The Agatha Christie Hour

A collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.

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   E1. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

   Sep 7, 1982 · 52m

   Parker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife recover the attention of her husband, a philandering business-man too interested in his pretty young secretary.

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   E2. In a Glass Darkly

   Sep 14, 1982 · 55m

   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?

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   E3. The Girl in the Train

   Sep 21, 1982 · 52m

   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.

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   E4. The Fourth Man

   Sep 28, 1982 · 52m

   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.

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   E5. The Case of the Discontented Soldier

   Oct 5, 1982 · 52m

   With the intervention of Parker Pyne, retired Major Charles Wilbraham finds love and adventure helping beautiful Freda Clegg locate a very precious African treasure.

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   E6. Magnolia Blossom

   Oct 12, 1982 · 51m

   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?

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