By the Pricking of My Thumbs
- Episode aired Feb 19, 2006
- TV-PG
- 1h 42m
Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.
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- TriviaMiss Marple does not appear in Agatha Christie's original novel, which was an adventure featuring her other sleuths, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. In order to make the story part of the Marple series, the time period was moved from post-war to sometime near the end of the war. This conveniently places Tommy still in the military intelligence service abroad, and his part of the story was re-written for Miss Marple.
- GoofsTowards the end, Septimus Bligh is pulling the ropes of two of the church bells. While it is possible for a single person to chime two bells. Each bell in a church tower is a different pitch. The two bells Septimus Bligh had the same pitch and is therefore not possible.
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Tommy Beresford: [Tuppence asks Tommy to drive so she can continue reading her copy of Macbeth. Tommy chuckles in response] I was in Macbeth at my prep school. "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day."
Tuppence Beresford: [gets in car on passenger side] I heard you were marvelous.
Tommy Beresford: Who from?
Tuppence Beresford: You.
Tommy Beresford: Hmm.
[gets in car and starts engine]
Tommy Beresford: "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
- Crazy creditsIn the closing credits Claire Bloom is misspelled "Clare Bloom". In the opening credits the spelling is correct.
- ConnectionsVersion of By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005)
Granted that "Tommy & Tuppence" were the only Agatha Christie characters that aged in real time with Dame Agatha Christie, but one thing "Tuppence" wasn't was a sloppy, rude drunk as she was written in this story.
"Tommy" loved her and had a lot of respect for her talents, yet in this story he treats her as if she is incompetent, insinuates she is drinking too much again, and gets in the way of the investigation she & "Miss Marple" started.
The saving grace is that "Jane Marple" is consistent and helps to wrap things up as only she can. To watch adaptations of "Tommy and Tuppence" that portray them close to what Dame Agatha Christie wrote and intended, check out both "Partners In Crime" series.
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- Panna Marple: Dom niespokojnej starosci
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- Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK(Sir Philip Starke's manor house)
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