I've been haunted by the theme music to this since I was a child and it was broadcast on a Sunday. One of the most beautiful themes ever to a TV series.

I was only 11 in 1984. Lovely rediscovering it now. Drama on tv used to be so well done.

"I think we should keep our mouths shut and our minds open." here here.

I remember watching this as a teenager, I loved this show and Roy Marsden is perfect in the role of Adam Dalghliesh. Thank you so much for uploading these.

Joss Ackland can carry a movie all on his own,! 👏👏🇬🇧

Grand dad from fools n Horses! Coronal from Allo Allo! What a treat!

Almost like Foyle's War ..the music ...and solving the murders...I miss Michael Kitchen

I remember just listening to the music and the theme this used to be on a Friday night back in the early 80s just after the ten o’clock news

Best theme music ever …. New series doesn’t cut it at all… watching this makes me feel so nostalgic

The music is just wonderful and each episode is so slow and detailed. Lovely. Much thanks for downloading without commercials ❤️💕

I remember being disturbed by the theme tune and opening credits of this show. A very bleak but good detective show from my childhood ✌️

I love old hospital training and hierarchy. Best years of my life. I was a three stripper at a Repatriation Hospital in 1984, wore exactly those caps.

Hats off to that actress undergoing the nasal gastric thing. I would be running off the set by now.......

Wow this does take me to when I was nine years old.I loved watching this so it's great to remind myself what a great adaptation this was.

PD James understands evil in everyday settings and ordinary people: the poison pen, the snoop, the snitch, the blackmailer, the whisperer, the gossips, the insinuate, the sly and of course, the cowards that open wide the gate to hell on earth. Watch out especially for those with God in their mouths and a blade in their hands!

Lot of class acts in this series, very impressed.

Hi Rudolf - I put all of your Dalgliesh episodes on a public Playlist in episode order and gave you credit for your work. Please LMK if you want me to make it Private. Just thought it would make it easier to binge watch. Thanks for all your hard work!

Thank you for these marvelous mysteries...so appreciate!

AD is so cool in a terrible situation!

I was quite relieved when that bible thumping blackmailer croaked.

Thank yu for these videos brillant and still can test the time of day.

So many familiar faces. Can't quite place them all though.

Thank you so much. I watched it years ago and enjoyed it so much. The picture quality and sound is perfect:))

Thank you sir - much appreciated!

I watched four of the five parts about a week ago and I felt a little turned off because I had just finished the book,. I am back now and enjoying it with an open mind.I think I should have waited several months before attempting the TV adaptation. Almost all of the parts are there, it's just the way they've had to show them that really threw me off and instantly jaded me. But now, here I am and I feel so glad to be able to watch this series. I haven't seem part five yet. Thank you, *Rudolf Forsythe* for sharing this.

Brilliant Thank you

thank you for all the series....I really enjoyed them.....one love

Thank you for this treat.

I love these and thank you for uploading 😻

Thank you for these videos.

I’ve watched this version, and the updated version from a couple of years ago. I’m not sure why, but I prefer this older version.

Thanks for this video! Very gripping mystery. I like the Detectives Ford Granada! Apparently they are very rare cars now!

Roy Marsden and Joss Ackland in conversation is like a 1980s commercial break talking to itself.

Thank you. Best for the new year.

Makes me want to reread PD James. She was a brilliant writer.

Watching the girl give the guy the brush-off in the first 2 minutes of the show, reminded me of the many English women I worked with in the UAE back-in the 80’s. They would pickup and drop men like just so much fluff on their clothes. Utterly ruthless, I always thought.

Thank you!

Thank you for these

Less than 20 minutes in and I know who I WANT the murder victim to be.

Enjoy , be entertained, no adds!!!!

I think this is the youngest I've seen Deborah Findlay, she looks maybe mid 20's here but she's actually 37 when this was released.

It is interesting to see a rare appearance by Graham Faulkner, Zeffirelli's Francis of Assisi, as a nursee. It was one of his last participations in a production. He was such a good actor, but here he has very little to do. It is a pity that he was not offered great roles as the one in Brother Sun, Sister Moon.

After the Pearl Harbour attack the American authorities made arrangements for the evacuation of unnecessary military personnel . A big Hospital ship was commissioned and half the passengers were unmarried pregnant nurses and female members of the armed forces. Same thing went on in the UK.

It would be a great help if each series was in order.

Roy Marsden one of the Driscoll brothers

Another British tv good cast

Poor Arnold Heather -The Bible Thumping Blackmailer is dead

26 minutes before the first ad break😂. Now it’s more like 6 minutes.

I just finished watching the new series. Now I am here to compare. Weirdly, I misremembered that this series was black and white.

Who was more guilty, Christine or her blackmailer?

i am only a few min in and all I know is if I was in hospital and begged for a phone to call my loved ones I wold expect it to be done for me.

Wondering how these episodes would look if they were on film.

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Why was pulling the tube out wrong? Even the doctor recognised that it was poison, likely from the milk in the tube.

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19.54 a great scene.

They won’t let him phone his wife? Wow!

Love Dalgleish's copper's attitude. They've lost every scintilla of respect today, of course. They'd have to use force to get the public to do anything now.

Anyone spot the cameo by Grandad from OFAH?

Is the patient who is worried about talking under sedation in the 'allo 'allo series ?

It's probably quite sexist, but part of me misses the little hats nurses wore. I wonder what kind of hats one could have made the men wear to be more egalitarian.

A new version released in 2021.

Eighteen minutes in and I know who I want to kill ! lol Miss Goody Two Shoes

What does she say at 7:14?

How could he tell from scene that she was having cardiac arrest because of being poisoned?

typical Russian they hate us as British......what would happen now in the year 2016 being called a bitch etc ...

I watched this as a bit of a nostalgia thing, because I can remember seeing bits of it back in the 1980s. Hope no one gets upset by me saying this, but compared with modern acting, the performances here really are quite hammy. There are a couple of good leads, but for the most part this series looks like a local amateur dramatic production. I know that old people are supposed to complain that everything was better when they were younger, but I really think that acting has come on leaps and bounds since my youth. Am I going to watch the other episodes? Damn right I am, and I shall enjoy them. Edit: having wstched all the episodes, I've changed my mind about the acting. It's just that in the first couple of episodes the young characters are so prominent, and of course they are played by young, inexperienced actresses. It gets a lot better from episode 3.

I think she is sanctimonious&s smug if she was a do-gooder she would have immediately reported the girl or at least try to understand why she kept the cash instead she took the role her judge&jury. I think she thought they would split it loath such hypocrisy aaaaggghh!!!!

So Wikipedia was the murderer .

Girls who play Heather and Chris are cute, even if they are probably old enough to be somebody's Grandmother now. Don't know the actresses though.

Arnold, how could you ever get romantic over a man named Arnold (or George for that matter)!!

Which was better, Dalgliesh or Morse?

How smartly dressed the nurses were. The only thing that is a bit odd is the white hats the senior nurses are wearing that look a bit like pavlovas.

Where’s the 2nd part?