Originally titled The Joyful Venture, the name changed to The Young Adventurers before finally becoming The Secret Adversary. Qualities of self-mockery and accurate but offhand comedy timing to parts whichĭemand nothing more but could get by with nothing less.Refreshingly original. James Warwick and Francesca Annis, casual and elegant, bring the right Of little consequence when the series so fully embraces its good-humoured Unashamedly divorced from reality, and the plotlines allowing the actors to rompįrom one absurd scene to the next without pausing for too much explanation, is That the flapper-era world of Tommy and Tuppence is so The main assets of Partners in Crime are its tireless sense of fun andĬharming simplicity. Organised forgery ring, the plotting was inspired by the works of Edgar Wallace. Chesterton's celebrated Father Brown and for 'The Crackler', with its In 'The Man in the Mist', Tommy was disguised as a clergyman in the manner of Mason's ingenious French Inspector Hanaud John Thorndyke 'The House of Lurking Death' was 'The Affair of the Pink Pearl' drew on the scientific deductions of author R.Īustin Freeman's Dr.
The characteristics and ambience of a popular literary sleuth of the period. Published in her 1929 collection Partners in Crime, by furnishing each case with Her vibrant presence had adorned Why Didn't TheyĪsk Evans? and the starter for this series, Agatha Christie's The SecretĪpparently, Miss Christie was having some fun with the original stories, Of Joan Hickson as BBC's Miss Marple in 1984, Annis was the face of the Sources of pleasure being Francesca Annis's zestful Tuppence. Sleuthing duo), however, the series rattled along very amiably, one of the chief Were investigated, was often too heavy to be entirely suited to comedy.ĭespite longueurs (notably the perpetual cooing-doves relationship of the Subject matter, as evidenced by the air of strain around the various crimes that That the resulting mélangeĭidn't quite jell, surprisingly enough, seemed due mainly to the fact that the
), and laced the mixture with resourcefully used locations, sets andĬostumes to suggest the dizzy flavour of the 1920s. With bouncy humour after the manner of The Seven Dials Mystery (ITV, tx. The twisting thread formula of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (ITV, tx. With this spirited comedy-thriller series, LWT producer Tony Wharmby crossed Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, in need of further thrills and excitement from their inaugural adventure, decide to open a detective agency and, with their enthusiastic young office boy Albert as receptionist, engage in a series of murder investigations.
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