The adaptation was produced by Endor Productions in partnership with Agatha Christie Productions. The series was commissioned by Ben Stephenson and Charlotte Moore for the BBC to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth. He assists Tommy and Tuppence when they require more technical knowledge, and he revels in their adventures. He met Tommy in hospital whilst recovering from losing a hand when working for a bomb-disposal unit. Carter tries to protect his hapless nephew Tommy and Tommy's wife, Tuppence, as they become involved in his new war.Īlbert Pemberton ( Matthew Steer) is a chemistry teacher and part-time agent for Carter. In the war, Carter knew who the enemy was, but now, in the 1950s, the adversary is a new type of spy.
Major Anthony Carter ( James Fleet) is Tommy's uncle and head of "The Third Floor", a branch of British Military Intelligence. When the opportunity is presented to aid British Intelligence in the defence of her country, she jumps at the chance to put herself, and her less willing husband, in harm's way. The daughter of a country archdeacon, one of five children, she misses the sense of purpose she had as a nurse in the war and cannot settle as a housewife, despite her love for Tommy and their son, George. Prudence (Tuppence) Beresford ( Jessica Raine) is a quick-witted, irrepressible woman with a tendency to leap without looking. It is a perilous world, in which Tommy flourishes. He does not realise that he has no head for business, but he does have a knack for espionage and crime-solving in a Cold War world full of double agents and assassins.
He tries to look after his spirited wife, Tuppence, and his son, George, by various money-making schemes. Thomas (Tommy) Beresford ( David Walliams), in his early 40s, is a clever and logical man whose business ventures never quite work out, just as his university and army days were never successful. The action is updated from the 19 settings of the novels to the 1950s, and the era of the Cold War against Stalin. The novels are adapted from the short stories of Partners in Crime the first three episodes from the 1922 novel The Secret Adversary, and the last three episodes from the 1941 novel N or M? The series was not renewed for a second series by the BBC. The six-part series is an adaptation of two Tommy and Tuppence detective novels by Agatha Christie. Partners in Crime is a British drama television series that began on BBC One on 26 July 2015.
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