But their plans for adventure soon get a little out of hand, spiraling Tommy and Tuppence into a high-stakes political mystery that could lead them to their deaths. When the two childhood friends reunite, they put their heads together to develop a partnership.

The Great War has come to an end, leaving nurse Tuppence Cowley and soldier Tommy Beresford out of work - and painfully low on funds. The duplicitous Sir James Peel Edgerton.An enjoyable romp of a mystery with Tommy and Tuppence some language and moral flaws. Professional hardness to sweet purity, makes the change none too convincingly Īnd Alec McCowen, immaculate and stiff, delivers a rather sombre performance as Plays with rather jaded competence Peter Barkworth's dry authority creates aĬonvincing secret service chief Honor Blackman, required to switch from This type of drama was fair, however: George Baker, as the shadowy Whittington, Hersheimmer, played by Gavan O'Herlihy in youthful Cary Grant mode, theĬharacters are essentially subordinate to the action. With the exception of the leading duo and the zestful American go-getter With a long arm, and the developments and the solution have their vague aspects.Ĭhristie seems impatient with the intricacies of espionage, and herĪttitude to human nature appears, as usual, formidably pessimistic. Located in 1919), the story is seldom very plausible: coincidence reaches out Revolution - was largely formula, Pat Sandys' adaptation remains fairly livelyĪnd Tony Wharmby's direction often displayed imagination, particularly in theĪs is usual of television's period-set Christie thrillers (this one is Treaty which, in the wrong hands, would mean the fall of the government and Red Unmasking of the elusive spy network mastermind.Īlthough the multifaceted, but fairly coherent plot - hinging on a missing

Mystery and suspicion-drenched atmosphere like its earnest young detectiveĬouple, involving half a dozen running engagements with the villains and a final Partners in Crime, 1983-84), the story scrambled merrily along through its More atmospheric than the succeeding 10-episode series ( Agatha Christie's Somewhat darker in tone and appearance than the previous LWT adaptations, and Of her final mystery story, Postern of Fate, published in 1973. They featured in only four books, and the author made them the heroes The Secret Adversary introduced two of her lesser-known sleuths, Tommy and First published in 1922, and one of the earliestĬhristie works to be filmed, with the 1928 German production Die Abenteuer GmbH, Requirements of the Sunday evening ITV audience and matched the pattern of Show full synopsisĪ well-tailored espionage-adventure yarn which fitted the obvious In the aftermath of WWI, young amateur sleuths Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley investigate the mysterious disappearance of a valuable document.

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