I got a little lost.
If Dearborn didn't do it, how'd the scarf get there?
Yeah I got a little lost towards the end. I lost track of the alias names and the connections and yeah the scarf thing I just gave up. I think i need to draw connection and relationship trees with mysteries of this length especially
So happy to have found this! ❤️ Somehow I missed the series is back in the day.
I'm not sure how this series came up into my list, but 3 in I'm hooked!!! Many thanks from Florida!!!!
I'm so glad you got hooked 🙂
@@paulgoddard Me too!
Me too. I left the UK IN 1986 and had not heard of this series until it popped into my UA-cam feed! Wasted a whole day watching it! Must be more disciplined tomorrow! 🙄😆
Sameeeee
Really appreciate this!! Thank you! 😊
Thank you. Pretty much housebound. These entertain me. Thank you again.
Ruth Rendell is a fantastic writer, I enjoy her books enormously, I think the actors in this series are excellent and do justice to her books. Thank you so much for posting them.
Thank you. Most enjoyable. I’m glad I have the chance to watch these now.
Ruth Rendell is my favorite mystery writer. Thank you for letting her live again.
Why didn't Wexford ask for a photograph of the daughter or get the photo he had identified as the daughter rather than spend 1 hr 27 min to know that the daughter was alive?
I guess because he's getting old?
Heart rendering. A wonderful story not to be watched if you are feeling sad.
Thank you
Omg imagine your boss coming to stay with you even if you are friends of sorts lol 😂
I thought they are shockingly unhospitable and Michael´s wife is really nasty. Nasty, unhelpful people are never a good investment in life...
It would be an honor from some.
Love these shows ⭐️⭐️⭐️💙💚❤️🤗
I love their relationship: Wexford and Burden. A real friendship is a perfect marriage! An understanding of equals that somehow fails when the genders are opposite. Now just why is that⁉️ Must be the sex, an excess of intimacy. Lovers know too much, friends just enough about the other. Married people are too much like Mom and Dad, which is the purpose of the institution I suppose. Family. It just kills friendship is all. If you have friends at home, you’d never leave. Ever met a parent who wants to be the best buddy of the child? IKR. Massive fail🤷🏽♀️ Freud was right: Eros, the sex drive is highly problematic. Age and Distance cure it; and of course, death.
Oh darn - I fell asleep & lost the plot on this one!! This one plain girl had one baby, ("The Baby"), and this baby was sold to the well-off couple..zzzzz..then THAT "Dad" commits suicide at his hotel when his wife tells him the police are coming to get "The Baby". THEN, suddenly this scruffy unwed couple has "The Baby", but that "Mommy" is trying to abscond with "The Baby" - she has the taxi filled with diapers, etc. when "Daddy No. 2 or is it No 3? " takes The Baby & absconds with HER into an old mortuary in a lovely park.Then the police come & take this Scruffy"Daddy" AWAY because he's the one who killed the plain young Mother in that mortuary so HE could have THE BABY. aaarrrggg -Do I have to watch this again to make sense of it, or can someone - ANYONE - summarize it for me? I thought I had enough UK genes to "get" any of the wonderful programs, films etc......some grim, some groovy, some heartbreaking, some bleak - ENJOY THEM ALL.....but this one has defeated me. I guess I shouldn't fall asleep in the middle - or what it the beginning? WHO DID THIS POOR BABY BELONG TO - the girl who was selling it who is now dead? Oh, BUMMER - The Baby will be put up for adoption, eh? Terribly sad ( AND convoluted). cheers (thanks from shell lake/usa g'nite
Yes I too would like someone to explain about the babies. Were there one or two? Seems like two to me but in that case what's the connection between the babies?? help!
@@Krajjy008 The connection is: The murdered woman lived in the same house as the unwed couple(and their baby), and kindof made friends with the guy. She told him about her baby and the money the rich people were willing to give her if she let them keep her baby (whom she wanted back). The guy (being poor) very much speculated on the money (for h i s baby - they were going to share it) . He murdered her because he got angry when she didn't give him any money.
@@waslias thanks very much for taking the trouble to explain
@@Krajjy008 It may have gotten a little confusing too when the policeman talked about recently adopting HIS baby, so there were 3 babies brought up in the video. I liked it though; very much.😁
@@melodytenisch6232 yes indeed !
I really enjoy the no cursing and no nakedness. Get mystery, can't figure it out until the end.
Agreed, Ginger. It's so good to have top drama and no cussing... no shoot em ups and no mad car chases or bombs going off. Fabulous!
@@nilgiridreaming l
And not too much yelling either (there was some).
These shows would be so much more enjoyable , if there weren't quite so many scenes with the characters sucking on those disgusting cigarettes .
Knew this part of London 50 years ago.Full of homosexuals. Those days it was illegal. Nowadays compulsory.
Many thanks
Thanks from cape Town south africa 🇿🇦we missed all this great shows via equity ban.
Again, Thank you very much Mr Goddard.
"Reg" and "Dora" were a real-life married couple. You can see it in the chemistry between them.
Love that kind of trivia. They were married two years after this episode was made and passed away within a few months of each other
wexford gifted with second sight this episode. thnx
🤪😜These are a gift of the Pandemic, 🙏we are all alive & kicking! Well back to Insp. Wexford and his wonderful long suffering wife. I am married to an Angel too. Here in Utah 🇺🇸Wexford plays well in real English🇬🇧👍....Thanks for dear🧐 uppenloadenerhoffer 🤨my stab at German I don’t know why...😀🤮🤢🤮🌎 Just think 🤔 world wide barf I must be weirder than I thought...
That Mrs Lyle was a gem.
What gems! I’m so lucky to have found Chief Detective Wexford, after playing every Barnaby they’ve made, waiting for more in a series so similar, in many ways, to Wexford’s. I recognized a very young Ian Mc Nice from Doc Martin, too! Love to see the now older actors in later British TV. Wexford mysteries, and thanks to you, are ALL downloaded and I’m enjoying them so much. thank you for posting!
The Episodes are good 11 months later! THANKS BE TO MR. GODDARD😇🤓 for an Excellent Upload !
Flippin eck! You've got a lovely baby, a decent caring husband (and a flippin nice house)..and he still gets ear ache!
Some class acting
In virtually all of the Wexford series, have you noticed how very many people smoke cigarettes ? Cancer sticks. Death in the making. Very sad.
it was the early ninties. We 'knew' about it and didn't act in the same way we know about climate change now and don't act. Thirty years from now we'll be watching films from the twenties and saying 'why are they using petrol cars' or 'why are they using plastic bottles.' It is as you say, very sad
Where did the baby finally ended up and why it ended up there?
Detective Wexford reminds, for some reason, of John Wayne. I think it’s the way he walks.
Inspector Baker is a ringer for John Goodman!
I loved it. Was rather skeptical beforehand. Yet another older dci from the countryside, or so I thought... So i hesitated a long time before giving Wexford even a chance.. Perhaps it was my/his luck i clicked on this episode for my first one, but I simply loved it. Couldn't even pause it. I'm hooked. And that's that. So, thanks a mil for this upload. Thank you very much indeed. You got yourself a new subscriber BTW. Cheers & ☮ out, Jungled0ut Bagheera.
PS. However, the order you uploaded the episodes into this playlist doesn't seem to be following the novels' publication. Well, if Wikipedia is accurate, that is...
Novels
1. From Doon with Death (1964)
2. A New Lease of Death (1967) (known as Sins of the fathers in the US)
3. Wolf to the Slaughter (1968)
4. The Best Man to Die (1969)
5. A Guilty Thing Surprised (1970)
6. No More Dying Then (1971)
7. Murder Being Done Once (1972) (known as Murder being once done in the US)
8. Some Lie And Some Die (1973)
9. Shake Hands Forever (1975)
10. A Sleeping Life (1978)
11. Put on By Cunning (1981) (known as Death notes in the US)
12. The Speaker of Mandarin (1983)
13. An Unkindness of Ravens (1985)
14. The Veiled One (1988)
15. Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (1992)
16. Simisola (1994)
17. Road Rage (1997)
18. Harm Done (1999)
19. The Babes in the Wood (2002)
20. End in Tears (2005)
21. Not in the Flesh (2007)
22. The Monster in the Box (2009)
23. The Vault (2011)
24. No Man's Nightingale (2013)
Awww ... poor Reg. By nature he's moody and now he has to go on a starvation diet? And poor Dora and other people, having to deal with Reg's moods. LOL
These are such good movies!
America here and we can still see them. So sorry, about the UK. I might rewatch them all.
In Season 1 Burden had two older children . I think the son was about 8 and named John. Now he just has a new baby. What happened to the other two?
His wife died, his children were teens he remarried and had a baby with his 2nd wife
Were people really ever so stucked up? ...It is like watching some unknown, strange tribe... We make everyone feel welcomed as much as we can anytime, not mentioning if they are unwell...
I've met many like that, typically they are not from wealthy families.
Thanks so much. Not sure why but the theme music is nostalgic to me. Takes me back home to Manchester even though I left in ‘79. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
That music struck me, too! This is the first time I've been watching this series. I have no idea how it escaped me in my younger days! That music really took me back to my days as a Canadian kid absorbing all things English on TV! That music just takes me right back!
Can't stand bad table manners, you use a knife and fork.
Yeah, thinking someone would be giving you $50,000 in order for you to give up your baby, and also be giving your baby back to you, is pretty stupid.