<Tr> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" </Td> <Td> 27 December 1992 </Td> <Td> Claire Bloom, Barry Newman, Gwen Watford, John Castle, Elizabeth Garvie, Judy Cornwell, Glynis Barber, Christopher Hancock, Rose Keegan, Anna Niland, Ian Brimble, Amanda Elwes, Christopher Good, Rhoda Lewis, Jon Croft, Margaret Courtenay </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Set in the summer of 1959 . Hollywood comes to St. Mary Mead when faded movie star Marina Gregg takes up residence for a local film shoot . But when she narrowly escapes an attempt on her life and a local woman dies instead, Miss Marple sorts the gossip rag chatter from the facts to uncover a tragedy . </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . "The Murder at the Vicarage" is set in 1954, "Nemesis" is set in 1955 or 1956, "At Bertram's Hotel" in 1956, and "4.50 from Paddington" is set in 1957 . </P> <P> Hickson vowed not to do another film after 1989's "A Caribbean Mystery", but was persuaded to return for the final two films in 1991 and 1992 . "A Caribbean Mystery" was shot on location at the Coral Reef Hotel in Barbados, where Christie had stayed in her visit to the country, and which had been the inspiration for the setting of the novel . Owners Budge and Cynthia O'Hara, who still owned the hotel 30 years later, were the inspirations for the characters in the novel and were able to share a treasure trove of Christie memorabilia with the cast . </P>

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