Doctor Who Vs. Miss Marple: Nemesis

Agatha Christie's final full-length Marple mystery

(her sixty-second novel) was issued in 1971 (although Sleeping Murder was released later, in

1976), and was dramatised for BBC1 by Trevor

Bowen (who depicted Raymond West in the first

series). A short story collection, Miss Marple's Final Cases (written between 1939 and 1954),

was also published posthumously in 1979.

Joan Hickson's definitive performance here as
Marple earned a second BAFTA Best Actress
nomination. An ITV version followed in 2009.

This two-part serial (originally broadcast in

 February 1987) was shown on Drama tonight

- it featured fifteen Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Frank Gatliff (Rafael) was Ortron in The Monster of Peladon
• [John] Roger Hammond (Broadribb) was Francis Bacon in (episode 1 of) The Chase, and Dr. Runciman in Mawdryn Undead, then voiced Harold Withers for Big Finish's The Eternal Summer (2009)
• Patrick [Lindesay Archibald] Godfrey (Schuster here; Estair in The Kidnapped Prime Minister; Barnes for One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 2004; Wainwright in Witness for the Prosecution, 2017) was Tor in The Savages, and Major Cosworth in The Mind of Evil
• Peter [Francis Gabain] Copley (Brabazon here; Dr. Harrison in Witness for the Prosecution, 1982; Burgoyne in The Mystery of the Spanish Chest) was Dr. Warlock (pictured) in Pyramids of Mars
• Alison Skilbeck (Miss Barrow here; Hannah for The Lie) was the Deputy in Frontios
• Jane Booker (Miss Cooke here; Monica in The Clergyman's Daughter) voiced Dron/Yetana for How to Make a Killing in Time Travel (2018)
• David [Diarmuid] Blake Kelly (Tramp) was Captain Briggs in The Chase (3), and Jacob Kewper in The Smugglers
• Cy Town (Passenger here; Porter in The Fourth Man) appeared in thirty-five episodes of the classic run (from The Silurians to The Curse of Fenric) and was a Dalek operator in every Dalek story from Frontier in Space onwards
• Frances Parker was film editor on Terminus too
• Don Giles was production designer on The Power of Kroll too
• Robert Gabriel was production manager on K9 and Company too
• Thea Murray was production assistant on The Masque of Mandragora too
• for George Gallaccio, John Walker and Bernard Ashby (crew) see The Body in the Library

June Whitfield again voiced Miss Marple in a five-part

production of Nemesis, first broadcast on Radio 4 in 1998

- the cast also included:

• George A[lphonsus] Cooper (Rafael here & A Caribbean Mystery, 1997) was Cherub in The Smugglers
• Thelma Barlow [born Pigott] (Anthea here; Emily in The Moving Finger, 2006) was Lady Thaw in The Lazarus Experiment
• Mary Wimbush (Clotilde here; Pam for Personal Call, 1954; Thyrza for The Pale Horse; Mrs. Lorimer for Cards on the Table, 2002; Mrs. Leadbtter for Taken at the Flood, 2003) was Lavinia Smith in K9 and Company
• Delia Lindsay (Miss Barrow) voiced Overlord Saldor/Newscaster for The Valley of Death (2011)