Miss Marple (TV series) in "The Murder at the Vicarage" and '"The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". Rhoda Lewis is village shopkeeper and postmistress Mrs Brogan in "A Pocketful of Rye", "4.50 from Paddington" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". BBC producer Guy Slater cast Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. The series was filmed beginning in 1983 in areas including Norfolk, Devon, Oxfordshire and Barbados. The town of Nether Wallop, Hampshire doubled as Miss Marple's home village of St. Mary Mead. Slater was replaced by producer George Gallaccio starting with the fourth film. Hickson vowed not to do another film after
Agatha Christie's Marple is aired in the United States on PBS on "Mystery!", where it is presented as "Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple."" The series is broadcast to the whole of Canada on CBC and in French on Radio-Canada. In Australia, "Agatha Christie's Marple" airs on ABC1. "Marple" is also being broadcast on ATV World in Hong Kong, on "EBS" and MegaTV in South Korea and on CCTV-8 in China. China, however, refused to show "The Body in the Library" and "Murder Is Easy," due to the involvement of a lesbian and an incestuous relationship respectively. "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" was extensively edited,