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Agatha Christie's Poirot
From left; Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings and David Suchet as Poirot
Genre	Drama
Starring	David Suchet Hugh Fraser Philip Jackson Pauline Moran
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	57 to date
Production
Running time	36x52 minutes 21x103 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV1
Original run	8 January 1989 –
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Agatha Christie's Poirot is a popular British television series that stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It first aired in 1989 and so far 57 episodes have been aired. It airs on ITV and was originally made by LWT and is now made by Granada Productions. In the United States, it airs as Poirot.

Suchet has indicated his desire to film all the remaining stories in the canon. By most, Suchet's portrayal is considered to be the best and very accurate to the character in the books. Suchet said that he prepared for the part by reading all the Poirot novels and copying out every piece of description about the character^{[citation needed]}.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Episodes 2.1 Series One (1989) 2.2 Series Two (1990) 2.3 Series Three (1991) 2.4 Series Four (1992) 2.5 Series Five (1993) 2.6 Series Six (1995) 2.7 Series Seven (1996–97) 2.8 Series Eight (2000) 2.9 Series Nine (2001) 2.10 Series Ten (2003–04) 2.11 Series Eleven (2006) 2.12 Series Twelve (2007) 2.13 Series Thirteen (2007–08) 3 DVD releases 4 External links

Recurring cast:

• David Suchet - Hercule Poirot
• Hugh Fraser - Captain Arthur Hastings
• Philip Jackson - Chief Inspector Japp
• Pauline Moran - Miss Felicity Lemon

Since 1989, several notable actors have appeared in Agatha Christie's Poirot, including; Jenny Agutter, Robert Bathurst, Frances Barber, Emily Blunt, Lucy Briers, Peter Capaldi, Anna Chancellor, Stephanie Cole, James D'Arcy, Frances de la Tour, Daisy Donovan, Lindsay Duncan, Christopher Eccleston, Oliver Ford Davies, Emma Fielding, James Fox, Beth Goddard, Elliott Gould, Elspet Gray, Geraldine James, Celia Imrie, Phyllida Law, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Alastair MacKenzie, Paul McGann, Sean Pertwee, Diana Quick, Joely Richardson, Alexander Siddig, David Soul, Elizabeth Spriggs, Rachael Stirling, Zoë Wanamaker (as Ariadne Oliver in Cards on the Table) and Honeysuckle Weeks.

The 52-minute episodes are based on Christie's short stories featuring Poirot, many published in the 1920s. The TV dramatizers considerably embellished the stories' plots and set them in the 1930s instead of the 1920s. All episodes in Series One, Three, and Five were 52 minutes long. All episodes in the second series were also 52 minutes except Peril at End House and The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which were 103 minutes long. All episodes in Series Four, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven were 103 minutes long.

The longer episodes are based on Christie's novels. The chronology of these episodes differs from that of the novels and, as with the shorter episodes, some stories whose book versions were set in other decades are moved to the 1930s.

Episodes released in 2003 and thereafter lack Fraser, Jackson and Moran. The absence of their characters (Hastings, Inspector Japp, and Miss Lemon) is consistent with the books on which the scripts are based, but it was through interaction with those characters that many of Poirot's humorous, humanizing idiosyncrasies were portrayed in the earlier episodes. The later episodes lack the humour of the earlier as well as their signature theme music (see the audio sample box), and are written, directed, acted, and scored in a more sombre fashion, depicting an older and somewhat darker Poirot.

In 1992, writers David Renwick and Michael Baker received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Second Series episode The Lost Mine, which, like the other Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes, aired in the U.S. as part of the PBS anthology series Mystery!.

1. The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (8 Jan 89)
2. Murder in the Mews (15 Jan 89)
3. The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly (22 Jan 89)
4. Four and Twenty Blackbirds (29 Jan 89)
5. The Third-Floor Flat (5 Feb 89)
6. Triangle at Rhodes (12 Feb 89)
7. Problem At Sea (19 Feb 89)
8. The Incredible Theft (26 Feb 89)
9. The King of Clubs (5 Mar 89)
10. The Dream (19 Mar 89)

1. Peril at End House (7 Jan 90)
2. The Veiled Lady (14 Jan 90)
3. The Lost Mine (21 Jan 90)
4. The Cornish Mystery (28 Jan 90)
5. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim (4 Feb 90)
6. Double Sin (11 Feb 90)
7. The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (18 Feb 90)
8. The Kidnapped Prime Minister (25 Feb 90)
9. The Adventure of the Western Star (4 Mar 90)
10. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (16 Sep 90)

1. How Does Your Garden Grow? (6 Jan 91)
2. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (13 Jan 91)
3. The Affair at the Victory Ball (20 Jan 91)
4. Wasp's Nest (27 Jan 91)
5. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor (3 Feb 91)
6. The Double Clue (10 Feb 91)
7. The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (17 Feb 91)
8. The Theft of the Royal Ruby (24 Feb 91)
9. The Plymouth Express (3 Mar 91)
10. The Mystery of Hunters Lodge (10 Mar 91)

1. The A.B.C. Murders (5 Jan 92)
2. Death in the Clouds (12 Jan 92)
3. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (19 Jan 92)

1. The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (17 Jan 93)
2. The Under Dog (24 Jan 93)
3. Yellow Iris (31 Jan 93)
4. The Case of the Missing Will (7 Feb 93)
5. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (14 Feb 93)
6. The Chocolate Box (21 Feb 93)
7. Dead Man's Mirror (28 Feb 93)
8. The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (7 Mar 93)

1. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1 Jan 95)
2. Hickory Dickory Dock (12 Feb 95)

1. Murder on the Links (11 Feb 96)
2. Dumb Witness (16 Mar 1997)

1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2 Jan 00)
2. Lord Edgware Dies (19 Feb 00)

1. Evil Under the Sun (20 Apr 01)
2. Murder in Mesopotamia (8 Jul 01)

1. Five Little Pigs (14 Dec 03)
2. Sad Cypress (26 Dec 03)
3. Death on the Nile (12 Apr 04)
4. The Hollow (26 Apr 04)

1. The Mystery of the Blue Train (1 Jan 06)
2. Cards on the Table (19 March 06)
3. After the Funeral (26 March 06)
4. Taken at the Flood (2 April 06)

1. Dead Man's Folly (Oct 07)
2. Mrs McGinty's Dead (Nov 07)
3. Three Act Tragedy (Nov 07)

1. Appointment with Death (Dec 07)
2. The Big Four (Feb 08)
3. Murder on the Orient Express (Sep 08)

All episodes so far aired of Agatha Christie's Poirot have been released on DVD in the UK (Region 2). In 2006, a magazine collection, also titled Agatha Christie's Poirot, was first released with a DVD of an episode and an accompanying magazine that looks into the episode, the life of Agatha Christie and the world of the 1930s, with each issue.

• Agatha Christie's Poirot at itv.com
• Agatha Christie's Poirot at the British Film Institute Screen Online
• Agatha Christie's Poirot at the Internet Movie Database

Agatha Christie
Detectives: Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy and Tuppence • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendent Battle • Chief Inspector Japp • Parker Pyne
Novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Death on the Nile • Dumb Witness • Appointment with Death • And Then There Were None • Murder is Easy • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Sad Cypress • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Sparkling Cyanide • Death Comes as the End • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • A Pocket Full of Rye • After the Funeral • Hickory Dickory Dock • Destination Unknown • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 From Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden
Short story collections: Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Hound of Death • The Thirteen Problems • Parker Pyne Investigates • The Listerdale Mystery • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery • The Labours of Hercules • Poirot's Early Cases • The Harlequin Tea Set
Plays: Akhnaton • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Fiddlers Three