Miss Marple Langen in a West German television adaptation of "The Murder at the Vicarage " ("Mord im Pfarrhaus"). In 2015, CBS planned a "much younger" version of the character, a granddaughter who takes over a California bookstore. In 2018, Miss Marple was portrayed by Yunjin Kim in the South Korean television series "Ms. Ma, Nemesis". American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies near the end of her decades long acting career, both for CBS: "A Caribbean Mystery" (1983) and "Murder with Mirrors" (1985). Sue Grafton contributed to the screenplay of the former. Hayes's
Miss Marple (TV series) stories including "The Secret Adversary" and in the subsequent series "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime". With the success of that series, the BBC received approval to produce the stories of one of Christie's most famous detectives. At the time the BBC was granted the screen rights to all 12 Marple novels, the rights to three already co-existed. "The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side" had already been filmed and theatrically released in 1980 with Angela Lansbury in the role, and the same production company was in the process of filming "A Caribbean Mystery" and "They Do It With Mirrors" with