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Dalgliesh
Dalgliesh
TV ShowReturning Series

Dalgliesh

6.7 / 10
2021
3 seasons
18 episodes
CrimeDramaMystery

A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.

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Trailer

Acorn TV Original | Dalgliesh | Official Trailer

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Cast

Bertie Carvel

Bertie Carvel

Carlyss Peer

Carlyss Peer

David Pearse

David Pearse

Alistair Brammer

Alistair Brammer

Jeremy Irvine

Jeremy Irvine

Claire Goose

Claire Goose

Helen Aluko

Helen Aluko

Alice Nokes

Alice Nokes

Fenella Woolgar

Fenella Woolgar

Siobhán Cullen

Siobhán Cullen

Richard Dillane

Richard Dillane

Avin Shah

Avin Shah

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Seasons

  • Shroud for a Nightingale (1)

    1.Shroud for a Nightingale (1)

    7.6
    04-11-202145m

    January 1975. Student nurse Heather Pearce dies during a training demonstration. Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate, accompanied by his partner DS Mast...

  • Shroud for a Nightingale (2)

    2.Shroud for a Nightingale (2)

    8.0
    05-11-202145m

    After Fallon’s death, Dalgliesh finds a library book in Fallon’s room and a letter in Pearce’s pigeonhole about a patient of Courtney-Briggs’ called Martin Dettinger, whose recent...

  • The Black Tower (1)

    3.The Black Tower (1)

    7.9
    11-11-202145m

    March 1975. Dalgliesh is invited to Dorset by his old friend Father Michael, only to discover that he died a few days ago. Father Michael lived in a home for the disabled run by th...

  • The Black Tower (2)

    4.The Black Tower (2)

    6.3
    12-11-202145m

    Wilfred announces that he will transfer the Grange to the Ridgewell Trust and hold a vote on whether he will carry on as spiritual adviser. Maggie threatens to down the ‘whole rott...

  • A Taste for Death (1)

    5.A Taste for Death (1)

    7.9
    18-11-202145m

    May 1975. 8-year-old Darren and churchwarden Miss Wharton find two dead bodies in the vestry of St Matthew’s Church, Paddington, their throats slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a b...

  • A Taste for Death (2)

    6.A Taste for Death (2)

    7.5
    19-11-202145m

    After the attack on Father Barnes while Halliwell was in custody, Dalgliesh brings Swayne and Lampart in for questioning. He discovers Lampart is having an affair with Lady Barbara...