The Pale
Horse will begin on Sunday 9th February 2020 at 9pm on BBC One.
The second
episode will air the following Sunday, 16th February.
Based on
Agatha Christie’s 1961 novel The Pale Horse, Sarah Phelps’ adaptation centres
around the character of Mark Easterbrook, a man whose name appears on a
mysterious list found inside the shoe of a dead woman.
Easterbrook
begins an investigation into how and why his name came to appear on the list,
and is drawn to The Pale Horse, the home of three rumoured witches in a tiny
village called Much Deeping.
People say
the witches can get rid of wealthy relatives using dark arts, but as the body
count rises, Easterbrook becomes more and more determined to find a logical
explanation – and figure out who could possibly want him dead.
The Pale
Horse
James
Prichard, Executive Producer and CEO of Agatha Christie Limited, says: “The
Pale Horse was one of the later novels penned by my great grandmother, written
as it was in the 1960s. This new drama allows writer Sarah Phelps to continue
her exploration of the 20th century through Christie’s stories, with the book’s
fantastic, foreboding atmosphere completely suited to Sarah’s unique style of
adaptation.”
The Pale
Horse has been adapted for TV twice before, with ITV dramatising versions of
the story in 1996 and 2010. Amazon Prime Video is on board as a co-producer and
will show the drama in the US.
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