User Reviews

Lady Felicia and Mrs McCarthy have been to see a stage play in Hambleford and are late getting back to the train. There are no seats in the first class carriage.

Lady Felicia has to slum it in second class when she is spotted diva, Dame Bianca Norman. She has a her own pullman for her entourage that includes her two adopted children.

At midnight the carriage is robbed as Dame Norman had expensive jewellery. She is shot dead and Lady Felicia and Mrs McCarthy are taken hostage.

The robbers who are both brothers argue that none of them shot the diva. They are persuaded to contact Father Brown to help them with their innocence.

It was nice to see the return of Lady Felicia and her bickering with Mrs McCarthy even irritated the robbers. You even have Lady Felicia giving advice as to what denier stockings the robbers should had put over their heads.

The robbers are rather dim witted but nice, They were just trying to put their disabled brother through university.

I did think there were shades of Agatha Christie about the motives of the culprit.

It was good to see Inspector Mallory burning the midnight candle to find an important lead.

A thoroughly enjoyable episode. It was nice to see an episode so colourful instead of the usual BBC 'Grim-o-vision' treatment that their primetime crime dramas get.

I'm so glad Father Brown has returned to our screens, a seventh series kicks off, with a cracker.

This was a truly brilliant episode. It was clever, had huge characters, it was so well acted, and had me in stitches.

The bickering between Mrs McCarthy and Lady Felicia was the highlight, they were absolutely fabulous, squabbling in their evening gowns. Jack Carroll was terrific.

A slightly smaller role for Father Brown here, if the rest of the series is this good, we're in for some great viewing.

Loved it. 9/10

One of the saddest losses to the enjoyable Father Brown series was Lady Felicia. While it took probably at least one season for them to get the chemistry right, the best episodes have always involved highly humorous interactions between the gossipy, narrow-minded but good-hearted Mrs. McCarthy and the glamourous and ever-so-slightly amoral Lady Felicia. The show lost some of its sparkle when Nancy Carroll left the series. But they're together again in one of the funniest and most interesting mysteries in the Father Brown series. I've always felt that they could ALMOST have their own show. I'd love to see the two of them quarreling their way to solutions to mysteries. But as always, Father Brown is the stabilizing influence and solves the mystery with his cheerful aplomb. Not to be missed for Father Brown fans!

With fantastic characters that keep the pace of the show going well, with the exception of how Jack Dean plays his character. His character is WAY too over the top and in your face. He plays the inspector as though he's a bumbling Idiot who couldn't solve a case unless Father Brown was available to sort it all out for him. I hate this depiction of the inspector. It's not believable and it's disrespectful to that group of workers. I wish they'd find another way to play the inspector. It's been my observation that men and women of the police force train very hard and attend school and work hard at their jobs. Jack Dean makes the inspector look like a dope.

This episode is, I think, maybe my favorite of all so far. (watching the seasons in order here) We get to have Lady Felicia back... the banter between her and Mrs M is hilarious. The mystery itself is a good one, with a rather surprising solution. The ending as a whole was happy and somewhat unusual for a mystery series ! (no spoilers given here!) Even the horribly obnoxious Inspector Mallory was not as bad as usual. (the character, not the actor) As the credits rolled, I was smiling and happy myself, and would have stood and clapped if I'd been alone. :)

Mrs McCarthy and Lady Felicia are held hostage by a bumbling pair of train robbers. There's a gunshot and a woman dies but not from the robbers. Definitely not them cause they're more likely to shoot themselves as they are the most useless crooks. This lends a lot of humour. It's a lively entry with Father brown bailing culprit as the end.