Series 1
10 episodes · Sep 7, 1982
A collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.
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S1E1The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
Sep 7, 198252mParker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife recover the attention of her husband, a philandering business-man too interested in his pretty young secretary.
S1E2In a Glass Darkly
Sep 14, 198255mA 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?
S1E3The Girl in the Train
Sep 21, 198252mFinding 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.
S1E4The Fourth Man
Sep 28, 198252mOn 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.
S1E5The Case of the Discontented Soldier
Oct 5, 198252mWith the intervention of Parker Pyne, retired Major Charles Wilbraham finds love and adventure helping beautiful Freda Clegg locate a very precious African treasure.
S1E6Magnolia Blossom
Oct 12, 198251mTheo 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?
S1E7The Mystery of the Blue Jar
Oct 19, 198251mA law student finds his morning golf games repeatedly disturbed by a woman's cries of 'murder, help murder' — pleas that only he can hear.
S1E8The Red Signal
Nov 2, 198251mDermot 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.
S1E9Jane in Search of a Job
Nov 9, 198251mUnemployed 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.
S1E10The Manhood of Edward Robinson
Nov 16, 198252mA 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.