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The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, ... Orris "Potty" Peake, village idiot; The bell ringers: Hezekiah Lavender, leader ...
Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English film and television actor whose career spans over 60 years. He came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), as well as his roles in the films of Ken Russell and as Jesus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
Locations included St Peter's Church, Walpole St Peter and Terrington St John, Norfolk for The Nine Tailors [6] [7] and Kirkcudbright, Galloway in Scotland for Five Red Herrings, the latter almost entirely shot on film due to a technician strike, with only a few studio sequences taped in studios in Glasgow.
He possesses a calmness which is broken only two occasions. In The Nine Tailors Bunter becomes upset after a maid is caught polishing a beer bottle taken as evidence. [5] In Busman's Honeymoon, he becomes furious when Mrs Ruddle stands all the bottles upright and washes them. [9]
In a 2018 article for Salon, American writer Mary Elizabeth Williams described the series as "the best show you're not watching" and "brilliant, black-humored, taut format horror for people who enjoy the occasional potty-joke". [176] In 2019, Inside No. 9 was ranked 66th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century. [177]
A four-part adaptation of The Nine Tailors adapted by Giles Cooper and starring Alan Wheatley as Wimsey was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1954. [ 16 ] Ian Carmichael reprised his television role as Lord Peter in ten radio adaptations for BBC Radio 4 of Sayers's Wimsey novels between 1973 and 1983, all of which have been ...
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Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1973 and 1983, with a further adaptation of Gaudy Night mounted for BBC Audiobooks in 2005 to complete the full sequence of Sayers' novels, all starring Ian Carmichael in the title role.