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Based on Christie story a haunted house? Got house as an inheritance but no money left to live on.

Lots of offers to buy house--gold tooth and ears

This episode of "Partners in Crime" is one which was very predictable but you really cannot blame Agatha Christie for this. What I mean is that back when the story was written, it was new and fresh...but over the years many movies and TV shows have copied many story elements from this particular story. My wife said it well when it reminded her of an episode of "Scooby Doo"!

A poor heiress comes to Tommy and Tuppence with a problem. She inherited a house which seems to be haunted! Additionally, while she expected to have some sort of monetary inheritance with the manor, she couldn't find any and she cannot afford to keep the place going. The couple agree to look into the haunting but soon do what I would have done...wondered WHO would have benefitted from scaring folks off and WHY. This is the key to the mystery and it's well worth seeing. And, as I said above, you can't blame Christie if you, too, can easily solve this one!

By the way, I only scored this one a 6...not because the Christie story was bad so much as the heiress was so dim-witted....she SHOULD have been able to figure much of this out on her own!

Up until he was 40, the Jewish David Suchet was an areligious person. However, he underwent a conversion to Christianity and he went all in. What I mean by that is following the completion of his masterful "Poirot" series, he put his money where his mouth is, so to speak...narrating quite a few shows about Christianity, Protestantism, and, in this case, British Cathedrals.

The show consists of brief visits to various cathedrals which used to be big sites for pilgrimages...starting with southern England and working his way northward. The show features lovely cinematography and really makes you want to visit these grand Anglican churches. My only complaint, and it's a minor one, is that the show features too little time with each cathedral. For example, there are wonderful things about many of these places which he never gets to...mostly because they cram too many into the show. I would have preferred either fewer cathedrals or a longer show. Still, well worth your time.

In 1922, before she was particularly famous, Agatha Christie and her first husband took a trip to various British Commonwealth countries in order to drum up support for a Royal Exhibition in London in 1924. Each episode features one of these countries...as well as Hawaii where she also stopped along the way. Episodes consist of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada.

While this is a very low energy and slow documentary, this is part of why I liked it. Suchet makes the seemingly mundane seem wonderful due to his incredibly sweet demeanor and lovely voice. You really love the things he says and does because you like him so much. Well worth seeing...even if you DON'T care about Agatha Christie.