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Miss Marple :: The Body In The Library (01x01)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: The Body In The Library
Episode #: 01x01
Original Airdate: Wednesday December 26th, 1984
10/10 (1 Vote cast)
Episode Crew
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Writer: T. R. Bowen
Story: Agatha Christie
 
Episode Summary
 
It is seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks.

But who is she? How did she get there? And what's the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later found in a burned out car in a quarry.

The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery - before tongues start to wag.

(Pictured at right are Gwen Watford as Dolly Bantry, and Joan Hickson as Miss Jane Marple).
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
David HorovitchplayedInspector SlackRecurring (first appearance)
Gwen WatfordplayedDolly BantryRecurring (first appearance)
Ian BrimbleplayedSergeant LakeRecurring (first appearance)
Moray WatsonplayedColonel Arthur Bantry 
Anthony SmeeplayedBasil Blake 
Ciaran MaddenplayedAdelaide Jefferson 
Frederick JaegerplayedColonel Melchett 
Keith DrinkelplayedMark Gaskell 
Trudie StylerplayedJosie Turner 
Andrew Cruickshank (1)playedConway Jefferson 
Debbie ArnoldplayedDinah Lee 
Hugh WaltersplayedMr. Prescott 
Jess ConradplayedRaymond Starr 
John Moffatt (1)playedEdwards 
Raymond FrancisplayedSir Henry Clithering 
Sally Jane JacksonplayedRuby Keene 
Stephen ChurchettplayedMajor Reeve 
Valentine DyallplayedLorimer 
Andrew DownerplayedPeter Carmody 
Arthur BostromplayedGeorge Bartlett 
Astra SheridanplayedPamela Reeve 
John BardonplayedPolice Constable Palk 
Karen SeacombeplayedFlorrie Small 
Martyn ReadplayedHugo McLean 
Sarah WhitlockplayedPolicewoman 
Colin HigginsplayedMalcolm 
Kathleen BreckplayedBridget 
Sidney Livingstone (1)playedMr. Brogan 
 
Episode Notes
 
Inspector Slack only appeared in three of the original books -The Body in the Library, The Murder at the Vicarage, and The Thirteen Problems - but he is used in five stories in this excellent series.
 
The location for the fictional village of St. Mary Mead was Nether Wallop, in Hampshire.

 
 
Episode Quotes
 
Sir Henry Clithering: May I make a suggestion?
Conway Jefferson: Do.
Sir Henry Clithering: Did you know that downstairs in the foyer is one of the most formidable criminologists in England?
Conway Jefferson: Really?
Sir Henry Clithering: Oh yes. And I could lay you almost any odds you would never recognise her as such.
Conway Jefferson: Her?
Sir Henry Clithering: Mmm. There she sits, an elderly spinster, sweet, placid - so you'd think. Yet her mind has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all in a day's work.
Conway Jefferson: How do we involve her?
Sir Henry Clithering: (indulgently) I expect she's involved already. She lives in St. Mary Mead only a couple of miles from Arthur and Dolly's place. It's extraordinary, she knows the world only through the prism of that village and its daily life. By knowing the village so thoroughly, she seems to know the world.
 
 
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