David Walliams and Jessica Raine star as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, the crime-fighting husband and wife created by Agatha Christie. Christie wrote four novels and a collection of short stories about the pair. The first three episodes of the series are based on Christie's first Tommy and Tuppence novel A Secret Adversary (1922) and the second six are based on N or M? (1941). The novels have been reprinted with new covers featuring Walliams and Raine and are also available to read on Kindle:
The TV series will be set in the 1950s. The idea for adapting the stories came from Walliams himself who also is also credited as one of the executive producers. Full details about the series have been released in a BBC Press Pack. The series is expected to start on BBC One on Sunday 26th July. American and Canadian viewers can see the series through subscription streaming service Acorn TV from September 3rd. A region 2 DVD is available for pre-order with a release date of 7th September:
ITV previously broadcast a 10-part series featuring Tommy and Tuppence. The 1983 series titled Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime starred James Warwick and Francesca Annis in the lead roles:
This version was first released released on DVD in 2013:
The Tommy and Tuppence novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs was adapted as an episode of ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple in 2006. The characters were played by Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi although Tommy only had a small part with Geraldine McEwan's Miss Marple accompanying Tuppence for most of the story.
The new Partners in Crime series is being broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth. The BBC are also producing a three-part adaptation of Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None for broadcast later in the year. The BBC has announced this mini-series will feature an impressive cast including Charles Dance, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson and Aidan Turner.
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