TV series
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.
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The Agatha Christie Hour premiered September 7, 1982. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
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.
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Episode 1
Parker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife recover the attention of her husband, a philandering business-man too interested in his pretty young secretary.
Directed by Michael SimpsonWritten by Freda KelsallGuest stars Maurice Denham, Gwen Watford, Peter Jones, Angela Easterling, Nicholas Cooke, Rupert Frazer, Brenda Cowling, Kate Dorning
Episode 2
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?
Directed by Desmond DavisWritten by William CorlettGuest stars Nicholas Clay, Emma Piper, Shaun Scott, Jonathon Morris, Paul Williamson, Elspet Gray, Nicholas Le Prevost, Marjorie Bland
Episode 3
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.
Directed by Brian FarnhamWritten by William CorlettGuest stars Osmund Bullock, Sarah Berger, Ernest Clark, James Grout, Ron Pember, Roy Kinnear, David Neal, Arthur Blake
Episode 4
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.
Directed by Michael SimpsonWritten by William CorlettGuest stars Michael Gough, Geoffrey Chater, Alan MacNaughtan, John Nettles, Prue Clarke, Fiona Mathieson, Roy Leighton, Barbara Bolton
Episode 5
With the intervention of Parker Pyne, retired Major Charles Wilbraham finds love and adventure helping beautiful Freda Clegg locate a very precious African treasure.
Directed by Michael SimpsonWritten by T.R. BowenGuest stars Maurice Denham, Angela Easterling, William Gaunt, Patricia Garwood, Lally Bowers, Barbara New, Walter Gaunt, Lewis Fiander
Episode 6
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?
Directed by John FrankauWritten by John Bryden RodgersGuest stars Ciaran Madden, Jeremy Clyde, Ralph Bates, Brian Oulton, Alexandra Bastedo, Jack May, Phillip Cade, Graham Seed
Episode 7
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.
Directed by Cyril CokeWritten by T.R. BowenGuest stars Robin Kermode, Isabelle Spade, Philip Bird, Michael Aldridge, Derek Francis, Hugh Walters, Ivor Roberts, Glynis Brooks
Episode 8
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.
Directed by John FrankauWritten by William CorlettGuest stars Richard Morant, Joanna David, Alan Badel, Christopher Cazenove, Michael Denison, Ewan Roberts, Carol Drinkwater, Christopher Wren
Episode 9
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.
Directed by Christopher HodsonWritten by Gerald SavoryGuest stars Elizabeth Garvie, Amanda Redman, Tony Jay, Stephanie Cole, Geoffrey Hinsliff, Hetty Baynes, Andrew Bicknell, Julia McCarthy
Episode 10
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.
Directed by Brian FarnhamWritten by Gerald SavoryGuest stars Nicholas Farrell, Ann Thornton, Rupert Everett, Cherie Lunghi, Julian Wadham, Margery Mason, Tom Mannion, Sallyanne Law
Episode information updated Aug 1, 2026
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