More youtube goodies.

As much as I appreciate PBS and Masterpiece, they always seem to cut stuff out of their British imports. I watched the Miss Marple episode "Ordeal By Innocence" when it aired two summers ago. It was not a great adaptation of the novel (one of Agatha Christie's best)- it wasn't even a Miss Marple story! But I watched it on youtube the other day, and found that a lot of stuff was cut out. It was much better with the missing pieces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTxVuMgMvWY&feature=PlayList&p=B2334EFE5731DBF9&index=0&playnext=1

It had a great cast- Jane Seymour, Denis Lawson, Juliet Stevenson, Richard Armitage, Burn Gorman and Bryan Dick (oh, of course. The reason I watched it.). It was worth watching for the cast! It was a "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" for British actors.

The plot- Seymour is the mother of several adopted children. She is murdered, son Gorman is tried, convicted and hanged. His alibi shows up two years later, proving his innocence- and the suspicion shifts to the other children, the father, his secretary-turned fiancée, and the housekeeper. Plot is the same as the book, despite the addition of Miss Marple and an extra son who wasn't in the novel. Also, the later victims change, but at least the killer was the same.

I liked the book a great deal- I can see why it was one of Christie's personal favorites. They could have made an adaptation without Miss Marple!

Just one cute screencap of Bryan Dick as Mickey...love the red hair!