Noddy Grows Up

Do Chorion benefit from those old Miss Marples? Do they get royalties paid to the estate or is that all history now? Those old Miss Marples are very good (actually my favourites are the ones with Margaret Rutherford). Sometimes it surprises me that there can be much mileage left in that stuff. It will have to be one hell of an actress to follow Joan Hickson. On the other hand, Inspector Maigret has got huge potential. It is years since those were televised in the uk. They were probably last done in black and white. Anyone remember?


Rupert Davies (b. Wales, 1916), was not quite the original BBC Maigret: After the first (1959) episode Basil Sydney had to leave the series due to injury; Davies played Maigret for the remaining 51 episodes from 1960 through 1963, becoming more or less synonymous with the role. Simenon once gave him a novel inscribed, "At last I have found the perfect Maigret."