Sunday 25 June 2023

Doctor Who Vs. Marple: Nemesis

Grant depicted the
Ninth 
Doctor for
Scream of the
Shalka 
in 2003
The third season of ITV Studio's period crime
drama concluded on New Year's Day 2009
with this mystery, loosely based on Agatha
Christie's final Miss Marple novel (published in
1971 after serialisation in Woman's Realm).
The final appearance of Geraldine McEwan
(1932-2015) in the title role originally aired
in the Mystery! strand for PBS in July 2007.
McEwan was succeeded by Julia McKenzie
(born 1941) for the next eleven cases. The
mystery was repeated on ITV3 today - it
featured Richard E Grant, Ruth Wilson,
George Cole, Amanda Burton, and twelve
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

  • Lee [David] Ingleby (DC Hards) voiced Samson Griffin for Big Finish's Terror Firma (2005)
  • Dan [Jonathan] Stevens (Faber) voiced Rick AusGarten for The Cradle of the Snake (2010)
  • Anne Reid (Sister Agnes here; Daisy in Poirot: Curtain) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
  • Dr. [David] Graeme Garden (Broadribb) voiced Professor Ivor Fassbinder for Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (2002), Geoffrey Vantage for Max Warp (2008), and the Monk for The Book of KellsThe Resurrection of Mars (both 2010), Lucie MillerTo the Death (both 2011) and The Secret History (2015)
  • Adrian Rawlins (Turnbull) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, and voiced DI Frederick Abberline for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost (2023)
  • Ronni Ancona (Amanda) voiced Joanie Carrington for The Side of the Angels (2017), and Thana for Relative Time (2019) and The Dreams of Avarice (2022)
  • for writer Stephen Churchett see The Murder at the Vicarage
  • for Damien Timmer and Nigel Squibbs see The Body in the Library
  • for Michael Pickwoad and for Jason Gill see At Bertram's Hotel
  • Matthew Newman was also the film editor on The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang

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