Agatha Christie's Poirot

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Agatha Christie's Poirot (U.S. title Poirot) is a popular British television series starring David Suchet as Agatha Christie's detective character Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by London Weekend Television (LWT). However, since the early 2000s production has been credited to Granada Television, due to that company's takeover of LWT in 1994 and the following gradual dissolution of LWT as a separate entity.

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Poirot began airing as a television show in 1989. The last of the 46, hour-long episodes produced in five series appeared in 1993. From 1995 to 1997, several longer Poirot specials appeared on TV. Four more Poirot TV movies appeared in 2000 and 2001, with a further four appearing in 2003/4.

Four adaptations were made in 2005: "The Mystery of the Blue Train", "After the Funeral","Cards on the Table", and "Taken at the Flood".

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.

Recurring cast:

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

Other cast:

Since 1989, several notable actors have appeared in 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, James Fox, Beth Goddard, Elliott Gould, Elspet Gray, Geraldine James, Celia Imrie, Phyllida Law, Roger Lloyd Pack, Alastair MacKenzie, Paul McGann, Sean Pertwee, Joely Richardson, David Soul, Elizabeth Spriggs, Rachael Stirling, Diana Quick, Zoë Wanamaker (as Ariadne Oliver in Cards on the Table) and Honeysuckle Weeks.

Contents 1 TV episodes 1.1 First Series (1989) 1.2 Second Series (1990) 1.3 Third series (1991) 1.4 Fourth series (1992) 1.5 Fifth series (1993) 1.6 Specials (1995 & 1996) 1.7 Sixth series (1997) 1.8 Seventh series (2000) 1.9 Eighth series (2001) 1.10 Ninth series (2003 & 2004) 1.11 Tenth series (2006) 1.12 Eleventh series (2007) 2 External links

TV episodes

First Series (1989)

(all episodes 52mins each)

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)

Second Series (1990)

(First and last episodes 103mins, all others 52mins each)

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)

Third series (1991)

(all episodes of 52mins each)

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)

Fourth series (1992)

(all episodes of 103mins each)

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)

Fifth series (1993)

(all episodes of 52mins each)

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)

Specials (1995 & 1996)

(all episodes of 103mins each)

1. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1 Jan 95)
2. Hickory Dickory Dock (12 Feb 95)
3. Murder on the Links (11 Feb 96)

Sixth series (1997)

{episode 103mins)

1. Dumb Witness (16 Mar 1997)

Seventh series (2000)

(each episode of 103mins)

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

Eighth series (2001)

(each episode of 103mins)

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

Ninth series (2003 & 2004)

(each episode of 103mins)

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)

Tenth series (2006)

(each episode of 103mins)

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)

Eleventh series (2007)

1. Mrs McGinty's Dead
2. Dead Man's Folly
3. Murder on the Orient Express

External links

• British Film Institute Screen Online
• First screenings in UK - past and futurefr:Hercule Poirot (série télévisée)

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