Based on a Marple short story from the Agatha Christie book The Thirteen Problems, The Blue Geranium sees the elderly spinster tec investigating after Mary Pritchard is found dead not long after receiving a warning from a fortune teller to beware of the colour Blue. Is her death linked to the Blue Geranium wallpaper in her bedroom or is something more sinister going on.
When it looks like the wrong person may be hung for Mary’s death Miss Marple turns to her old friend Sir Henry Clithering to see if he can stop the court hearing as Miss Marple does her best to discover what is really going on.
Great to see that at last ITV have turned to the many Miss Marple short stories for inspiration instead of placing her in sometimes out of context adaptations of non Marple novels. Donald Sinden is perfect as Sir Henry (who features in quite a few Marple stories) and the fab cast also includes the brilliant Toby Stephens, Kevin McNally and Joanna Page.
production details
UK / ITV1 Network – Chorion – WGBH Boston / 1×120 minute episode / Broadcast Wednesday 29 December 2010 @ 9.00pm
Writer: Stewart Harcourt / Script Editor: Meriel Baistow-Clare / Music: Dominik Scherrer / Costumes: Sheena Napier / Production Design: Jeff Tessler / Executive Producers: Rebecca Eaton, Mathew Prichard, Mary Durkan, Michele Buck, Damien Timmer / Producer: Karen Thrussell / Director: David Moore
Series: Agatha Christie’s Marple Season 5 Episode 2
cast
JULIA McKENZIE as Miss Jane Marple
SHARON SMALL as Mary Pritchard
DONALD SINDEN as Sir Henry Clithering
TOBY STEPHENS as George Pritchard
CLAUDIE BLAKELEY as Philippa Pritchard
JOANNA PAGE as Hester
CLAIRE RUSHBROOK as Caroline
KEVIN McNALLY as Detective Somerset
IAN EAST as John The Gardener
JASON DURR as Eddie Seward
DAVILD CALDER as Dermot
PAUL RHYS as Lewis Pritchard
PATRICK BALADI as Jonathan Frayn
CAROLINE CATZ as Hazel
BENJAMIN HARCOURT as Peter Pritchard
THOMAS HARCOURT as Michael Pritchard
MOLLY HARCOURT as Susan Pritchard
REBEKAH MANNING as Susan Carstairs
HUGH ROSS as Lord Justice Carmichael
RICHARD BETTS as Clerk of the Court
DEREK HUTCHINSON as Concierge
