I actually quite like this one. I love the sombre atmosphere that pervades the episode. I thought Danny Webb was superb as the roguish Jeff Bowmaker and Tom's initial worries that Joyce might be a killer are a nice touch. But there are some things that grate a little.
It's yet another episode in which we feel sympathy for the killer and while I have no problem with that his motives and unmasking are rather out of the blue. There seemed to be no evidence pointing to him as the killer.
The second killing all seemed rather rushed. It's set up brilliantly where the victim insults pretty much everyone in the pub and far more should have been made of that. I feel it would have been better if he wasn't killed in front of witnesses and the body was discovered next morning causing Barnaby and Jones to look into the goings on in the pub the night before. Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't understand the urgency on the part of the killer to dispatch his victim in such a risky fashion.
I was also disappointed by the ending. A man who loves his wife would certainly tell her that she wasn't deluded and that he too had seen the ghost.
It's yet another episode in which we feel sympathy for the killer and while I have no problem with that his motives and unmasking are rather out of the blue. There seemed to be no evidence pointing to him as the killer.
The second killing all seemed rather rushed. It's set up brilliantly where the victim insults pretty much everyone in the pub and far more should have been made of that. I feel it would have been better if he wasn't killed in front of witnesses and the body was discovered next morning causing Barnaby and Jones to look into the goings on in the pub the night before. Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't understand the urgency on the part of the killer to dispatch his victim in such a risky fashion.
I was also disappointed by the ending. A man who loves his wife would certainly tell her that she wasn't deluded and that he too had seen the ghost.