As I've stated, it's been eons since I read the Agatha Christie books, so I'm not good at picking up nuances, missing plot points etc. that others are as they watch this series. However, I am more familiar with this particular story, "What Mrs. McGillicudy Saw" or 4:50 from Paddington.
In this one, a friend of Mrs. Marple's witnesses a murder when her train passes another train. Marple eventually figures out where the train was and figures the body, since they never found it, was thrown onto Rutherford House, an estate. She gets her niece Lucy, a beautiful young woman, to take a job there and find the body.
I thought this adaptation was pretty good - at least the murderer was the same -- I understand in some adaptations, they've actually changed the identity of the killer as well as the reason for the murder. This is as I remembered it.
I enjoyed David Warner as the bedridden head of the household; all the performances were good and the production values top-notch. Geraldine McEwan still doesn't seem like Miss Marple to me, but she's an excellent actress nonetheless.
In this one, a friend of Mrs. Marple's witnesses a murder when her train passes another train. Marple eventually figures out where the train was and figures the body, since they never found it, was thrown onto Rutherford House, an estate. She gets her niece Lucy, a beautiful young woman, to take a job there and find the body.
I thought this adaptation was pretty good - at least the murderer was the same -- I understand in some adaptations, they've actually changed the identity of the killer as well as the reason for the murder. This is as I remembered it.
I enjoyed David Warner as the bedridden head of the household; all the performances were good and the production values top-notch. Geraldine McEwan still doesn't seem like Miss Marple to me, but she's an excellent actress nonetheless.