Watch Mystery! Season 25 Episode 19: The Murder Room

Whodunits, courtroom dramas and suspense tales make up this often brilliant anthology. It features adaptations of tales by myriad classic mystery writers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to Dick Francis and John Mortimer, with such notable figures as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Adam Dalgliesh, Inspector Morse and Rumpole of (more…)

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Season 25, Episode 19 The Murder Room

First Aired: October 9, 2005

Scotland Yard poet Adam Dalgliesh (Martin Shaw) probes killings at an offbeat museum owned by squabbling siblings in P.D. James' “The Murder Room.” Part 1 of two: Neville Dupayne (Michael Maloney) wants to close the family museum, which devotes a room to notorious murders of the 1920s and '30s. But his brother and sister (Nicholas Le Prevost, Samantha Bond) wish to keep it open. Meanwhile, Dalgliesh is in conflict over whether to pursue a romance with Emma Lavenham (Janie Dee).

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Guest Cast

Martin Shaw Cdr. Adam Dalgliesh

Janie Dee Emma Lavenham

Lesley Vickerage Clara

Anthony Calf Lord Martlesham

Ty Glaser Celia Mellock

Nicholas Gecks Alfred Arthur Rouse

William Beck DI Piers Tarrant

Daniel Flynn Anderson

Richard Cubison Nobby Clarke

Anita Carey Tally Clutton

Sid Mitchell Ryan Archer

Greg Wakeham Ryan's Flatmate

Jack Shepherd James Calder-Hale

James Weber-Brown Whitehall Colleague

Selina Cadell Lady Swathling

Trevor Laird Phil Carter

Sara Carver Dalgliesh's PA

Michael Maloney Neville Dupayne

Nicholas Le Prevost Marcus Dupayne

Sian Phillips Marie Strickland

Telly Blackwood DI Kate Miskin

Kate Alderton Sara Dupayne

Thomas Wheatley Harkness

Harry Burton Bruno Denholm

Maryann Turner Ada Gearing

Paul Williamson Whitehall Colleage

Eloise Mayling Schoolgirl

Kerry Fox Muriel Godby

Samantha Bond Caroline Dupaye

Peter Banks Conrad

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Premiered: February 5, 1980
Rating: TV-PG
Premise: Whodunits, courtroom dramas and suspense tales make up this often brilliant anthology. It features adaptations of tales by myriad classic mystery writers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to Dick Francis and John Mortimer, with such notable figu… (more)

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