Agatha Christie's Marple

The Blue Geranium

Full Episode (1:28:00)

S 5 : Ep 3 - 12/29/10

A wealthy and unpopular woman dies in mysterious circumstances, locked in her room, and a geranium on her wallpaper has turned blue. It appears that she had been warned of the circumstances leading to her demise by a fortune-teller. Miss Marple asks her old friend, Sir Henry Clithering, to help her investigate the case ahead of a court hearing.

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The Secret of Chimneys

Full Episode (1:29:00)

S 5 : Ep 2 - 12/27/10

Miss Marple attends a party at Chimneys, a historic country house, where a fellow guest reveals plans to buy the estate, but is shot dead during the night. Miss Marple and Chief Inspector Battle find a coded message in the dead man's pocket, and uncover the dark secret of Chimneys.

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The Pale Horse

Full Episode (1:30:00)

S 5 : Ep 1 - 8/30/10

A Catholic priest is brutally murdered after taking confession from a dying parishioner. His old friend Miss Marple travels to London, where she discovers that a list of names sent to her by the priest is apparently of those recently deceased or about to die. Miss Marple's investigations lead her to the Pale Horse Inn, where the proprietress claims to be able to kill people using black magic.

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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

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S 4 : Ep 4 - 6/15/11

Bobby Attfield comes across a dying man whose final words are: "Why didn't they ask Evans?". Bobby, intrigued, enlists the help of Frankie Derwent and Miss Jane Marple, and the trio uncover a conspiracy surrounding the death and will of the late Sir Jack Savage.

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They Do It With Mirrors

Full Episode

S 4 : Ep 3 - 1/1/10

Miss Marple meets with her old friend, Ruth Van Rydock, who is worried about her sister, Carrie Louise Serrocold, after a mysterious fire ends up destroying some of Carrie Louise's treasured possessions. She asks Miss Marple to visit her sister's estate, Stonygates, a huge manor house, where some of the buildings and grounds are used as a reformatory for juvenile criminals. Soon, Carrie Louise's stepson by her second marriage shows up. He is Christian Gulbrandsen, and he runs the trust which contributes a fraction of the funds used to run Stonygates. Later that night, as Carrie Louise's current husband Lewis runs a dress rehearsal for a musical revue for the inmates of the facility, Christian is stabbed while writing a letter on his typewriter. Miss Marple and the local police quickly learn that Christian believed Carrie Louise was being poisoned, but was killed before he could reveal the poisoner's identity. For the sake of Carrie Louise and her family, Miss Marple sets out to find the killer and alleged poisoner, but then another murder is committed during the revue, and tainted oysters, secret children, jealousy, a hidden passageway, and an unlocked gate are thrown into the mix, as well. Who is trying to poison Carrie Louise? And was the use of a clever conjuring trick the key to solving the mystery?moreless

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Murder Is Easy

Full Episode (1:24:27)

S 4 : Ep 2 - 9/13/09

Miss Marple meets an elderly woman who is convinced that a multiple murderer is at large in her village. Before she can report her concerns, however, Miss Pinkerton is killed in a fall, and Miss Marple determines to find out who the killer is. Visiting the village, she befriends Luke Fitzwilliam, a former policeman, and the pair work to establish the killer's identity against the backdrop of a local election.

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A Pocket Full Of Rye

Full Episode (1:24:26)

S 4 : Ep 1 - 9/6/09

Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue collapses and dies in his office. It is determined that he was poisoned, and a handful of rye is found in his pockets. No one seems too upset, as everyone agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon, however, Rex's young wife also ends up poisoned. The maid, Gladys, whom Miss Marple trained, writes to her asking for help. Miss Marple arrives too late, as Gladys' body is found strangled. Miss Marple senses a connection between the deaths and a well-known nursery rhyme, "Sing a Song of Sixpence". Now it is up to her to find the cold-blooded killer and to deliver justice.moreless

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Nemesis

Full Episode

S 3 : Ep 4 - 1/1/09

Jason Rafiel, an old friend of Miss Marple's, dies and leaves her an unusual legacy, to grant his final wish: she has to uncover a possible murder that may or may not have happened already. All she gets are two tickets to a mystery bus tour and the advice to invite someone trustworthy to the bus trip. The only thing she knows about the crime being a single word: 'nemesis'. Accompanied by her novelist nephew Raymond West, she finds herself on a bus filled with a strange assortment of people from all stations and walks of life - from debutantes to nuns and butlers to war heroes. More than one person will die before Miss Marple discovers the murderer.moreless

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Towards Zero

Full Episode

S 3 : Ep 3 - 8/3/08

Miss Marple is visiting an old school friend, Lady Camilla Tressilian, along with an eclectic group: tennis star Nevile Strange and his wife Kay, his former wife Audrey and her childhood friend and cousin Thomas Royde, Ted Latimer, who is something of a gigolo and very attracted to Kay Strange, and finally Freddie Treves, a retired solicitor. When Treves is found dead the day after a dinner party at Lady Tressilian's home and Lady Tressilian herself is found bludgeoned to death a short time later, Miss Marple must sort through the complex set of relationships among all of the players and must determine what role a tale of a child's crime may have had to play in the deaths.moreless

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Ordeal By Innocence

Full Episode

S 3 : Ep 2 - 9/30/07

Rachel Argyle, mother of five adopted children, is murdered and immediately, the rest of the family just assumes that Jacko, one of her sons, must be the murderer because he threatened to kill her earlier that same evening. Two years later, a man shows up at the Argyle's mansion and confirms what Jacko has told the police all along: he was hitchhiking at the time of the murder and in the company of that very man. Now, the Argyles have to deal not only with the loss of an innocent family member but also with the knowledge that someone else amongst them must have murdered Rachel Argyle. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to find the guilty party, but it's not before the deaths of other innocent people that she can reveal the truth.moreless

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At Bertram's Hotel

Full Episode

S 3 : Ep 1 - 9/23/07

Miss Marple leaves St. Mary Mead for a trip to London's elite, Victorian, and "too good to be true" Bertram's Hotel, where she used to spend her holidays as a child. Soon after her arrival, a maid is found murdered on the roof and Miss Marple tries to uncover the truth with the help of another maid. However, things take a strange turn when the hotel doorman is shot to death by a mysterious sniper, and some of the guests may be hiding more secrets than previously imagined.moreless

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The Sittaford Mystery

Full Episode

S 2 : Ep 4 - 4/30/06

Heavy snow is falling in Dartmoor and the shadowy guests in the local hotel decide to take part in a seance in order to amuse themselves. But the evening takes on a more sinister edge when the table-turning suggests that Clive Trevelyan, an eminent politician, is in danger. Meanwhile, at Sittaford House, Miss Marple discovers that poisoned Turkish Delight has been sent to Trevelyan. John Enderby, Trevelyan's loyal right hand man, is so concerned for his friend's safety that he wants to check on him. Unfortunately, Trevelyan is staying at the hotel - six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot...moreless

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By The Pricking Of My Thumbs

Full Episode

S 2 : Ep 3 - 2/19/06

When Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit Tommy's elderly aunt at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence is told by another resident, Mrs. Lancaster, that the corpse of a child is hidden behind a fireplace. Tuppence realises there could be more to the old lady's words than she originally thought, especially when Tommy's aunt dies weeks later, and Mrs. Lancaster mysteriously disappears. With Tommy away on business, who better to help her than Miss Marple, who is visiting an old friend at the nursing home. With a cryptic painting on their hands, the two end up in the Norfolk village of Farrell St. Edmund to find the subject of their painting, a lone cottage in a wooded forest, while also trying to learn the closely-guarded secrets of the residents.moreless

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The Moving Finger

Full Episode

S 2 : Ep 2 - 2/12/06

Poison pen letters are spread around the village of Lymstock, a village full of shameful secrets, and they don't cause much of a stir until one of the writer's victims commits suicide, leaving a note claiming that she couldn't go on any longer. But Miss Marple isn't convinced the writer has only contributed to her death by the poison-pen letter, and questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. She believes that this isn't just the work of a poison-pen, but also the work of a poisoner.moreless

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Sleeping Murder

Full Episode

S 2 : Ep 1 - 2/5/06

Miss Marple is asked to help Gwenda Halliday, a wealthy young woman who has bought a house on the English coast, only to experience disturbing visions. Soon Gwenda discovers that, instead of spending all her life in India, she had lived in the house as a child. The visions are actually flashes of memory - and she realizes she witnessed the murder of a beautiful woman who was a singer for an acting troupe known as The Funnybones.moreless

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A Murder Is Announced

Full Episode

S 1 : Ep 4 - 1/2/05

A murder is announced in the local newspaper in Chipping Cleghorn and everyone turns up at Little Paddocks at the appointed time. Then the lights go out and Letitia Blacklock is shot at and the man is found shot in the doorway. Miss Marple helps investigate the crime.moreless

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4:50 From Paddington

Full Episode

S 1 : Ep 3 - 12/26/04

A friend of Miss Marple claims to have seen a murder committed on a passing train, but the police dismiss it, as no body has been found in the train or surrounding area, so the two women begin an investigation of their own.moreless

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The Murder At The Vicarage

Full Episode

S 1 : Ep 2 - 12/19/04

A series of scandals in the village of St. Mary Mead seem to all revolve around Colonel Protheroe, and he is then found shot through the head at the vicarage. A young painter, Lawrence Redding, confesses to the crime, but then his lover also confesses. It is up to Miss Marple to unravel the mystery, and there is no shortage of people with a motive.moreless

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