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Inspector Alleyn [2007]
from Acorn Media UK Ltd
starring Patrick Malahide, William Simons, Belinda Lang

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Remarkable extremes
  Dame Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) wrote 32 detective novels between 1934 and 1982, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest crime novelists of the 'Golden Age', often being bracketed with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Margery Allingham and my personal favourite, Josephine Tey. Marsh carefully avoided amateur sleuths, recognising that crimes are solved by policemen, not old ladies or eccentric Belgians. Her plotting was brilliant, but at the same time her writing elevated the crime novel from country... more info

• Classic TV
  I first bought both US box sets of this classic BBC series, and rejoiced to find them finally released here in the UK ( Why do the Americans get our tv series on DVD long before us ??) I have now bought them again, purely because I love watching them so much, and prefer to view without the shudder and jerks inherent when viewing region 1 discs on a multi region player. I have read all of Ngaio Marsh's novels over the years(and re-read many of them too)and I was always totally impressed by this classy BBC... more info

• If time hangs heavy...
  If you enjoy Ngaio Marsh and television detectives you are advised to avoid this series. The character of Alleyn is unrecognizable from the novels: it is hard find Marsh's tall, dark, handsome, deep-voiced Chief Inspector in the pint-sized, balding, squawking Tony Blair look-alike presented in these programmes. Add to this cardinal flaw a musical score reminiscent of Scooby Doo and an Agatha Troy who can't draw for toffee and you have a recipe for disaster. The series suffers also from a fixed idea that... more info

• one episode missing
  An excellent series well worth buying although the region 2 set has come a little late for me as i purchased the region 1 sets last year!
  HOWEVER - I seem to remember the pilot episode as bing Artists in Crime with Simon Williams playing the part of Inspector Alleyn?
  This was not on the region 1 set and does not look as though it's on the region 2 set either. Pity as it was a good episode for a pilot.

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