Here's the story summary from the PBS website:įair is foul and foul is fair in the hamlet of Much Deeping, where the Pale Horse Inn is run by a trio of entrepreneurial witches, and the annual celebration of the town's witch trials of 1664 is about to commence. But that aside, The Pale Horse was one of Julia McKenzie's better outings as Miss Marple in my opinion, and an enjoyable ninety minutes of 1950s period drama bliss. For some reason, Masterpiece elected to hold this episode in reserve from the 2010 season, so this is the only Marple episode we're getting this year which feels a little odd.
#JULIA MCKENZIE MARPLE EPISODES TV#
The most important thing for me is that these TV adaptations introduce new people to the wonderful world of Agatha Christie and the fantastic, sharp witted and even sharper tongued character of Miss Marple.Masterpiece Mystery concluded the Agatha Christie portion of its season with a Miss Marple episode entitled The Pale Horse. However, if you take each episode as a single story in it’s right and forget the originals, you can get a lot of enjoyment from each one as the stories are all interesting and will keep you on your toes – after all, given we all love a good mystery so much, the changes added certainly do keep you guessing even if you’re familiar with the stories so there is that benefit. ‘A Caribbean Mystery’ kicks of the last season well before it goes a bit more downhill again – that being said they are both still far better than the final episodes (episode 4) of seasons 2, 3 & 4 which all seem to save their worst episode for the end.
#JULIA MCKENZIE MARPLE EPISODES SERIES#
In terms of the best ‘non-Marple’ episodes these are definitely ‘Towards Zero’, ‘Ordeal by Innocence’ and ‘The Pale Horse’.įor fans of the original novels, the series is rescued and brought back on track with season 5 coming back to the original Marple stories and sticking to the plots by Christie. I personally prefer Julia McKenzie as Marple so my favourites are: The Pale Horse, The Blue Geranium, The Mirror Crack’d, A Caribbean Mystery and Greenshaw’s Folly.Īfter season 1, the series start to go off at a tangent by adding Marple into too many ‘non-Marple’ stories and re-writing them to the point in which some even have different murderers! I would describe ‘The Sittaford Mystery’, ‘The Secret of Chimneys’, ‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evens’ and ‘Murder is Easy’ as inspired by Agatha Christie’s novels but nothing more.
The first first episodes are faithful to the original novels by Agatha Christie for me season 1 is best in terms of story. Unlike the Poirot series which stay close to the novels and original plots by Agatha Christie, much more poetic licence has been taken in the Marple series.
The street scenes were filmed in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire and the home build for Mike and Ellie by Robbie is ‘The Homewood’ in Surrey.įor me, the 6 series and be summed up as ‘Starts and ends strong with some serious wobbles in the middle’. Tom Hughes plays Mike Rogers and Joanna Vanderham is Ellie – Tamzin Outhwaite appears as Mrs Rogers and Birgitte Hjort Sorensen is Gretta. The acting is a bit lack-lustre for me and I just don’t warm to any of them. I personally found it a bit slow and it’s not one I could watch again and again. Basically – if you’ve read the novel, you wont like the addition of Miss Marple, if you’ve not read the story and aren’t familiar with it – you probably will like it! The novel was one of Christie’s more darker novels and there are some definitely creepy moments in it.
The original novel by Agatha Christie did not include Marple so this is the last time we have her character added into the story for the sake of the TV episodes and for me it’s not one that works as well as say ‘Towards Zero’. Characters from Christie’s Other NovelsĪ much more sinister and dark production to end the season with.New Poirot Film 2020 – Death on the Nile Expectations.
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