The Agatha Christie Hour

Series 1

1982 · 10 episodes · 8h 39m in all · 8.1/10

A collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.

Episodes

1. 

   1. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

   7 Sept 1982 · 52 min · 8.0/10

   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. 

   2. In a Glass Darkly

   14 Sept 1982 · 55 min · 9.0/10

   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?

3. 

   3. The Girl in the Train

   21 Sept 1982 · 52 min · 8.5/10

   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.

4. 

   4. The Fourth Man

   28 Sept 1982 · 52 min · 9.0/10

   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. 

   5. The Case of the Discontented Soldier

   5 Oct 1982 · 52 min · 7.7/10

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

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   6. Magnolia Blossom

   12 Oct 1982 · 51 min · 5.5/10

   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?

7. 

   7. The Mystery of the Blue Jar

   19 Oct 1982 · 51 min · 8.0/10

   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. 

   8. The Red Signal

   2 Nov 1982 · 51 min · 8.3/10

   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.

9. 

   9. Jane in Search of a Job

   9 Nov 1982 · 51 min · 9.0/10

   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.

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    10. The Manhood of Edward Robinson

    16 Nov 1982 · 52 min · 8.0/10

    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.