The Agatha Christie Hour S1 Ep05 The Case Of The Discontented Soldier
|
|
|
Tales of romance and danger in the glittering 1920s and ’30s.
In these stories, lesser-known Agatha Christie heroes and heroines solve crimes of the heart as well as puzzling cases of larceny and murder. With just the right mix of danger and deception, romance and revenge, innocence and intrigue, these classic adaptations are Agatha Christie at her best.
Watch The Agatha Christie Hour episodes online
Season 1 Ep.05: The Case Of The Discontented Soldier
Major John Wilbraham, newly retired from the British Army in Kenya and now living in the English country-side in a wisteria covered cottage with his faithful cocker spaniel finds life tame. Seeking adventure and romance, he consults Mr. Parker Pyne. Fairly soon the rather shy major meets the equally shy Freda Clegg. An adventure follows involving buried treasure, maps written in Swahili, crooked lawyers, thugs, maidens in distress and imprisonment in a water filling cellar. All ends happily, mainly due to the imaginative prowess of that inimitable authoress, Mrs. Ariadne Oliver (Agatha Christie’s alter ego). John Wilbraham and Freda Clegg soon find themselves not only embarking on a quest for buried treasure in Africa, but more importantly, each finds that they are in love with the other. Another charming love story of an autumn romance from the pen of Agatha Christie.
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes.
Some were romances, several had supernatural themes, and a couple were youthful adventures. They were set in the England of the nineteen twenties and thirties, and much care was taken to present them as authentically as possible, with great attention to detail.
Their common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining, and each program was carefully crafted and well cast, with many of the best of Britain’s actors represented.
Cast and Crew:
Stars:
Maurice Denham, Angela Easterling and Christopher Wren
Date Release: 1982
Additional details in:
The Agatha Christie Hour episodes in IMDB | The Agatha Christie Hour tv series in TV.com
-
Watch some more full episodes:
Staff Picks
Disclaimer: Some videos have been gathered or embedded from reliable sources across the internet, such as www.youtube.com, www.putlocker.com, www.novamov.com and www.video.google.com, and are believed to be in the Public Domain, legally licenced to be streamed online by 3rd party websites, or have a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. If you own the Copyright please inform us to have it removed through our Copyright Policy.
Filed Under: The Agatha Christie Hour
