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First broadcast 27th November 1983.
A young woman's inherited manor house appears to be haunted, but Tommy and Tuppence try to prove the poltergeist to be corporeal.
Francesca Annis as Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick as Tommy Beresford
Reece Dinsdale as Albert Batt
Jane Booker as Monica Deane
Bill Dean as Edmund Hove
David Delve as Percival Smart & Dr O'Neill
Geoffrey Drew as Norman Partridge
Alan Jones as Gerald Rush
Elspeth MacNaughton as Bella Hove
George Malpas as Frank Mulberry
Pam St. Clement as Crockett
Ben Stevens as Mr Cockwell
Janet Hampson as Mrs Cockwell
A young woman's inherited manor house appears to be haunted, but Tommy and Tuppence try to prove the poltergeist to be corporeal.
Francesca Annis as Tuppence Beresford
James Warwick as Tommy Beresford
Reece Dinsdale as Albert Batt
Jane Booker as Monica Deane
Bill Dean as Edmund Hove
David Delve as Percival Smart & Dr O'Neill
Geoffrey Drew as Norman Partridge
Alan Jones as Gerald Rush
Elspeth MacNaughton as Bella Hove
George Malpas as Frank Mulberry
Pam St. Clement as Crockett
Ben Stevens as Mr Cockwell
Janet Hampson as Mrs Cockwell
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01:00did you and mr. Hove enjoy your walk into town this afternoon?
01:20have you noticed how the light drops and then returns?
01:23I can't say that I have.
01:25not yet but last night in our room just before the mirror shattered
01:29suddenly an icy cold and then the lights almost went out.
01:33expect mrs. Hove that it is because you are unused to gas.
01:36it does tend to go up and down.
01:38among the first we were in Manchester to be electrified.
01:41Manchester, Edmund. our little house.
01:45our little nest.
01:46always a wrench moving.
01:49something you'll have to face soon my dear when we are married.
01:53it's quite unusual in the country to have it at all.
01:56the gas I mean.
01:58my late aunt spent a great deal of money laying it on.
02:02should have waited for the electric.
02:04I'm afraid mr. Hove that had my aunt done so we might be eating this meal by candlelight.
02:08oh dear.
02:10oh no please.
02:12I'm so sorry. the catch on the window must have given way again.
02:16I did ask the gardener to look at it for me but he's so deaf.
02:20heavens!
02:22I mean something must have fallen over.
02:25better let me go first Monica. just in case.
02:27in case of what Norman?
02:29it's nothing I tell you. nothing that can't be explained.
02:55my things!
02:57all my beautiful clothes!
02:59gone Bella. they're gone.
03:01what?
03:03he's right mrs. Hove. the wardrobe's empty.
03:05oh there you are.
03:07look they're all laid out.
03:09oh
03:11oh
03:13oh
03:15oh
03:17oh
03:19oh
03:21oh
03:23oh
03:25what the heck?
03:27cut to shreds Edmund.
03:29it's a sign.
03:31they mean to murder us.
03:33that's it. that's it. I'm leaving.
03:35I'm not gonna stay in this house another night.
03:37it is haunted.
03:39for Bella. we've paid for the fortnight.
03:41what are you saying?
03:43what about our things?
03:47who?
03:49why?
03:51I think you may safely assume
03:53that someone wishes you
03:55to leave the Red House my dear.
03:59don't touch!
04:01it's glass
04:03Tommy.
04:05no more blood on the Christmas tree now do we?
04:07oh I don't know.
04:09might be rather suitable for a detective agency.
04:11Blunt's bloody Bureau.
04:13sorry old thing got carried away.
04:15perhaps you carry this away.
04:17we've a client. do you any moment and Albert's not back yet
04:19to show her in.
04:21oh how sad.
04:23I remember every Christmas at the Vicarage
04:25I used to help father hang these.
04:27they used to be twelve. cheer up.
04:29still got eleven left.
04:31nine. oh you?
04:33no Albert.
04:35he insisted on helping me start.
04:37there's a Valentino season at the Rex Fitcher house
04:39and you know the phase he's going through.
04:41tango dancer. you know he's seen blood and sand
04:43every night this week.
04:45he came in he picked up an ornament did a violent
04:47turn letting it fly out of his hand as though
04:49it had a life of its own.
04:55oh hello sir.
04:59Miss Thomas
05:01I got the tea and some sandwiches.
05:03turkey. very nice.
05:05I give you half crown I think.
05:07and I give you
05:09ninepence.
05:11senorita. is it going to be Mr. Valentino
05:13all through Christmas Albert? if so I don't think
05:15I can stand it. sorry miss.
05:17it's just that the films
05:19are so real. much more
05:21colorful than life.
05:23why?
05:25oh and here you are
05:27at the very center of one of Britain's most celebrated
05:29detective agencies.
05:31really Albert how can you be so
05:33ungrateful? oh it's not that
05:35sir. well
05:37I realize only too well how important
05:39my work is here.
05:41when I see Rudolf Valentino
05:43grab neat and old
05:45and sweep her into that fiery tango
05:47well he's so reckless.
05:49precisely.
05:51hardly seasonal though Albert.
05:53dreaming of sun and sand when it's more
05:55likely to be snow and sleet outside.
05:57now is the time of year for
05:59spirits to fill the night air.
06:01tales by the chimney breast.
06:03ghosts of time past.
06:05and predictions for the future.
06:07we used to play that at the vicarage when I was a child.
06:09you'd write something down you thought might
06:11happen seal it and not
06:13open it again until the following Christmas.
06:15I say what a wait.
06:17only the first year Tommy.
06:19let's do one now Ma.
06:21you write something down and I'll write it until
06:23next year. I'll do better than that.
06:25I'll predict something that's imminent.
06:27oh. I was always rather
06:29good at this sort of thing.
06:31I predict
06:33that our next client will be
06:37the clergyman's daughter.
06:39how did you know?
06:43mr. Blunt.
06:45I've always believed myself to be a
06:47reasonably logical sane person.
06:49yet circumstances
06:51are beginning to force me to the conclusion
06:53that my home
06:55may be haunted.
06:57you mean you've seen a ghost?
06:59not seen exactly. heard.
07:01terrible crashing.
07:03crockery flying across the room.
07:05pictures falling. the lights going
07:07up and down. a poltergeist.
07:09excuse me?
07:11that's what they're called. sort of
07:13evil spirits that play tricks.
07:15oh. I think miss Dean
07:17if we could begin at
07:19the beginning. such a rambling
07:21story. let's see.
07:23my father was rector
07:25of Little Hampstead in Suffolk.
07:27three years ago he died.
07:29my mother and I were left very badly
07:31off.
07:33come in.
07:37I believe a cup of tea was requested
07:39sir. yes Albert.
07:41will you kindly hand it to miss Dean
07:43and that will be all.
07:45yes sir.
07:54please continue miss Dean.
07:56well
07:58at first I went out
08:00to work as a governess
08:02but my mother soon became a confirmed invalid.
08:04I had to come home to look after her.
08:07we lived in tiny but expensive
08:09lodgings and were desperately poor
08:11until one day
08:13our fortunes seemed to change.
08:15we received a lawyer's letter
08:17telling us that an aunt of my father's
08:19had died and had left everything to me.
08:21I'd often heard of this aunt
08:23who'd quarreled with my father many
08:25years earlier and knew that she was very
08:27well off. so it really seemed
08:29our troubles were at an end.
08:31but matters didn't turn out quite
08:33as well as we hoped. I did
08:35her at the Red House which was where she lived
08:37but after paying one or two
08:39small legacies she'd made
08:41well there was no money
08:43left to live on.
08:45yet you had believed your
08:47aunt to be rich. indeed I had
08:49mr. Blunt. I suppose she must have
08:51lost it during the war or perhaps
08:53she'd just been living on the capital.
08:55still we had the house.
08:57it's a large rambling
08:59place. the town is over a mile
09:01away so we're quite remote really.
09:03I suppose it's called the Red House
09:05because of the brick. although
09:07the locals tell more lurid
09:09tales.
09:11you don't look to me
09:13the sort of girl who listens to village
09:15gossip miss Dean. no I
09:17I just feel so
09:19oh
09:21miss Robinson appears to
09:23have been rather carried away by your story.
09:27oh how dreadful.
09:29perhaps you
09:31could squeeze another cup out of Albert.
09:33you know how he listens to you
09:35mr. Blunt. oh
09:37yes
09:39I'll certainly try.
09:41if you'll excuse me.
09:51come on miss Dean.
09:53out with it.
09:55is it a man?
09:57how could you know that?
09:59everyone. happened to me.
10:01oh. tell me about this
10:03man miss Dean. well
10:05you see there are two of them.
10:07oh that didn't happen to me.
10:09I suppose one rich
10:11one poor and the poor one's the one
10:13you like. I don't know how you know
10:15these things. sort of law of nature.
10:19there's Norman. mr. Partridge.
10:21he was with me the night
10:23the wardrobe overturned and the hove's
10:25clothes were shredded.
10:27he's kind considerate
10:29and rich.
10:31a good man I'm sure. if I married him
10:33all our troubles would be over. it's just that
10:35you don't love him.
10:37tell me about the one you do.
10:39Gerald.
10:41he's a dear
10:43desperately poor though a clever
10:45engineer.
10:47we came up today in his car.
10:49he made it himself.
10:51I expect if you look out of
10:53the window you'll be able to see him.
10:57...
10:59...
11:01...
11:03...
11:05I understand your preference.
11:07here we are.
11:11now then miss Dean.
11:13tell us what it is exactly that makes you suspect
11:15foul play of a more
11:17earthly order.
11:19it's the offers I've had for
11:21the house.
11:23to purchase? yes.
11:25before we moved I received by letter
11:27a most generous offer.
11:29then shortly after we moved in
11:31I was still varnishing
11:33the hall.
11:35we had decided that the only way
11:37we could keep on the house was by taking in
11:39paying guests.
11:41it was Crockett's day off
11:43and I was desperately trying to finish off
11:45alone before the first visitors arrived
11:47when...
11:49...
11:51...
11:53...
11:55...
11:57...
11:59...
12:01...
12:03good afternoon. I've called to see your mistress.
12:05I wonder if you would inform her.
12:07my name is Smart.
12:09Percival Smart.
12:11oh.
12:13still decorating I see.
12:15mr. Smart I am she.
12:17the owner of the house.
12:19can I help you?
12:21miss Dean?
12:23oh.
12:25I've been told the house is for sale and I might be
12:27interested. mind you
12:29big place.
12:31difficult to heat I expect.
12:33still. I'm afraid you've been misled.
12:35I should be prepared to make a most
12:37generous offer which if
12:39invested wisely... mr. Smart this house
12:41is not for sale. I intend
12:43to run it as a business proposition.
12:45my first guests arrived next week.
12:47...
12:49...
12:51...
12:53our first visitors were two couples.
12:55the Busby's had seen our
12:57advertisement in the home finder
12:59and the young couple by the name of Cockwell
13:01quite recently married
13:03I suspected had heard of us through
13:05friends. they'd all retired
13:07early.
13:09I read to mother as usual and settled
13:11her down for the night.
13:13by the time I was ready to take her tray down
13:15the church clock was beginning to
13:17strike twelve. I heard
13:19some sound coming from the Cockwell's
13:21room as I passed but
13:23nothing out of the ordinary.
13:25I was about halfway down the stairs
13:27when...
13:29...
13:31...
13:33...
13:35...
13:37...
13:39...
13:41...
13:43...
13:45...
13:47...
13:49...
13:51...
13:53...
13:55...
13:57...
13:59they all left early next day.
14:01I could hardly charge them
14:03and now there were the repairs to
14:05pay for as well.
14:07...
14:09...
14:11...
14:13...
14:15...
14:17...
14:19...
14:21...
14:23upon inspection it did
14:25seem as though the fore poster had
14:27been just cut through.
14:29...
14:31...
14:33it was after three more sets of guests had
14:35fled following similar happenings
14:37that I received my third offer for the house.
14:39A Dr. O'Neill
14:41called to see me. Told me
14:43he was a member of the Society for Psychical
14:45Research. That he had heard
14:47about the curious manifestations
14:49of the house and was much interested in it.
14:51So much so that he wanted to buy
14:53the house in order to conduct a series
14:55of experiments there.
14:57At first I was thrilled
14:59and said so.
15:01He smiled broadly at me
15:03and my blood ran cold.
15:06What was that?
15:08What did you see?
15:10His filling,
15:12a gold filling.
15:14Yes...
15:16Perhaps you will think it fanciful of me
15:18but... What?
15:20It was the same man!
15:22The same man what?
15:24The same man that wanted to buy it
15:26before... Mr. Smart.
15:30I remember quite clearly
15:32when he smiled at me, he had a
15:34filling in exactly the same place. then I looked at his ears. they were just the
15:40same as mr. Smart's. a peculiar shape with hardly any lobe. I'm sure I
15:47haven't made a mistake. was the same man. this Crockett that you've mentioned
15:54Bistine, he's your butler? I'm sorry I didn't make it clear. the Crockett is a
16:00she. she was with my aunt for about eight or ten years. a middle-aged woman.
16:05not always very pleasant in manner but a good servant. she is inclined to give
16:10herself heirs because her sister married out of her station.
16:13Crockett has a nephew who she's always telling us is quite the gentleman. come
16:18in. sorry to interrupt sir. mr. Rush is
16:25inquiring on Miss Dean. Gerald. Gerald? Gerald drove her up in his car. made it
16:31himself. I see. well I think that's all for the moment Miss Dean. now remember
16:38there's no need to be afraid anymore. Blunt's brilliant detectives are on the
16:42job now. thank you mr. Blunt. what a wait. there is just one thing. yes? your fee. I
16:51was wondering... oh strictly on results. stop worrying. you've been through quite
16:56enough already. can we have miss Dean's full address mr. Blunt? oh of course. the
17:00red house Stoughton in the marsh. when will you arrive? unexpectedly miss Dean.
17:06but remember you have never met me before. either of us.
17:11oh
17:21you
18:21but miss Dean made no mention to me of a party staying over the Christmas. that is
18:44a matter for you to take up with your employer. the ladyship made the reservation
18:51yes she is. and here she is likely to remain. thinking of buying it see? this
18:59house? the same. but hasn't she heard about... the poltergeist? oh yeah. you ask me
19:05that's the reason she's so set on it.
19:08funny woman. oh well I'll be off to the station to collect her husband mr.
19:22Beresford. mr. Beresford? I thought you said she was lady Grasmere. that's right.
19:28born to a title which she ain't letting go of for no marriage. money's all is
19:33though. now don't you forget a pot of earl grey and plenty of water. right away.
19:45now tell me again Tommy exactly as the bank manager told you. that on the
19:50outbreak of war Monica's aunt withdrew all her assets in gold and cash and
19:54brought them back here. so they must be hidden on the premises. someone else
19:59knows it. which explains all the offers for the house. you surely don't think she
20:03would have hidden them under the mattress in the guest room. of course not
20:06goose. what are you looking for? an uneventful night's sleep. last time this
20:11thing collapsed Monica deems that it appeared to have been cut through. I'm
20:15just making sure we don't suffer a repeat performance. I'm very much afraid
20:18the four posters always have an effect on me. always? I couldn't possibly permit
20:23an uneventful night in a four poster. start concentrating that fertile
20:28mind of yours and finding this beastly treasure. now you're a woman. a neglected
20:33one. nonsense. anyway you're far more likely than I to know where an old lady
20:38would hide things. same place as a young lady. Tums really. talking of ladies by the
20:45way how is it that in our disguised form I remain plain mister whilst you assume
20:50a title? I thought it a perfect opportunity to see how it might have felt had I
20:53married Graham. you'll find a lot more to put up with married to Graham
20:57Grasmere than a title. not less too if my information is correct. you could be
21:02very cruel. uh-huh the clergyman's daughter has returned. she's in for
21:07another shock when she finds out who's arrived. she's 25 I'm sure she'll manage.
21:13oh look there's Gerald. isn't he adorable?
21:23engaged you say? not yet. that's our job. I see. oh Tommy we must help them. we'll
21:32certainly try. we'll have to work fast. once Crockett and that precious nephew of
21:37hers get their hands on this house I'll turn it upside down till they find what
21:40they want. ah good tea. yes but Tubbins an old lady could hardly have dug holes in
21:46the garden or pulled up floorboards on her own. I know and she'd never have
21:50trusted anyone enough to help her. Tommy there must be a clue amongst her
21:53possessions. oh come on old thing. I'm starving. let's go and surprise our
21:59hostess. from the very moment I entered your house miss Dean of course miss Dean
22:08I felt as though I had come to rest. although rest is hardly a word one would
22:13use to describe someone possessed. perhaps accursed with psychic power.
22:19oh Crockett leave the tea. I'll pour the rest. I mounted your staircase as though in a
22:25trance and without knowledge I was simply drawn to the room that we will
22:30now occupy. and all around me I sensed the presence of an unhappy child.
22:37willful and full of spite but in reality longing for eternal rest.
22:44I say old girl. mrs. Patrick Campbell had better look to her morals. I thought he
22:50were wonderful but why an impression created? seeds sown.
22:58oh but surely you can't think that... have you ever met your servant's nephew
23:07miss Dean? no. oh. ten to one he has a large gold filling in his tooth. and
23:14possesses little ear lobe. oh. now then miss Dean. Monica. Monica can you tell me
23:23what became of your late aunt's personal belongings? garments? well there were only
23:27a few. some were given to Crockett. the rest sent to various poor families.
23:32everything has been gone through and turned out. papers? there must have been
23:36papers. yes the desk was full and there was some in her drawer in her bedroom
23:40but there were nothing of importance amongst them. have they been thrown away?
23:43no my mother is always very loath to throw away any old papers. there were
23:47some old-fashioned recipes amongst them which she intends to go through one day.
23:50good. was that gardener here in your aunt's time? Frank Mulberry. yes poor old fellow.
23:58he's past doing any really useful work. we have him in once a week just to keep
24:02things tidied. we can't afford more. he used to come three times. perhaps Monica
24:07if you will be good enough to collect up all your aunt's old papers for me
24:11whilst we have a word with old Mulberry. all along there it went far as you can
24:20see. all cockerels and peacocks end to end. deepest green you ever saw. green
24:28cockerels? topiary like sculpture it were. my specialty milady. proper artist I was
24:36with them shears. but now all these old hands is good for is holding a glass of
24:41ale. when I can afford that. the old lady was lucky to have you Mulberry. ah let the
24:49place go to rack and ruin they did once she were cold. and those boys from the
24:54council houses they set fire to it. but I knows all their names. yes but while she
24:59was alive she must have depended on you totally. her? everything went on in the
25:05garden. all her little secrets shared with you. maybe. like the unusual things
25:12she got you to bury for her. the box for instance. box? yes the box. thank you very
25:21much sir. well let's see now. box you said? yes. afraid I can't help you there.
25:29why not? because I never buried no box. that's why not. potatoes carrots fine
25:36spring onions plenty of them. I never buried no boxes. they don't come up well
25:41do you see?
26:05oh I say miss Dean. is anything the matter?
26:10Partridge. Beresford. my wife lady Grasmere. forgive me I should have done
26:18that. mr. Partridge is my financial advisor and good friend. mr. Beresford
26:24and lady Grasmere are houseguests. oh I didn't realize you'd be occupied. you're
26:29staying for Christmas? that is written in the ethers mr. Partridge. lady Grasmere
26:35is a student of psychic phenomena Norman. gracious me another one. you'll
26:40soon be charging admission Monica. we shall of course expect to pay the gain
26:44rate for our stay mr. Partridge. I shall be in touch with you shortly for your
26:50decision. good afternoon. what is it? what's happened? Norman tells me that the
26:59bank intends to foreclose on our loan. within two weeks our remaining funds
27:04will have disappeared. brocade? and that I take it is a financially secure
27:08alternative to Gerald. he's awfully clever with figures. he'll be swift to tell a
27:13girl when she's none left to be clever with. wants me to marry him. what am I to
27:18do? there's mother to think of and it's Christmas. get a grip Monica. you're not
27:24alone anymore. no and we mean to get to the bottom of this case. now then have
27:31you collected together all your aunt's old papers for me? yes I put them
27:34upstairs in your room. oh! if one garment is shredded...
27:55the poltergeist up to its tricks again.
28:02Monica! fetch her quickly please. not my clothes Tommy. not my clothes. they're all
28:10hired and we'd never recover. not unless we've taken to wearing a jug and basin
28:14my sweet. your things are quite safe. come lady Grasmere. settle yourself in
28:19here and await the vibrations.
28:29my wife is just returned. I must have it. Tommy we must purchase this property. you
28:41see confirmation. it looks as though you have definitely found a purchaser Miss
28:46Dean. so kind of you to bring your housekeeper in. now then as you may have
28:52gathered my wife and I have decided to purchase the red house. we should be
28:56delighted if you would consent to stay on and keep house for us. thank you sir.
29:03I should like to think it over if I may. certainly. will that be all ma'am? thank
29:08you Crockett. I'll clear the tea things. of course. so perhaps Miss Dean if you
29:14would be kind enough to inform the other bidder that the property is now
29:18sold. forgive me but I do know what he is offering. it's a good price. but I
29:24propose to offer a hundred pounds more. what is this talk of money? it must not
29:30be allowed to stand in the way of spiritual experience. the forces around
29:34us compel me to remain at all earthly costs. Mr. Beresford with no consideration for an
29:42artist's final feelings. really I was beginning to quite enjoy it. yes I noticed. I thought you
29:48were both first rate. why did you want Crockett so sudden? just to make quite
29:53sure Miss Dean. Monica. did you notice how out of breath she was?
29:58the proof that she's your poltergeist. just had time to escape down the back
30:02staircase after smashing the jug and basin in our room. the lights dimming
30:07that the windows flying open and the cold air. well Crockett's often been
30:10present when these things happen. yes well I haven't worked out how yet but
30:15the who is fairly obvious.
30:18oh well I'm taking it slow because I'm testing for invisible ink. shows up
30:48against the heat. not so far darling. anything in particular struck you yet?
30:54two receipted bills, three unimportant letters, one recipe for preserving new
31:00potatoes and one for lemon cheesecake. what's the matter? food. you know I can't
31:07think on an empty stomach. oh you missed lunch too didn't you?
31:10well I must say when I think back on Albert's magnificent hamper well I'm
31:14quite grateful not to. still look what it's going to prove. oh yes I know
31:20Crockett's guilt. hauling food and no spooks. a winning combination to confirm
31:24it. I'd still rather have had a good dinner. throw yourself into your work.
31:28come on read me yours. one bill, one poem on spring, two newspaper articles why
31:37women buy pearls, a sound investment, and man with four wives. extraordinary story.
31:43oh and a recipe for jugged hair. four wives. hmm. oh and I put this aside
31:49because it struck me as peculiar. although I don't suppose it's got
31:53anything to do with what we're looking for. oh it's one of those funny things
31:58you know what do you call them anagrams or charades or something. my first you
32:04put on glowing coal and into it you put my hole. my second really is the first. my
32:10third mislikes the winter blast. don't think much of the poet's rhyme. don't see
32:14what's so peculiar about it though. everyone used to collect that sort of
32:17thing about 50 years ago. save them up for an evening round the fire. I wasn't
32:22referring to the verse. it's the words below it that struck me as peculiar. look
32:27st. Luke 11 verse 9. it's a text. yes I know but doesn't that strike you as odd?
32:35I mean what an old lady of a religious persuasion write a text just under a
32:42charade. I suppose that is rather odd. I suppose that you being a clergyman's
32:49daughter haven't got your Bible with you. as a matter of fact I have. didn't expect
32:54that did you? now let's see. look. chapter 11 verse 9. 7 8 and 9.
33:09Tommy. Tommy look. seek and ye shall find. that's it. I've got it.
33:18oh Tommy isn't that wonderful. solved the cryptogram and the treasure's ours. well let's get to work on this
33:27cryptogram or whatever it is you call it. now my first you put on glowing coal.
33:34never does that appear on there.
33:36and into it you put my herald.
33:38that's pure Jewish.
33:40it's quite simple really.
33:42it's just a knack.
33:44my first you put on glowing coal.
33:46glowing coal.
33:48glowing coal.
33:50quite simple really.
33:52don't croak. just that I'm the wrong generation. that's all.
33:56I have a good mind to take it up to town tomorrow. let some old pussy have a go.
34:01probably solve it quick as a wink. perhaps you'd like to take it to Monica's
34:04mother? or downstairs.
34:06rather drab and croppy.
34:08their cheats are always a double quick time.
34:12all right come on then.
34:14let's have another try.
34:17now there are many things you can put on glowing coal. water to put it out. wood or kettle?
34:24has to be one syllable I suppose. how about wood then?
34:29hmm couldn't put anything into wood though.
34:32well there's no one syllable word instead of water.
34:36there must be one syllable things you can put on a fire in the kettle line.
34:42saucepan?
34:44frying pan?
34:46how about pan?
34:48or pot?
34:50think of a word beginning pan or pot that is something you can cook.
34:54pottery.
34:56you could bake that on a fire wouldn't that be near enough?
34:58no no the rest doesn't fit.
35:00pancakes?
35:02pancakes?
35:04no no.
35:06oh bother!
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35:28trouble is I'm so hungry I can hardly think.
35:31you saying pancakes has rather brought it all back again.
35:35what a rotten dinner.
35:37or lack of it. miniscule strip of mutton and one veg.
35:40swede faithfully cooked an old-school recipe.
35:43no potatoes no carrots not even a Brussels sprout.
35:47what's the matter old bean?
35:49that's it.
35:51the word I mean potato.
35:53my first you put on glowing coal pot and into it you put my whole.
35:57my second really is the first that's a pot a the first letter of the alphabet.
36:01my third mislikes the winter blast.
36:04little toes.
36:06of course.
36:08potatoes.
36:10very clever.
36:12only trouble is we've wasted an awful lot of time over nothing.
36:14you see potatoes don't fit in at all with missing treasure.
36:18wait a sec though.
36:20keep new potatoes.
36:22put the new potatoes in tins and bury them in the garden.
36:25even in the middle of winter they will taste as though freshly dug.
36:29Dobbins you're a miracle.
36:32to think it's just out there waiting for us to dig up.
36:36oh yes.
36:38oh yes but not just now.
36:40the morning will be soon enough.
36:42oh but I'm much too excited to sleep now.
36:46oh good.
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37:34I still don't understand why that gardener misled us so yesterday.
37:36he didn't mean to.
37:38he just didn't answer you correctly that's all.
37:40what are you talking about?
37:42haven't you noticed?
37:44hey they answer what they think you really mean instead.
37:46he knew he hadn't buried anything out of the ordinary.
37:50just potatoes.
37:52oh come on.
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38:08someone appears to have been here already.
38:10but how could they know?
38:12do you think they found the treasure?
38:14well if they haven't...
38:16it was never here in the first place.
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38:32goodness me what long faces.
38:34was the bed in the dressing room so uncomfortable mr. Blunt?
38:38I bet you'll never guess what this is.
38:40a note from dr. O'Neill.
38:42he's increasing his offer by 150 pounds.
38:44is he by joke?
38:46goodness me.
38:48mother's bell.
38:50oh look at the time and I haven't taken her tray up yet.
38:52she's got a Christmas card.
38:54that'll buck her up poor darling.
38:56a ghost of a chance Toppins.
38:58a ghost.
39:00the race is on again.
39:02and this time I mean it.
39:04a ghost.
39:06the race is on again.
39:08and this time I mean us to win.
39:10hello.
39:12here comes our second piece of good luck today.
39:16you know what to ask him.
39:18give him the treatment.
39:20off you go.
39:22oh and head him off before he sees the kitchen garden and has a seizure.
39:30mr. Mulvey.
39:32good morning.
39:34what a surprise. I thought you only came once a week now.
39:36I just came for my box milady.
39:38box?
39:40but I thought you said...
39:42no no no no not the kind of box you was asking about yesterday.
39:46my Christmas box.
39:48oh of course.
39:50do you mind if I walk with you?
39:52no I don't mind.
39:54I'm just off down to see my vegetables.
39:56nothing quite like a Christmas dinner.
40:04ah.
40:06except that sometimes I wish we could have different vegetables to the conventional sprouts and roasts.
40:10ah.
40:12new potatoes.
40:14now wouldn't they be delicious with a turkey?
40:16ah.
40:18do people around here ever bury them in tins?
40:20I've heard that keeps them fresh.
40:22oh aye that they do milady.
40:24oh miss Dean she always had three tins buried every summer.
40:28and as often as not forgot to have them dug up again.
40:30in the um...
40:32large bed in the kitchen garden wasn't it?
40:36no no no milady.
40:38it was just there.
40:40by that wall.
40:48mr. Mulvey.
40:54that's the meadow.
40:56that's the wood.
41:02I can't dig up there.
41:06what's she up to?
41:08soon find out won't we?
41:12got to tell someone hasn't she?
41:14Tommy.
41:16Tommy.
41:18Tommy I found...
41:20no.
41:22Tommy.
41:24Tommy I found...
41:52Tommy that was brilliant.
41:54how did you discover it?
41:56Monica said that the curtains were always blown outward.
41:58that normally with an open window
42:00the cold air would blow them inward.
42:02I just noticed the central heating vents
42:04and it all added up.
42:06masterly.
42:08thank you.
42:10anyway what were you doing?
42:12getting poor old Mulberry pointing every which way.
42:14you were watching. well so was someone else.
42:16at least I'm pretty sure they were.
42:18I suddenly got the most creepy feeling.
42:20he told me where he'd hidden the tins.
42:22I simply asked him where the sun rose, where it set
42:24and whereabouts in the sky you could see the flowers.
42:26quick thinking Tavins.
42:28thanks.
42:30when do you think it'll be safe to start digging?
42:34not till after dark.
42:36I intend to enlist reinforcements.
42:38Monica's Gerald can stand lookout for us.
42:40with the help of one other.
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43:08surveillance Mr Rush.
43:10that's our game.
43:12always the prelude to an exciting
43:14climax.
43:16did you see Long Chaney and the Blackbird?
43:18he was this lime house thief you see.
43:20he was the second identity.
43:22a cripple to spy on the house
43:24as he was gonna burgle.
43:26anyway one night after he killed a copper
43:28he takes up his disguise as usual.
43:32finds his jewels all locked.
43:36permanent.
43:38it was so dramatic.
43:40I'll never forget the look on his face.
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44:00I never knew digging could sound so loud.
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