The Agatha Christie Hour

The Agatha Christie Hour

1982 1 Seasons ⭐ 6.778
Action & Adventure Mystery Crime Drama

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.

Seasons

1. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

1982-09-07 • ⭐ 8.0

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

2. In a Glass Darkly

1982-09-14 • ⭐ 9.0

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…

3. The Girl in the Train

1982-09-21 • ⭐ 8.5

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 …

4. The Fourth Man

1982-09-28 • ⭐ 9.0

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.

5. The Case of the Discontented Soldier

1982-10-05 • ⭐ 7.7

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

6. Magnolia Blossom

1982-10-12 • ⭐ 5.5

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 …

7. The Mystery of the Blue Jar

1982-10-19 • ⭐ 8.0

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.

8. The Red Signal

1982-11-02 • ⭐ 8.333

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 a…

9. Jane in Search of a Job

1982-11-09 • ⭐ 9.0

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 i…

10. The Manhood of Edward Robinson

1982-11-16 • ⭐ 8.0

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 …

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