Masterpiece Theater and PBS - My Top Picks
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1. Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle
Votes: 224,583
2. The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
519 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.
Stars: Maurice Denham, Angela Easterling, Christopher Wren, Cy Town
Votes: 404
Done with her short stories.
3.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
The Sittaford Mystery
(2006)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The death of the presumptive future Prime Minister is predicted during a séance in a snowbound country hotel, and he is found stabbed to death in his room the next morning.
Director: Paul Unwin | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Timothy Dalton, Robert Hickson, Robert Hardy
Votes: 1,887
4.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
The Moving Finger
(2006)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna rent a cottage in a seemingly tranquil English village which is plagued by a spate of poison pen letters... and murder.
Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, James D'Arcy, Ken Russell, Frances de la Tour
Votes: 2,014
5.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
(2006)
TV-PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Chloe Pennington, Oliver Jordan, Anthony Andrews
Votes: 1,852
6.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
Sleeping Murder
(2006)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Gwenda Halliday, a wealthy young Englishwoman recently emigrated from India, intuitively buys a seaside manor house, where she re-experiences a murder.
Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Julian Wadham, Emilio Doorgasingh, Sophia Myles
Votes: 1,867
7.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
A Murder Is Announced
(2005)
TV-PG | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are summoned by a newspaper notice to the house of Letitia Blacklock, anticipating a murder game. But things become too real when someone is shot dead.
Director: John Strickland | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Christian Coulson, Cherie Lunghi, Robert Pugh
Votes: 2,115
8.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
Marple: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw
(2004)
TV-PG | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Miss Marple investigates the wealthy Crackenthorpe clan, believing a body to be hidden on their estate after a visiting friend witnesses a brutal strangling murder occurring on a passing train.
Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Griff Rhys Jones, David Warner, Niamh Cusack
Votes: 2,082
9.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
The Murder at the Vicarage
(2004)
TV-PG | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
No one seems surprised when Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the local vicarage. Red herrings abound, especially when his widow and her lover both confess to the murder.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, John Owens, Jana Carpenter, Tim McInnerny
Votes: 2,222
10.
Jericho (2005)
Episode:
A Pair of Ragged Claws
(2005)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
Jericho investigates the brutal murder of a young Jamaican in Notting Hill, and soon identifies it as a racial killing - but his work is interrupted when a wealthy businessman is kidnapped.... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Robert Lindsay, David Troughton, Nicholas Jones, Paterson Joseph
Votes: 114
11. The Ruby in the Smoke (2006 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In Victorian England, a young woman searches for a priceless ruby and uncovers even greater mysteries.
Director: Brian Percival | Stars: Billie Piper, Matt Smith, Sian Thomas, Kay Lyon
Votes: 1,003
Sally Lockhart Mystery
12.
Masterpiece Mystery (1980– )
Episode:
Miss Marple, Series V: The Blue Geranium
(2010)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A cruel, superstitious woman dies of apparent fright after her fate is foretold by a medium. Miss Marple, however, is convinced of foul play when another death occurs.
Votes: 29
13.
Masterpiece Mystery (1980– )
Episode:
Miss Marple, Series V: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
(2010)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Votes: 23
14.
Masterpiece Mystery (1980– )
Episode:
Miss Marple, Series V: The Secret of Chimneys
(2010)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Votes: 36
15.
Masterpiece Mystery (1980– )
Episode:
Miss Marple, Series IV: A Pocket Full of Rye
(2009)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Votes: 26
16.
Masterpiece Mystery (1980– )
Episode:
Miss Marple, Series IV: Murder Is Easy
(2009)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Votes: 38
17.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
They Do It with Mirrors
(2009)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A reformatory for delinquent boys run by Miss Marple's philanthropic friend becomes the scene of arson and poisoning, and ultimately murder.
Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: Julia McKenzie, Elliot Cowan, Emma Griffiths Malin, Joan Collins
Votes: 1,372
18.
Masterpiece Mystery (1980– )
Episode:
Miss Marple, Series IV: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
(2009)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Final words of a dying man, lead Miss Marple and friends to investigate a dysfunctional family that has many secrets.. The film's story line is taken from a work of detective fiction by ... See full summary »
Votes: 29
19.
Masterpiece Mystery (1980– )
Episode:
Miss Marple, Series III: Nemesis
(2007)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Votes: 24
20. Marple (2004–2013)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An elderly spinster living in the village of St. Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.
Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Julia McKenzie, Stephen Churchett, Isabella Parriss
Votes: 10,629
21.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
The Body in the Library
(2004)
TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dolly Bantry calls upon her old friend Miss Marple when the strangled corpse of an unknown blonde girl is found in the library of her home, Gossington Hall.
Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Ian Richardson, Tara Fitzgerald, Jamie Theakston
Votes: 2,471
22. Pride and Prejudice (1995)
TV-PG | 55 min | Drama, Romance
While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.
Stars: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha
Votes: 92,171
23. Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
From cold, rock-strewn moors to comfortable suburban estates, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell explores the dark fissures between friends and family members that motivate murder.
Stars: George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Louie Ramsay, Ken Kitson
Votes: 692
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