I've Been Thinking About This... » Doctor Who http://steve.gwilt.org/blog Random Brain Coruscations Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:58:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Who’s Christie? http://steve.gwilt.org/blog/2008/06/20/whos-christie/ http://steve.gwilt.org/blog/2008/06/20/whos-christie/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:43:43 +0000 Steve http://steve.gwilt.org/blog/?p=4 I’ve been watching the latest Dr. Who series. The First episode this year (after ‘Voyage’) was titled ‘Partners in Crime’ – an Agatha Christie title for the first of her ‘Tommy and Tuppence’ series.

Anyway, I caught ‘The Unicorn and the Wasp’ a couple of weeks after it first aired – this episode is about a meeting with Agatha Christie – and noticed that there were a couple of her titles that seemed to be thrown in … and then a couple more, and so on. Clearly the script was loaded with them! So I decided to rewatch it and see how many I caught. Here’s my list:

    Appointment with Death
    Cards on the Table
    Cat Among the Pigeons
    Crooked House
    Dead Man’s Folly
    Death Comes as the End
    Endless Night
    Murder on the Orient Express
    N or M?
    Nemesis
    Sparkling Cyanide
    The Body in the Library
    The Moving Finger
    The Murder at the Vicarage
    The Secret Adversary
    They Do It with Mirrors
    Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

In addition, 2 books were shown:

    Death in the Clouds
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

And I suppose an argument could be made for

    The Man in the Brown Suit

(inasmuch as the Doctor was wearing one.) Perhaps half-points could also be given for the following titles, parts of which appeared:

    Giant’s Bread
    Spider’s Web
    Wasp’s Nest

I kept looking for some others – these seemed easy targets, given the plot – but I didn’t notice them:

    Black Coffee
    Curtain
    Evil Under the Sun
    Personal Call
    The Clocks
    The Unexpected Guest
    Verdict
    While the Light Lasts
    Witness for the Prosecution

Funny, I haven’t come across anything on the ‘net by anyone else noticing this … but then, I haven’t really looked. I’d have thought the Agatha Christie episode page on the Dr Who wiki would have mentioned it, but it doesn’t: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Agatha_Christie

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