Doctor Who Vs. Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye

Julia McKenzie (born 1941) made her debut as Jane Marple in

the fourth season of ITV's popular period drama, succeeding

Geraldine McEwan in the title role. McKenzie had previously

portrayed another of Agatha Christie's female sleuths, Ariadne

Oliver (for BBC Radio 4's versions of Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Dead

Man's Folly and Elephants Can Remember).

The Queen of Crime's fifty-sixth crime novel (her sixth Marple
mystery) was published in 1953, and this adaptation was shown

on ITV3 tonight. The thriller first aired in September 2009, and

featured Matthew MacFayden, Helen Baxendale, Hattie Morahan,

and sventeen Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Big Finish actor McKenzie voiced Rachel Zimmerman for No More Lies (2007), Florence Wickham/Lady Florence Bassett for The Auntie Matter (2013), and the Twelve for Planet of the Ogrons, In the Garden of Death (both 2018), Jonah and Dreadshade (both 2020)
• director Charles Palmer and Matthew Tabern (film editor) both worked on Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature and The Family of Blood - Palmer was also director of Oxygen and The Eaters of Light
• Rupert Graves (Lance Fortescue) was John Riddell in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Liz White (Jennifer) was Alice in The Snowmen, and voiced Genesta for The Brink of Death (2015)
• Anna Madeley (Adele here; Barbara in Curtain) voiced Laura Lyons for The Monstrous Menagerie (2014)
• Kenneth Cranham (Rex Fortescue here; DI Bland in Dead Man's Folly, 1986; Barton in Sparkling Cyanide) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Ralf [Alastair John] Little (DS Pickford) voiced Guy Fawkes for The Gunpowder Plot, then was Steadfast in Smile
• Chris Larkin [born Stephens] (Wright) was Lynley in The Shakespeare Code
• Paul Brooke (Billingsley here; Foster in Agatha) voiced Toby for Year of the Pig (2006)
• Rachel Atkins (Sister here; Mrs. Reynolds for Hallowe'en Party; Lettice for The Murder at the Vicarage, both 1993) voiced Queen Aethelfrid/Dr. Angeline Duchamp for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Lieutenant Jane Lucas for The Screaming Skull (2014), Sol for Gallifrey: Intervention Earth, Susannah for The Tears of Isis (both 2015), Madame Sosostris for Masterpiece, Juno for Maker of Demons, Myla for The Age of Endurance (all 2016), Minister for Embankment Station, Major Desra for The Good Master (both 2017), Margot for Goodbye Piccadilly (2018), Ro-Jedda for Aliens Among Us (2019), Zarda for Do No Harm, Governor Crompton for Like, Sarathin for The Enemy of My Enemy (all 2020), Cathrin Travers for Faustian, and Dresha for Colony of Fear (both 2021)
• Wendy Richard [born Emerton] (Mrs. Crump) reprised her East- Enders roles of Pauline Fowler for Dimensions in Time 
• for Greg Bennett (PC), Damian Timmer (executive producer), Sean Clayton (second assistant director), and Nigel Squibbs (assistant dubbing mixer) see The Body in the Library
• for Tom Lucy (stunt co-ordinator) see At Bertram's Hotel
• Gavin Walters (series gaffer here & Poirot) was an electrician on Love & Monsters