Five Red Herrings (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (1975)

Ian Carmichael: Lord Peter Wimsey

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Quotes 

• Lord Peter Wimsey : [to Bunter]  Six painters, and one of them certainly killed Campbell, and all we have to do is eliminate the five red herrings.

• Miss Cochrane : Why, Peter Whimsey, are we not on your list of suspects?

  Lord Peter Wimsey : [to Bunter]  Good heavens! Bunter, a glass of sherry for your master quickly.

  [to the ladies] 

  Lord Peter Wimsey : Should you be on my list?

• Lord Peter Wimsey : What's for lunch, Bunter? I am feeling uncommonly ready for it.

  Bunter : Just a simple stew, my lord. Shin of beef with onions, carrots, and dumplings.

  Lord Peter Wimsey : I say, sheer bliss!

  Bunter : And equally hard to come by.

  Lord Peter Wimsey : Hard to come by?

  Bunter : Shin of beef, my lord, like sheer bliss in these parts, equally hard to come by.

  Lord Peter Wimsey : Now you do surprise me. I would have thought there were plenty of beeves in this part of the world with their fair share of shins.

  Bunter : Your lordship is perfectly correct, but the local term for shin of beef is "hough," and I had great difficulty in making myself understood.

  Lord Peter Wimsey : Do you know, I do believe that you're right.

  Bunter : Would your lordhip like me to refer to the comestible as "hough" during our residence in this country?

  Lord Peter Wimsey : Well, it would be a great concession to national feeling, Bunter, if you could bring yourself to do so.

  Bunter : Right you are, my lord.

• Lord Peter Wimsey : [to Gilda Farren]  Nothing as virtuous as a cyclist. I mean, you can't imagine a cyclist commiting a crime, can you... except perhaps murder?