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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". The first episode was enthusiastically received by critics. The evocative theme tune for the TV series was composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. Owners Budge and Cynthia O'Hara, who still owned the hotel 30 years later, were the inspirations for the characters in the novel and were able to share a treasure trove of Christie memorabilia with the cast.
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A Caribbean Mystery was shot on location at the Coral Reef Hotel in Barbados, where Christie had stayed in her visit to the country, and which had been the inspiration for the setting of the novel. Hickson vowed not to do another film after 1989's A Caribbean Mystery, but was persuaded to return for the final films in 19. Hickson was fond of the idea of the episodes airing at Christmas or in the Christmas holidays, which was why some aired around that time. Mainly for stylistic reasons, the films were set in the 1950's, in the years of 1951 and between 19. Slater was replaced by producer George Gallaccio starting with the fourth film. The series was filmed beginning in 1983 in areas including Norfolk, Devon, Barbados, near Oxford, and the town of Nether Wallop, Hampshire doubled as Marple's village of St. Producer Guy Slater of the BBC cast Hickson. In total, 12 Miss Miss Marple stories were adapted into 5 one-part episodes, 5 two-part episodes, and 2 three-part episodes starting with The Body in the Library (1984) and ending with The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992). Gwen Watford also appeared in two episodes as Miss Marple's friend and neighbour, Dolly Bantry.Įpisodes Main article: List of Miss Marple episodes Detective Inspector Craddock appeared in A Murder is Announced and The Mirror Crack'd. Detective Inspector/Superintendent Slack and Detective Constable/Sergeant Lake appeared 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. The first was Detective Inspector Slack (later Detective Superintendent), played by David Horovitch, the second Detective Constable (later Detective Sergeant) Lake, played by Ian Brimble. There were two other semi-regular characters in Miss Marple. Hickson had also appeared in a stage adaptation of the novel Appointment with Death in 1946, after which Christie sent Hickson a note "I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple." The adaptations are mainly true to the original novels. Decades before, she had appeared in a minor role in Murder, She Said, in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple. Joan Hickson, who played Miss Marple, was an octogenarian herself during most of the series' production. With the success of that series, the BBC got the approval to produce the stories of one of Christie's most famous detectives. Although indifferently treated by critics, the projects were popular with audiences and led to the filming of a number of short stories and the Tommy and Tuppence Beresford stories in the series Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime. Producer Pat Sandys of LWT first approached Pritchard and the Christie estate with a researched, detailed plan to film the novels Why Didn't They Ask Evans? and The Seven Dials Mystery in the early 1980s. I know it made unneccessary changes in minor plot points, and also that there were careless mistakes in its depiction of the time period.Christie had never been very happy with most filmed adaptations of her works, and according to her grandson Mathew Pritchard, who handled her estate after her death, "did not care much for television" either. The murderer's motive in the first book is also the same as in the episode, and she is treated if anything more sympathetically in the book.ĭon't remember exactly why I did not like the first film, which I saw in the cinema. They feature sexual scenes of the fade to black character and in one of the books Puck and Eje have to tell a police officer that they would not have heard any noise from outside because they were making love. I don't remember sex jokes from the books, but they are definitely more explicit than Christie. Looking it up it seems that most of the books that were filmed actually feature Puck, but in episode 5 she is a replacement for a different character. The early ones all feature the couple Puck and Eje, but she does not keep them in all of her later books. There is the same detective in all of her books.