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
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