Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Julia McKenzie | ... | Miss Marple | |
Tom Hughes | ... | Mike Rogers | |
Aneurin Barnard | ... | Robbie Hayman | |
Adam Wadsworth | ... | Pete Hayman | |
Joanna Vanderham | ... | Ellie | |
Wendy Craig | ... | Marjorie Phillpot | |
Janet Henfrey | ... | Mrs. Lee | |
Tamzin Outhwaite | ... | Mrs. Rogers | |
William Hope | ... | Lippincott | |
Glynis Barber | ... | Cora Van Stuyvesant | |
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Michael McKell | ... | Frank Stanford |
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen | ... | Greta Anderson | |
Hugh Dennis | ... | Dr. Shaw | |
Rosalind Halstead | ... | Claudia Hardcastle | |
Celyn Jones | ... | Sergeant Keene |
While consoling her recently widowed friend Marjorie, Miss Marple crosses paths with the handsome Mike Rogers, a young worker with a penchant for daydreaming about his future, more specifically about the perfect house he would live in, built on the eerily beautiful Gypsy's Acre. When Mike meets and marries the ethereal American heiress Ellie Goodman, his luck changes, and with the help of his old friend and rising architect Robbie Hayman, Mike's dream house is finally built, despite the repeated warnings from Esther Lee, a local gypsy, that Gypsy's Acre is cursed ground. Miss Marple, however, senses that danger really is near at hand, especially when frightening incidents plague Mike and Ellie, culminating in an injury that leads to the arrival of Ellie's mysterious Swedish friend, Greta. But when Ellie herself meets a tragic end, Miss Marple and Mike are faced with a chilling reality: that, perhaps, supernatural nightmares truly can exist, and that - as William Blake once wrote - ... Written by shanty_sleuth
It's a really good slow burner of a book but this doesn't capture much of the atmosphere or of that. Miss Marple is crow-barred in, completely unnecessary & very forced. The character of Robbie doesn't make sense, the original would have been much better. I can see why they did this from the point of brevity but it's just strange. This would make a great movie but this isn't a Miss Marple & shouldn't have been.