Friday, 24 May 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Marple: Nemesis

Grant depicted an iteration
of the Ninth 
Doctor for
Scream of the Shalka in
 2003
The third season of ITV Studio's period crime
drama concluded on New Year's Day 2009 with
this mystery, loosely based on Agatha Christie's
final Miss Marple novel (published in 1971 after
serialisation in Woman's Realm).
Geraldine McEwan's final appearance in the title
role originally aired in the Mystery! strand for PBS
in July 2007. McEwan (1932-2015) was succeeded
by Julia McKenzie (born 1941) for the next eleven
cases. The whodunnit was repeated on ITV3 today
- it featured Richard E Grant, Ruth Wilson, George
Cole, Amanda Burton, and twelve Doctor Who cast
and crew connections:

  • Lee [David] Ingleby (DC Hards) voiced Samson Griffin for Big Finish's Terror Firma (2005)
  • Dan [Jonathan] Stevens (Faber) voiced Rick AusGarten for The Cradle of the Snake (2010)
  • Anne Reid (Sister Agnes here; Daisy in Poirot: Curtain) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
  • Dr. [David] Graeme Garden (Broadribb) voiced Professor Ivor Fassbinder for Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (2002), Geoffrey Vantage for Max Warp (2008), then the Monk for The Book of KellsThe Resurrection of Mars (both 2010), Lucie MillerTo the Death (both 2011) and The Secret History (2015)
  • Adrian Rawlins (Turnbull) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, and voiced DI Frederick Abberline for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost (2023)
  • Ronni Ancona (Amanda) voiced Joanie Carrington for The Side of the Angels (2017), and Thana for Relative Time (2019) and The Dreams of Avarice (2022)
  • for writer Stephen Churchett see The Murder at the Vicarage
  • for Damien Timmer and Nigel Squibbs see The Body in the Library
  • for Michael Pickwoad and for Jason Gill see At Bertram's Hotel
  • Matthew Newman was also the film editor on The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang

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