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Episodes: All (10)

Season: 1
Year: 1983  |  1984

Season 1

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

Original Air Date—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.

Season 1, Episode 2: Finessing the King

Original Air Date—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.

Season 1, Episode 3: The House of Lurking Death

Original Air Date—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.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Sunningdale Mystery

Original Air Date—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.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Clergyman's Daughter

Original Air Date—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.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Ambassador's Boots

Original Air Date—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.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Unbreakable Alibi

Original Air Date—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.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Man in the Mist

Original Air Date—18 December 1983
The Beresfords investigate the murder of Gilda Glenn, a well-known stage actress, but everyone involved has an alibi.

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

Original Air Date—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.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Crackler

Original Air Date—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.

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