Agatha Christie's Marple: By The Pricking Of My Thumbs
Episode score
8.2
Great
By The Pricking Of My Thumbs
- 7.
- Season: 2
- Episode: 3
- First Aired: 2/19/2006
- Prod Code: 4703
- Goof - Anachronsim: Marple: (To the taxi driver) The train station, not the police station, please.
There's no way Miss Marple would have used this expression in the late 1940s or 50s; the expression has only been in common use for the last three or four years. The term is "railway station". edit »
- Miss Marple: Old men can sometimes become too sentimental around children.
Dr. Waters: Really? I find myself becoming less tolerant. edit » - Tuppence:(Referring to Ada Beresford) She made the Phillistines look like the Chelsea Arts Club. edit »
- Miss Marple: (After Tuppence has stalled the car twice) Kangaroo petrol? edit »
- Tuppence: Mrs Lancaster said that there was a child buried behind the fireplace in the sun lounge.
Miss Packard: My sun lounge? edit » - Mrs Lancaster: Excuse me, it wasn't your poor child?
Tuppence: No I don't think so.
Mrs Lancaster: I thought you'd come for a reason. Someone will come sometime. That's where the poor child was you know. The poor child behind the fireplace. edit » - Ada Beresford: The United Nations building in New York. What's it like?
Tommy: I haven't been.
Ada Beresford: You haven't been?! edit » - Tommy Beresford: [Tuppence asks Tommy to drive so she can continue reading her copy of Macbeth. Tommy chuckles in response] I was in Macbeth at my prep school. "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day."
Tuppence Beresford: I heard you were marvelous.
Tommy Beresford: Who from?
Tuppence Beresford: You. edit »
Murders
Lily Waters - Poisoned
Aunt Ada - Poisoned
Nellie Bligh - Poisoned edit »- Miss Marple did not appear in the original novel on which this adaptation is based. To make this story part of the Marple series, it is set in the post-war period, meaning Tommy would still be needed in military intelligence. edit »
- By The Pricking Of My Thumbs was split into two parts in the US and aired on June 18th and 25th. edit »
- This episode is based on a Tommy and Tuppence novel by the same name, also by Agatha Christie, published in 1968. edit »
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7.5
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