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The Agatha Christie Hour Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 1982 - 1982
Episode 1
The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
52 mins
Dismayed that her husband George is ignoring her in favour of his much younger secretary Nancy, Maria Packington answers an advert guaranteeing to make her happier and ends up in Parker Pyne's office. As a result she is introduced to handsome young Claude Luttrell who makes her feel special, and eventually Maria and Claude 'bump into' George and Nancy, as a result of which George that what is sauce for the goose applies to the gander and returns to his wife. Claude lets Maria down gently by saying that he is a gigolo but will reform because of her so that she will always feel special.
Episode 2
In a Glass Darkly
55 mins
In the period prior to World War One Matthew Armitage is a house guest of the Carslake family for a weekend party, and, in the mirror, sees an image of Sylvia, the daughter of the house, being throttled by a man with a scarred neck - just as Sylvia's fiance is similarly scarred. Matthew fights in the war and afterwards returns,scarred mentally and physically, to marry Sylvia. He becomes irrationally jealous of her and realises that he is the man whose face he saw in the mirror. How can he stop himself from murdering his wife?
Episode 3
The Girl in the Train
52 mins
Sacked from the family firm,George is on his way to visit Rowlands Castle by train when a blonde named Elizabeth asks him to hide her from a sinister foreigner. Before she leaves she gives him a package to guard with his life and asks him to shadow a bearded fellow passenger. He ends up in a Portsmouth hotel where he encounters Balkan aristocracy in pursuit of a grand duchess who is a runaway bride and a police inspector following a saboteur - the bearded man - and his accomplice, Betty Bright-Eyes. Which of these, if at all, is the girl in the train? And will George ever see her again?
Episode 4
The Fourth Man
52 mins
A man on a train tells to his fellow passengers the curious, creepy and compelling story of a young dancer dying of consumption and possessing slowly the body of a sturdy,dim-witted peasant girl,permitting so to her spirit a perennial life.
Episode 5
The Case of the Discontented Soldier
52 mins
Bored with civilian life ex-colonial officer John Wilbraham answers Mr. Parker Pyne's advert to provide him with an adventure and shortly afterwards finds himself saving Freda Clegg from abduction. Freda's late father owned a treasure map and a bogus solicitor will stop at nothing to get it. John and Freda find themselves tied up in a rapidly flooding basement from which he rescues them both. Of course the whole scenario has been created by novelist Ariadne Oliver,who is on Parker Pyne's staff to provide adventures. But is there really treasure or will true love be its own reward?
Episode 6
Magnolia Blossom
51 mins
Theo is eloping to South Africa with her lover but, having heard the news that her uncaring husband's financial empire is collapsing and he's in danger to be exposed as an embezzler, she prefers to return to him for sheer loyalty. But is it really the right thing to do?
Episode 7
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
51 mins
Holidaying in his childhood village trainee solicitor Jack Hartingdon hears a woman's voice crying for help in the vicinity of the golf course. Then Felise, the occupant of a cottage by the golf course, 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 arranges for a seance in Felise's cottage to lay the ghost, using as bait an identical blue jar belonging to Jack's family. But is there really a ghost or is Jack the victim of a plot to steal the jar?
Episode 8
The Red Signal
51 mins
Dermot is falling in love for his best friend's wife but his uncle, a famous psychiatrist, tells to him that the highly nervous young woman is affected from homicidal mania. When the doctor is mysteriously killed, Dermot and the woman are the most likely suspects.
Episode 9
Jane in Search of a Job
51 mins
Jane Cleveland, behind with the rent, answers a strange advertisement in the paper and finds herself employed as a decoy for the visiting duchess of Ostravia,who fears that she may be the target of an assassination attempt. Jane impersonates the duchess when they attend a charity bazaar to auction jewellery but, following an assassination scare, the two women are whisked away and given drinks. Jane's is drugged and when she comes to she finds that she has been set up by a gang of jewel thieves. Fortunately her adoring male neighbour is a policeman who can prove her innocence.
Episode 10
The Manhood of Edward Robinson
52 mins
A mousy clerk named Edward Robinson, completely dominated by his stern fiancée, buys a flamboyant sport car as an act of independence and he embarks himself in a romantic adventure when he hides a beautiful cat burglar and her loot, a priceless diamond collier.