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The Best Episodes of Miss Marple

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The definitive adaptation of all twelve Miss Marple novels, starring Joan Hickson in the title role and featuring one of the all-time TV themes, composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. The series was produced

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 6 - Nemesis Part 2
    8.3/10(128 votes)

    S2:E6

    Elizabeth Temple is badly injured, she sends for Jane Marple, and manages to relay one piece of information, 'ask them about Verity.'

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 8 - A Murder is Announced Part 3
    8.2/10(261 votes)

    S1:E8

    A third murder occurs, and Miss Marple is only just able to prevent a fourth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 5 - Nemesis Part 1
    8.2/10(136 votes)

    S2:E5

    Miss Marple receives word that her friend Jason Rafiel has died. In his will, he asks that she attended a coach tour, her aim, to unearth a mystery.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 8 - A Caribbean Mystery
    8.2/10(108 votes)

    S2:E8

    While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 7 - A Murder is Announced Part 2
    8.1/10(264 votes)

    S1:E7

    The inspector visits a dying millionairess in Scotland, whilst another murder takes place in the village.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 7 - 4.50 from Paddington
    8.1/10(122 votes)

    S2:E7

    Miss Marple's friend witnesses a murder in a railway carriage running parallel to her own, so Miss Marple engages a resourceful young woman to investigate. The search leads to a decrepit estate, where they suspect the body was dumped. But the seemingly innocent family who live there have secrets of their own.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 6 - A Murder is Announced Part 1
    8.0/10(297 votes)

    S1:E6

    A third murder occurs, and Miss Marple is only just able to prevent a fourth.

    Director:David Giles
    Writer:Alan Plater

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  8. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 10 - A Pocketful of Rye Part 2
    7.9/10(158 votes)

    S1:E10

    To Miss Marple the connection with the nursery rhyme is all too clear, as is who the next victim will be. She sets off at once for Yew Tree Lodge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 2 - Sleeping Murder Part 2
    7.9/10(126 votes)

    S2:E2

    When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 3 - At Bertram's Hotel Part 1
    7.9/10(128 votes)

    S2:E3

    Miss Marple takes a well earned holiday at Bertram's, a Hotel she stayed in as a child. It seems familiar, but underneath the dainty teas and classy clientele, Bertram's hides a secret.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 10 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
    7.9/10(91 votes)

    S2:E10

    At a reception for a fading film star making a screen comeback, a gushing, pushy fan is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the actress.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 1 - The Body in the Library Part 1
    7.8/10(194 votes)

    S1:E1

    When a young blonde is found strangled in the library of Gossington Hall, Dolly Bantry quickly calls in her old friend Miss Marple to help her with some sleuthing. They soon discover that the dead woman was a dancer from the glamorous Majestic Hotel, and decide to check themselves in there in order to observe the guests and solve the murder.

    Director:Silvio Narizzano
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 3 - The Body in the Library Part 3
    7.8/10(162 votes)

    S1:E3

    The identity of the killer is revealed, as is the dubious motive for the crime.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 9 - A Pocketful of Rye Part 1
    7.8/10(177 votes)

    S1:E9

    When the poison which killed Rex is identified as deriving from yew, it is on the household and staff at Yew Tree Lodge that suspicion falls.

    Director:Guy Slater
    Writer:T.R. Bowen

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  15. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 1 - Sleeping Murder Part 1
    7.8/10(129 votes)

    S2:E1

    With Miss Marple's help, she discovers that the murder she'd witnessed was that or her stepmother, Helen Kennedy. Despite Miss Marple's advice to leave Sleeping Murder be, she decides to keep digging and search for the truth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 4 - At Bertram's Hotel Part 2
    7.8/10(120 votes)

    S2:E4

    Canon Pennyfather returns to Bertram's, but struggles to explain his disappearance, could he have been on The Irish Mail Train, robbing it?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 2 - The Body in the Library Part 2
    7.7/10(165 votes)

    S1:E2

    Miss Marple and Dolly Bantry investigate the millionaire Conway Jefferson and his entourage at a seaside hotel.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 4 - The Moving Finger Part 1
    7.6/10(246 votes)

    S1:E4

    It's such a nice village - who would have thought it held so many dirty secrets?

    Director:Roy Boulting
    Writer:Julia Jones

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  19. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 11 - The Murder at the Vicarage
    7.6/10(132 votes)

    S1:E11

    Death is only steps from Miss Marple when Colonel Lucius Protheroe is murdered in the idyllic village of St. Mary Mead—in the vicar's study, no less.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Miss Marple Season 2 Episode 9 - They Do It with Mirrors
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    S2:E9

    When Miss Marple is invited to the manor house of an old friend, it is not long before a puzzling murder puts her mind to work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Miss Marple Season 1 Episode 5 - The Moving Finger Part 2
    7.5/10(239 votes)

    S1:E5

    The truth about the murders - and the poison-pen letters - gradually emerges, although Miss Marple herself is menaced.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Julia Jones

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Best Episodes Summary

"Nemesis Part 2" is the best rated episode of "Miss Marple". It scored 8.3/10 based on 128 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/8/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Murder is Announced Part 3".