The BBC came up trumps with the drama this Christmas with the excellent ‘And Then There Were One’ and the other triumph, ‘Dickensian’ both worth more than the licence fee.
Owing to other commitments, I missed the first two broadcasts of And Then There Were One on BBC1. However, with the help of the iPlayer I caught up with those two episodes last night before the third and final episode was broadcast so I was kind of viewing it has a film.
I truly enjoyed this version of Agatha Christie’s book, which has been made into numerous films, and TV shows over the years. It was well written and had a great cast including the likes of Aidan Turner, Charles Dance, Sam Neill, and Miranda Richardson!
This tense three-parter is about ten strangers descending on a remote isolated rock off the Devon coast call Soldier Island. Summon to the island are eight guest and two members of staff already in position at the house all their on the request of their hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen who are mysteriously absent but have left instructions with the staff.
Once all the guest and staff gathered for dinner all of a sudden, we hear a voice confronting them with accusations about dark moments in their pasts involving murder. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number. I was particularly happy who when first he was the most obnoxious off them all.
One by one, they are killed off and we learnt the truth of the accusations in this stylish murder-mystery with you caring less and less about this hotchpotch of characters. All were evil but for the final death who was the most innocent of the ten. I figured out who the killer was by the end of the first episodes but had to wait for confirmation.
I am not giving any spoilers here and if you haven’t seen it get over to the iPlayer and give it a viewing, you won’t be sorry.
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