Doctor Who Vs. Marple: The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

Agatha Christie's eighth full-
length Miss Marple mystery,

her fifty-third novel, was pub-

lished in 1962, then issued as

The Mirror Crack'd in North

America. 

The Queen of Crime was

influenced by the real-life

tragedy of American actress

Gene Tierney for her plot.

The book's title was taken

from Tennyson's The Lady of

Shalott, and was dedicated

to cinematic Marple actress
Margaret Rutherford.

Julie McKenzie again depicted the eponymous sleuth for ITV Studios'

fifth series of Marple - this production followed a British film version

in 1980, and a BBC serial in 1992. First broadcast in January 2011,

the mystery was repeated on ITV3 today - it featured thirteen Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• for Joanna Lumley (Dolly) see The Body In The Library
• Lindsay [Vere] Duncan (Marina here; Lady Tamplin in The Mystery of the Blue Train) was Captain Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars
• Martin Jarvis (Hogg here; Warburton in Dead Man's Folly; Narrator of The Mysterious Mr. Quinn) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Big Finish's Jubilee (2003)
• Neil Stuke (Dr. Haydock here; Baker in The Case of the Missing Will) voiced the titular role of The Crooked Man (2014), then was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon
• Samuel Barnett (DS Tiddler) voiced Hans Tod for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Robin for Nightshade (2016), Norton Folgate for Torchwood, and Cicero for Tartarus (2019)
• Hugh [Richard] Bonneville [born Williams] (DI Hewitt here; Masterman in Murder on the Orient Express, 2010; Strange in Towards Zero, 2010; Ralston in The Mousetrap, 2012) was Captain Henry Avery in The Curse of the Black Spot, and voiced Sidney Herbert/Tsar Nicholas I for The Angel of Scutari (2009)
• Olivia Darnley (Cherry here; Nurse in Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures) was Kourtney in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot; and voiced Emily Cole for Prisoner of the Ood (2018)
• Anna Andresen (Maisie) voiced Lithea/Elementals for Light the Flame (2021), and was the Tsarina in The Power of the Doctor 
• series executive producer Damian Timmer made a cameo appearance in An Adventure in Space and Time as a Menoptera, and Nigel Squibbs was the sound mixer on that production too
• film editor Matthew Tabern also edited Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature, The Family of Blood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Sean Clayton was also the second assistant director on Dalek and Father's Day
• series production runner Donna Shakesheff was art department co-ordinator (then prop buyer) on every episode from Asylum of the Daleks to Kill the Moon