Kavanagh QC (TV Series) Innocency of Life (1998) User Reviews

The weakest of the 4th series but very good all the same

[TheLittleSongbird · 8/10 · 16 April 2010]

I will say I did really like Innocency of Life. While not as moving or as intelligent as Memento Mori, it does benefit from a good story and some very atmospheric scenery. The direction isn't the best but it is good, and the script is well written. The scenery is atmospheric and served as a big advantage, and the music as always is beautiful. And the acting is excellent yet again, John Thaw is brilliant as always, but he is well supported by Matt Bardock, Susan Vidler, Cliff Parisi, Geraldine James and Oliver Ford Davies.

Overall, I do think it is the weakest of the 4th series but all the same it is very good and worth seeing. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Felicity Dean stars as Lady Amanda Preston-Stoke

[safenoe · 6/10 · 4 December 2023]

Felicity Dean stars as Lady Amanda Preston-Stoke in Innocency of Life, from the fourth season of Kavanagh Q. C.. I first watched the earlier seasons when it debuted towards the end of the 1990s and I guess a quarter-of-a-century later I'm now catching up on the remaining seasons which I didn't see back then. Anyway, the main plot was a bit convoluted although Matt Bardock (who I liked in The Coroner which was unjustly axed after only two seasons) did well in his role as the reverend who falls in love with a woman. The subplot featuring Felicity Dean was more thought provoking and made you think about money and wealth.

Innocency of Life

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 25 April 2023]

It starts off with a very Gothic opening. A vicar is consoling a young widow at her husband's funeral. There is some underlying tensions between them.

The widow is pub landlady Anne Murchison, she doesn't believe that the Church of England would welcome a sinner like her.

Later she accuses the young popular vicar Ian Winfarthing of sexual harassment.

Kavanagh is hired to defend the vicar in the arcane ecclesiastical courts. Only for Anne to later withdraw the complaints. It seems both her and the vicar had fallen in love and plan to get married.

Later Kavanagh agrees to defend Anne Murchison when she is accused of murdering her husband. Her husband was a drunken bully but she has a flimsy alibi.

The story was very formulaic to me. If the death of the husband was suspicious and if it was not Anne. That only leaves the vicar!

More amusing was Jeremy Aldermarten's to join an exclusive dating website for high flyers. He gets on swimmingly with his glamorous date but she wants a family and he dumps her. Only to later find out she was also very rich.