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==Adaptations== Two novels were adapted as television episodes in the 1960s; ''[[Death in Ecstasy]]'' in 1964 with [[Geoffrey Keen]] as Alleyn,<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0558785|title=Death in Ecstasy}}</ref> and ''[[Artists in Crime]]'' in 1968 with [[Michael Allinson]] as Alleyn.<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0558781|title=Artists in Crime}}</ref> Four of the Alleyn novels were [[film adaptation|adapted for television]] in New Zealand and aired there in 1977 under the title ''[[Ngaio Marsh Theatre (TV series)|Ngaio Marsh Theatre]]'', with [[George Baker (British actor)|George Baker]] as Alleyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/ngaio-marsh-theatre-1978/series |title=NZ On Screen |publisher=Nzonscreen.com |access-date=3 June 2015}}</ref> Marsh appears in a cameo in the episode "Vintage Murder".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harding |first1=Bruce |title=Ngaio Marsh: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction |date=2019 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, NC |isbn=978-0-7864-6032-8 |page=113 |url=https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/ngaio-marsh/ |access-date=15 July 2020}}</ref> Nine were adapted as ''[[The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries]]'' and aired by the [[BBC]] in 1993 and 1994 (the pilot originally in 1990), with [[Simon Williams (actor)|Simon Williams]] (pilot) and then [[Patrick Malahide]] as Alleyn.<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0106084|title=Alleyn Mysteries}}</ref> In the 1990s the BBC made radio adaptations of ''Surfeit of Lampreys'', ''A Man Lay Dead'', ''Opening Night'', and ''When in Rome'' starring [[Jeremy Clyde]] as Inspector Alleyn, and in 2010 ''Death and the Dancing Footman'' featuring Nigel Graham.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019dp0q/episodes/guide | title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries - Episode guide }}</ref> Ngaio Marsh co-wrote the 1951 episode ''Night at the Vulcan'' of the Philco Television Playhouse;<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0674328|title=Night at the Vulcan}}</ref> and appeared as herself in the sixth episode ''The Central Problem''<ref>{{IMDb title|id=1298316|title=The Central Problem}}</ref> in a television series of the unfinished [[Charles Dickens]] mystery novel ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]''.<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0499397|title=The Mystery of Edwin Drood}}</ref>
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