Delighted at the prospect of amateur sleuthing again, Tuppence and Tommy soon find themselves embroiled in numerous, spine-tingling mysteries. Blunt being a guest of Scotland Yard for the foreseeable future―that Tommy, through the help of Detective Inspector Marriott of the Yard (Arthur Cox), has purchased for Tuppence. Enter the Blunt Detective Agency, a defunct concern―Mr. Tommy and Tuppence, after successfully solving Carter's case of 'The Secret Adversary,' have since married, and while Tommy is quite content with his leisurely lot in life, Tuppence is gorgeously bored and in need of extra-marital excitement (no, not that kind.). Carter (Peter Barkworth), the head of a shadowy British Intelligence agency. However, when Tuppence gives her name as 'Jane Finn,' a name Tommy mentioned he overheard by chance the previous day, Tuppence sets into motion a most elaborate sequence of thrilling events, which eventually lead to Tommy and Tuppence working for Mr. No unreasonable offer refused.' Nearby, attorney Whittington (George Baker) overhears the couple and later offers Tuppence a chance to pose as his ward for his trip to Paris. Splitting lunch and lamenting their chronic lack of funds, Tuppence suggests to Tommy they put an ad in the paper: 'Two adventurers for hire, willing to do anything, go anywhere. Genteelly-broke Tommy Beresford (James Warwick), demobilized from the post-WWI British Army, quite unexpectedly spots equally well-bred-but-busted Prudence 'Tuppence' Crowley (Francesca Annis), a childhood friend with whom he had lost track, despite a brief reunion during the war when Tuppence nursed a wounded Tommy in a veteran's hospital. Christie and mystery fans―as well as lovers of airy, frothy romantic comedy―who aren't yet acquainted with Tommy & Tuppence, however, would do well to pick up this attractively-priced set. Starring Francesca Annis (I'm feeling faint.) and James Warwick as Christie's 'bright young things' masquerading as private detectives in 1920s England, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime apparently found little favor with critics when it first premiered, but seen today, it's a spiffing good show, what? No extras, and no new remastering, so no need to double dip for those who already have these on disc. comedy mystery series, originally broadcast in 1983. 'To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.' Agatha Christie.įrancesca Annis had me at, 'Dear old bean.' Acorn and ITV Studios Home Entertainment have released Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, a three-disc, 11-episode collection of the fondly-remembered one-off U.K.

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