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.
The Agatha Christie Hour (Season 1)
The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife (Episode 1) 8.0
Writer: Freda Kelsall
Air date: 1982-09-07
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Parker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife recover the attention of her husband, a philandering business-man too interested in his pretty young secretary.
In a Glass Darkly (Episode 2) 9.0
Writer: William Corlett
Air date: 1982-09-14
Runtime: 55 min
Overview: 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?
The Girl in the Train (Episode 3) 8.5
Writer: William Corlett
Air date: 1982-09-21
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
The Fourth Man (Episode 4) 9.0
Writer: William Corlett
Air date: 1982-09-28
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
The Case of the Discontented Soldier (Episode 5) 7.7
Writer: T.R. Bowen
Air date: 1982-10-05
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: With the intervention of Parker Pyne, retired Major Charles Wilbraham finds love and adventure helping beautiful Freda Clegg locate a very precious African treasure.
Magnolia Blossom (Episode 6) 5.5
Writer: John Bryden Rodgers
Air date: 1982-10-12
Runtime: 51 min
Overview: 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?
The Mystery of the Blue Jar (Episode 7) 8.0
Writer: T.R. Bowen
Air date: 1982-10-19
Runtime: 51 min
Overview: 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.
The Red Signal (Episode 8) 8.3
Writer: William Corlett
Air date: 1982-11-02
Runtime: 51 min
Overview: 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.
Jane in Search of a Job (Episode 9) 9.0
Writer: Gerald Savory
Air date: 1982-11-09
Runtime: 51 min
Overview: 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.
The Manhood of Edward Robinson (Episode 10) 8.0
Writer: Gerald Savory
Air date: 1982-11-16
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Seasons
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