Season: 1
Year: 1983 | 1984

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: The Affair of the Pink Pearl

16 October 1983
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.
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert
Fleur Chandler ... Janet Smith
Arthur Cox ... Detective Inspector Marriott
Graham Crowden ... Colonel Kingston Bruce
Noel Dyson ... Mrs. Kingston Bruce
Dulcie Gray ... Lady Laura Barton

William Hootkins ... Hamilton Betts
Lynda La Plante ... Phyllis Betts (as Lynda Marchal)
Ursula Mohan ... Elise
Sussanah Morley ... Beatrice Kingston Bruce (as Susannah Morley)

Charles Shaughnessy ... John Rennie
Tim Woodward ... Lawrence St. Vincent

Season 1, Episode 2: Finessing the King

23 October 1983
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.
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford

Benjamin Whitrow ... Sir Arthur Merivale
Peter Blythe ... Captain Bingo Hale
Arthur Cox ... Inspector Marriott
Anna Turner ... Widow
Annie Lambert ... Lady Vere Merivale
John Gillett ... Dr. Stoughton
Terry Cowling ... Det Sgt Halliday
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert

Season 1, Episode 3: The House of Lurking Death

30 October 1983
Lois Hargreaves calls on Blunt's detective agency after someone sends her a box of chocolates laced with a mild, though not lethal, amount of arsenic. The Beresford's agree to travel to her home the next day but that morning, read in the newspaper that many members of Miss Hargreaves household were killed the previous afternoon from eating poisoned sandwiches served at tea. There are several suspects, including Lois' best friend from school, a cousin who would inherit a great if she died and several members of the household staff who are acting as if they have something to hide.
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Joan Sanderson ... Rachel Logan
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert
Liz Smith ... Hannah MacPherson
Lynsey Baxter ... Lois Hargreaves
Louisa Rix ... Mary Chilcott
Michael Cochrane ... Captain Dennis Radcliffe
Deddie Davies ... Mrs. Holloway
Anita Dobson ... Esther Quant
Kim Clifford ... Rose Holloway
Granville Saxton ... Doctor Burton

Season 1, Episode 4: The Sunningdale Mystery

6 November 1983
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.
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
Denis Lill ... Hollaby Junior
Edwin Brown ... Hollaby Senior
Emily Moore ... Doris Evans
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert
Terence Conoley ... Major Barnard
Denis Holmes ... Mr. Lecky
Robin Parkinson ... Landlord
Dorothea Phillips ... ABC Waitress
Martin Rutledge ... Cyril
Vivienne Ritchie ... Girl
Jim Wiggins ... Ticket Collector

Season 1, Episode 5: The Clergyman's Daughter

27 November 1983
After a young woman's inherited manor house appears to be haunted, but Tommy and Tuppence try to prove the poltergeist to be corporeal.
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Jane Booker ... Monica Deane
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert
Geoffrey Drew ... Norman Partridge
Bill Dean ... Edmund Hove
Elspeth MacNaughton ... Bella Hove
Pam St. Clement ... Mrs. Crockett
Alan Jones ... Gerald Rush
David Delve ... Percival Smart / Doctor O'Neill
Ben Stevens ... Mr. Cockwell
Janet Hampson ... Mrs. Cockwell
George Malpas ... Frank Mulberry

Season 1, Episode 6: The Ambassador's Boots

4 December 1983
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.
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Jennie Linden ... Cicely March

T.P. McKenna ... Randolph Wilmot
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert
Arthur Cox ... Inspector Marriott
Clive Merrison ... Richards
Moira Brooker ... Tilly
Michael Carter ... Rodriguez
Tricia George ... Poppy St. Albans
Norma West ... Estelle Blaney
Jo Ross ... Gwen Forster
Catherine Schell ... Virma La Strange
Vera Jakob ... Manners
Anna Sharkey ... Madame Beatrice
Judy Gridley ... Nightclub Dancer
Linda Sands ... Girl on Bridge
Stephen Rashbrook ... Boy on Bridge

Season 1, Episode 7: The Unbreakable Alibi

11 December 1983
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.
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Anna Nygh ... Una Drake / Vera Drake
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert
Tim Meats ... Montgomery Jones
Michael Jayes ... Peter Le Marchant
Ellis Dale ... Henri
Gay Soper ... Hotel receptionist
Elaine Wells ... Chambermaid
Preston Lockwood ... Head Waiter
Stephen Wale ... Dining Car Attendant

Season 1, Episode 8: The Man in the Mist

18 December 1983
The Beresfords investigate the murder of Gilda Glenn, a well-known stage actress, but everyone involved has an alibi.
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Anne Stallybrass ... Mrs. Dorothea Honeycott

Constantine Gregory ... Bulger Estcourt
Tim Brierley ... James Reilly
Valerie Lilley ... Ellen
Linda Marlowe ... Gilda Glenn
Roger Kemp ... Detective Inspector Jeavons
Paddy Ward ... Bartender
Patrick Marley ... Lord Leconbury
Geoffrey Greenhill ... Police Sergeant
Mark Farmer ... Page Boy

Season 1, Episode 9: The Case of the Missing Lady

1 January 1984
When renowned explorer Gabriel Stavansson returns two weeks early from his latest expedition, his fiancée Hermione is nowhere to be found. He approaches Tommy and Tuppence when he finds that Hermione's friends and relatives are less than forthcoming about her whereabouts. Their investigation leads them to a clinic where they think the girl is being held against her will. The situation isn't quite what hey had imagined however.
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert
Rowena Cooper ... Dr. Irma Kleber
Mischa De La Motte ... Manservant
Susie Fairfax ... Girl in Shop
Ewan Hooper ... Dr. Horriston
Elspeth March ... Lady Susan Clonray
Elizabeth Murray ... Hermione Leigh-Gordon (as Elisabeth Murray)
Jonathan Newth ... Gabriel Stavansson
Tim Pearce ... Muldoon

Season 1, Episode 10: The Crackler

14 January 1984
Scotland Yard recruits the Beresfords to infiltrate an exclusive gambling club and expose the mysterious and ruthless gang of counterfeiters operating there.
Francesca Annis ... Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick ... Tommy Beresford
Shane Rimmer ... Hank Ryder
Carolle Rousseau ... Marguerite Laidlaw
Christopher Scoular ... Captain Jimmy Faulkener
Arthur Cox ... Inspector Marriott
Reece Dinsdale ... Albert
David Quilter ... Major Laidlaw
Lawrence Davidson ... Monsieur Héroulade
Peter Godfrey ... Maybrick
Stan Pretty ... Harry
Terence Hillyer ... Chauffeur

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