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All Episodes of The Agatha Christie Hour

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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

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Season 1

7.2/10320 votes
The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1982
Parker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife recover the attention of her husband, a philandering business-man too interested in his pretty young secretary.
Director: Michael Simpson
Writer: Freda Kelsall
6.5/10242 votes
In a Glass Darkly
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1982
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?
Director: Desmond Davis
Writer: William Corlett
6.8/10244 votes
The Girl in the Train
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1982
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.
Director: Brian Farnham
Writer: William Corlett
6.9/10253 votes
The Fourth Man
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1982
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.
Director: Michael Simpson
Writer: William Corlett
7.2/10220 votes
The Case of the Discontented Soldier
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1982
With the intervention of Parker Pyne, retired Major Charles Wilbraham finds love and adventure helping beautiful Freda Clegg locate a very precious African treasure.
Director: Michael Simpson
Writer: T.R. Bowen
6.3/10197 votes
Magnolia Blossom
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1982
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?
Director: John Frankau
Writer: John Bryden Rodgers
6.7/10184 votes
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1982
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.
Director: Cyril Coke
Writer: T.R. Bowen
6.8/10193 votes
The Red Signal
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1982
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.
Director: John Frankau
Writer: William Corlett
7.3/10197 votes
Jane in Search of a Job
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1982
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.
Director: Christopher Hodson
Writer: Gerald Savory
7.2/10178 votes
The Manhood of Edward Robinson
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1982
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.
Director: Brian Farnham
Writer: Gerald Savory