The series is going fine with the stories but I've reached the limit with the clumsy, oafish, lout expressed in the extremely disappointing character of Inspector Mallory. Investigatory technique which would raise gales of derisive laughter at a Girl Guides meeting combined with an unenlightened, bullying persona. Not one of the prior inspectors could be said to have any great empathy or connection with the Father's powers of deduction, but Mallory, as written, lowers the tone to an astonishing degree, featuring a smoking, drinking lecher (The Smallest of Things) who might just prefer to arrest the entire village each time a crime is committed, just to prove that he's on the job. A ridiculous caricature who gets progressively more disappointing and who I'm sure is causing viewers to give up on the series.