Doctor Who Vs. Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

1927 saw the debut of Jane Marple

 in The Tuesday Night Club (a short

story for The Royal Magazine), but

Agatha Christie's first full-length

Marple mystery (her tenth crime

novel) was published in 1930. That

 earlier case was later released in

book form with a dozen others in The Thirteen Problems, Christie's fourth anthology.

Following the West End stage prod-

uction in 1949 (where Barbara Mullen

portrayed Marple), The Murder at the Vicarage was first dramatised for

television by BBC1 (Joan Hickson's

 fifth appearance as Marple), and

originally aired on Christmas Day

1986. An ITV Studios version was

shown in 2004. The mystery was

repeated on U&Drama last night -

it featured David Horovitch, Paul Eddington (pictured left), and these

thirteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Cheryl Campbell (Griselda here; Lady Brent in The Seven Dials Mystery; Lady Boynton in Appointment with Death, 2008) was Ocean Waters in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Vault of Secrets
• Jack [Stewart] Galloway (Archer here; Marsden for Sad Cypress, 2003) was Captain Joseph Willow in The Awakening
• Christopher Good (Hawes here & The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side) was Morgan in The Beast Below
• Rachel Weaver (Mary) was Inga in Terminus
• Kathleen [Mary] Bidmead (Miss Weatherby) was an Elder in The Mysterious Planet, Rezzie in Paradise Towers, Mrs. Smith in Remembrance of the Daleks, Tourist in Silver Nemesis, and Woman in Survival
• Thea Murray was production assistant on The Masque of Mandragora too
• Raymond London was also production designer on The War Machines, The Krotons and The Mind of Evil
• Sylvia Thornton was make-up designer on The Android Invasion too
• Bill Chesneau was also sound recordist on The Invasion, The Curse of Peladon, Death to the Daleks and The Leisure Hive
• Christopher Sandeman was the AFM on Time and the Rani too
• for George Gallaccio, Bernard Ashby and John Walker see The Body in the Library

BBC Radio 4 transmitted a five-part adaptation of The Murder at

the Vicarage in December 1995. June Whitfield again voiced Miss

Marple, and was joined by Richard Todd (Kinda) and Imelda

Staunton (The Girl Who Waited)