acclaimed Miss Marple series were
made when Joan Hickson agreed to
reprise her definitive portrayal, which finally enabled the Corporation to
adapt all twelve Marple novels - pub-
lished between 1930 and 1976.
Hickson's association with Christie
began in 1945 when she appeared in the West End version of Appointment With Death.
A Caribbean Mystery was first drama-
tised by CBS in 1983 (the year before Hickson debuted as Jane Marple in The
Body in the Library), and an ITV version followed in 2013.
The first of three feature length Christams specials (originally shown in 1989)
was repeated on BBC4 last night- it featured these ten Doctor Who cast and
crew connections:
- T P [Thomas Patrick] McKenna (Dr. Grahame here; Wilmott in The Ambassador's Boots) was Captain Cook in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
- Joseph Mydell (Weston) voiced Garius Moro for Big Finish's Memories of a Tyrant (2019)
- Adrian Lukis (Kendal here; Ravenscroft in Elephants Can Remember) voiced Officer Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Artificial Intelligence (2012) and The Keep (2015), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar, Sigmund Freud for Return of the Repressed (both 2013), and Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022)
- Sophie Ward (Molly here; Carla/Caroline in Go Back for Murder, 2013; Marina in The Mirror Crack'd, 2022) voiced the Storyteller for Audio- Go's Aladdin Time (2011)
- Sheila Ruskin (Evelyn) was Kassia in The Keeper of Traken, then voiced Flague for Dethras (2017), and Cora for Morbius the Mighty (2024)
- Colin Lavers was also costume designer on The Power of Kroll, Four to Doomsday, The King's Demons and The Five Doctors
- production manager David Mason was line producer on The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The Angels Take Manhattan
- make-up designer Vivien Riley began her television career as an assistant on The Masque of Mandragora
- series film recordist Malcolm Campbell worked on film sound for The Caves of Androzani and The Twin Dilemma
- for Don Giles see Nemesis
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