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S1.E3 ∙ Marple: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw Sat, Dec 25, 2004 Miss Marple investigates the wealthy Crackenthorpe clan, believing a body to be hidden on their estate after a visiting friend witnesses a brutal strangling murder occurring on a passing train.
Agatha Christie's Marple is a British ITV television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It is also known as Marple . The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role.
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterized as an elderly spinster, [3] [4] she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.
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Agatha Christie had never been very happy with most filmed adaptations of her works, and according to her grandson Mathew Prichard, who handled her estate after her death, she "did not care much for television", either. Producer Pat Sandys of London Weekend Television first approached Prichard and the Christie estate with a researched, detailed pla...
Regular characters
In addition to Miss Marple, there are two semi-regular characters in the series. The first is Inspector (later Superintendent) Slack, played by David Horovitch; the second is Constable (later Sergeant) Lake, played by Ian Brimble. Slack and Lake appear in five episodes: "The Body in the Library", "The Murder at the Vicarage", "4.50 From Paddington", "They Do It with Mirrors" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". They are the official detectives, and both (particularly Slack) originally...
Recurring characters
There are other recurring characters in Miss Marple: 1. John Castle appears as Inspector Dermot Eric Craddock in "A Murder Is Announced" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". Craddock was unknown to Miss Marple in the former story but had become her nephew by the latter. 2. Gwen Watford appears as Mrs Dolly Bantry in "The Body in the Library" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". 3. Barbara Hicks appears as Miss Hartnell in "The Murder at the Vicarage" and "The Mirror Crack'd from...
BBC producer Guy Slater cast Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. The series was filmed beginning in 1983 in areas including Norfolk, Devon, Oxfordshire and Barbados. The town of Nether Wallop in Hampshire doubled as Miss Marple's home village of St. Mary Mead. Slater was replaced by producer George Gallaccio, starting with the fourth film. The closing cre...
The first episode was enthusiastically received by critics. The Times said "once hooked, you won't be able to turn off", and The Sun said it was a series "with pulling power and real class". For episode two, "The Moving Finger", The Daily Telegraphstated "Once again Guy Slater's production is built around the brilliant performance of Joan Hickson, ...
All 12 episodes were shown in the United States on the PBS Mystery! series. Miss Marple was also seen in over 30 countries, including Spain, the former Soviet Unionand China.
Miss Marple was first released in DVD in the UK (Region 2) in 2000. A complete box set of all 12 stories was released in 2005 by 2 Entertain Video. In North America(Region 1), episodes were first released in 2001. In summer 2009, the Sunday edition of the Greek newspaper Kathimeriniwas offering to its readers DVDs (one per week) of the series. In J...
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Series Cast 70. Geraldine McEwan. Miss Marple (4 Episodes) Jana Carpenter. May Ainsworth (1 Episode) Ian Richardson. Conway Jefferson (1 Episode) Tara Fitzgerald.
