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The Pale Horse

184 replies

unique1986 · 09/02/2020 20:17

BBC 1 9pm

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Clawdy · 19/02/2020 13:11

Pity it wasn't real, though!Grin

Rainbowb · 19/02/2020 23:13

Osbourne was killing people with Thallium and using the witches as a smokescreen. He had sent out the cards to people who might want someone dead, telling them to say the name of the person to the witches at The Pale Horse. He used Jessie, to speak to the witches and find out who had visited them. As such, the witches were entirely innocent in the scheme, and only showed up to funerals after realising that they were being used.

Jessie realised Osbourne had started to poison her so she wrote the names of who would die – and included Mark as his wife, Delphine, had visited the witches. However, it becomes clear that Delphine had met with the witches because she simply wanted her fortune told.

Osborne also poisoned Hermia and Sean as per Mark's request – but doesn't manage to kill Hermia. When she awakens from her coma, the witches are sat by her side, presumably to tell her that Mark had finished them wanting her dead. Mark then returns home and reads a headline announcing his death - then has a vision of the moment he kills his beloved first wife Delphine in a jealous rage. The supernatural twist revealed that the witches really did have powers, and it is indicated that they killed Mark and cursed him to relive Delphine's death.

Arseit · 23/02/2020 18:00

I agree with @Puffinhead

“I’ve said it before (and I’ll say it again), if Sarah Phelps is going to take such liberties with the original plot then she should write her own scripts and create her own characters. It was nothing remotely like the book.”

Just caught up with this.
Sarah Phelps really needs to stop butchering Agatha Christie. That ending made no sense whatsoever.

diddl · 24/03/2020 20:35

Sorry, only just watched so late to this.

If the witches suspected/knew what was going on-why did they then pass the names of Hermia & Lejeune to Osbourne?

stumbledin · 28/03/2020 13:58

Just seen that today Radio 4 Extra is broadcasting the Pale Horse at 4pm today.

As it is a BBC adaptation who knows what they might have done with it, but maybe back in 2007 they wouldn't have had the cheek!

Stars Jeremy Clyde and Stephanie Cole.

And now see it is available to listen online www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jwwc

LittleRootie · 28/03/2020 15:57

Thanks for the tip-off stumbledin Smile

I'm sure on radio they will have been much more faithful to the original, adaptation standards are generally excellent.

LittleRootie · 29/03/2020 00:42

Didn't enjoy it much actually, it was older than I thought - 1990 - and pretty stilted.

I still think the ITV version set the benchmark in terms of cast and production values.

I never understand why Phelps feels the need to change the stories. The plots are the very reason why AC's books are still so popular - they are so ingenious and satisfying. You can change anything else, update them or swap characters around and so on but leave the plot alone. Only a raving megalomaniac would think they could improve on it.

stumbledin · 29/03/2020 18:02

I fell asleep listening so still dont understand the link between the witches and the broker.

Hadn't realised it was from 1990. thought I saw 2007, but maybe that was when it was last broadcast.

What or when was the ITV version?

LittleRootie · 29/03/2020 18:09

Link to the imdb page here stumble. Don't know if it might be on ITV player? They repeat them fairly regularly if not.

The radio version was very close to this adaptation by Russell Lewis. You even get a wee bit of Nicholas Parsons so that's an added bonus Smile

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