The painful and very public execution of tonight's premiere, starring one of its ex-villains in the starring role of Barnaby ll The Revenge, has killed off any hopes I had that the new series might stagger on regardless without Bergerac at the helm.
A brief but tantalising view of one token timbered cottage was thrown in, every so often, to soften the architectural blow. But council flats and high rise tenements dominated this new and sorry tale.
I fear the lids of chocolate boxes in Middle England will never be the same again. Without the cottages, what godforsaken images will our jigsaw puzzles be emblazoned with?
Even more disappointing, the weak but oh so demure and innocent looking, (and therefore obviously the killer) Joyce Barnaby is now missing, presumed sacked...
She, who always managed to be in the right place at the wrong time... And who, with acting skills more wooden than some of the pale stiffs who turned up with frightening regularity around her, got away with murdering the script every week, simply because she was married to the top plod.
But worse is to come.
Not content with tonight's finale where the elderly villain strings Barnaby ll up in the barn, near the library, with the rope, above some sort of unused "yet still sharp enough to cause slight bruising" farm implement (an act which he would never have achieved, nor attempted with Barnaby l) the producers have seen fit to commit a dire and heinous crime of their own.
They've stolen super acting mutt Harvey, from Thinkbox's advertising campaign, casting him in the role of Barnaby ll's Thinking Brain Dog.
Given the recent change in headliners, I wouldn't be at all surprised if by Episode Three, Harvey had himself, seen through Barnaby ll and spotted that he was, in fact, the baddy in Series Two, Episode Five and in Series Six, Episode Two, and had him bumped off, in order to take the role of Top Dog himself.
And not a moment too soon, in my opinion.
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