![]() Chapman subplot is wisely removed (that seemed way too unbelievable). ![]() ![]() Reilly, and his patients, are removed (they were nothing more than red herrings anyway, so it's an acceptable way of shortening the storyline). He adds an opening sequence set twelve years earlier in India (including scenes with Blunt, Gerda and Sainsbury Seale, and a theatre production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (Sainsbury Seale mentions in the novel that she was part of a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, so this addition seems very sensible - and it's a good example of Exton's faithfulness to Christie's written word). The setting is obviously moved from 1940 to the mid-30s (August 1937 to be exact), but the novel never explicitly states the year, so that's not really a change. It was adapted for television by Clive Exton and directed by Ross Devenish (who also did The Mysterious Affair at Styles).Įxton's script stays impressively close to the source material, as has become the norm by this point, but he makes some understandable changes. ![]() ![]() This adaptation was based on the novel One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, first published in 1940. We've now come to the final episode of Series Four and the fifth feature-length adaptation of the series so far. ![]()
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