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The Murder Room

Season 1 2005

  • 2005-01-01T21:40:00Z on BBC One
  • 1h 30m
  • 3h (2 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Mystery
The lease on the Dupayne Museum is almost up and under the terms of their father's will, all three of the Dupayne children must agree to continue or the museum is to close. Neville Dupayne is dead set against continuing the museum when the money could be used for a much better purpose. One of the museum's key attractions is the Murder Room, displaying information on a series of notorious murders from between the two World Wars. When Neville dies in a way reminiscent of one of the murders on display in the Murder Room, Commander Adam Dalgleish is asked to investigate. There are any number of suspects: his siblings, several museum employees who will lose their job, his secretary with whom he once had an affair and his daughter who felt he was an absentee father. A second murder reveals some of the activities of the upper classes and the solution lies in a long-ago wrong that someone is seeking to right. Written by garykmcd London's Dupayne Museum is in danger of closing since one of the trustees feels that the money expended on preserving the past could be better spent addressing the problems of living people. One of the museum's collections concerns murders committed between the world wars. When a killing that reflects one of the cases on display occurs, history seems to be repeating itself. Adam Dalgleish is assigned the case, due to the involvement of someone in a "sensitive" government position. Adam juggles a romance with sleuthing as the deaths continue.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2005-01-01T21:40:00Z

1x01 Episode 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode 1

  • 2005-01-01T21:40:00Z1h 30m

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).

2005-01-02T21:40:00Z

1x02 Episode 2

1x02 Episode 2

  • 2005-01-02T21:40:00Z1h 30m

As P.D. James' “The Murder Room” concludes, Dalgliesh (Martin Shaw) must contend with a second body---that of a young woman last seen having sex with an older man---found at the Dupayne Museum. This murder also mimics one highlighted in the museum's Murder Room, but the victim's connection with first victim Neville Dupayne is unclear. Meanwhile, Dalgliesh seems moody. His uncertainties regarding Emma Lavenham (Janie Dee) might have something to do with that. Marie Strickland: Sian Phillips.

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