The Man in the Mist (Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime episode)

The Man in the Mist is episode 8 in the television series Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime. The episode was adapted by Gerald Savory and directed Christopher Hodson and first broadcast on 18 December 1983. It is an adaptation of the Agatha Christie short story of the same name.

Synopsis
A well-known stage actress asks the Beresfords to help her but when they arrive at the house she is staying at, she is already dead.

Comparison with the original story
(may contain spoilers - click on expand to read) This episode was mostly faithful to the two-part chapter in the book of the same name although Bulger Estcourt's part in the plot was extended to make him another suspect of the murder, rather than just being the man who introduces Gilda Glenn to Tommy and Tuppence. In addition, the rather hurried end to the story was extended by having Tommy organise a re-enactment of the crime in which P.C. Bamford (unnamed by Christie) was arrested by his own colleagues in the police force after being tipped off by Tommy who had traced his previous life as Gilda's husband of twenty years before. Tommy's fictional detective disguise of Father Brown was retained for this episode, presumably because the character was more familiar to television viewers of the 1980s than some of the others portrayed in the stories.

Cast

 * Francesca Annis as Tuppence Beresford
 * James Warwick as Tommy Beresford
 * Reece Dinsdale as Albert Batt
 * Tim Brierley as James Reilly
 * Mark Farmer as Page Boy
 * Geoffrey Greenhill as Police Sergeant
 * Constantine Gregory as Bulger Estcourt
 * Christopher Johnston as P.C. Bamford
 * Roger Kemp as Inspector Jeavons
 * Valerie Lilley as Ellen
 * Patrick Marley as Lord Leconbury
 * Linda Marlowe as Gilda Glenn
 * Anne Stallybrass as Dorothea Honeycott
 * Paddy Ward as Barman