Stewart Harcourt strikes again, he's proved to be a very successful writer when it comes to Doctor Who. The Blue Geranium is a very good short story, what a brilliant screenplay to get a full length adaptation out of it, particularly one which is first rate.
Miss Marple turns up at Little Ambrose to visit her friend and local Reverend Dermot. There is unease for the wife of local wealthy benefactor George Pritchard, his wife Mary is bed ridden and lives in fear of her life. Mary has become infatuated with her own health, imagining illnesses, attended to by a nurse, she seeks assurances from a mysterious fortune teller known as Zarida, who prophecises doom associated by seeing blue flowers, accidents when she sees blue hollyhocks, and death when she sees a blue geranium. Tragedy strikes as Mary is found dead, and a geranium on the wallpaper is witnessed turning blue.
Beautifully acted, there are so many good performances, McKenzie herself, Sharon Small, Toby Stephens, but Claire Rushbrook is absolutely brilliant, in recent years she's proved to be able to turn her hand to anything, she is excellent. I have to mention also the brief performance from Jason Durr as Eddie Seward, excellent.
I think it's one of the standout episodes from the entire Marple series, all the elements work so well. It really is first rate, beautifully produced, it passes by too quickly. 10/10 brilliant.