Grantchester

Thanks, Blinko, I couldn't think where I'd seen that actress before!
It must be from a distant past "Call the Midwife", (another of my favourite programmes)!

Did anyone else recognise Ernest’s mum as Barbara from Call the Midwife, and the female lead, whose name I can’t remember, in Ghosts? Popping up everywhere, she is!

Telly fell on floor today so now I cannot settle to the catch up. Grrrr.

Accepted- I did wonder!

Apologies, Charleygirl5 - I realise I was rather rude. Sorry. I love this programme!

Tina I do not watch it and I only asked when the series was finishing so with luck the next will be to my taste., so it was not an odd thing to say.

Yes, I was pleased to see Leonard coming to the fore in this episode. Have got a bit fed up with Will moping about, and I really don’t know when he does much clergy work. I hope he has a bit of romance with Ernest’s mum.

Do you think Geordie will have a fling with his secretary, Miss Scott I think her name is? She obviously fancies him, but he seems not to notice.

I felt sorry for Mrs C as well gillgran so many things not spoken of freely at that time.

Charleygirl5

When is the present series finishing because I am not a fan!

What an odd thing to say! You don’t have to watch it!

When is the present series finishing because I am not a fan!

In last nights episode, I was pleased to see that they have included Leonard in the story line. ( I still think of him as "Poor Leonard", & have a soft spot for him.!).
Will was more like I think he should be!! Is that a more suitable new romance for him?
Mrs "C"'s plight was moving, I thought.

Yes, Will's behaviour was a bit OTT for a country vicar! Quite liked the twist at the end when we found out who she was. Loving the Poetry Cafe but not sure how successful it will be!

merlotgran Father Brown is my secret afternoon viewing ?

I wish the episode had been two hours long like before. I used to like losing myself in them.

When I first saw Will's new love interest I wondered if she might be Jewish which would make for an interesting storyline.

We're obviously not meant to take to the new DI but I can't say I blame him for wondering why the local vicar is involved in all Geordie's investigations. Any time soon he'll be spitting out, 'Paddraaaay' like Inspector Mallory in Father Brown.

Pleased to see a new series. 1959, (I was 13 years old)!

I certainly never met a vicar like Will......then, or since!!
(I've lived a rather sheltered life, here in the Cambridgeshire fens)!!

Great to see Leonard, not sure about his poetry, could be good in Cambridge city?

Surely Geordie & his wife will get back together.

I too have gone off Will for his antics. Geordie could do with some new clothes as his are so dull and make him look more miserable. As for Len, I just want to wrap him up in a blanket and look after him.

I agree the sexual behaviour seems very out of time for that period, for a vicar. It's as though they are trying to appeal to a modern audience which is not what this is about. I've rather lost respect for Will (the character) behaving like that, it's turning the series into the same old stuff we see all the time. I rather liked its quirkiness and that it was different from the rest.

I enjoyed last nights episode.

I was only two years old in 1959 so my recollections of jazz clubs are rather hazy ???

Well, we’re back with Will, Geordie, Leonard, and all for another series.

Back in 1959, would a vicar have been knocking back shorts in a jazz club, then doing a bit of Dirty Dancing with a beautiful stranger? Obviously yes. And would she have had a phone number? Back then, most of us had to use a public call box. (I know she just wrote ‘ciao’)

Then torrid sex in his empty vicarage.

Hope Len’s poetry cafe goes well.

Geordie is starting to look very old and careworn.

Leonard seemed to find his feet leading the prison bible class. I wonder if he will take that direction in the next series. I hope he isn't written out. I am beginning to find Will a bit annoying now ( but still dishy )

I love it. Pleasant viewing, like All Creatures. ..
The kind of programmes we used to have all the time.

Yes I think so too.
Hope there is another series.

Great to see Leonard out of prison, he looked so much better, I had feared for him.

So, instead of "poor Leonard", it was "poor Geordie",(& Kathy, his long suffering wife), With Geordie still coping with the mental & physical torture he suffered during the war as a POW.

I think last night was the final episode of this series.?

I can’t believe how good this series has become. Grantchester was, until now, pleasant entertainment but it has turned into a hard-hitting version of its former self and it’s riveting. The writers deserve an award.

I’m hoping Leanord might get a non custodial sentence on appeal. The judge said it would have been had L not been a vicar.