acclaimed Miss Marple series were
made when Joan Hickson agreed
to reprise her definitive portrayal,
which finally enabled the Corpor-
ation to adapt all twelve Marple
novels.
Murder Ahoy! (1964) was loosely
based on They Do It With Mirrors,
but before this BBC1 adaptation,
the mystery (published in 1952)
was dramatised as Murder With
Mirrors by Warner in 1985, and an
ITV Studios version followed in 2013. The second of three feature length festive specials (originally shown on at Christams 1991) was repeated
on BBC4 last night- it featured David Horovitch, Joss Ackland, Holly Aird, and
these eleven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
- Faith Brook (Ruth) was Flast in Attack of the Cybermen, whilst prod- uction manager Pennie Bloomfield was an AFM on that story
- Christopher Villiers (Restarick here; Clarke in The ABC Murders, 2018) was Hugh Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, Professor Moorhouse in Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced Cacothis for Absolution (2007)
- Jay [born Jonathan Paul] Villiers (Restarick) voiced Villager in Audio- Go's The Hexford Invasion and Survivors in Space
- Matthew Cottle (Gregg) voiced Paine for The Satanic Mill (2015), Hargreaves for Aquitaine, James Leith for The Shadow Vortex, Henry Clarke for Quicksilver (all 2016), Maxwell Wilberforce Bell for Subterranea, and Ben Donelly for Invocation, and Overseer for The Sontaran Project (both 2017)
- series cinematographer John Walker was a film cameraman on nine stories (from Horror of Fang Rock to Revelation of the Daleks)
- Christine Walmesley-Cotham was also make-up designer on The Ribos Operation and The Horns of Nimon
- Alan Spalding was production designer on Revelation of the Daleks too
- for Bernard Ashby see The Body in the Library
- for Malcolm Campbell see A Murder is Announced
- for Christine Walmesley Cotham see A Pocketful of Rye
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