Agatha Christie's thirty-fourth crime novel(which did not even feature Miss Marple, again
portrayed here by Geraldine McEwan) was
published in 1944, and was the fifth and final Superintendent Battle mystery.
The Scotland Yard detective (replaced here by
Mallard, played by Alan Davies) first appeared
in The Secret of Chimneys (1925).
Towards Zero was dramatised for the stage by
Christie in 1956, whilst a planned film version
was rejected by the author's estate in 1995 and became a loose adaptation called Innocent Lies.
A four-part treatment for Radio 4 (which also
replaced Battle with another detective) first
aired in 2010.
This ITV Studios serial (first shown in 2008) was repeated on ITV3 today - it featured Tom Baker,
and nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
- Greg Wise (Strange) voiced Garrison Clay for Big Finish's Last Words (2024)
- Zoe Tapper (Kay) voiced Collis for Legion of the Lost (2016)
- Julie Graham (Mary) was Ruby White in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, and Ravio in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children - she also voiced Prime Minister 470 for Planet X (2016), Carolyn for The Blood Furnace (2017), and Miss Beecham/Sovari for The Year of Martha Jones (2021)
- Amelda Brown (Barrett) voiced Margaret for The Gunpowder Plot
- Peter Symonds (Hurstall here; Whalley in The Big Four) was a Soldier in Terror of the Zygons
- Jo Woodcock (Alice; Jennifer in Cat Among the Pigeons) voiced Ziv for Starlight Robbery (2013), Susannah Nash for Static (2017), Marie for The Iron Maid (2018), and Kayla Worthington for The Day Before They Came (2021)
- Paul Kennington was also a stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter
- for Michael Pickwoad and Jason Gill see At Bertram's Hotel
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