So long as Professor Challenger doesn’t take to solving Holmes cases for him … though it strikes me he’d be just the man to turn to for that worm unknown to science … One of the Margaret Rutherford Marple’s was based on a Poirot book - and with less justification than this series has.įor that matter one or two of Simenon’s non Maigret’s wouldn’t need all that much tinkering in order to inject the Commissaire into the business. The new Marple’s are airing as I write (Murder is Easy last week) and in general I find them entertaining and so far have no real problem when Miss Marple takes over a case she was not originally a part of.Īnd it isn’t exactly new. Granted we might not want her trying to aide Tommy and Tuppence solve a case or wandering into a Harley Quin tale, but I think over all this is harmless. Unlike Poirot her character is not part of the plot or the solution and truthfully even in non Marple books there is often a Marple like character even if they don’t function as a detective. I’m not such a purist as to mind when they inject Miss Marple into non Marple books. There was an amusing gaffe when a scene showing the protagonist Neville Strange (Greg Wise), a tennis player, at Wimbledon (incidentally his opponent was played by Greg Rusedski), had the scores shown on an electronic scoreboard.ġ0 Responses to “A TV Mystery Review by Geoff Bradley – AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE: TOWARD ZERO (2008).” The post-WWII settings were superb, and I thought McEwen kept the knowing grins down to at least a reasonable proportion.
I have been critical of previous outings in this series but I enjoyed this one. Here she was interjected into the otherwise fairly faithful plot (if my faltering memory of reading it some twenty odd years ago plus the vague plot descriptions in a couple of reference books can be relied upon), involving a gathering of people at the home of Lady Tressilian - played by Eileen Atkins in a fairly star-studded cast which included Tom Baker (former Dr Who and Sherlock Holmes), Saffron Burrows (of Boston Legal) and Alan Davies ( Jonathan Creek). It was an adaptation of Towards Zero, a Christie novel in which Miss Marple plays no part. Director: David Grindley (uncredited).Īgatha Christie’s Marple which is what it was called in the listings, returned with the penultimate outing for Geraldine McEwen in the eponymous role. Geraldine McEwan, Julian Sands, Paul Nicholls, Greg Wise, Saffron Burrows, Julie Graham, Tom Baker, Eileen Atkins. First telecast in the UK on 03 August 2008.
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