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The Agatha Christie Hour

The Agatha Christie Hour
★ 6.8/10•1982•1h 0m•12•Action & Adventure•Mystery•Crime
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This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 7, 1982

Episodes

Episode 1 - The Case of the Middle-Aged WifeE152m

The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

Parker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife recover the attention of her husband, a philandering business-man too interested in his pretty young secretary.

Sep 7, 1982

Episode 2 - In a Glass DarklyE255m

In a Glass Darkly

A man has a vision of a scarred man strangling his wife. At an engagement party, he discovers with horror that the future victim and her murderer are the two betrothed. How he can stop the impending and deadly marriage?

Sep 14, 1982

Episode 3 - The Girl in the TrainE352m

The Girl in the Train

Finding adventure after getting sacked, George Rowland helps hide a young girl named Elizabeth on a train. She's escaping from her 'uncle', an hulking brute who may very possibly be a foreign spy. Before vanishing, Elizabeth gives George an odd parcel.

Sep 21, 1982

Episode 4 - The Fourth ManE452m

The Fourth Man

On a railway, tree learned men—a doctor, a lawyer and a priest—debate a young woman's recent suicide. They are joined by a fourth man who possesses intimate knowledge of the case.

Sep 28, 1982

Episode 5 - The Case of the Discontented SoldierE552m

The Case of the Discontented Soldier

With the intervention of Parker Pyne, retired Major Charles Wilbraham finds love and adventure helping beautiful Freda Clegg locate a very precious African treasure.

Oct 5, 1982

Episode 6 - Magnolia BlossomE651m

Magnolia Blossom

Theo Darrell is eloping to South Africa with her lover but, having heard that her uncaring husband Richard's financial empire is collapsing and he's in danger to be exposed as an embezzler, she prefers to return out of sheer loyalty. But is it really the right thing to do?

Oct 12, 1982

Episode 7 - The Mystery of the Blue JarE751m

The Mystery of the Blue Jar

A law student finds his morning golf games repeatedly disturbed by a woman's cries of 'murder, help murder' — pleas that only he can hear.

Oct 19, 1982

Episode 8 - The Red SignalE851m

The Red Signal

Dermot West has fallen in love with his best friend Jack's wife Claire but his uncle, renowned psychiatrist Sir Alington West, informschim that the highly nervous young woman is affected from homicidal mania. When the doctor is mysteriously killed, Dermot and Claire are the likeliest suspects.

Nov 2, 1982

Episode 9 - Jane in Search of a JobE951m

Jane in Search of a Job

Unemployed Jane Cleveland is the spitting image of the Grand Duchess of Ostravia, who is feared to be the next target of an anarchist group. Jane accepts the job of impersonator in a charity fête, risking her life for a very big sum of money.

Nov 9, 1982

Episode 10 - The Manhood of Edward RobinsonE1052m

The Manhood of Edward Robinson

A mousy clerk named Edward Robinson, completely dominated by his stern fiancée, buys a flamboyant sports car as an act of independence and embarks himself in a romantic adventure when he hides a beautiful cat burglar and her loot, a priceless diamond collier.

Nov 16, 1982

Recommendations

Police Story
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Hardcastle and McCormick
Night Gallery
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
The Sweeney
The Rainmaker
The Saint
Murder in a Small Town
Goosebumps
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Father Brown
Grace
Walker
Magpie Murders
Starsky & Hutch
Annika
Agatha Christie's Poirot

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