While some portions of the story are removed (as always) for the sake of time, there is far less of the extraneous material that movie makers somehow feel inclined to replace it with. While the built-in packaging is not as easy to use as simple slim cases, this particular set of DVDs come the closest of any of the Miss Marples or Poirots I have seen (meaning only the David Suchet and Joan Hickson versions) to actually following the original story.
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I can only hope that one day Miss Marple will be included in the Criterion Collection. I find myself watching the ACORN TV version now rather than the DVDs when I go back to re-watch this series. But both the A&E and BBC productions suffer from two problems 1) the transfer to DVD is not very good when compared with the ACORN TV which is much clearer, and 2) neither A&E or BBC included subtitles, while ACO RN TV does. The 1st, 3rd and 4th episodes are not included in the A&E production, so I had to buy the complementary BBC production to complete the set. I had watched the series on ACORN TV and liked it so much that I decided to buy the collection, but am not entirely pleased with what was available. Agatha Christie herself picked Joan for the part. There have been at least three versions produced, but for me Joan Hickson is the real Miss Marple. There were only 12 episodes of Agatha Christies' Miss Marple ever written and dramatized. This is a review of both the A&E and the BBC episodes.
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