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This article incorrectly says "Why Didn't They Ask Evans", "The Seven Dials Mystery" and the Tommy and Tuppence stories were shown on the BBC. They were LWT productions and shown on ITV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.71.1 ( talk) 22:03, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved Mike Cline ( talk) 12:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Miss Marple (TV series) →
Miss Marple (BBC TV series) – The present article name has created confusion because there are two TV series--one produced by the BBC (subject of this article) and a later one produced by ITV (subject of the separate article
Agatha Christie's Marple. Inter alia, a further change will be needed on the disambiguation page
Marple.
Bjenks (
talk) 04:03, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
The article says (in the table under Episodes) A Murder is Announced was aired on 23, 24, 25 December 1985. IMDb says it was aired on 28 February 1985 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087756/releaseinfo), which puts it before A Pocketful of Rye in the series order. The DVD box set also has the IMDb order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Binand ( talk • contribs) 03:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
The article makes it seem (or at least offers on indication to the contrary) that the filming and broadcasting of these two linked stories out of order was caprice on the part of the BBC, which it wasn’t. It was a rights issue arising from there being a previous American TV movie of A Caribbean Mystery, starring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple, and thus the TV rights were elsewhere; whether the rights reverted to the Christie estate, and then passed to the BBC, or whether the BBC came to an agreement with the American company I don’t know, but may prove to be a line of enquiry for someone with the desire to flesh out the details. It would also have some bearing on the mention of Joan Hickson “vowing” not to return to the part, because as with The Caribbean Mystery, the rights to They Do it With Mirrors and The Mirror Crack’d also had been assigned, and the BBC again would not have had access to them without negotiation, thus Miss Hickson’s participation may not have been a given, but neither was there certainty that they could/ would be made. Jock123 ( talk) 14:07, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
The title of the BBC series was always "AGATHA CHRISTIE's Miss Marple" and thus the title for this article is incorrect. The opening credits never varied from this title. ITV's later series was simply called "Marple". 162.246.145.202 ( talk) 00:45, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
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This article incorrectly says "Why Didn't They Ask Evans", "The Seven Dials Mystery" and the Tommy and Tuppence stories were shown on the BBC. They were LWT productions and shown on ITV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.71.1 ( talk) 22:03, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved Mike Cline ( talk) 12:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Miss Marple (TV series) →
Miss Marple (BBC TV series) – The present article name has created confusion because there are two TV series--one produced by the BBC (subject of this article) and a later one produced by ITV (subject of the separate article
Agatha Christie's Marple. Inter alia, a further change will be needed on the disambiguation page
Marple.
Bjenks (
talk) 04:03, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
The article says (in the table under Episodes) A Murder is Announced was aired on 23, 24, 25 December 1985. IMDb says it was aired on 28 February 1985 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087756/releaseinfo), which puts it before A Pocketful of Rye in the series order. The DVD box set also has the IMDb order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Binand ( talk • contribs) 03:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
The article makes it seem (or at least offers on indication to the contrary) that the filming and broadcasting of these two linked stories out of order was caprice on the part of the BBC, which it wasn’t. It was a rights issue arising from there being a previous American TV movie of A Caribbean Mystery, starring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple, and thus the TV rights were elsewhere; whether the rights reverted to the Christie estate, and then passed to the BBC, or whether the BBC came to an agreement with the American company I don’t know, but may prove to be a line of enquiry for someone with the desire to flesh out the details. It would also have some bearing on the mention of Joan Hickson “vowing” not to return to the part, because as with The Caribbean Mystery, the rights to They Do it With Mirrors and The Mirror Crack’d also had been assigned, and the BBC again would not have had access to them without negotiation, thus Miss Hickson’s participation may not have been a given, but neither was there certainty that they could/ would be made. Jock123 ( talk) 14:07, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
The title of the BBC series was always "AGATHA CHRISTIE's Miss Marple" and thus the title for this article is incorrect. The opening credits never varied from this title. ITV's later series was simply called "Marple". 162.246.145.202 ( talk) 00:45, 16 December 2016 (UTC)