The heroine of the story is an endearingly same girl, Lady Eileen Brent, whom most people call "bundle," played with plucky spunk by Cheryl Campbell. Or - more to the point - "I say, Stevens, would you go out and buy me a pistol?" and the English breakfast saw its finest hour." Probably it is one of the worlds that exist almost entirely in nostalgic imagination - the kind of world in which a gentleman can say to his gentleman's gentleman, "I say, Stevens, pop out and get me some cigarettes, will you?" Occasionally it becomes so playful that it gets silly, but by and large "Seven Dials" is capital fun and absorbing down to the last devilish turn of events.Īccording to host Peter Ustinov, who introduced the mystery, it is set in a time, the early '20s, "when loyalty and patriotism and truth were words of true meanings. In "The Seven Dials Mystery," from 8 to 10:30 tonight on Channel 5, the bodies are discovered with the swiftness and finesse one expects of Agatha Christie this is the first Christie TV adaptation to be seen in the United States (a production of London Weekend Television). A nasty business, this "unpleasantness," as the chief inspector from Scotland Yard refers to undertakings like MURDER. Good old Jerry loves his sleep, but one long night he gets more than he bargained for.
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