Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6722 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-03-16
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Number of discs: 12
• Running time: 1117 minutes

DVD Description
Geraldine McEwan brought Agatha Christie's much loved sleuth Miss Marple to life for three series of the hugely successful MARPLE. With the reins now passed safely over to Julia McKenzie (Cranford), this collection lets you re-live all 12 episodes from her previous incarnation. Aided by a stellar supporting cast including Dawn French, Sarah Parish, Imogen Stubbs, Harry Enfield, Jessica Hynes, Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Steven Berkoff, Laurence Fox, Matthew Kelly, Polly Walker, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Juliet Stevenson, Saffron Burrows, Eileen Atkins, Greg Wise, Amanda Burton, Richard E. Grant, and many more.

1. The Body in the Library
2. The Murder at the Vicarage
3. 4.50 from Paddington
4. A Murder Is Announced
5. Sleeping Murder
6. The Moving Finger
7. By the Pricking of My Thumbs
8. The Sittaford Mystery
9. Towards Zero
10. Nemesis
11. At Bertram's Hotel
12. Ordeal By Innocence

Customer Reviews

for me, the best Miss Marple
For characters like Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple, who have been portrayed by various actors, most viewers will have a favorite.

Geraldine McEwan is my ideal Miss Marple. She combines intelligence and sharp powers of observation with a sense of humour and a good deal of panache.

The series was excellently scripted and cast, a real pleasure to watch once and again.

But the fact that I prefer Ms. McEwan does not mean that I would review other performers badly. I have watched and enjoyed other Miss Marples, including Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, and Joan Hickson. Each of them brought something different to the role. I would not dream of trashing them simply because they were not my favorite.

Very amusing, but much maligned ...
Geraldine McEwan's "Marple" seems to polarise reviewers, both here and on IMDB. I have watched almost all of the various incarnations of Agatha Christie's character, and although I believe Joan Hickson is overall the best, McEwan's version I find very amusing. Perhaps the plots have been messed about a bit, but there is a lot of humour here. To the detractors and pedants ... just relax and enjoy it.

appalling
a truly dire series. the only one episode that i felt was good, and it was very good, was murder at the vicarage. i think what spoilt it for me was a lot of comedians, who not so long ago were deriding the very same thing they have appeared in. it shows that they can easily be bought. you can tell even itv had no belief in it as it was on at very irregular times, and shown a long way behind other territories.
save your money.