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Agatha Christie's Marple :: The Murder At The Vicarage (01x02)

Episode Information

Title:

The Murder At The Vicarage

Episode #:

01x02

Production Number:

1884

Original Airdate:

Sunday December 19th, 2004

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Episode Crew
Director:	Charles Palmer (1)
Writer:	Stephen Churchett
Story:	Agatha Christie

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Stephen Churchett	played	Coroner	Recurring (first appearance)
•Angela Pleasence	played	Mrs. Hartnell
•Christina Cole (1)	played	Lettice Protheroe
•Derek Jacobi	played	Colonel Protheroe
•Emily Bruni	played	Helene Dufosse
•Herbert Lom	played	Augustin Dufosse
•Jana Carpenter	played	Mrs. Ainsworth
•Jane Asher	played	Mrs. Lester
•Janet McTeer	played	Anne Protheroe
•Jason Flemyng	played	Lawrence Redding
•Jenny Howe	played	Maid
•John Owens	played	Photographer
•Julian Morris	played	Dennis Clement
•Julie Cox	played	Young Miss Marple
•Mark Gatiss	played	Ronald Hawes
•Miriam Margolyes	played	Mrs. Price-Ridley
•Paul Hawkyard	played	Frank Tarrant
•Rachael Stirling	played	Griselda Clement
•Robert Powell	played	Dr. Haydock
•Ruth Sheen	played	Mrs. Tarrant
•Siobhan Hayes	played	Mary Hill
•Stephen Tompkinson	played	Inspector Slack
•Tim McInnerny	played	Reverend Leonard Clement
Uncredited
•Marc Warren (2)	played	Captain Ainsworth

Episode Notes

The director Charles Palmer would later cast both Christina Cole (Lettice Protheroe) and Angela Pleasence (Mrs. Hartnell) in the 2007 Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code". They played Lilith and Queen Elizabeth I respectively

Angela Pleasence (Mrs. Hartnell) is the second member of her family to appear in a television adaptation of a Miss Marple novel. Her father, Donald Pleasence, played Jason Rafiel in the Miss Marple episode "A Carribbean Mystery" in 1989.

Sir Derek Jacobi (Colonel Protheroe) and Christina Cole (Lettice Protheroe) both later played villains in 2007 Doctor Who episodes. Sir Derek played Professor Yana / The Master in "Utopia" while Cole played Lilith in "The Shakespeare Code".

Episode Quotes

Reverend Clement: I could strangle Protheroe sometimes. May God forgive me.
Griselda: I'd stab him.
Currate Hawes: I'd poison him.
Dennis: I'd shoot him.
Lawrence: Use my gun.

Lawrence: And how would you do it, Miss Marple?
Miss Marple: I never speak lightly of murder, Mr. Redding. I hate to tempt fate.

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