Partners in Crime (UK TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Based on | The Secret Adversary and N or M? by Agatha Christie |
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| Directed by | Edward Hall |
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| Composer(s) | Tim Phillips |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Producer(s) | Georgina Lowe |
| Cinematography | David Higgs |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Original release | 26 July – 30 August 2015 |
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| BBC website | |
Partners in Crime is a British drama television series that began on BBC One on 26 July 2015. The six-part series is an adaptation of two Tommy and Tuppence detective novels by Agatha Christie. The first three episodes are an adaptation of the 1922 novel The Secret Adversary, written by Zinnie Harris, and the last three episodes are of the 1941 novel N or M?, by Claire Wilson. The series was not renewed for a second series by the BBC.
Unlike the 1922 novel which places the Beresfords after World War 1, this television series places them after World War 2 during the Cold War against Stalin.
Thomas (Tommy) Beresford (David Walliams), in his early 40s, is a clever and logical man whose business ventures never quite work out, just as his university and army days were never successful. He tries to look after his spirited wife, Tuppence, and his son, George, by various money-making schemes. He does not realize that he has no head for business, but he does have a knack for espionage and crime-solving in a 'Cold War' world full of double agents and assassins. It is a perilous world, in which Tommy flourishes.
Prudence (Tuppence) Beresford (Jessica Raine) is a quick-witted, irrepressible woman with a tendency to leap without looking. The daughter of a country archdeacon, one of five children, she misses the sense of purpose she had as a nurse in the war and cannot settle as a housewife, despite her love for Tommy and their son, George. When the opportunity is presented to aid British Intelligence in the defence of her country, she jumps at the chance to put herself, and her less willing husband, in harm's way.
Major Anthony Carter (James Fleet) is Tommy's uncle and head of 'The Third Floor', a branch of British Military Intelligence. In the war, Carter knew who the enemy was, but now, in the 1950s, the adversary is a new type of spy. Carter tries to protect his hapless nephew Tommy and Tommy's wife, Tuppence, as they become involved in his new war.
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