A woman is accused of strangling another villager to death with bell-rope. Agatha Raisin is hired to crack the case.A woman is accused of strangling another villager to death with bell-rope. Agatha Raisin is hired to crack the case.A woman is accused of strangling another villager to death with bell-rope. Agatha Raisin is hired to crack the case.
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- TriviaThis is first and only of the three Agatha Raisin short stories written to have been made into an episode. Chronologically it's quite late in the book series. It is placed between book 23 and 24.
- GoofsReverend Jex Bloxby is evidently a Church of England vicar, since he is married; Roman Catholic priests are required to be celibate. However when Bishop Parsons and Canon Gibbons visit him at his church, they are dressed in Roman Catholic robes and skull caps.
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[James Lacey and Gene Harvey are sitting outside the pub enjoying their pints of beer. The church bells are ringing hesitantly and discordantly]
Gene Harvey: [winces] I'm beginning to regret them re-hanging the bells.
James Lacey: What *exactly* are they *trying* to play?
Gene Harvey: We've been having a sweepstake down the shop. We think it may be Jay-Z featuring Rihanna.
[Mary Fortune comes out of the pub]
Mary Fortune: I think they're trying to play All People Who On Earth Do Dwell.
James Lacey: Are they? Who's playing it? Quasimodo?
Gene Harvey: *Five* Quasimodos.
- Crazy creditsSally Bretton's character was referred to as Amanda Ballard in dialogue and on props such as letters, but she was listed in the credits as Amanda Barton.
- ConnectionsReferences Where Eagles Dare (1968)
- SoundtracksAll People that on Earth do Dwell
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Lyrics by William Kethe and music by Louis Bourgeois
Played on the bells
Amanda seemed to have had a close relationship with the vicar, his wife was rather jealous and the vicar is acting rather suspiciously especially as the bishop wants to investigate the church's accounts.
A stronger episode than the previous week's instalment but parts of it were still shoddy. The actor playing the vicar was competing with Jamie Glover for the most wooden acting award. The alleged comedy bit when Matthew Horne and Katy Wix were interrogating Amanda's ex-husband while Agatha fed them information via an earpiece was excruciating.
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- Savill's Estate Agent - 22 The Mall, Clifton, Bristol, England, UK(Agatha and Sarah go to see John Marlowe at Marlowe & Tyldesley in Bristol)
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