Doctor Who Vs. Miss Marple: 4.50 From Paddington

Agatha Christie's seventh Miss

Marple case (and her forty-ninth

crime novel) was published in

1957, then issued in America as

What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw.

Adapted in 1961 for MGM's first Miss Marple feature film Murder

She Said (Margaret Rutherford's

Jane co-starred with future

incarnation, Joan Hickson), the book was later dramatised for this television version in 1987 -

BBC1's ninth Marple serial first

aired on Christmas Day. An

ITV Studios production followed

in 2004. Repeated on Drama last night, the mystery featured David

Horovitch, Ian Brimble, and fifteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• [William] Maurice Denham (Crackenthorpe here; Vladirovsky in The Man Who Was Number Sixteen; DI Japp in The Alphabet Murders; Parker Pyne in The Agatha Christie Hour; Poirot for The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1985; Pennyfather for At Bertram's Hotel, 1995) was Azmael in The Twin Dilemma, then voiced the President for The Paradise of Death
• Joanna David [born Hacking] (Emma here; Claire in The Red Signal; Grace in Greenshaw's Folly) voiced Mrs. Audley for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011)
• Andrew Burt (Dr Quimper here; Ackerley in The Affair at the Victory Ball) was Valgard in Terminus
• John [William Francis] Hallam (Cedric) was Light in (part 3 of) Ghost Light
• Richard Ashley (Sergeant) was an Orderly in Frontios
• Jean Boht [born Dance] (Mde. Joliet) voiced Hilda Schofield for Big Finish's Afterlife (2013)
• Nicholas Blane (Porter) was Millington in Survivors of the Flux
• Katy Jarrett (Mary) was Extra in The Horns of Nimon (1), Tourist in Silver Nemesis (1), and Maid in Ghost Light (1)
• for Rhoda Lewis see A Pocket Full of Rye
• for Raymond Cusick see A Murder is Announced
• Patricia Greenland was also production assistant on Full Circle and Logopolis
• make-up designer Sylvia Thornton was a make-up artist on The Android Invasion
• for George Gallaccio, John Walker and Bernard Ashby see The Body in the Library
• for Judy Pepperdine and Malcolm Campbell see Sleeping Murder

BBC Radio 4's treatment of 4.50 From Paddington was first

broadcast in March 1997 - it featured June Whitfield and:

• [Irene] Joan [Marion] Sims (Elspeth here; Amy in A Murder is Announced) was Katryca in The Mysterious Planet
• Susannah Harker (Lucy) voiced Clare Keightley for Shada
• John [Edward Arthur] Woodnutt (Luther here; Carbury for Appointment With Death, 2001) was George Hibbert in Spearhead from Space, the Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space, the Duke of Forgill and Broton in Terror of the Zygons, and Seron in The Keeper of Traken