The Worst Episodes of Dalgliesh
Every episode of Dalgliesh ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Dalgliesh!
Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Dalgliesh" is "Death Of An Expert Witness (2)", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Death Of An Expert Witness (2)" aired on 4/15/1983 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Death Of An Expert Witness (3)".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Death Of An Expert Witness (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/15/1983
Commander Dalgliesh is called to Norfolk to look into a murder, which he believes has no connection with the case that he is currently working on. But then one of the forensic scientists at Hoggatt's laboratory, who are experts in violent death, is found murdered.
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#2 - Death Of An Expert Witness (3)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/1983
Commander Dalgliesh is called to Norfolk to look into a murder, which he believes has no connection with the case that he is currently working on. But then one of the forensic scientists at Hoggatt's laboratory, who are experts in violent death, is found murdered.
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#3 - Death Of An Expert Witness (4)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/29/1983
Commander Dalgliesh is called to Norfolk to look into a murder, which he believes has no connection with the case that he is currently working on. But then one of the forensic scientists at Hoggatt's laboratory, who are experts in violent death, is found murdered.
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#4 - Death Of An Expert Witness (5)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/6/1983
Commander Dalgliesh is called to Norfolk to look into a murder, which he believes has no connection with the case that he is currently working on. But then one of the forensic scientists at Hoggatt's laboratory, who are experts in violent death, is found murdered.
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#5 - Death Of An Expert Witness (6)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/13/1983
Commander Dalgliesh is called to Norfolk to look into a murder, which he believes has no connection with the case that he is currently working on. But then one of the forensic scientists at Hoggatt's laboratory, who are experts in violent death, is found murdered.
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#6 - Death Of An Expert Witness (7)
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/20/1983
This is the conclusion of the 7-part Death of an Expert Witness, as included in The Adam Dalgliesh Chronicles, a Region 2 DVD collection.
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NaN/10 0 votes#7 - Shroud For A Nightingale (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/1984
An arms dealer with a heart problem is too ill to stand trial and taken to a teaching hospital for treatment. Dalgliesh questions him and tensions among the nurses and other medical staff start to be revealed.
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NaN/10 0 votes#8 - Shroud For A Nightingale (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/16/1984
Despite being present during the death of one of the student nurses, Dalgliesh is not asked run the investigation. Further relationships between the staff are revealed. Dettinger, the arms dealer, recognizes somebody from his past.
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NaN/10 0 votes#9 - Shroud For A Nightingale (3)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/23/1984
Following the death of a second student nurse, and that of the arms dealer Dettinger, Dalgliesh is put in charge of investigating all three deaths due to the potential links between the cases. Potential motives start to be revealed.
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NaN/10 0 votes#10 - Shroud For A Nightingale (4)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/30/1984
Dalgliesh starts to make progress despite the lies and evasions of the people who have been interviewed. Dettinger's final words, as told to his wife, reveal a dark past for one of the nurses.
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NaN/10 0 votes#11 - Shroud For A Nightingale (5)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 4/6/1984
As the story reaches its climax, history catches up with the older staff. A blaze due to arson at the summer house reveals yet another body. Dalgliesh solves the murders of the nurses but struggles to find enough evidence to prevent further loss of life.
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#12 - Cover Her Face (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1985
Unwed mother Sally Jupp meets Dalgliesh when her friend Stavros is murdered. Dr. Stephen Maxie makes his mother hires Sally as housemaid, but the rest of the household hates her. Dalgliesh tracks the drug ring Stavros was part of.
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#13 - Cover Her Face (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/1985
Sally blackmails her uncle for airfare to Venezuela. Stephen's engagement to Sally shatters the family. Dalgliesh narrows the suspects down to the one person missing when the victim was found.
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#14 - Cover Her Face (3)
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/1985
Dalgiesh learns of Sally's attempt to blackmail Victor and her letters from Venezuela. Deborah is attacked. The Maxie family and guests start suspecting each other.
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#15 - Cover Her Face (6)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/1985
Martha's venom spills out, and she admits having put sleeping pills in Sally's cocoa. A surprise arrives from Venezuela, and the two murderers of Dalgleish's two cases are brought to justice.
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#16 - The Black Tower (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/8/1985
Toynton Grange is a nursing home in financial difficulty. Dalgliesh has been injured in a drug raid and invited to go there by an old friend. A fatal "accident" happens near the Black Tower..
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#17 - The Black Tower (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/15/1985
There are two mysterious deaths at the nursing home Father Baddeley invited Dalgliesh to come to--one is the priest himself. Poison pen letters are being received also.
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#18 - The Black Tower (3)
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/22/1985
Ursula, an MS patient, had run away from the Grange but decides to return. Dalgliesh continues to investigate his friend's death and learns there are many motives to explore. A fire in the Black Tower almost kills someone.
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#19 - The Black Tower (4)
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1985
Toynton Grange's religious façade is revealed to have covered adultery, ex-cons, fraud, and even murder. Dalgliesh relentlessly investigates the two suspicious deaths and a fire that almost claimed another victim.
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#20 - The Black Tower (5)
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/6/1985
A vote is scheduled: will Toynton Grange continue as a nursing home under the Trust or be sold? Everyone suspects everyone else's innocence. Could the cloud of suspicion result in a suicide?
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#21 - The Black Tower (6)
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/13/1985
Although an inquest into the latest victim proves inconclusive, Dalgliesh has more success with Henry Carwardine. The inspector is near to a solution...
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#22 - A Taste For Death (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1988
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is asked by a friend, Home Office Minister Sir Paul Berowne, to be aware correspondence of a personal nature he's received. He's not being blackmailed and so there's nothing to investigate per se and he only wants Adam to keep an eye on what's going on. Sir Paul's personal life is somewhat complicated. He lives in the shadow of his late brother Hugo and has little time for his wife Barbara who is having an affair with Stephen Lampart. She is now pregnant but insists that the child is his. He's fed up with it all and decides to chuck it all in....
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#23 - A Taste For Death (2)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/21/1988
Sir Paul Berowne gives his latest anonymous letter to Adam Dalgliesh and the next day visits Father Francis Barnes at St. Matthews Church in Paddington, requesting permission to spend one night alone in a spare room at his church. The next day, Sir Paul's body is found by Mrs. Wharton, a church volunteer, his throat slit. There was also a homeless man, Harry Mack, also dead in the room with him. Dalgliesh takes charge of the case and learns from Father Francis that he had only known Berowne for less than two weeks but had noticed something very peculiar at communion. ...
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#24 - A Taste For Death (3)
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/28/1988
Commander Dalgliesh and Insp. Miskin continue their interviews with those associated with the case. Gordon Halliwell, the family chauffeur, came to the Berowne family after serving with the deceased Hugo in the army. He freely admits that he and Sir Paul didn't along. Barbara Berowne's brother Dominic Swayne has an alibi. Dalgliesh also questions him about the death of the Berowne family's servant, Diana Travers, who drowned. Swayne says she wasn't an unemployed actress as she claimed. Berowne's daughter Sarah didn't get on with her father and were estranged owing to ...
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#25 - A Taste For Death (4)
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/1988
Berowne's daughter clearly has a secret that she has not shared with anyone except Ivor Garrett. Dalgliesh re-interviews Lady Berowne, Sir Paul's mother, and she lets it slip that he had a mistress. She is Carole Washburn who tells Dagliesh that Berowne had gone through a religious conversion. She refuses however to disclose anything else about their relationship other than they met at work and were always discreet. Dalgliesh visits the site where Diana Travers drowned and learns from the restaurant doorman, Henry, that Berowne was there the day of the drowning and ...
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