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Marple

Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple.
Format Drama
Starring Geraldine McEwan (2004-2009)
Julia McKenzie (2009-present)
Various others
Country of origin  United Kingdom
No. of episodes 12 to date
Production
Producer(s) Agatha Christie Ltd.,
ITV Studios,
WGBH Boston
Running time 95 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel ITV
Original run 12 December 2004 – present

Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It is also known as Agatha Christie's Marple. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role. She was replaced by Julia McKenzie, who filmed adaptations of A Pocket Full of Rye, Murder is Easy, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, and They Do It with Mirrors for the fourth series. Each episode is known for having many well-known co-stars. Marple began in 2004 and a fourth series is expected to air in Autumn 2009. A fifth series of four episodes has been commissioned; presumably this series will contain adaptations of the remaining two Marple novels, A Caribbean Mystery and The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.[citation needed]

The episodes (that have been adapted from the original novels and the screenplays) have been written by Kevin Elyot, Stephen Churchett, Stewart Harcourt, Tom MacRae, Patrick Barlow and Paul Rutman.


Contents

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Series One (2004-2005)

Title UK airdate Guest cast IMDb link
The Body in the Library 12 December
Miles Richardson (as Frank Jefferson)
Simon Callow (as Colonel Melchett)
Jack Davenport (as Superintendent Harper)
James Fox (as Colonel Arthur Bantry)
Joanna Lumley (as Dolly Bantry)
Jamie Theakston (as Mark Gaskell)
Giles Oldershaw (as Edwards)
Emma Cooke (as Dinah Lee)		 Richard Durden (as Mr. Prescott)
Adam Garcia (as Raymond Starr)
Florence Hoath (as Pamela Reeves)
Ben Miller (as Basil Blake)
Ian Richardson (as Conway Jefferson)
Tina Martin (as Middle-aged Woman)
Bruce Mackinnon (as Scamper)
Abigail Neale-Wilkinson (as Jesse)		 Anna Rawlins (as Beatrice)
Robin Soans (as Dr. Haydock)
Mary Stockley (as Josie Turner)
Zoe Thorne (as Florence)
Emma Williams (as Ruby Keene)
Steven Williams (as Peter Carmody)
David Walliams (as George Bartlett)
Tara Fitzgerald (as Adelaide Jefferson)
[2]
The Murder at the Vicarage 19 December
Stephen Tompkinson (as DI Slack)
Jane Asher (as Mrs. Lester)
Derek Jacobi (as Colonel Protheroe)
Jason Flemyng (as Lawrence Redding)
Herbert Lom (as Augustin Duffosse)
Miriam Margolyes (as Mrs. Price-Ridley)
Tim McInnerny (as Reverend Leonard Clement)
Robert Powell (as Dr. Haydock)		 Rachael Stirling (as Griselda Clement)
Mark Gatiss (as Ronald Hawes)
Emily Bruni (as Helene Duffosse)
Jana Carpenter (as May Ainsworth)
Stephen Churchett (as Coroner)
Christina Cole (as Lettice Protheroe)
Paul Hawkyard (as Frank Tarrant)
Siobhan Hayes (as Mary Hill)		 Janet McTeer (as Anne Protheroe)
Jenny Howe (as Old Hall Maid)
Julian Morris (as Dennis Clement)
John Owens (as Photographer)
Angela Pleasence (as Miss Hartnell)
Ruth Sheen (as Mrs. Tarrant)
Julie Cox (as Young Miss Marple)
Marc Warren (as Captain Ainsworth)
[3]
4.50 From Paddington 26 December
Amanda Holden (as Lucy Eyelesbarrow)
Pam Ferris (as Elspeth McGillicuddy)
John Hannah (as Inspector Tom Campbell)
Niamh Cusack (as Emma Crackenthorpe)
Celia Imrie (as Madame Joilet)
Griff Rhys Jones (as Dr. David Quimper)		 Jenny Agutter (as Agnes Crackenthorpe)
Rob Brydon (as Inspector Awdry)
Tasha Bertham (as Olga)
Charlie Creed-Mills (as Harold Crackenthorpe)
Ben Daniels (as Alfred Crackenthorpe)
Rose Keegan (as Lady Alice)
Michael Landes (as Bryan Eastley)		 David Warner (as Luther Crackenthorpe)
Meritxell Lavanchy (as Anna Stravinska)
Toby Marlow (as James Stoddard-West)
Neve McIntosh (as Lady Stoddard-West)
Ciarán McMenamin (as Cedric Crackenthorpe)
Kurtis O'Brien (as Alexander Eastley)
Tim Stern (as Steward)
Pip Torrens (as Noel Coward)
[4]
A Murder is Announced 2 January
Zoë Wanamaker (as Letitia Blacklock)
Alexander Armstrong (as DI Craddock)
Elaine Paige (as Dora Bunner)
Virginia McKenna (as Belle Goedler)
Frances Barber (as Lizzie Hinchcliffe)
Cherie Lunghi (as Sadie Swettenham)
Christian Coulson (as Edmund Swettenham)		 Richard Dickson (as Mr. Rowlandson)
Matthew Goode (as Patrick Simmons)
Sienna Guillory (as Julia Simmons)
Keeley Hawes (as Philippa Haymes)
Gerard Horan (as Sergeant Fletcher)
Nicole Lewis (as Myrna Harris)		 Lesley Nicol (as Nurse McClelland)
Christian Pederson (as Rudi Scherz)
Robert Pugh (as Colonel Archie Easterbrook)
Claire Skinner (as Amy Murgatroyd)
Catherine Tate (as Mitzi Kosinski)
[5]

[edit] Series Two (2006)

Title UK airdate Guest cast IMDb link
Sleeping Murder 5 February
Phil Davis (as Dr. James Kennedy)
Dawn French (as Janet Erskine)
Paul McGann (as Dickie Erskine)
Una Stubbs (as Mrs. Pagett)
Peter Serafinowicz (as Walter Fane)
Sarah Parish (as Eve Ballantyne)
Helen Coker (as Lily Tutt)
Nickolas Grace (as Lionel Luff)		 Anna-Louise Plowman (as Helen Marsden)
Richard Bremmer (as Mr. Sims)
Julian Wadham (as Kelvin Halliday)
Martin Kemp (as Jackie Afflick)
Sophia Myles (as Gwenda Halliday)
Harry Treadaway (as George Erskine)
Mary Healey (as Shop Assistant)
Greg Hicks (as Ferdinand)		 Vincent Leigh (as Jim Tutt)
Geraldine Chaplin (as Mrs. Fane)
Russ Abbot (as CI Arthur Primer)
Harriet Walter (as the Duchess of Malfi)
Emilio Doorgasingh (as Sergeant Desai)
Aidan McArdle (as Hugh Hornbeam)
Darren Carnall (as Dresser)
[6]
The Moving Finger 12 February
Angela Curran (as Miss Ginch)
Rosalind Knight (as Partridge)
Imogen Stubbs (as Mona Symmington)
Sean Pertwee (as Dr. Owen Griffith)
Ellen Capron (as Agnes)
Keith Allen (as Inspector Graves)		 Frances de la Tour (as Maud Dane Calthrop)
Stephen Churchett (as Coroner)
Thelma Barlow (as Emily Barton)
Jessica Stevenson (as Amy Griffith)
John Sessions (as Cardew Pye)
Emilia Fox (as Joanna Burton)		 Kelly Brook (as Elsie Holland)
Harry Enfield (as Richard Symmington)
Ken Russell (as Reverend Dane Calthrop)
Talulah Riley (as Megan Hunter)
James D'Arcy (as Jerry Burton)
[7]
By the Pricking of My Thumbs 19 February
Greta Scacchi (as Tuppence Beresford)
Anthony Andrews (as Tommy Beresford)
Clare Holman (as Miss Packard)
Miriam Karlin (as Marjorie Moody)
O. T. Fagbenle (as Chris Murphy)
Jody Halse (as Amos Perry)
Josie Lawrence (as Hannah Beresford)
Michael Begley (as Ethan Maxwell)		 Brian Conley (as Eric Johnson)
Bonnie Langford (as Betty Johnson)
Florence Strickland (as Jane Eyre)
Patrick Barlow (as Mr. Timothy)
Lia Williams (as Nellie Bligh)
Steven Berkoff (as Freddie Eccles)
Oliver Jordan (as Young Ethan)
Michael Maloney (as Dr. Joshua Waters)		 Leslie Phillips (as Sir Philip Starke)
Chloe Pennington (as Young Hannah)
Michelle Ryan (as Rose Waters)
Claire Bloom (as Aunt Ada)
June Whitfield (as Mrs. Lancaster)
Charles Dance (as Septimus Bligh)
[8]
The Sittaford Mystery 30 April
Carey Mulligan (as Violet Willett)
Patricia Hodge (as Mrs. Evadne Willett)
Rita Tushingham (as Miss Elizabeth Percehouse)
Michael Brandon (as Martin Zimmerman)
James Wilby (as Stanley Kirkwood)		 Jeffrey Kissoon (as Ahmed Ghai)
Laurence Fox (as James Pearson)
Ian Hallard (as Reporter)
Robert Hickson (as Arthur Hopkins)
Matthew Kelly (as Donald Jones)
Robert Hardy (as Winston Churchill)		 Paul Kaye (as Dr. Ambrose Burt)
James Murray (as Charles Burnaby)
Mel Smith (as John Enderby)
Zoe Telford (as Emily Trefusis)
Timothy Dalton (as Clive Trevelyan)
Michael Attwell (as Archie Stone)
[9]

[edit] Series Three (2007-2009)

Title UK airdate US airdate Guest cast IMDb link
At Bertram's Hotel 23 September 29 July
Martine McCutcheon (as Jane Cooper)
Stephen Mangan (as Inspector Larry Bird)
Polly Walker (as Lady Bess Sedgwick)
Vincent Regan (as Mickey Gorman)
Hannah Spearritt (as Tilly Rice)
Mica Paris (as Amelia Walker)
Emily Beecham (as Elvira Blake)
Ed Stoppard (as Ladislaus Malinowski)		 Charles Kay (as Canon Pennyfather)
Mary Nighy (as Brigit Milford)
Francesca Annis (as Lady Selina Hazy)
Danny Webb (as Mutti)
Peter Davison (as Hubert Curtain)
Nicholas Burns (as Jack & Joel Britten)
Mark Heap (as Mr. Humfries)
Isabella Parriss (as Young Miss Marple)		 James Howard (as 1891 Hotel Doorman)
Adam Smethurst (as Cab Driver)
Tony Bignell (as Newsboy)
Shenton Dixon (as Louis Armstrong)
Sarah London (as Miss Tibbs)
Georgia Allen (as Mrs. Rice)
[10]
Ordeal by Innocence 30 September 19 August
Jane Seymour (as Rachel Argyle)
Juliet Stevenson (as Gwenda Vaughan)
Alison Steadman (as Kirsten Lindstrom)
Richard Armitage (as Philip Durrant)
Denis Lawson (as Leo Argyle)
Lisa Stansfield (as Mary Durrant)		 Burn Gorman (as Jacko Argyle)
Julian Rhind-Tutt (as Dr. Arthur Calgary)
Reece Shearsmith (as Inspector Huish)
Stephanie Leonidas (as Hester Argyle)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (as Tina Argyle)
Tom Riley (as Bobby Argyle)		 Bryan Dick (as Micky Argyle)
Andrea Lowe (as Maureen)
Camille Coduri (as Mrs. Lindsay)
Michael Feast (as John Croker)
Pippa Haywood (as Mrs. Price)
James Jurran (as Cyril Price)
[11]
Towards Zero 3 August 15 July
Tom Baker (as Frederick Treves)
Julie Graham (as Mary Aldin)
Paul Nicholls (as Ted Latimer)
Julian Sands (as Thomas Royde)
Alan Davies (as Superintendent Mallard)
Eileen Atkins (as Lady Camilla Tressilian)
Greg Wise (as Nevile Strange)		 Zoe Tapper (as Kay Strange)
Saffron Burrows (as Audrey Strange)
Greg Rusedski (as Merrick)
Wendy Nottingham (as Mrs. Rogers)
Amelda Brown (as Barrett)
Peter Symonds (as Hurstall)
Jo Woodcock (as Alice)		 Ben Meyjes (as Tipping)
Thomas Arnold (as Jones)
Mike Burnside (as George)
Eleanor Turner-Moss (as Diana Brinton)
Guy Williams (as Dr. Lazenby)
[12]
Nemesis 1 January 22 July
Richard E. Grant (as Raymond West)
Johnny Briggs (as Sydney Lumley)
Amanda Burton (as Sister Clotilde)
Anne Reid (as Mother Agnes)
Ronni Ancona (as Amanda Dalrymple)		 George Cole (as Lawrence Raeburn)
Dan Stevens (as Michael Faber/Rafiel)
Will Mellor (as Martin Waddy)
Emily Woof (as Rowena Waddy)
Ruth Wilson (as Georgina Barrow)		 Adrian Rawlins (as Derek Turnball)
Laura Michelle Kelly (as Margaret Lumley/Verity Hunt)
Lee Ingleby (as Colin Hards)
Graeme Garden (as Matthew Broadribb)
Heidi Monsen (as Waitress)
[13]

[edit] Series Four (2009)

Title UK airdate US airdate Guest cast IMDb link
A Pocket Full of Rye [1]
TBA[2]
 5 July[3]
Matthew Macfadyen (as Inspector Neele)
Rupert Graves (as Lance Fortescue)
Helen Baxendale (as Mary Dove)
Lucy Cohu (as Patricia Fortescue)
Prunella Scales (as Mrs. Mackenzie)
Ralf Little (as Sergeant Pickford)
Wendy Richard (as Mrs. Crump)		 Ben Miles (as Percival Fortescue)
Liz White (as Jennifer Fortescue)
Anna Madeley (as Adele Fortescue)
Joseph Beattie (as Vivian Dubois)
Kenneth Cranham (as Rex Fortescue)
Hattie Morahan (as Elaine Fortescue)
Laura Haddock (as Miss Grosvenor)		 Rose Heiney (as Gladys Martin)
Ken Campbell (as Mr. Crump)
Thea Collings (as Tilly)
Edward Tudor-Pole (as Professor Bernsdorrf)
Paul Brooke (as Billingsley)
Chris Larkin (as Gerald Wright)
Rachel Atkins (as Sanatorium Sister)
[14]
Murder is Easy[4]
TBA
 12 July[3]
Benedict Cumberbatch (as Luke Fitzwilliam)
Sylvia Syms (as Miss Lavinia Pinkerton)
Jemma Redgrave (as Jessie Humbleby)
Shirley Henderson (as Honoria Waynflete)
Anna Chancellor (as Lydia Horton)
Hugo Speer (as James Abbot)		 Steve Pemberton (as Henry Wake)
James Lance (as Dr. Geoffrey Thomas)
Margo Stilley (as Bridget Conway)
David Haig (as Major Hugh Horton)
Russell Tovey (as PC Terence Reed)
Tim Brooke-Taylor (as Dr. Edward Humbleby)		 Lyndsey Marshal (as Amy Gibbs)
Camilla Arfwedson (as Rose Humbleby)
Stephen Churchett (as Coroner)
Steven Hartley (as George Rogers)
Julian Lightwing (as Leonard Waynflete)
[15]
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? [5]
TBA
 26 July[3]
Richard Briers (as Wilson)
Rik Mayall (as Alec Nicholson)
Mark Williams (as Claud Evans)
Sean Biggerstaff (as Bobby Attfield)
Siwan Morris (as Florrie)
Rafe Spall (as Roger Bassington)		 Warren Clarke (as Commander Peters)
Samantha Bond (as Sylvia Savage)
Helen Lederer (as Marjorie Attfield)
David Buchanan (as John Carstairs)
Natalie Dormer (as Moira Nicholson)
Georgia Moffett (as Frankie Derwent)		 Hannah Murray (as Dorothy Savage)
Freddie Fox (as Tom Savage)
Basher Savage (as Young George Savage)
Sarah Ridgeway (as Young Sylvia Savage)
Rupert Savage (as Young Jack Savage)
[16]
They Do It with Mirrors [6]
TBA
 19 July[3]
Joan Collins (as Ruth van Rydock)
Maxine Peake (as Jolly Bellever)
Tom Payne (as Edgar Lawson)
Nigel Terry (as Christian Gulbrandsen)
Brian Cox (as Lewis Serrocold)
Elliot Cowan (as Wally Hudd)		 Penelope Wilton (as Carrie Louise Serrocold)
Ian Ogilvy (as Johnny Restarick)
Sarah Smart (as Mildred Strete)
Alex Jennings (as Inspector Curry)		 Emma Griffiths Malin (as Gina Elsworth)
Sean Hughes (as Sergeant Lake)
Liam Garrigan (as Stephen Restarick)
Jordan Long (as Whitstable Ernest)
Alexei Sayle (as Dr. Maverick)
[17]

[edit] Novels adapted with Geraldine McEwan

Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple

[edit] Novels adapted with Julia McKenzie

[edit] Ratings

[edit] Series 1

Date Episode Viewers
(millions)[7]
12 December 2004 The Body In The Library 8.72
19 December 2004 The Murder At The Vicarage 8.36
26 December 2004 4:50 From Paddington 5.95
2 January 2005 A Murder Is Announced 7.78

[edit] Series 2

Date Episode Viewers
(millions)
5 February 2006 Sleeping Murder 8.74
12 February 2006 The Moving Finger 7.89
19 February 2006 By The Pricking Of My Thumbs 7.93
30 April 2006 The Sittaford Mystery 6.58

[edit] Series 3

Date Episode Viewers
(millions)
23 September 2007 At Bertram’s Hotel 5.41
30 September 2007 Ordeal By Innocence 5.54
3 August 2008 Towards Zero 5.84
1 January 2009 Nemesis 4.48

[edit] Other countries

Marple has been aired in the United States on PBS on Mystery! as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and in Canada on CBC and in French on Radio-Canada. In Australia, Marple airs as Miss Marple or simple Marple on ABC1. Marple is also being broadcast on ATV World in Hong Kong. Marple has been broadcast on the Hallmark Channel in Israel.Marple has been shown in South Korea in EBS, and currently is viewed by many audience from MegaTV. In Southern Africa it was shown on Hallmark Channel on the Satellite service DStv.

[edit] Controversy

The show has sparked controversy with some viewers for its adaptations of the novels. The first episode, The Body in the Library, changed the identity of one of the killers and introduced lesbianism into the plot; the second episode explored Miss Marple's earlier life; the third episode contained a motive change and the fourth episode cut several characters and added affairs into the story and emphasized a lesbian subplot that was quite discreet in the original novel. The second series also saw some changes. By the Pricking of My Thumbs was originally a Tommy and Tuppence story, while The Sittaford Mystery was also not originally a Miss Marple book and the identity of the killer was changed. The third series has two adaptations that were not originally Miss Marple books: Towards Zero and Ordeal by Innocence. The fourth season continues the trend with Murder is Easy and Why Didn't They Ask Evans?.

[edit] DVD releases

The first series of Marple was released in 2005 in the UK, followed by the second series in 2006. The third series was released in autumn 2007 in the US, but has not been released in the UK; due to ITV1 having not aired the final episode yet.

Series One was released as four individual DVDs and as a "bundle" in Australia (Region 4) with Series Two released on 1 August 2007. The third series was released individually in April 2008.

Series Four will be released in Region 1 on 4 August 2009 after the conclusion of the broadcast on PBS Mystery!

[edit] Location

Marple was mainly filmed in the picturesque village of Turville, in Buckinghamshire.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Julia McKenzie takes Miss Marple role". MediaGuardian. 11 February 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/11/itv.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media. 
  2. ^ The episode premiered on Canada's CBC on 21 February 2009. [1]
  3. ^ a b c d http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/schedule/masterpiece_mystery_schedule.pdf
  4. ^ This episode is scheduled to appear on CYBC (Cyprus) on the 25th of February 2009
  5. ^ Kilkelly, Daniel (2008-08-05). "Briers, Mayall join 'Miss Marple'". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a119296/briers-mayall-join-miss-marple.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-05. 
  6. ^ Thornton, Michael (2008-09-21). "Joan Collins signs up for 'Marple'". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a130772/joan-collins-signs-up-for-marple.html. Retrieved on 2008-09-21. 
  7. ^ www.barb.co.uk

[edit] External links

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Works by Agatha Christie
Detectives
Novels
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · The Secret Adversary · The Murder on the Links · The Man in the Brown Suit · The Secret of Chimneys · The Murder of Roger Ackroyd · The Big Four · The Mystery of the Blue Train · The Seven Dials Mystery · The Murder at the Vicarage · The Sittaford Mystery · Peril at End House · Lord Edgware Dies · Murder on the Orient Express · Why Didn't They Ask Evans? · Three Act Tragedy · Death in the Clouds · The A.B.C. Murders · Murder in Mesopotamia · Cards on the Table · Dumb Witness · Death on the Nile · Appointment with Death · Hercule Poirot's Christmas · Murder is Easy · And Then There Were None · Sad Cypress · One, Two, Buckle My Shoe · Evil Under the Sun · N or M? · The Body in the Library · Five Little Pigs · The Moving Finger · Towards Zero · Death Comes as the End · Sparkling Cyanide · The Hollow · Taken at the Flood · Crooked House · A Murder is Announced · They Came to Baghdad · Mrs McGinty's Dead · They Do It with Mirrors · After the Funeral · A Pocket Full of Rye · Destination Unknown · Hickory Dickory Dock · Dead Man's Folly · 4.50 from Paddington · Ordeal by Innocence · Cat Among the Pigeons · The Pale Horse · The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side · The Clocks · A Caribbean Mystery · At Bertram's Hotel · Third Girl · Endless Night · By the Pricking of My Thumbs · Hallowe'en Party · Passenger to Frankfurt · Nemesis · Elephants Can Remember · Postern of Fate · Curtain · Sleeping Murder
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