6.5/101,683 votesLoading...#1 - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/15/2010
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
6.8/101,967 votesLoading...#2 - The Sittaford Mystery
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/1/2006
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: N/A
6.9/101,262 votesLoading...#3 - Endless Night
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 12/29/2013
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/101,927 votesLoading...#4 - Nemesis
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/1/2009
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: N/A
7.1/102,593 votesLoading...#5 - The Body in the Library
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/12/2004
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
7.1/101,442 votesLoading...#6 - They Do It with Mirrors
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2010
A reformatory for delinquent boys run by Miss Marple's philanthropic friend becomes the scene of arson and poisoning, and ultimately murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/101,937 votesLoading...#7 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/19/2006
Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.
Director: Peter Medak
Writer: N/A
7.2/101,952 votesLoading...#8 - Murder Is Easy
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/2009
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
7.2/101,357 votesLoading...#9 - The Secret of Chimneys
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 12/27/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/101,962 votesLoading...#10 - Sleeping Murder
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/5/2006
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
7.3/101,812 votesLoading...
7.3/101,761 votesLoading...#12 - Ordeal by Innocence
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2007
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: N/A
7.3/101,736 votesLoading...#13 - Towards Zero
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/3/2008
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.
Director: David Grindley
Writer: N/A
7.4/102,348 votesLoading...#14 - The Murder at the Vicarage
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/19/2004
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: N/A
7.4/102,196 votesLoading...#15 - 4.50 from Paddington
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/26/2004
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: N/A
7.4/102,121 votesLoading...#16 - The Moving Finger
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/2006
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
7.4/101,643 votesLoading...#17 - A Pocket Full of Rye
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/2009
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/101,400 votesLoading...#18 - The Pale Horse
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/101,229 votesLoading...#19 - The Blue Geranium
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 12/29/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/101,275 votesLoading...#20 - A Caribbean Mystery
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2013
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/102,215 votesLoading...#21 - A Murder Is Announced
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/2/2005
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: N/A
7.5/101,345 votesLoading...#22 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/2/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/101,137 votesLoading...#23 - Greenshaw's Folly
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2013
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: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Agatha Christie's Marple
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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...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" is the worst rated episode of "Agatha Christie's Marple". It scored 6.5/10 based on 1683 votes. Directed by Nicholas Renton and written by Patrick Barlow, it aired on 6/15/2010. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Sittaford Mystery".