The Agatha Christie Hour – The Girl In The Train / The Fourth Man

Two episodes of the early 1980s BBC drama series based on the short stories of crime writer Agatha Christie. In ‘The Girl in the Train’, dissolute playboy George Rowland (Osmund Bullock), disowned for the seventh time by his wealthy uncle, is on the train to London when a beautiful girl bursts into his compartment frantically begging to be hidden, gives George a mysterious parcel and disappears. But who is the girl in the train, and will George ever see her again? In ‘The Fourth Man’, a canon, a lawyer and a psychiatrist find themselves together on a train bound for Newcastle. There is a fourth man in the compartment, who apparently pays no attention to the animated conversation of his fellow travellers. But might they have something to learn from this mysterious stranger?