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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781569387825
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1569387826
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 09, 2005
Running Time: 1061 minutes
Sales Rank: 45378
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: November 29, 1984
Editorial Review:
Description:
Agatha Christie’s fabulous sleuthing couples mix crime and romance in stylish comedy thrillers. More than 17 hours of mystery, romance, and fun.
Tommy & Tuppence: Partners in Crime
Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were the first to prove that two clever heads are better than one when it comes to solving mysteries. Francesca Annis (Reckless) and James Warwick (Lillie) star as a zany upper-class couple who pursue a shared passion for solving mysteries. A PBS Mystery! favorite set in the roaringly romantic 1920s. Sets 1 & 2, approx 650 min., 11 episodes on 4 discs.
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
A classic Christie mystery starring Francesca Annis and James Warwick as a pair of amateur sleuths. This time Warwick is the vicar’s son and Annis is his aristocratic childhood chum. Together they solve the mystery of a dying man’s last words. Also featuring John Gielgud. Approx. 188 min. on 1 disc.
Seven Dials Mystery
A feisty flapper (Cheryl Campbell, The Way We Live Now) teams up with a suave man-about-town (James Warwick) in a story that combines the dark forces of murder and international intrigue with the froth of romance and upper-class English frivolity. Also featuring John Gielgud. Approx. 133 min. on 1 disc.
Bonus Program!
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Using Christie's own words, this innovative BBC drama explores her shadowy personal life and what really happened during her mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926. Starring Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense) and Anna Massey (Possession). 'Mesmerizing'--Telegraph (U.K.) Approx. 90 min. on 1 disc; 16:9 widescreen.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not the best of British Mystery series
Compared to the Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Miss Marple, Mrs. Bradley mysteries and the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series, this set of DVDs is a great disappointment. There are only a couple of the DVDs worth watching the rest are victims of marginal acting, weak plots and dull screen writing.
Rating:  - A Tommy & Tuppence: Partners in crime treat and more
This DVD set is a superb BBC collection of some of the works of (Dame) Agatha Christie and gives us the wonderfully wacky pairing of Francesca Annis (Tuppence) and James Warwick (Tommy) in a lively performance of (Dame) Agatha's two amateur sleuths. While not, of course, (Dame) Agatha's most famous sleuths, they do, never the less, solve their cases in the inimitable Christie fashion and give us a lot of fun along the way.
The Seven Dials Mystery gives us the wonderful (Sir) John Gielgud ... Read More
Rating: - Partners in Crime and more
The Secret Adversary
Who is Mr. Brown?
After the Great War, out of work Captain, Tommy Beresford (James Warwick) accidentally comes across his lifelong friend and pal Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley (Francesca Annis). Tuppence is also out of work. Over their sparse meal they speculate on doing any job of anybody for outrageous fees.
This speculative talk was over heard and the wheels are set in motion when Tuppence is given the opportunity and gives what she thinks is ... Read More
Rating: - Intelligent, talented women
What these mysteries have in common is that they contain intelligent, talented women. These gals make Wonder Woman look like an airhead bimbo, but you may have already have had that evaluation of her.
The settings are the inner-war years and the characters are upper class.
The plots of the two complete stories and the first Tommy and Tuppence are first rate because they were written by Christie and not a modern script writter. The plots are convoluted with many red herrings. ... Read More
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