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The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Agatha Christie's Marple Season 6 Episode 2 - Greenshaw's Folly
    7.6/10(1322 votes)

    S6:E2

    Miss Marple aids a young mother and son by spiriting them away to the estate of an eccentric botanist, not knowing that it will soon become the scene of murder.

    Director:Sarah Harding
    Writer:Tim Whitnall

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  2. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 1 Episode 3 - 4.50 from Paddington
    7.5/10(2487 votes)

    S1:E3

    Miss Marple investigates the wealthy Crackenthorpe clan, believing a body to be hidden on their estate after a visiting friend witnesses a brutal strangling murder occurring on a passing train.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Stephen Churchett

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  3. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 1 Episode 4 - A Murder Is Announced
    7.5/10(2525 votes)

    S1:E4

    The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are summoned by a newspaper notice to the house of Letitia Blacklock, anticipating an evening of murder games. But things become all too real when an intruder is shot dead.

    Director:John Strickland
    Writer:Stewart Harcourt

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  4. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 2 Episode 2 - The Moving Finger
    7.5/10(2450 votes)

    S2:E2

    Troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna rent a cottage in a seemingly tranquil English village which is plagued by a spate of poison pen letters... and murder.

    Director:Tom Shankland
    Writer:Kevin Elyot

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  5. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 5 Episode 1 - The Pale Horse
    7.5/10(1611 votes)

    S5:E1

    Miss Marple's friend - a Catholic priest - is battered to death after visiting a woman dying under strange circumstances. Seeking justice, she becomes entangled in a nefarious organization centered around an inn run by purported witches.

    Director:Andy Hay
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 5 Episode 4 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
    7.5/10(1545 votes)

    S5:E4

    A troubled Hollywood actress and her director husband move to St. Mary Mead, but their arrival becomes clouded in tragedy when an ardent fan is fatally poisoned during a garden fête.

    Director:Tom Shankland
    Writer:Kevin Elyot

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  7. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 1 Episode 2 - The Murder at the Vicarage
    7.4/10(2670 votes)

    S1:E2

    No one seems surprised when Colonel Lucius Protheroe, the most disliked person in St. Mary Mead, is found murdered in the local vicarage. Red herrings abound, especially when his widow and her lover both confess to the murder.

    Director:Charles Palmer
    Writer:Stephen Churchett

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  8. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 3 Episode 1 - At Bertram's Hotel
    7.4/10(2091 votes)

    S3:E1

    Miss Marple spends a holiday in a luxurious London hotel. The sinister atmosphere, the odd disappearance of a clergyman and the murder of the commissionaire moves her on the trail of a clever criminal gang.

    Director:Dan Zeff
    Writer:Tom MacRae

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  9. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 3 Episode 3 - Towards Zero
    7.4/10(2007 votes)

    S3:E3

    A wealthy woman holds a party at her Devon estate for family and friends, including old schoolmate Miss Marple. When a solicitor and the hostess herself are both murdered, Miss Marple tries to find a clever killer with a devious plan.

    Directors:Nicolas Winding Refn, David Grindley
    Writer:Kevin Elyot

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  10. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 4 Episode 1 - A Pocket Full of Rye
    7.4/10(1886 votes)

    S4:E1

    A detestable businessman is murdered while at work, and a handful of rye is found in his pockets. Soon after, members of his household fall victim to a killer intent on recreating scenes from a popular nursery rhyme.

    Director:Charles Palmer
    Writer:Kevin Elyot

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  11. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 5 Episode 3 - The Blue Geranium
    7.4/10(1403 votes)

    S5:E3

    A cruel, superstitious woman dies of apparent fright after her fate is foretold by a medium. Miss Marple, however, is convinced of foul play when another death occurs.

    Director:David Moore
    Writer:Stewart Harcourt

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  12. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 6 Episode 1 - A Caribbean Mystery
    7.4/10(1483 votes)

    S6:E1

    While holidaying on the Caribbean island of St. Honoré, Miss Marple is drawn into a case of intrigue and black magic when a garrulous old major who bragged of owning a photograph of a known murderer dies under mysterious circumstances.

    Director:Charles Palmer
    Writer:Charlie Higson

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  13. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 2 Episode 1 - Sleeping Murder
    7.3/10(2242 votes)

    S2:E1

    Gwenda Halliday, a wealthy young Englishwoman recently emigrated from India, intuitively buys a seaside manor house, where she re-experiences a murder.

    Director:Edward Hall
    Writer:Stephen Churchett

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  14. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 2 Episode 3 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs
    7.3/10(2220 votes)

    S2:E3

    Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.

    Director:Peter Medak
    Writer:Stewart Harcourt

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  15. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 3 Episode 2 - Ordeal by Innocence
    7.3/10(1997 votes)

    S3:E2

    Old wounds are reopened for the Argyle family when a man suddenly turns up after being abroad and claims that the black sheep of the family could not have murdered its tyrannical matriarch.

    Director:Moira Armstrong
    Writer:Stewart Harcourt

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  16. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 4 Episode 2 - Murder Is Easy
    7.3/10(2206 votes)

    S4:E2

    A village is plagued by a spate of seemingly accidental deaths, but Miss Marple is convinced a more sinister hand is involved when a villager on her way to Scotland Yard is conveniently dispatched.

    Director:Hettie Macdonald
    Writer:Stephen Churchett

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  17. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 5 Episode 2 - The Secret of Chimneys
    7.3/10(1566 votes)

    S5:E2

    An attempt to bring a famed stately home back to its former glory is marred when a visiting Austrian diplomat is shot to death decades after the disappearance of a priceless diamond.

    Director:John Strickland
    Writer:Paul Rutman

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  18. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 1 Episode 1 - The Body in the Library
    7.1/10(2994 votes)

    S1:E1

    Dolly Bantry calls upon her old friend Miss Marple when the strangled corpse of an unknown blonde girl is found in the library of her home, Gossington Hall.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Kevin Elyot

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  19. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 4 Episode 3 - They Do It with Mirrors
    7.1/10(1641 votes)

    S4:E3

    A reformatory for delinquent boys run by Miss Marple's philanthropic friend becomes the scene of arson and poisoning, and ultimately murder.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Paul Rutman

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  20. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 3 Episode 4 - Nemesis
    7.0/10(2171 votes)

    S3:E4

    Miss Marple and her nephew, novelist Raymond West, embark on a coach tour of historic English houses with an eclectic group of characters at the behest of a late friend who had knowledge of an unsolved murder.

    Director:Nicolas Winding Refn
    Writer:Stephen Churchett

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  21. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 6 Episode 3 - Endless Night
    6.9/10(1467 votes)

    S6:E3

    Miss Marple investigates the downfall of an optimistic young couple who ignored the warnings of a gypsy and built a dream home on allegedly cursed land.

    Director:David Moore
    Writer:Kevin Elyot

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  22. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 2 Episode 4 - The Sittaford Mystery
    6.8/10(2235 votes)

    S2:E4

    The death of the presumptive future PM is predicted during a séance in a snowbound country hotel and, not surprisingly, he is found stabbed to death the next morning.

    Director:Paul Unwin
    Writer:Stephen Churchett

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  23. Agatha Christie's Marple Season 4 Episode 4 - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
    6.5/10(1926 votes)

    S4:E4

    The cryptic final words of a dying man lead Miss Marple and two young adventurers to a dysfunctional family harboring dark secrets.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Patrick Barlow

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Best Episodes Summary

"Greenshaw's Folly" is the best rated episode of "Agatha Christie's Marple". It scored 7.6/10 based on 1322 votes. Directed by Sarah Harding and written by Tim Whitnall, it aired on 6/23/2013. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "4.50 from Paddington".