What influence did they have on crime-fighting duos? Indeed who influenced Christie. How do they fit into the Golden Age and then to later crime eras of wartime, 19? Did they adapt through Christie to their time or were they left behind? Indeed how should we view Tommy and Tuppence? As characters of their time, who did move on from youthful exuberance to old age, were they realistic or anachronistic? How did the adaptations go? Was there too much poetic licence from the scriptwriters, did they miss the point of Christie’s characters? In this talk, I will compare the two series. Was that what Christie wanted?įor the BBC, David Walliams seems to have been a fish out of water and though Jessica Raine as Tuppence almost got it, was that enough? In the ITV version James Warwick was pompous and Francesca Annis conceited. Getting everything wrong from character to place. Whilst ITV performances seemed simply overacted at times, the BBC series was a travesty of the duo’s abilities. What would Christie have thought of the Partners in Crime series on ITV from 1983 and the recent BBC version of 2015.
The characters aged with time as did the stories, but it will be the TV adaptations that I will interrogate. It is fair to say that Agatha Christie played with her characters Tommy and Tuppence through their five book series through 1922 to 1973. Shame was there are so few stories involving them.įour novels and one collection of rather silly short stories written in the style of the detective writers of the day for a jape.
The Tommy and Tuppence characters are by far my favourite Christie sleuths. His wise measured words were and I quote: He filled the office of Director of the Office of Management and Budget for US President Jimmy Carter. I go back to 1977 and the best piece of advice any Christie adapter could be given, by that well known literary critic Bert Lance. Unfortunately, this seems to be the modern way. Forget that this makes no sense to have the world’s most consummate detective a naive blunderer, let’s just do it. What were they thinking? Poirot needs a makeover let’s make him a priest responsible for the death of dozens of his parishioners. A presentation I made at an Agatha Christie conference last year: Tommy and Tuppence: How can TV get them so wrong?
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