Sign In. Episode guide. Play trailer Crime Drama Mystery. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Trailer Agatha Christie's Marple: Series 6. Agatha Christie's Marple: Season 3. Agatha Christie's Marple: Season 2. Agatha Christie's Marple. Agatha Christie's Marple: Season 1. Photos Top cast Edit.
Stephen Churchett Coroner as Coroner. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Add episode. Create a list ». Series watched. See all related lists ». User reviews 27 Review. Top review. Watchable, despite the blandness of the lead character. A seemingly innocuous elderly woman with no background in criminal investigation, she has a knack for solving crimes, particularly murder.
Not in the same league as Agatha Christie's Poirot the series starring David Suchet , but generally quite watchable.
Miss Marple herself is quite bland, and certainly does not have enough colour or presence to carry an entire episode, let alone a series of 23 episodes. This is regardless of whether we are talking about the first 12 episodes, when Geraldine McEwan played Marple, or the final 11 episodes, when she was played by Julia McKenzie.
McKenzie was the better of the two, having more gravitas and presence than McEwan, but neither inject much colour or engagement into proceedings. To compensate for Marple's dullness, the main secondary characters are given depth, and are often made the focus of the episode. This includes some potentially interesting sub-plots and backstories. Marple is a fringe character for much of the episode and then swoops in towards the end to solve the crime.
This strategy is not always employed, unfortunately, and, when it is, is not always done well, depending largely on the writing for the episode and the quality of the performances. The mysteries themselves are generally quite intriguing. In some ways, this is where the Marple series is better than Poirot.
Poirot mysteries were often highly complex, to the point of implausibility, with far-fetched back stories. Marple mysteries are more relatable and plausible. Details Edit. It's beyond caricature. And how did Jack Davenport get to play a superintendent of police with a street trader accent at the age of not much more than 30? Agatha Christie needs to be played straight -- or perhaps for laughs, as the old Margaret Rutherford films did it -- but this version does neither.
FAQ 1. What is the score music played throughout the film, not the ones listed in the music section, there is a conductor on the disc but not inn the imdb credits. I love that background music!!!
Details Edit. Release date April 17, United States. United Kingdom United States. PBS United States. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 34 minutes. Related news. Nov 24 Rope of Silicon. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.
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