The Agatha Christie Hour. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife | TV Series Drama (1982) E01 - video Dailymotion

Beth Freed

#josephbalsamo  #cyranodebergerac  # hettywainthroppinvestigates  @bethfreedTV Parker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife to recover the attention of her husband, a philandering business-man too interested in his pretty young secretary. Starring: Gwen Watford, Peter Jones, Maurice Denham.

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36:05you don't seem to have a very high opinion of society ladies but there are

36:10other kinds of girls you know warm affectionate girls. you might find one who wouldn't break your heart.

36:17I rather thought I'd found her Mariah.

36:24where should we go this evening?

36:27wherever you like. the Aphrodite.

36:29you're only saying that because you know I love it.

36:32no it's selfishness really. I want what makes you happy.

36:39the lady's pin sir.

36:41oh I say! what service!

36:47magnificent. thank you.

36:49ah could I speak to Mr. Claude Luttrell please?

37:07hello

37:08does it have to be tonight?

37:13Mr. Parker Pine's sense of timing is impeccable.

37:16damn him.

37:18all right the Aphrodite.

37:24the Aphrodite.

37:26oh how very convenient.

37:28shall I get the manager?

37:29if you would be so kind.

37:35Claude doesn't sound at all happy.

37:37do you think he could be trying to spin this one out?

37:40well that would be creating a precedent.

37:43precedents do occur.

37:45Mr. Cornelius please.

37:46and it's very annoying when they do.

37:48Mr. Parker Pine.

37:49statistical basis has to be recalculated.

37:53let's hope you're being unduly pessimistic Miss Loma.

37:55I have Mr. Parker Pine for you.

37:59who?

38:00Mr. Cornelius.

38:02ah corny.

38:05all well?

38:06good look

38:08I think it's time for a membership drive.

38:12yes one of your special cards.

38:15delivered by hand this afternoon to uh

38:19Mr. George Packington and guests.

38:22Packington products limited.

38:24King George the fifth estate.

38:27two peas in appalled Nancy.

38:31are you sure you should be back at work?

38:33I couldn't stay away any longer Mr. Packington.

38:36well we must do something about getting the roses back into those pretty cheeks.

38:40cheer you up.

38:41do you think you could enjoy the company of an old buffer again this evening?

38:45expect so.

38:46oh I mean I've told you Mr. Packington.

38:49you don't seem a bit old to me.

38:51then here is a heaven-sent opportunity.

38:53it arrived this afternoon.

38:54the Aphrodite.

38:56some nightclub looking for new members.

38:58Mr. George Packington and guest.

39:02how did they get your name?

39:04one is known you know Nancy.

39:06sounds rather jolly.

39:07you won't have been anywhere like it.

39:09I'll be bound.

39:09what do you say?

39:11no.

39:12I'm sure it's much too smart for me Mr. Packington.

39:15why I haven't a dress fit to wear.

39:17I haven't I?

39:19I haven't?

39:23okay

39:26it's a good one.

39:27i'll be able to wear it.

39:29I haven't seen you to wear it.

39:31I was like a pair of one.

39:31I haven't seen you guys.

39:33I've seen you guys before.

39:34I've seen you guys last night.

39:36let's see if their eyes are so safe.

39:38we don't want to wear it.

39:40I'm sorry.

39:41the rest of my eyes have a blue mask.

39:43let's see if it's made a pair of two.

39:45what happened then my husband's here with that girl yes you want to sit down

40:15hello George

40:19I should like to sit down now please

40:45how terribly he wants to be here

41:05Lord what do you think of Mr. Parker Pine offering his services to people like myself

41:14people browsing through the agony column to pass the time people desperate enough to try to buy a

41:22chance of happiness is he a charlatan or just a magician does it matter if he's been instrumental

41:29in making you happy statistics can't provide a perfect answer every time no

41:38shall we dance again yes

41:44we've played the game of stay away

41:57but it costs more than I can pay without you I could make my way

42:05I surrender dear

42:09when stars appear and shadows fall why then you'll hear my poor heart call

42:19you my love my life my hope I surrender dear

42:26ah you're back yes I'm back

42:36rather odd meeting you

42:50yes wasn't it

42:52I thought it would be a kindness to take that girl somewhere

42:58oh she's been having a bad time at home and I thought

43:00why your kindness you know

43:03who's that chap you were with

43:08I haven't met him have I

43:10Luttrell his name is

43:12Claude Luttrell

43:14how'd you come across him

43:16someone introduced me

43:18rather an odd thing for you to do wasn't it

43:21go out dancing at your time of life

43:24mustn't make a fool of yourself old dear

43:27a change is always nice

43:30yes but you must be careful

43:34a lot of these lounge lizard fellas going around you know

43:38middle-aged women do sometimes make awful fools of themselves

43:43just a warning you my dear

43:47wouldn't like you to do anything unsuitable

43:49I find the exercise beneficial

43:52I expect you do too

43:54great thing is to be happy isn't it

43:57I remember you saying so one morning at breakfast

44:00about 10 days ago

44:02yes

44:04schedule A final phase final briefing Miss Lemon

44:09Claude has accomplished another successful assignment

44:13her husband has seen them together

44:14yes and will have warned her against him

44:16splendid

44:17I wonder what your little present will be this time Claude

44:20well when she meets him at luncheon today

44:22a gold watch in all probability

44:24oh no too formal

44:26a gold cigarette case perhaps

44:28and Claude

44:30at luncheon I think would be the moment for you to

44:33renounce your way of life

44:36so soon?

44:38about three shall we say

44:42for me?

44:47yes

44:48I hope you like it

44:50why'd you give me this?

44:53I won't take it

44:55take it back

44:56take it back

44:58take it back I say

44:59I'm sorry

45:02you think I'm just a gigolo don't you?

45:06a creature who lives on women

45:07a lounge lizard

45:08you do don't you?

45:09I've said I'm sorry

45:10it was tactless

45:11so you should think that of me

45:12it's true

45:13oh yes I had my orders

45:14to take you about

45:15to amuse you

45:16to make love to you

45:17make you forget your husband

45:18Claude I've guessed

45:19and it doesn't matter

45:20but that was my job Mariah

45:22a despicable one eh?

45:24why are you telling me all this?

45:25because I'm through with it

45:26I can't carry on like this

45:28not with you

45:30you're different Mariah

45:32you're the kind of woman

45:33I could believe

45:34trust

45:35adore

45:36oh I know you think

45:37it's all part of the game

45:39well it isn't

45:40and I'll prove it

45:42I'll have to go away

45:43because of you

45:44I'm gonna turn myself

45:45into a man because of you

45:46instead of the loathsome

45:47creature that I've become

45:48go away

45:49is that necessary?

45:50it's the only way

45:51I've been a rotter

45:53always

45:54but I swear to make good

45:56from now on

45:57you read the agony column

45:59don't you?

46:00well on this day

46:01every year

46:02you will find a message there

46:03oh Claude please

46:05a message saying that I remember you

46:07and that I'm making good

46:09every year

46:11you'll know then all you've meant to me

46:14and one thing more

46:16I've taken nothing from you

46:19I want you to take something from me

46:21no I couldn't

46:23Mariah shut up will you

46:25I'm trying to say goodbye

46:31this was my mother's

46:34I'd like you to have it

46:35I'd like you to have it

46:48goodbye Mariah

46:49look here Mariah

47:04about that girl

47:06yes dear

47:07I never meant to upset you you know

47:10about her

47:11nothing in it

47:12I know

47:13I know

47:14I was foolish

47:16see as much of her as you like

47:18if it makes you happy

47:19Mariah

47:20yes George

47:21well it isn't right for a wife to urge a fellow to take a girl about

47:26it isn't

47:27well no it's it's not decent

47:30not so much fun you mean

47:32fun had nothing to do with it

47:33no George

47:34no George

47:35what you don't seem to realize is that

47:38it takes it out of a fellow that sort of thing

47:41what sort of thing George

47:43dancing that sort of thing

47:45I must say dear you are looking rather tired

47:49I could do with a holiday

47:51we might go away together somewhere for a break if you like

47:55don't worry about me

47:57I'm quite happy

47:58damn it woman I'd like to take you somewhere

48:01we might go to the Riviera

48:03what do you say to them hmm?

48:07perhaps Torquay

48:11Padworth Packford

48:14Packington

48:16there

48:17I'm right in thinking this case is closed

48:20ah assuredly

48:25what was the entertainment's account?

48:27102 pounds 14 shillings and sixpence

48:30ah

48:31ah good morning Claude

48:32did everything go all satisfactorily?

48:34yes I suppose so

48:35the ring

48:36what name did you have inscribed in it?

48:38Matilda 1899

48:40excellent

48:41and the wording for the advertisement?

48:42making good

48:43still remember Claude

48:44make a note of that Miss Lemon

48:46to be inserted in the agony column on

48:48er

48:49what is it

48:50November the 1st

48:51for er

48:52let me see the entertainments again

48:54for

48:55yes

48:56ten years I think

48:58that'll leave us a profit with

49:00er

49:0190 pounds

49:03and that's adequate

49:04Mr. Parkipine there's something I've got to say

49:06yes Claude

49:07I don't like any of this it's a rotten game

49:11my dear boy

49:14better come through for a moment

49:18I think we may have a small element of surprise

49:20it could have been statistically projected

49:23well Claude

49:24that was a decent woman

49:25a good sort

49:26telling her all those lies

49:27filling her up with the usual sob stuff

49:29well I've had enough

49:30it makes me sick

49:31dear me I don't recall your conscience ever troubling you before

49:33you've had a splendidly notorious career

49:35well I'm beginning to feel differently about it all

49:36look this game it isn't it isn't nice

49:37look at it this way Claude

49:38instead of displaying your usual callous mercenary instinct you have given an unhappy woman what every woman needs a romance

49:42a woman tears a passion into pieces and gets no good from it but a romance

49:43a romance my dear Claude can be laid out in the

49:48lavender and looked at through all the long years to come

49:49I know human beings

49:50but a romance

49:51a romance my dear Claude can be laid up in lavender and looked at through all the long years to come

49:55I know human nature my boy and I tell you that a woman can feed on such an incident for years

50:02well I think we can safely say that we have discharged our commission to Mrs. Packington very satisfactory

50:09I think we can safely say that we have discharged our commission to Mrs. Packington very satisfactory

50:16well I don't like it

50:46interesting vestiges of conscience

50:52noticeable in hardened lounge lizard

50:58note study developments

51:16I think we can safely just put that on there

51:17I think we are getting to the house

51:22thisiempo is now

51:24a huge story

51:27I think we can safely

51:28I think it's about the same but

51:31the same as the juego

51:32I think we are getting to the house

51:35as the binary of the jungle

51:37I think we are getting to the house

51:39we have to move the house

51:41To the house

The Agatha Christie Hour. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife | TV Series Drama (1982) E01

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