The Agatha Christie Hour: Series 1
The Agatha Christie Hour is a television series consisting of ten hour-long dramas based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie. The program features wide-ranging themes across its episodes, with some entries focusing on romances, others incorporating supernatural elements, and a couple presented as adventures. Despite the varied subject matter and themes, the common link among all the dramas is that they or
Season 1 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The program is based on short stories written by Agatha Christie.
- The series consists of ten hour-long episodes.
- The episodes feature wide-ranging themes, including romances, supernatural themes, and adventures.
- All dramas in the collection are linked by having been written by Agatha Christie.
Season overview
The Agatha Christie Hour is a television series consisting of ten hour-long dramas based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie. The program features wide-ranging themes across its episodes, with some entries focusing on romances, others incorporating supernatural elements, and a couple presented as adventures. Despite the varied subject matter and themes, the common link among all the dramas is that they originate from the writings of Agatha Christie, offering an entertaining collection of stories adapted for the screen.
Episode Guide
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The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
Sep 7, 1982 · 52 min
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
Sep 14, 1982 · 55 min
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
The Girl in the Train
Sep 21, 1982 · 52 min
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 b
The Fourth Man
Sep 28, 1982 · 52 min
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
Oct 5, 1982 · 52 min
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
Oct 12, 1982 · 51 min
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 e
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
Oct 19, 1982 · 51 min
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
Nov 2, 1982 · 51 min
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 af
Jane in Search of a Job
Nov 9, 1982 · 51 min
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
The Manhood of Edward Robinson
Nov 16, 1982 · 52 min
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 w