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Hercule Poirot: Third Girl on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , , , , on 19 July 2010 | 14 Comments »

If Masterpiece Mystery fans were unsettled by last week’s uncharacteristically dark and moralistic production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, then absolution is in order with Third Girl, a total turn-around back to the sophisticated Art Deco 1930’s London and country manor house crime dramas that we have come to cherish and expect. [...]

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Hercule Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , on 15 July 2010 | 39 Comments »

Mystery fans were treated to the opening of season X of Poirot on Masterpiece Mystery last Sunday with a new episode of Murder on the Orient Express, one of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels. Amazingly, this new production is only the second time it has been adapted for television and follows the famous and glitzy [...]

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Masterpiece Mystery: Miss Marple – They Do It With Mirrors Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , , on 20 July 2009 | 2 Comments »

The third episode of the Miss Marple Mysteries aired on Sunday, July 19th on Masterpiece Mystery with They Do It With Mirrors, a new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1952 novel on PBS. The new Miss Marple Julia McKenzie adds a sympathetic and knowing mantle to her interpretation of the famous elderly detective of St. Mary Mead, [...]

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Miss Marple: Murder is Easy on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , , , , , on 13 July 2009 | 3 Comments »

The second episode of the Miss Marple Mysteries aired on Sunday, July 12th on Masterpiece Mystery with Murder is Easy. The new Miss Marple Julia McKenzie continues to improve in her interpretation of Agatha Christie’s amateur detective who may look like a harmless and kindly elderly lady, but is as sharp as her knitting needles. Miss [...]

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Miss Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , on 7 July 2009 | 8 Comments »

Julia McKenzie debuted on Sunday as the new Miss Marple in A Pocket Full of Rye on Masterpiece Mystery. She’s the actress who played Mrs. Forrester in last seasons Cranford who put flannel pajamas on her cow. We shall see if she can also put a memorable spin on Agatha Christie’s famous elderly spinster who [...]

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Masterpiece Mystery: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , on 29 June 2009 |

Who would want to bludgeon to death a humble country charwoman? Suspicions lead Superintendent Spence (Richard Hope) to conclude that her dodgy tenant James Bentley (Joe Absolom) who has fallen on hard times was motivated by theft to commit the crime. After Bentley is convicted and sentenced to die by the gallows, things still do [...]

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