Talk:By the Pricking of My Thumbs

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Useless redirect[edit]

The link in (See By the Pricking of My Thumbs) points to a redirect which ends up in this article. Brilliant. However it relates to from William Shakespeare's Macbeth remains unexplained. Does anyone even check if links return to the originating article? --16:29, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Deleted the link.Marieblasdell 01:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia Accuracy[edit]

I'm not confident of the accuracy of this sentence: "The character of Mrs. Lancaster appeared as a minor character in two other Christie works: Sleeping Murder (which was written during World War II but not published until 1976) and The Pale Horse (1961)."

I'm not changing anything right now, because I don't have the books handy at the moment. I remember Agatha Christie quoting the phrase: 'Was it your poor child', etc. in other books, but I didn't get the impression that it was Mrs. Lancaster saying it. I had the impression that it was an incident that Christie had heard of or thought of, and that she used it in more than one novel.Marieblasdell 01:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and removed it. Christie often recycles ideas or phrases. Marieblasdell 01:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to dating of the TV film there is a reference to the post independence pronuncuation of Kenya which would date it as post 1962, totally out of sync with costumes or other references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.198.6.5 (talk) 13:27, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in synopsis[edit]

The spelling and grammar in the Synopsis section are very shaky. Might come back and fix it later; if not, perhaps someone else could take a look. 86.179.191.90 (talk) 22:18, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

a dubious statement in the article[edit]

There is a dubious statement in the article:

"Tommy starts ordering people around waiving his warrant card saying he works for MI6. However, MI6 agents were barred by law from acting within the United Kingdom without a direct act of Parliament."

The MI-6 website seems to indicate that the law governing MI-6 was the Intelligence Services Act 1994. Since the programme is set in the late 1940s or early 1950s, MI-6 employees cannot have been banned by a 1994 act, and there was no earlier act governing MI-6.-- Toddy1 (talk) 22:59, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]