Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh (1964). Starring Keith Barron, Joss Ackland & Nigel Hawthorne.

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Journalist Nigel Bathgate (Keith Barron) lets curiosity get the better of him when he decides to attend services at The Temple of the Sacred Flame. He sneaks in and witnesses the ceremony. One of the initiates, Cara Quayne, has been chosen to be the Chosen Vessel. As part of the ritual, Miss Quayne drinks from a goblet of wine, seemingly enters ecstasy and falls down dead. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in to investigate...
Broadcast 8th June 1964 as part of the BBC's "Detective" series.

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@AnnClark-g3t 11 күн бұрын

Oh, that voice from Joss Ackland! Velvet vocals and pure charisma - the perfect villain! A stellar cast and a marvelous story from the great Ngaio Marsh. Thank you.

@NotMarkKnopfler 3 ай бұрын

I was -6 years old when this was made, but God I'm really enjoying these old B&W thrillers ❤

@janegrayson6697 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for this! Love Ngaio Marsh! I didn't know anything like this had been made! Marvellous!

@bonnierussell9798 3 ай бұрын

Same here

@MichaelB-yh3ug 17 күн бұрын

Holy Moses is what a cast of characters! I must say this series gets right into it, loving it thank you

@soniavadnjal7553 3 ай бұрын

Always enjoyed Ngaio Marsh books, so this should be good. Many thanks for the upload, cbt!😊

@cynthia7445 3 ай бұрын

Interesting! I wasn't expecting this today. Thanks!

@fionacrombie9138 3 ай бұрын

Love Dame Ngaio Marsh's work, a fellow New Zealander 💕🇬🇸 thank you for posting.

@bonnierussell9798 3 ай бұрын

Love her books. Could you phonetically tell me how to pronounce her 1st name?

@fionacrombie9138 3 ай бұрын

@bonnierussell9798 The g is silent. So it sounds like Naio or - N - eye - o. 😀

@brettsidaway2691 3 ай бұрын

Another brilliant post. I knew of the series but had not seen an episode from it. It really was a case of 'he's in it..and he's in it...and he's in it...' with lots of my favourites such as Joss Ackland, Ronald Fraser, Keith Barron and especially The Master himself Roger Delgado. Such fun!

@stephenwilliams1269 3 ай бұрын

A pleasent little tale with many well know faces of that era along with a young Ronald Lacey and Keith Barron. Thank you for sharing most entertaining.

@Stiffd1 25 күн бұрын

Ronald Lacey goes on as a major nazi villain in ‘Raiders..”

@kurtgodel5236 3 ай бұрын

Oh my God! Nigel Hawthorne!

@kingbolo4579 2 ай бұрын

Ronald Lacey! Roger Delgado! Brian Cant!

@Honkawsuzyamal 2 ай бұрын

Practicing to be Sir Humphrey no doubt

@TheSnowmanBKK 3 ай бұрын

Took me a few minutes to recognize the brilliant and charismatic Joss Ackland

@enkisdaughter4795 3 ай бұрын

Can’t miss his voice though!

@shaelynp7630 Ай бұрын

i also didn't know there was an older version of ngaio Marsh's stuff, I only know of the Patrick Malihide version,thank you so much for finding and sharing this, hopefully we get more!!

@alvidadost6955 2 ай бұрын

Good gosh this is priceless! Not to mention the brilliant opening title design.

@Spook277 3 ай бұрын

What a cast!

@kgarrett1404 3 ай бұрын

A veritable smorgasbord of English TV actors including Joss Ackland,, Roger Delgado, and that Cant Brian!

@soniavadnjal7553 3 ай бұрын

@@kgarrett1404 But Geoffrey Keen as Det.Inspector Alleyne was miscast, as was the Sgt Fox actor. Spoiled things for me a little.

@Noblerot1830 3 ай бұрын

And Derek Francis !

@perkinscrane 3 ай бұрын

@@soniavadnjal7553Both seem far too old to me.

@enkisdaughter4795 3 ай бұрын

@@perkinscraneLook for Inspector Alleyn with Patrick Malahide as Roderick Alleyn. Made in the 1980s / 1990s and in colour. There are some full episodes posted here on YT. I’m looking forward to watching this version.

@perkinscrane 3 ай бұрын

@@enkisdaughter4795 I did watch the 1990’s version and enjoyed them. My main impression of Alleyn comes from reading the books as a youngster in the 1970s.

@clouds882 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this.

@annskinner8467 3 ай бұрын

My favourite Ngaio Marsh book ❤️

@marcusharmes1214 3 ай бұрын

brilliant cast

@robertb7918 3 ай бұрын

Roger Delgado makes an appearance who became the original Master in "Doctor Who".

@eilis5813 3 ай бұрын

Also Richard Hurndall who played the First Doctor after William Hartnell died.

@campbellnutting3663 3 ай бұрын

Thanks that sounds good 😃

@michaelmanning5379 3 ай бұрын

Inspector Alleyn is played by Geoffrey Keene. If he looks familiar it is because he flicked into and out of an endless number of Bond films as the Minister of Defence, i.e., M's boss. If Pringle (Ronald Lacy) looks familiar it may be because he played the Gestapo officer who burned his hand on the red-hot amulet in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom".

@robin_verona 3 ай бұрын

Geoffrey Keene also starred in the excellent BBC series "The Troubleshooters".

@fidomusic 2 ай бұрын

@@robin_verona Also good in Sink the Bizmarck.

@7349yt 3 ай бұрын

First few minutes looks like a Keir Starmer cabinet meeting. Even Sir Humphrey is there.

@ashleyupshall7641 3 ай бұрын

Great stuff.

@chimknee 3 ай бұрын

Nice. Thank you.

@DaleBaker-e3u 2 ай бұрын

So Nigel hawthorne was young once. This is great quality TV.

@peterbamforth6453 3 ай бұрын

Wow at 17.39 its the chap who played a Pole in an incident in the Colditz series His acting was very good.

@eilis5813 3 ай бұрын

That's Ronald Lacey who was in loads of things but died relatively young. His biggest part was probably playing the German in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

@peterbamforth6453 3 ай бұрын

@@eilis5813 thank you.Come to think of it I have seen him in other dramas.

@alexdavies7394 22 күн бұрын

This wasn't as good as I'd hoped. The setting is too restricted. But a marvellous cast all the same.

@fritula6200 2 ай бұрын

TRIVIA:- NGAIO MARSH: DAME EDITH NGAIO MARSH: DBE : 23 April 1895 - 18 Feb 1982 was a New Zealand writer. Marsh was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where she also died. In the Introduction to The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh, Douglas G. Greene writes: "Marsh explained to an interviewer... that in New Zealand European children often receive native names, and Ngaio... can mean either 'light on the water' or 'little tree bug' in the Māori language. Other sources say that it is the name of a native flowering tree." Her father neglected to register her birth until 1900 and there is some uncertainty about the date. She was the only child of Rose and bank clerk Henry Marsh, described by Marsh as "have-nots" Marsh died in Christchurch and was buried at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Mount Peel.

@smgreenartsprivate 2 ай бұрын

Different from the later series I assume it's the same as Inspector Alleyn mysteries with Patrick Malahide. Felt like an episode of Dr Who actually ;) I have seen the later series but not this one I am curious as always as these earlier versions always have the earlier career of the some of the best actors. A shame they never invited anyone from this version to star in the later one.

@Mary0614 3 ай бұрын

Are there any more like this!

@NotMarkKnopfler 3 ай бұрын

The beautiful Kathleen Michael plays the poor ill-fated young woman. Look for her in Frank Marker's (Public Eye) episode "When you've paid the bill you're non the wiser" where she plays a bereaved mother.

@baroqueman1 3 ай бұрын

A distinguished British cast ! However, I wonder if Geoffrey Keane in his long career ever played anything but a police detective ; I have never seen him in any other type of role, despite all the films that he made...

@fidomusic 2 ай бұрын

He played a naval officer in the excellent film "Sink the Bizmarck".

@TheAndrewJBaker 3 ай бұрын

I’ve remembered the theme tune for sixty years and often sing it to myself. It’s faster than I remembered oddly. But how can this be on here? Is it something the BBC threw out? Have they a copy?

@ClassicBritishTelly 3 ай бұрын

It's rare but not lost, the BBC have a copy!

@TheAndrewJBaker 3 ай бұрын

@@ClassicBritishTellyI was only ten but thought it was an excellent series - of course the speckled band led to the Holmes series with Douglas Wilmer.

@eilis5813 3 ай бұрын

@@ClassicBritishTellyThere are so many better Ngaio Marsh books they could have chosen. I remember a version of Margery Allingham's The Case of the Late Pig in that same "Detective" series.

@Noblerot1830 3 ай бұрын

Nora Nicholson from the Forsyte Saga .

@kingbolo4579 2 ай бұрын

Joss Ackland unrecognisable! And very strange, somehow, to hear Keith Barron's received pronunciation.

@tomatenpaprika6323 3 ай бұрын

topp

@58christiansful 2 ай бұрын

Alleyn in this production is an absurd, middle-aged duffer - nothing like Marsh’s ‘Handsome Alleyn’. And even he mispronounces his name: should be AL-len. Not All-ain.