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Agatha Christie's Marple Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Body In The Library

First aired: Dec/12/2004
Writer: Kevin Elyot
Director: Andy Wilson
Guest star: Steven Williams (Peter Carmody), Ian Richardson (Conway Jefferson), Adam Garcia (Raymond Starr), Ben Miller (Basil Blake), Jack Davenport (Superintendent Harper), Mary Stockley (Josie Turner), Emma Williams (Ruby Keene), James Fox (Colonel Arthur Bantry), Tara Fitzgerald (Adelaide Jefferson), Giles Oldershaw (Edwards), Zoe Thorne (Florence), David Walliams (George Bartlett), Joanna Lumley (Dolly Bantry), Bruce MacKinnon (Scamper), Florence Hoath (Pamela Reeves), Miles Richardson (Frank Jefferson), Anna Rawlins (Beatrice), Robin Soans (Dr. Haydock), Abigail Neale-Wilkinson (Jesse), Simon Callow (Colonel Melchett), Tina Martin (Middle-aged Woman), Emma Cooke (Dinah Lee), Jamie Theakston (Mark Gaskell), Richard Durden (Mr Prestcott)



2 :01x02 - The Murder At The Vicarage

First aired: Dec/19/2004
Writer: Stephen Churchett
Director: Charles Palmer
Guest star: Tim McInnerny (Reverend Leonard Clement), Miriam Margolyes (Mrs. Price-Ridley), Emily Bruni (Helene Dufosse), Julian Morris (Dennis Clement), Siobhan Hayes (Mary Hill), Herbert Lom (Augustin Dufosse), Jana Carpenter (Mrs. Ainsworth), Mark Gatiss (Ronald Hawes), Jane Asher (Mrs. Lester), Julie Cox (Young Miss Marple), Angela Pleasence (Mrs. Hartnell), Ruth Sheen (Mrs. Tarrant), John Owens (Photographer), Christina Cole (Lettice Protheroe), Janet McTeer (Anne Protheroe), Jenny Howe (Maid), Paul Hawkyard (Frank Tarrant), Robert Powell (Dr. Haydock), Jason Flemyng (Lawrence Redding), Stephen Tompkinson (Inspector Slack), Rachael Stirling (Griselda Clement), Derek Jacobi (Colonel Protheroe), Stephen Churchett (Coroner), Marc Warren (Captain Ainsworth)



3 :01x03 - 4:50 From Paddington

First aired: Dec/26/2004
Writer: Stephen Churchett
Director: Andy Wilson
Guest star: Rob Brydon (Inspector Awdrey), Griff Rhys Jones (Dr. David Quimper), Jenny Agutter (Agnes Crackenthorpe), Pip Torrens (Noel Coward), Tasha Bertham (Olga), Ciarán McMenamin (Cedric Crackenthorpe), Tim Stern (Attendant), Amanda Holden (Lucy Eyelesbarrow), Pam Ferris (Elspeth McGullicuddy), David Warner (Luther Crackenthorpe), Rose Keegan (Lady Alice), Toby Marlow (James Stoddard-West), Celia Imrie (Madame Joliet), Charlie Creed-Miles (Harold Crackenthorpe), Neve McIntosh (Martine), Kurtis O'Brien (Alexander Eastley), Meritxell Lavanchy (Anna Stravinska), Michael Landes (Bryan Eastley), Niamh Cusack (Emma Crackenthorpe), John Hannah (Inspector Tom Campbell), Ben Daniels (Alfred Crackenthorpe)



4 :01x04 - A Murder Is Announced

First aired: Jan/02/2005
Writer: Stewart Harcourt
Director: John Strickland
Guest star: Sienna Guillory (Julia Simmons), Keeley Hawes (Philippa Haymes), Elaine Paige (Dora Bunner), Claire Skinner (Amy Murgatroyd), Nicole Lewis (Myrna Harris), Lesley Nicol (Nurse McClelland), Alexander Armstrong (D.I. Craddock), Catherine Tate (Mitzi Kosinski), Cherie Lunghi (Sadie Swettenham), Christian Coulson (Edmund Swettenham), Matthew Goode (Patrick Simmons), Zoë Wanamaker (Letitia Blacklock), Frances Barber (Lizzie Hinchcliffe), Robert Pugh (Archie Easterbrook), Gerard Horan (D.S. Norman Fletcher), Christian Pedersen (Rudi Schertz), Richard Dickson (Mr. Rowlandson), Virginia McKenna (Belle Goedler)



5 :02x01 - Sleeping Murder

First aired: Feb/05/2006
Guest star: Mary Healey (Shop Assistant), Emilio Doorgasingh (Sgt. Desai), Nickolas Grace (Lionel Luff), Richard Bremmer (Mr. Sims), Helen Coker (Lily Tutt), Sophia Myles (Gwenda Halliday), Aidan McArdle (Hugh Hornbeam), Paul McGann (Dickie Erskine), Una Stubbs (Mrs. Pagett), Harriet Walter (Duchess), Philip Davis (Dr. James Kennedy), Sarah Parish (Eve Ballantyne), Greg Hicks (Ferdinand), Dawn French (Janet Erskine), Anna-Louise Plowman (Helen Marsden), Peter Serafinowicz (Walter Fane), Harry Treadaway (George Erkskine), Martin Kemp (Jackie Afflick), Darren Carnall (Dresser), Vincent Leigh (Jim Tutt), David Soul (Jason Rudd), Stephanie Beacham (Marina Gregg), Joanna Lumley (Dolly Bantry), Geraldine Chaplin (Mrs. Fane), Russ Abbot (Chief Inspector Primer), Julian Wadham (Kelvin Halliday)

A woman experiences an unsettling vision after moving in to the home of her dreams - and it transpires she was brought up in the house as a child. Miss Marple investigates the history of the property and discovers it was connected with a baffling disappearance years before - which has never been solved.



6 :02x02 - The Moving Finger

First aired: Feb/12/2006
Guest star: Imogen Stubbs (Mona Symmington), John Sessions (Cardew Pye), Angela Curran (Miss Ginch), Jessica Stevenson (Aimee Griffith), Harry Enfield (Richard Symmington), Emilia Fox (Joanna Burton), Sean Pertwee (Dr. Owen Griffith), Stephen Churchett (Coroner), James D'Arcy (Jerry Burton), Thelma Barlow (Emily Barton), Kelly Brook (Elsie Brook), Frances De La Tour (Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop), Talulah Riley (Megan Symmington), Keith Allen (Inspector Graves), Ellen Capron (), Rosalind Knight (Partridge), Ken Russell (Reverend Caleb Dane Calthrop)

The sleuthing spinster teams up with a dashing young man to investigate a series of poison-pen letters in the sleepy village of Lymstock. Two of the missives have led to suicides - but Miss Marple suspects there is more to the deaths than meets the eye.



7 :02x03 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs

First aired: Feb/19/2006
Guest star: Oliver Jordan (Young Ethan), Bonnie Langford (Betty Johnson), Michelle Ryan (Rose Waters), Greta Scacchi (Tuppence Beresford), Steven Berkoff (Freddie Eccles), Florence Strickland (Jane Eyre), Charles Dance (Septimus Bligh), Anthony Andrews (Tommy Beresford), Clare Holman (Miss Packard), Eliza Bennett (Nora Johnson), Michael Begley (Ethan Maxwell), O. T. Fagbenle (Chris Murphy), Jody Halse (Amos Perry), Brian Conley (Eric Johnson), Claire Bloom (Aunt Ada), Michael Maloney (Dr. Joshua Waters), Chloe Pennington (Young Hannah), Josie Lawrence (Hannah Beresford), Lia Williams (Nellie Bligh), Patrick Barlow (Art Historian), Leslie Phillips (Sir Philip Starke), Miriam Karlin (Marjorie Moody), June Whitfield (Mrs. Lancaster)

The sleuthing spinster meets fellow enthusiasts Tommy and Tuppence at a nursing home, where the ramblings of an elderly resident prompt them to join forces and investigate the unsolved mystery of a murdered child. The trail leads to the Norfolk village of Farrell St Edmund, a community harbouring sinister secrets and tales of heartbreak.



8 :02x04 - The Sittaford Mystery

First aired: Apr/30/2006
Director: Paul Unwin
Guest star: Mel Smith (John Enderby), Zoë Telford (Emily Trefusis), James Murray (Charles Burnaby), Robert Hickson (Arthur Hopkins), Carey Mulligan (Violet Willett), Michael Brandon (Martin Zimmerman), Robert Hardy (Winston Churchill), Rita Tushingham (Miss Elizabeth Percehouse), Paul Kaye (Dr Ambrose Burt), Michael Attwell (Archie Stone), Ian Hallard (Reporter), Laurence Fox (James Pearson), Matthew Kelly (Donald Garfield), Patricia Hodge (Mrs Evadne Willett), Jeffery Kissoon (Ahmed Ghali), James Wilby (Stanley Kirkwood), Timothy Dalton (Clive Trevelyan)

A blizzard forces the sleuthing spinster to spend a night in isolated Sittaford House, situated on a Devonshire moor. Without explanation, the building's owner, rising politician Clive Trevelyan, decides to pass the evening in a local hotel - only for a ouija board to predict his murder.



9 :03x01 - At Bertram's Hotel

First aired: Sep/23/2007
Guest star: Ed Stoppard (Ladislaus Malinowski), Georgia Allen (Mrs. Rice), Joanna Lumley (Dolly Bantry), Stephanie Beacham (Marina Gregg), Tony Bignell (Newsboy), Shenton Dixon (Louis Armstrong), Isabella Parriss (Young Miss Marple), Hannah Spearritt (Tilly Rice), David Soul (Jason Rudd), Francesca Annis (Lady Selina Hazy), Mica Paris (Amelia Walker), Charles Kay (Canon Pennyfather), Peter Davison (Hubert Curtain), Stephen Mangan (Inspector Larry Bird), Emily Beecham (Elvira Blake), Sarah London (Miss Tibbs), Vincent Regan (Mickey Gorman), Nicholas Burns (Jack & Joel Britten), Mark Heap (Mr. Humfries), Mary Nighy (Brigit Milford), Polly Walker (Lady Bess Sedgwick), Danny Webb (Mutti), Adam Smethurst (Cab Driver), Martine McCutcheon (Jane Cooper), James Howard (Hotel Doorman 1891)



10 :03x02 - Ordeal by Innocence

First aired: Sep/30/2007
Guest star: Pippa Haywood (Mrs. Price), Tom Riley (Bobby Argyle), Bryan Dick (Micky Argyle), Reece Shearsmith (Inspector Huish), Lisa Stansfield (Mary Durrant), Jane Seymour (Rachel Argyle), Andrea Lowe (Maureen), Burn Gorman (Jacko Argyle), Denis Lawson (Leo Argyle), Camille Coduri (Mrs. Lindsay), Richard Armitage (Philip Durrant), James Jurran (Cyril Price), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Tina Argyle), Stephanie Leonidas (Hester Argyle), Alison Steadman (Kirsten Lindstrom), Michael Feast (John Croker), Juliet Stevenson (Gwenda), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Dr Arthur Calgary)

When she attends a wedding Miss Marple finds the guests all all hiding secrets. A family try to come to terms with the hanging of their brother for a crime he didn't commit.



11 :03x03 - Towards Zero

First aired: Aug/03/2008
Guest star: Julian Sands (Thomas Royde), Saffron Burrows (Audrey Strange), Eleanor Turner-Moss (Diana Brinton), Jo Woodcock (Alice), Tom Baker (Frederick Treves), Thomas Arnold (Det. Sgt. Jones), Ben Meyjes (Tipping), Stewart Bewley (PC Williams), Greg Rusedski (Merrick), Zoe Tapper (Kay Strange), Julie Graham (Mary Aldin), Peter Symonds (Hurstall), Mike Burnside (George), Eileen Atkins (Lady Camilla Tressilian), Amelda Brown (Barrett), Wendy Nottingham (Mrs. Rogers), Greg Wise (Nevile Strange), Paul Nicholls (Ted Latimer), Guy Williams (Dr. Lazenby), Alan Davies (Superintendent Mallard)



12 :03x04 - Nemesis

First aired: Jan/01/2009
Guest star: Will Mellor (Martin Waddy), Laura Michelle Kelly (Verity Hunt/Margaret Lumley), Johnny Briggs (Sydney Lumley), Adrian Rawlins (Derek Turnball), Graeme Garden (Matthew Broadribb), Ronni Ancona (Amanda Dalrymple), Emily Woof (Rowena Waddy), Ruth Wilson (Georgina Barrow), Dan Stevens (Michael Rafiel), George Cole (Mr. Raeburn), Anne Reid (Sister Agnes), Heidi Monsen (Waitress), Lee Ingleby (Colin Hards), Richard E. Grant (Raymond West), Amanda Burton (Sister Clotilde)



13 :04x01 - A Pocketful of Rye

First aired: Sep/06/2009
Director: Charles Palmer
Guest star: Liz White (Jennifer Fortescue), Lucy Cohu (Pat Fortescue), Rupert Graves (Lance Fortescue), Rose Heiney (Gladys), Wendy Richard (Mrs. Crump), Hattie Morahan (Elaine Fortescue), Matthew MacFadyen (Inspector Neele), Joseph Beattie (Vivian Dubois), Laura Haddock (Miss Grosvenor), Helen Baxendale (Mary Dove), Ben Miles (Percival Fortescue), Ken Campbell (Crump), Anna Madeley (Adele Fortescue), Ralf Little (Sergeant Pickford), Kenneth Cranham (Rex Fortescue), Prunella Scales (Miss Effie Ramsbottom)

After Rex Fortescue, his wife and their maid are discovered to have been murdered, Miss Marple works out that the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence is involved in the way that they died. She soon discovers that the Fortescue family has secrets and scandals but finds the significance of the song hard to unravel.



14 :04x02 - Murder Is Easy

First aired: Sep/13/2009
Director: Hettie MacDonald
Guest star: Jemma Redgrave (Jessie Humbleby), Anna Chancellor (Lydia Horton), Margo Stilley (Bridget Conway), Shirley Henderson (Honoria Waynflete), James Lance (Dr Geoffrey Thomas), Tim Brooke-Taylor (Dr. Humbleby), Benedict Cumberbatch (Luke Fitzwilliam), Camilla Arfwedson (Rose Humbleby), Sylvia Syms (Miss Lavinia Pinkerton), Steve Pemberton (Reverend Alfred Wake), Russell Tovey (Constable Reed), Hugo Speer (James Abbot), David Haig (Major Hugh Horton), Lyndsey Marshal (Amy Gibbs)

Some of the people living in the village of Wychwood-under-Ashe die unexpectedly after the arrival of American Bridget Conway. Miss Marple works with Luke Fitzwilliam to investigate what is going on. As they investigate further they discover a shocking secret.



15 :04x03 - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

First aired: Jun/15/2011
Director: Nicholas Renton
Guest star: Sean Biggerstaff (Bobby Attfield), Siwan Morris (Florrie), Richard Briers (Wilson), Sarah Ridgeway (Young Sylvia), Freddie Fox (Tom Savage), Basher Savage (Young George Savage), Helen Lederer (Marjorie Attfield), Mark Williams (Claude Evans), Rafe Spall (Roger Bassington), Warren Clarke (Commander Peters), Georgia Moffett (Frankie Derwent), Natalie Dormer (Moira Nicholson), Hannah Murray (Dorothy Savage), Rik Mayall (Alec Nicholson), David Buchanan (John Carstairs), Samantha Bond (Sylvia Savage), Rupert Savage (Young Jack Savage)

Bobby Attfield is determined to solve a riddle after being the sole witness to a dying man's last words. He ends up becoming friends with socialite Frankie Derwent and pays a visit to family friend Miss Marple to help him solve the riddle. Some clues sees them heading to Castle Savage, where they discover a hotbed of stifled emotion, treachery and deceit.



16 :04x04 - They Do It With Mirrors

First aired: Jan/01/2010

When a friend thinks there has been some foul play at the family home, Miss Marple finds her detective skills are needed.



17 :05x01 - The Pale Horse

First aired: Aug/30/2010



18 :05x02 - The Secret of Chimneys

First aired: Dec/27/2010

Miss Marple goes with Lady Virginia Revel to a weekend party at country estate called Chimneys and ends up finding herself in the middle of an important diplomatic gathering. Count Ludwig of Austria is found dead after some of the guests clash over dinner. Miss Marple and Chief Inspector Finch find a coded message and the remains of a murdered servant and Miss Marple realises that the secret of Chimneys is much more sinister than she ever thought.



19 :05x03 - The Blue Geranium

First aired: Dec/29/2010

Miss Marple attempts to stop a court hearing after she finds new evidence about the 'Blue Geranium' murder case. Several Months earlier, Miss Marple attended a party at a village golf club when the dead body of a young man was soon discovered. Not long later a wealthy and unpopular local woman is found dead in her bed. She is believed to have died of shock after the geranium in her wallpaper turned blue. Miss Marple is determined to have the trial halted before the wrong person is convicted of murder.



20 :05x04 - The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

First aired: Jan/02/2011

St Mary Mead gets a touch of Hollywood after actress Marina Gregg and her English film director husband, Jason Rudd move into Gossington Hall. The locals attend a glamourous party party but Marina's new role comes under threat after an excitable fan dies after drinking a poisoned cocktail. Miss Marple attempts to discover who the real attended victim was and who was responsible.