Tommy & Tuppence
This series was set in the 1920's, filmed in the 1980's and is based on a selection of short stories by Dame Agatha Christie. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are an ideal middle class couple of the 1920's. They have a comfortable life, but have become bored with the ordinary day to day routine. When offered the opportunity to play detective and help out Scotland Yard in the bargain, the couple take up residence in the offices of Blunt's International Detective Agency. Francesca Annis plays Tuppence as a fun loving flapper with a passion for hats, while James Warwick as Tommy is all boyish charm. Following the success of Partners In Crime, a 115-minute special, The Secret Adversary, was filmed in the 1982 and explains how Tommy and Tuppence came to join forces. This show is still being repeated in the UK on Granda Plus and also elsewhere around the world.
After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.
Newly married but bored Tommy and Tuppence take over a defunct detective agency and are quickly hired to investigate the case of a stolen pink pearl.
Lois Hargreaves fears for her life. Tommy and Tuppence are called upon but fail to arrive before death's visit.
After a businessman is found dead on a golf course, stabbed through the heart with a hat-pin, the Beresfords try to prove that the accused woman, Doris Evans, is innocent.
A young woman's inherited manor house appears to be haunted, but Tommy and Tuppence try to prove the poltergeist to be corporeal.
After seeing a suspicious coded message in the newspaper, Tuppence and Tommy attend a masked ball and find a costumed woman dying from a knife wound.
The new U. S. Ambassador to Britain confides to the Beresfords that on the voyage there someone substituted another travel bag for his, a bag that only contained his boots.
Monty Jones hires the Beresfords to help him win a bet and break a concocted alibi by beautiful Una Drake, who has agreed to marry him if he can.
The Beresfords investigate the murder of Gilda Glenn, a well-known stage actress, but everyone involved has an alibi.
Gabriel Stavansson ask Tommy and Tuppence to find his fiancée. The Beresfords are then set upon a diabolical mystery at The Grange House.
Scotland Yard recruits the Beresfords to infiltrate an exclusive gambling club and expose the mysterious and ruthless gang of counterfeiters operating there.
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Francesca Annis | Tuppence Cowley |
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Reece Dinsdale | Albert |
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James Warwick | Tommy Beresford |
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Arthur Cox | Inspector Marriott |
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Wolf Kahler | The German |
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Honor Blackman | Rita Vandemeyer |
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Gavan O'Herlihy | Julius P. Hersheimmer |
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Alec McCowen | Sir James Peele Edgerton |
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George Baker | Whittington |
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Harry Fielder | Henchman |
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Donald Houston | Boris |
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Matthew Scurfield | Conrad |
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Peter Barkworth | Mr. Carter |
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Peter Lovstrom | Henry |
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James Walker | Clerk #1 |
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John Fraser | Kramenin |
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Roger Ostime | Ritz Hotel Receptionist |
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Steve Fletcher | Messenger Boy |
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Gabrielle Blunt | Annie |
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Joseph Brady | Dr. Hall |
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Mike Elles | Clerk #2 |
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Toria Fuller | Jane Finn |
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Phyllida Hewat | Woman in Tea Shop |
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Norman Hartley | Florist |
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Holly Watson | Child on Beach |
| Director | Christopher Hodson |
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| Tony Wharmby |
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| Paul Annett |
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| Writer | Agatha Christie, Gerald Savory, Jonathan Hales, Pat Sandys, David Butler, Paul Annett | |
| Producer | Jack Williams, Ron Fry | |
| Musician | Joseph Horovitz | |
| Photography | Mike Humphreys | |
| Nr Discs | 6 |
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| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital |
| Edition Release Date | 2007 |
| Regions | Region 4 |