Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about staged accidents, movable plasters, carnival rides, and cross-dressing heroines. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Blue Geranium,” a Miss Marple episode starring Julia McKenzie.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

4:40 Julia Mackenzie does not do dithery

9:04 The relationship between the sisters

12:02 Why don’t these couples have children?

12:55 The source of Mary’s anger

13:55 The source of the doctor’s anger

16:05 “Mary is absolutely toxic”

17:55 The Miss Marple motif

22:20 George Pritchard as the thread uniting the story

27:56 What Teresa would have added to the story

30:00 The blue geranium clue

32:00 Was this a top 10 episode?

34:26 The afterlife of Agatha Christie and Jane Austen