Miss Marple
Format	Drama
Starring	Joan Hickson David Horovitch Ian Brimble Various Others
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	12
Production
Running time	120 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Original run	26 December 1984 – 27 December 1992

Miss Marple was a long-running and popular British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It starred Joan Hickson in the title role and aired from 1984 to 1992. All twelve original Christie novels were dramatised. The screenplays were written by T.R. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Plater, Kenneth Taylor and Jill Hyem, and it was produced by George Gallaccio. For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ... Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC TV series Joan Hickson OBE (August 5, 1906 – October 17, 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television, who achieved fame in her old age playing Agatha Christies Miss Marple. ... David Horovitch (born 11 August 1945) is an English actor best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple Jane Marple, usually known as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christies crime novels. ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), mainly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ... Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC TV series Joan Hickson OBE (August 5, 1906 – October 17, 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television, who achieved fame in her old age playing Agatha Christies Miss Marple. ... Alan Frederick Plater, CBE (born 15 April 1935) is an English playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. ... Formerly an actress, Jill Hyem became a successful British television writer. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... George Gallaccio is a British television producer, whose most prominent work was as producer of the BBCs adaptations of Agatha Christies Miss Marple novels in the 1980s and 1990s. ...

The actresses who played the lead character, Jane Marple, in the movie and television adaptions include: Gracie Fields, Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury, Helen Hayes and Joan Hickson and the latest, Geraldine McEwan.

Background

Joan Hickson, who played Miss Marple, was an octogenarian herself and had appeared some years before in Murder, She Said, in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple. The adaptations are mainly true to the original novels. Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC TV series Joan Hickson OBE (August 5, 1906 – October 17, 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television, who achieved fame in her old age playing Agatha Christies Miss Marple. ... Murder, She Said, is the first of four films, made by MGM, based, or claimed to be based, on novels by Agatha Christie and starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Bud Tingwell as Inspector Craddock and Stringer Davis (Rutherfords real-life Husband) as Mr Stringer. ... Dame Margaret Rutherford DBE (11 May 1892–22 May 1972) was an English Academy Award-winning character actress who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Cowards Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest. ...

There were two other semi-regular characters in Miss Marple. The first was Detective Inspector Slack, who 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. He was played by David Horovitch. The other semi-regular was Detective Constable (later Detective Sergeant) Lake, played by Ian Brimble. He appeared in 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. David Horovitch (born 11 August 1945) is an English actor best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple. ...

Episodes

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Theme tune

The evocative theme tune for the TV series was composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. Ken Howard (born December 26, 1939, London) is a successful composer, lyricist and television director. ...

Other countries

All twelve episodes were shown in the United States on the PBS Mystery! series. Miss Marple was also shown in Germany. PBS redirects here. ... Mystery! (also written MYSTERY!) is a long-running television series in the USA, which airs on PBS and is produced by WGBH. The show has brought a large number of detective series and television movies - most of them British productions from the BBC or various ITV companies - to air on...

DVD releases

Miss Marple was first released in DVD in the UK (Region 2) in 2000. A complete box set of all 12 episodes was released in 2005 by 2 Entertain Video. In North America (Region 1), episodes were first released in 2001.

External links

• Miss Marple at the British Film Institute Screen Online
• Miss Marple at TV.com