{"id":28,"date":"2006-09-22T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/lord-peter-wimsey-series-dvd.html"},"modified":"2023-11-14T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T05:00:50","slug":"lord-peter-wimsey-series-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/lord-peter-wimsey-series-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Peter Wimsey series…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a> One series that we particularly enjoy is the Lord Peter Wimsey series. Actually, there are two different versions of the Lord Peter Wimsey series (by the great author Dorothy L. Sayers)…. one series was made in the 1970s and the other was made in the 1980s. (This article will be about the 1970s version. My next article will be about the 1980s miniseries.)<\/p>\n

When\u00a0I started watching the BBC 1970s version, I wasn’t quite sure if\u00a0I would stay with the series, or not. It was\u00a0“different” than any other series I had watched… the shows almost seemed a bit “campy.” But,\u00a0 I\u00a0finally decided to stay with the series, and boy (!) am I\u00a0ever glad that I did!\u00a0\u00a0If anything, now that my husband has seen the series, we are really sorry that there are only five different episodes.\u00a0(Not to worry, each of the episodes is given three hours or more… so they aren’t crammed into the normal\u00a052 minute format.)\u00a0 I first saw the series on PBS, when it aired on Masterpiece Theatre. You may be asking why it was on Masterpiece Theatre and not Mystery!…<\/em> but for those of you old enough to remember “way back then”, you will know that there was no such show as Mystery!… <\/em>\u00a0And, rumor has it that this wonderful mystery series is what prompted Masterpiece Theatre to fork out into the Mystery!<\/em> show.<\/p>\n

Dorothy L. Sayers\u00a0 is known to most mystery readers as one of the great mystery writers of all times. After Oxford, she\u00a0taught school and also worked as a copywriter for an advertising firm. Her first Lord Peter Wimsey novel (Whose Body?) was published in the early 1920s.<\/p>\n

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in this BBC production. Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The Nine Tailors, and Five Red Herrings are the titles of the different miniseries, which of course, are based on the novels of the same names.<\/p>\n

The Lord Peter Wimsey<\/em><\/strong><\/a> collection\u00a0 is one of the few miniseries series that features an aristocratic sleuth who is actually smarter than his butler! Bunter, while smart, is still no match for his employer. Inspector Parker, who befriends Lord Peter Wimsey and falls for Lord Wimsey’s sister, Lady Mary (“Polly”) is refreshingly smart, also. (Sometimes, when you have a main sleuthing character it is almost perfunctory to have a bungling police force…. which is not the case in these shows.)<\/p>\n

(Here is a list of the novels by Dorothy L. Sayers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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