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The Agatha Christie Hour (DVD, Boxed set)
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All ten episodes of the early 1980s BBC drama series based on the
short stories of crime writer Agatha Christie. In 'Magnolia
Blossom', Theodora Darrell (Ciaran Madden) is set to elope to South
Africa with her lover - and business associate of her husband -
Vincent Easton (Ralph Bates). But when she learns that her uncaring
husband Richard (Jeremy Clyde) is facing financial ruin, old
loyalties resurface and she returns home. In 'The Case of the
Discontented Soldier' the recently retired Major John Wilbraham
(William Gaunt), bored with civilian life, answers an advertisement
placed by a Mr Parker Pyne (Maurice Denham) promising an adventure.
Before long he finds himself rescuing Freda Clegg (Patricia
Garwood) from two burly attackers and embarking on a daring
adventure to find treasure in the wilds of Africa. In 'The Girl in
the Train', dissolute playboy George Rowland (Osmund Bullock),
disowned for the seventh time by his wealthy uncle, is on the train
to London when a beautiful girl bursts into his compartment
frantically begging to be hidden, gives George a mysterious parcel
and disappears. But who is the girl in the train, and will George
ever see her again? In 'The Fourth Man', a canon, a lawyer and a
psychiatrist find themselves together on a train bound for
Newcastle. There is a fourth man in the compartment, who apparently
pays no attention to the animated conversation of his fellow
travellers. But might they have something to learn from this
mysterious stranger? In 'Jane in Search of a Job', Jane Cleveland
(Elizabeth Garvie) lands a job as double for the Grand Duchess of
Ostrova during the latter's state visit to England. But events
become complicated when an attempt is feared on the Duchess's life
and Jane finds herself framed for theft. Can she clear her name and
find out who is trying to kill the Duchess? In 'The Manhood of
Edward Robinson', mousy clerk Edward Robinson (Nicholas Farrell),
who is engaged to the dominating, penny-pinching Maud (Ann
Thornton), wins a substantial sum of money in a magazine
competition and blows it on a sports car, which he drives to
Brighton. On the way he meets Lady Noreen (Cherie Lunghi), a
glamorous jewel thief who involves him in a plot to steal a
valuable necklace. In 'The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife' Maria
Packington (Gwen Watford) is dismayed that her husband George
(Peter Jones) has been paying more attention to his young secretary
than to her. When she answers an newspaper advertisement , she soon
finds herself swept off her feet by the handsome Claude Luttrell
(Rupert Frazer). 'In a Glass Darkly' stars Nicholas Clay as Matthew
Armitage, a weekend house guest at an engagement party. While
there, he is alarmed by a vision he sees in his mirror of a man
with a scarred neck strangling Sylvia (Emma Piper), the daughter of
the house. He tells Sylvia of his premonition, and she breaks off
the engagement - but is that really all there is to it? In 'The
Mystery of the Blue Jar', trainee solicitor Jack Hartingdon (Robin
Kermode) hears a woman's voice crying for help while playing golf.
When local resident Felise (Isabelle Spade) claims that she too has
heard the voice and seen the ghost of a murdered woman holding a
blue jar, Jack's friend Dr Lavington (Michael Aldridge) arranges a
seance in Felise's cottage. But is there really a ghost - or is
Jack the victim of a cunning trick? In 'The Red Signal', Dermot
West (Richard Morant) is invited to dinner at the home of Jack and
Claire Trent (Christopher Cazenove and Joanna David) along with his
famous psychiatrist uncle, Sir Alington West (Badel). When the
doctor is mysteriously killed following a conversation about
supernatural forces and premonitions, Dermot finds himself a prime
suspect along with his best friend's wife, Claire, with whom he is
secretly in love.
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