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... literature the crime story has never really been respectable, though Wilkie Collins has been sanctified by time and Agatha Christie by repetition; but it remains a common form. It is hard to say why but one reason may be that such stories are of necessity ...
... John Glenistc- will direct the studio recording in July Pat Sandys, who is currently at Thames setting up adaptations of Agatha Christie short stories, has scripted the production. Although three roles have yet to be Cast, the main characters have been con ...
... 'LOVE FROM A STRANGER' BBC-TV FRANK VOSPER'S old thriller, Love from a Stranger, based on a story by Agatha Christie, creaked a bit when it was presented on Boxing Night. Even so, there is still a good deal of suspense in this story of the professional ...
... is based on Catherine Arley's novel Dead Man's Bay and although Miss Arley has the reputation of being the French Agatha Christie, the difference lies in her lack of the use of red herrings. The play is the poorer for this, and Ian Cull^n's otherwise ...
... are many thriller lovers, like myself, who, having tired somewhat of the numerous twin-set and pearls adaptations of Agatha Christie stories, will welcome Ruth Rendell's inclusion into the television genre with a great deal of pleasurable anticipation ...
... chil dren's nursery rhyme, the murderer was doing away with his former play mates one by one. The storyline, which was Agatha Christie meets The Avengers, sat awk- wardly with the more believable aspects of the drama, notably Van Der Valk's uneasy family ...
... Terence Conran; on leading contem porary composer Philip Glass; also a history of the Boogie Woogie, and a programme on Agatha Christie. LWT is also working on a series of films on some of the novelists of the last hundred years. Called Great Writers, the ...
... scene confirmed my suspicion that Jules Maigret had been transformed into a thinner version of Hercules Poirot. All the Agatha Christie trademarks were there: the assembled group of suspects, the detective's final masterly summing up, a hysterical breakdown ...
... but entertaining series, which happens to work well. It is clearly inspired by the classic detective stories of say, Agatha Christie: a murder in an Oxford shire vicarage, or in this episode, the amazing disappearance of a £1.5 million El Greco painting ...
... went out with a great snap and pop in The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side on December 27. How dare R Rendall crit icise Agatha Christie! Of the short and snappy, I must mention Pallas 2, the clever spoof soap on the Royals, using actual news footage and ...
... ON LEWIS Agatha Christie's Poirot. Graphics: BBC GRAPHIC DESIGN DEPARTMENT Sum mer on BBC1 Promotion; ELIZA BETH EDWARDS The Clothes Show; DANIELLE FRICK Jonathan Ross Show; ANDY FRITH Rough Guide to the World. Film Sound: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT; HOUSE ...
... allowed to unfold without being ostentatiously paraded. The plot was commonplace, its unfolding a pale imitation of a dozen Agatha Christies. An American tour ist is murdered and who but Dave Maubee. outlaw and Casanova (and boyhood friend of the police chief ...