Doctor Who Vs. Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

This period drama opened ITV's third season

of Marple, and was loosely based on Agatha

Christie's fifty-sixth novel, published in 1965.

This second TV adaptation changed the plot,

characters and setting, and was Geraldine

McEwan's penultimate appearance as Marple.

One of Miss Marple's few outings from St. Mary

Mead finds her staying in London. Bertram's,

the fictional hotel featured in the story, is

thought to have been inspired by Brown's, a

favourite haunt of Christie's, but could also

have been based on another Mayfair hotel,

Fleming's.

The mystery (originally shown in September

2007) was repeated on ITV3 today - it starred

Peter Davison, and fifteen Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Dan Zeff was the director of Love & Monsters too
• Tom MacRae was also the writer of Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The Girl Who Waited and the unmade Century House
• Charles Kay [born Piff] (Pennyfather) was Julius Quilter in BBV Productions' Unnatural Selection, and voiced the Curator for Big Finish's Excelis Rising (2002)
• Ed Stoppard (Malinowski) voiced Fortalexa for Theatre of War (2015), and Sir Nicholas Asquin for The Beast of Kravenos (2017)
• Danny Webb (Mutti here; Porter in The Adventure of the Clapham Cook; Garroway in Elephants Can Remember) was John Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, and voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
• Mark Heap (Humfries) voiced the Middleman for The Middle (2017)
• Polly [Alexandra] Walker (Bess here; Magdala in Peril at End House) voiced Commander Narina for The Movellan Grave (2017)
• Nicholas Burns (Britten here; DI Meadows in The Big Four) was Lord Sutcliffe in Thin Ice
• Georgia Allen (Mrs. Rice) was Fiona (opposite Jim Broadbent's Doctor) in the Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV sketch, Doctor Who and Crayola
• James Howard (Doorman) voiced Colonel Matthews for Intelligence for War (2023)
• Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen episodes (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor) and Torchwood
• stunt performer Jo McLaren was the stunt co-ordinator on Day of the Moon, Let's Kill Hitler, The Snowmen, The Bells of Saint John, The Name of the Doctor and The Day of the Doctor
• Michael [Mervyn] Pickwoad was also production designer on sixty-two stories (from A Christmas Carol to The Doctor Falls) and Class
• Ben Ashmore was also SFX co-ordinator on thirty-six episodes (from The Girl in the Fireplace to The Next Doctor), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Jason Gill was also costume assistant on fourteen stories (from A Christmas Carol to The Wedding of River Song) and Space/Time
• for Damien Timmer see The Body in the Library