The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

I loved Joan Hickson too as Miss Marple. I can’t put it into words but I found her perfect

I must say I found JuliaMcKenzie one off putting. I do not watch much television and it was the first time I had come across the dramatisation of a book, where the script-writer had actually changed the plot, changing the killer and introducing a lesbian storyline, presumably to make it more 'woke'?

Plot changes are necessary when transferring from printed media to broadcast, and that is acceptable, but intrducing major changes in plot or characters just because you can, shows a sad lack of enterprise and originality.

Witzend, I too absolutely love Joan Hickson and think she was definitely the best Miss Marple. I have just taped the whole Joan Hickson (Miss Marple) series from the Alibi channel to watch at my leisure. I also love Margaret Rutherford and have the boxed set of her films. The one I couldn't take to was Julia McKenzie in the role, just wasn't for me.

The Pale Horse seems to be a very successful and enjoyable tv drama, well plotted and well played.

It is just that it shares little in common with a book with the same name written by Agatha Christie, so the title is a bit misleading.

Well I enjoyed it especially the spookiness. I didn't really know who Rufus Sewell was but he kept reminding me of Profumo in Christine Keeler (Ben somebody). Something about the strange eyes. I have read some Agatha Christie books but instantly forgot them. She always seemed to be the grown ups' Enid Blyton to me. Maybe I'll be shot down in flames for that! I've always loved Rita Tushingham too - those eyes!

In the book he was a writer.

He owns an upmarket antique shop in London ( one which doesn’t seem to have any customers.)
His main job is to look enigmatic and change his suits a lot.

Yes, I think he is.

For some reason I think he's an antique dealer.

It seems to have passed me by, oldgimmer!!

I liked it. Not a clue what's going on, though.

And Much Deeping very Costswolds-looking.

Can someone please tell me what Mark does for a living? He seems to have a lot of time on his hands...

Thank you Cherrytree I will record it.

Tonight (Wednesday)
8pm itv 3
9pm channel 10.
Agatha Christie's Pale Horse
with Miss Marple.

Tweed jackets -and corduroy ones too
With a shirt and tie of course

I had a corduroy blazer but no tie!

There were tweed jackets as well. My then boy friend was considered very trendy and daring because he wore a corduroy jacket. It was always a shirt though and this was in '67.
There was a notice in our women's training college saying "Young ladies are reminded that only arts and crafts students may wear jeans to lectures"
We wore them anyway but we would never dare wear them for teaching practice.

Oh yes, men, including young men wore suits. All office workers wore suits to work, but I never saw a student in lectures wearing a suit. Usual wear was grey flannel trousers and a blazer and shirt and tie, or sweater.

DH still has the lovely navy cable knit sweater his mother knitted specially before he went off to Uni. He lived in that and a canvas sailing top, as I remember - we were not an item then, so he may have had more clothes than just those.

Yes, even young men wore suits a lot in the 60’s, even to dances.
My Father wore a hat and so did my Grandfather, in the 60’s and 70’s.
I rather enjoyed the first part of The Pale Horse, Rufus Sewell
Wore some natty suits and I enjoyed watching the clothes people wore as much as the plot.
It looked like the Cotswolds to me btw too.Never saw villages like that in Surrey, nice as they were.
It’s a very English spooky production, I should think it has an eye on the American market for sales.

Would be about 1964?

I have photos of us, with the male students wearing suits!! Perhaps they were just very proper (although, looking back, no they weren't!).

I live not far from Bisley Surrey and thought it didn't look right!

At university 1961-64, cannot remember ever seeing a male student in a suit unless going to a formal University do. Most of the lecturers didn't wear suits either.

It's filmed mainly Bisley and Bristol

Yes, men always wore suits, I can remember the male students wearing suits! His wife looked very 'Audrey Hepburnish'

There is an Ardingly in West Sussex.

No, it's too hilly for Lacock.

LullyDully, no, that is Bisley in Gloucestershire, near Stroud.
The buildings are built of what is unmistakably Cotswold stone.

Surrey villages are nothing like that!