MINISERIES PREMIERE: Parts 1 and 2 of 6. Acorn TV imports another BBC mystery, this time one made and televised in the U.K. earlier this very year. It’s actually two three-part mystery movies featuring some of Agatha Christie’s least-known sleuths: the married duo Tommy and Tuppence, whose natural curiosity (hers, mostly) leads them to solve crime in England in the 1950s. David Williams and Jessica Raine star, and the first two installments of the initial three-parter,
The Secret Adversary, are available for screening beginning today on
the Acorn TV website. (Two more hours, the conclusion to
Adversary and the start of a new Tommy and Tuppence mystery,
N or M?, show up next Thursday, and the concluding chapters a week after that.) When a woman on a train goes missing and leaves a clue behind, Raine’s Tuppence follows the trail eagerly, even donning a blonde wig to go undercover as a maid, while Williams’ Tommy is discouraged from sleuthing even by his own secret-agent uncle (“You’re a slippers and papers man,” the uncle tells him dismissively) – but Tommy soon proves him wrong, cracking a case that’s at the heart of the start of the Cold War.