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1 :01x01 - The Secret Adversary
Writer: Pat Sandys
Director: Tony Wharmby
Guest star: Alec McCowen (Sir James Peele Edgerton), George Baker (Whittington), Simon Watkins (Man at Astley Priors), Honor Blackman (Rita Vandemeyer), Matthew Scurfield (Conrad), Donald Houston (Boris), Norman Hartley (Florist), Roger Ostime (Ritz Hotel Receptionist), Steve Fletcher (Messenger Boy)
Tommy Beresford meets Prudence Cowley, also known as Tuppence, after the First World War. Seeking work, they team up and call themselves 'The Young Adventurers'. Fairly soon adventurous work involving a smuggled international treaty comes their way, and they are plunged into a world of crime and intrigue while they search for a mysterious woman known only as 'Jane Finn' and an arch criminal who calls himself Mr. Brown.
2 :01x02 - The Affair of the Pink Pearl
Writer: David Butler
Director: Tony Wharmby
Guest star: Arthur Cox (Detective Inspector Marriott), Noel Dyson (Mrs Kingston-Bruce), Susannah Morley (Beatrice Kingston-Bruce), Tim Woodward (Lawrence St Vincent), Dulcie Gray (Lady Laura Barton), Graham Crowden (Colonel Kingston-Bruce), Ursula Mohan (Elise), William Hootkins (Hamilton Betts), Charles Shaughnessy (John Rennie), Lynda La Plante (Phyllis Betts (Lynda Marchal)), Fleur Chandler (Janet Smith)
Tommy and Tuppence are now married and have purchased a business known as 'Blunt's Brilliant Detectives'.
When American millionares Hamilton and Phyllis Betts have a priceless pink pearl necklace stolen while they are staying with members of the British aristocracy, Blunt's Brilliant Detectives are called in to solve the case.
3 :01x03 - The House of Lurking Death
Writer: Jonathan Hales
Director: Christopher Hodson
Guest star: Joan Sanderson (Rachel Logan), Michael Cochrane (Captain Dennis Radcliffe), Kim Clifford (Rose Holloway), Liz Smith (Hannah MacPherson), Anita Dobson (Esther Quant), Granville Saxton (Dr Burton), Deddie Davies (Mrs Holloway), Louisa Rix (Mary Chilcott), Lynsey Baxter (Lois Hargreaves)
When a number of people are poisoned under the same roof, seemingly at random, Tommy and Tuppence investigate, only to find that it is unexpectedly difficult to find out who the killer is.
4 :01x04 - The Sunningdale Mystery
Writer: Jonathan Hales
Director: Tony Wharmby
Guest star: Emily Moore (Doris Evans), Denis Lill (Hollaby Junior), Edwin Brown (Hollaby Senior), Terence Conoley (Major Barnard), Denis Holmes (Lecky), Robin Parkinson (Landlord), Martin Rutledge (Cyril), Dorothea Phillips (Waitress), Jim Wiggins (Ticket Collector), Vivienne Ritchie (Girl)
Major Barnard is mysteriously murdered while playing golf and Doris Evans is chief suspect. Tommy and Tuppence decide to investigate.
5 :01x05 - The Clergyman's Daughter
Writer: Paul Annett
Director: Paul Annett
Guest star: Jane Booker (Monica Deane), Pam St. Clement (Mrs Crockett), Janet Hampson (Mrs. Cockwell), David Delve (Percival Smart & Dr O'Neill), Geoffrey Drew (Norman Partridge), Elspeth MacNaughton (Bella Hove), Alan Jones (Gerald Rush), George Malpas (Frank Mulberry), Bill Dean (Edmund Hove), Ben Stevens (Cockwell)
Monica Deane, who is a clergyman's daughter just like Tuppence, experiences frightening supernatural events at her boarding house and finds that her customers are being frightened away.
In despair she consults Tommy and Tuppence who decide to investigate.
6 :01x06 - Finessing the King
Writer: Gerald Savory
Director: Christopher Hodson
Guest star: Peter Blythe (Captain Bingo Hale), Benjamin Whitrow (Sir Arthur Merivale), Arthur Cox (Inspector Marriott), John Gillett (Dr Stoughton), Annie Lambert (Lady Merivale), Anna Turner (Widow)
Lady Merivale is found stabbed to death at a costume ball, and Captain Bingo Hale is arrested and charged with murder.
Tommy and Tuppence who had been at the costume ball disguised as Holmes and Watson, believe that he is innocent and make a few enquiries of their own.
7 :01x07 - The Ambassador's Boots
Writer: Paul Annett, Agatha Christie
Director: Paul Annett
Guest star: Arthur Cox (Inspector Marriott), Clive Merrison (Richard), Tricia George (Poppy St Albans), Catherine Schell (Virma La Strange), T. P. McKenna (Randolph Wilmot), Norma West (Estelle Blaney), Jo Ross (Gwen Foster), Michael Carter (Rodriguez), Jennie Linden (Cicely March), Moira Brooker (Albert's girlfriend)
Tommy and Tuppence are called in over the mysterious affair of the American Ambassador's missing boots.
At first the case seems to be a very straightforward one, but things take a much more sinister turn when it is discovered that drug smuggling at a chic London beauty Salon is going on under the noses of the Metropolitan Police Force.
8 :01x08 - The Man in the Mist
Writer: Gerald Savory
Director: Christopher Hodson
Guest star: Linda Marlowe (Gilda Glenn), Roger Kemp (Inspector Jeavons), Anne Stallybrass (Dorothea Honeycott), Constantine Gregory (Bulger Estcourt), Christopher Johnston (P.C. Bamford), Patrick Marley (Lord Leconbury), Geoffrey Greenhill (Police Sergeant), Paddy Ward (Barman), Mark Farmer (Page Boy)
Tommy and Tuppence have been conducting an investigation in the manner of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, with Tommy suitably dressed as a priest when suddenly a famous actress is murdered in her own cottage nearby.
It seems as though the murderer has made himself invisible, but he (or she?) reckons without the robust deductive powers of Blunt's Brilliant Detectives.
9 :01x09 - The Unbreakable Alibi
Writer: David Butler
Director: Christopher Hodson
Guest star: Anna Nygh (Una & Vera Drake), Tim Meats (Montgomery Jones), Michael Jayes (Peter Le Marchant), Preston Lockwood (Head Waiter), Gay Soper (Hotel Receptionist), Elaine Wells (Chamber Maid), Stephen Wale (Car Park Attendant)
When Una Drake bets Montgomery Jones that she can be in two places at the same time, he sets out to prove her wrong, enlisting the services of Blunt's Brilliant Detectives along the way.
When the girl of his dreams turns out to be involved in the theft of some famous paintings, Montgomery sticks by her.
10 :01x10 - The Case of the Missing Lady
Director: Paul Annett
Guest star: Ewan Hooper (Dr Horriston), Jonathan Newth (Gabriel Stavansson), Elspeth March (Lady Susan Clonray), Mischa de la Motte (Manservant), Tim Pearce (Muldoon), Susie Fairfax (Girl in Shop), Elizabeth Murray (Hermione Leigh-Gordon)
Intrepid explorer and fitness fanatic Gabriel Stavansson returns from his latest expedition abroad and finds that his fiancee has inexplicably gone missing. He consults Tommy and Tuppence at Blunt's Brilliant Detectives and commissions them to find the lady without delay.
Tommy and Tuppence finally track her to a sinister Nursing Home run by a doctor with a very bad reputation. Tuppence infiltrates the establishment in the guise of a famous Russian ballet dancer in need of peace and quiet, but things turn out to be very lively indeed.
11 :01x11 - The Crackler
Writer: Gerald Savory
Director: Christopher Hodson
Guest star: Arthur Cox (Detective Inspector Marriott), Peter Godfrey (Maybrick), Shane Rimmer (Hank Ryder), Christopher Scoular (Captain James Faulkener), Lawrence Davidson (Monsieur H.A. Roulade), David Quilter (Major Laidlaw), Terence Hillyer (Chauffeur), Stan Pretty (Harry the Barman)
Detective Inspector Marriot calls on Blunt's Brilliant Detectives and asks Tommy and Tuppence to hunt down a forger.
Somebody is passing forged notes at the exclusive Python Club in Upper Brook Street, and Detective Inspector Marriot feels that Tommy and Tuppence would be able to go under cover there better than any police officer. It is a very upper class establishment, and needs special attention.
Tommy and Tuppence agree with alacrity; Tommy invents the phrase 'the crackler' to describe a forger as they are going through their Edgar Wallace phase at Blunt's Brilliant Detectives and he believes that this word has the right feel to it. Alfred the office boy also assists in enquiries, going undercover as a motor cyclist.