Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5509 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-05-11
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Formats: PAL, Closed-captioned
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 344 minutes

Synopsis
MURDER MOST ENGLISH contains four terrific tales of detective sleuthing based on the Flaxborough novels of Colin Watson. Starring Anton Rodgers as Detective Inspector Purbright and Christopher Timothy as Detective Sergeant Love, the series was filmed in 1977 and is a glowing tribute to an England long-gone of heavy tweed jackets, dial telephones, typewriter ribbons and old-fashioned investigation and deduction.

Customer Reviews

Worth the Wait
After what seems an eternity waiting for someone to release this series on DVD I was delighted to receive my copy of Murder Most English and even more pleased to find that it lived up completely to my memory of this excellent BBC series. Thank you Acorn. Anton Rogers as Inspector Purbright and a young Christopher Timothy as the curiously named DS Love delve into a series of investigations including murder, betrayal, consiracy and intriguing disappearances. Originally broadcast in 1977 this series harks back to a time before forensics when crime was solved by good old fashioned detective work.

A minor classic
I'm just old enough to remember this series from the seventies from the much underatted pen of Colin Watson, adapted by Richard (Outside Edge)Harris . This really is a joy. Complex mysteries, very well acted.

The stories are setin the fictional Lincolnshire town of Flaxborough - there are several scenes filmed at Spalding railway station and bowls club in Lonely Heart 4122.

It's a shame that they didn't film the rest of Watson's excellent novels

About time too!
Hooray! It's about time that this series from the 1970's was released on DVD. I cannot comment on the quality of this DVD as it has not yet been released, but I can comment on the TV programmes as I was lucky enough to see this series in the late 1970's when it was first televised.

The programmes are based on 'the Flaxborough Chronicles' written by Colin Watson, and are located in the fictional small English town of Flaxborough. The stories are full of black humour.

As I recall Anton Rodgers was Inspector Purbright, Christopher Timothy was Sgt Love, Brenda Bruce was Miss Lucilla Teatime, and the delightful Caroline Blakiston was Mrs Carobleat.

A real treat for lovers of gentle vintage English crime