List of Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes
The following is a list of episodes for the British crime drama Agatha Christie's Poirot which first aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. In total 70 episodes were produced over 13 series.
Episodes run for either approximately 50 minutes or 90–100 minutes, the latter of which is the format of all episodes from series 6 onwards. The shorter episodes are based on Christie's short stories featuring Poirot, many published in the 1920s, and are considerably embellished from their original form. The longer episodes are based on Christie's 33 Poirot novels and one short story collection (The Labours of Hercules). While Christie's novels are set contemporaneously with the time of writing (between the 1920s and 1970s), 1936 was chosen as the year in which to place the majority of Poirot episodes; references to events such as the Jarrow March were included to strengthen this chronology.[1] With some exceptions, the series as a whole is set in roughly chronological order between 1935 and 1939, prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.[fn 1]
Series overview
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | Ave. UK viewers[2] | ||
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| Series premiere | Series finale | ||||
| 1 | 10 | 8 January 1989 | 19 March 1989 | N/A | |
| 2 | 9 | 7 January 1990 | 4 March 1990 | N/A | |
| 3 | 11 | 16 September 1990 | 10 March 1991 | N/A | |
| 4 | 3 | 5 January 1992 | 19 January 1992 | N/A | |
| 5 | 8 | 17 January 1993 | 7 March 1993 | N/A | |
| 6 | 4 | 25 December 1994 | 16 March 1996 | N/A | |
| 7 | 2 | 2 January 2000 | 19 February 2000 | 9.12 million | |
| 8 | 2 | 20 April 2001 | 2 June 2002 | 7.21 million | |
| 9 | 4 | 14 December 2003 | 26 April 2004 | 7.27 million | |
| 10 | 4 | 1 January 2006 | 2 April 2006 | 6.98 million | |
| 11 | 4 | 14 September 2008 | 25 December 2009 | 5.18 million | |
| 12 | 4 | 3 January 2010 | 26 December 2011 | 5.12 million | |
| 13 | 5 | 9 June 2013 | 13 November 2013 | 5.53 million | |
Regular cast
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||
| Hercule Poirot | Private Detective | David Suchet | ||||||||||||
| Arthur Hastings | Captain OBE | Hugh Fraser | Hugh Fraser | |||||||||||
| James Japp | Chief Inspector (S1–8) Assistant Commissioner (S13) |
Philip Jackson | Philip Jackson | |||||||||||
| Felicity Lemon | Secretary for Poirot | Pauline Moran | Pauline Moran | Pauline Moran | ||||||||||
| Ariadne Oliver | Crime novelist | Zoë Wanamaker | ||||||||||||
| George | Valet | David Yelland | ||||||||||||
Episodes
Series 1 (1989)
All episodes from series 1–5 are 50 minutes long, except where marked as "feature-length".
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| The Adventure of the Clapham Cook | 8 January 1989 |
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| Murder in the Mews | 15 January 1989 |
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| The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly | 22 January 1989 |
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| Four and Twenty Blackbirds | 29 January 1989 |
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| The Third Floor Flat | 5 February 1989 |
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| Triangle at Rhodes | 12 February 1989 |
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| Problem at Sea | 19 February 1989 |
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| The Incredible Theft | 26 February 1989 |
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| The King of Clubs | 12 March 1989 |
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| The Dream | 19 March 1989 |
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Series 2 (1990)
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| Peril at End House (two-part episode)[fn 2] |
7 January 1990 |
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| The Veiled Lady | 14 January 1990 |
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| The Lost Mine | 21 January 1990 |
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| The Cornish Mystery | 28 January 1990 |
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| The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim | 4 February 1990 |
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| Double Sin | 11 February 1990 |
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| The Adventure of the Cheap Flat | 18 February 1990 |
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| The Kidnapped Prime Minister | 25 February 1990 |
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| The Adventure of the Western Star | 4 March 1990 |
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Series 3 (1990–91)
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| The Mysterious Affair at Styles (feature-length) |
16 September 1990 |
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| How Does Your Garden Grow? | 6 January 1991 |
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| The Million Dollar Bond Robbery | 13 January 1991 |
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| The Plymouth Express | 20 January 1991 |
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| Wasps' Nest | 27 January 1991 |
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| The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor | 3 February 1991 |
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| The Double Clue | 10 February 1991 |
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| The Mystery of the Spanish Chest | 17 February 1991 |
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| The Theft of the Royal Ruby | 24 February 1991 |
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| The Affair at the Victory Ball | 3 March 1991 |
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| The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge | 10 March 1991 |
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Series 4 (1992)
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| The ABC Murders (feature-length) |
5 January 1992 |
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| Death in the Clouds (feature-length) |
12 January 1992 | Inspector Japp |
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| One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (feature-length) |
19 January 1992 | Inspector Japp |
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Series 5 (1993)
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| The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb | 17 January 1993 |
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| The Underdog | 24 January 1993 |
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| The Yellow Iris | 31 January 1993 |
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| The Case of the Missing Will | 7 February 1993 |
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| The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman | 14 February 1993 |
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| The Chocolate Box | 21 February 1993 | Inspector Japp |
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| Dead Man's Mirror | 28 February 1993 |
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| Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan | 7 March 1993 |
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Series 6 (1994–96)
All episodes are feature-length from this point onwards.
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| Hercule Poirot's Christmas | 25 December 1994 | Inspector Japp |
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| Hickory Dickory Dock | 12 February 1995 |
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| Murder on the Links | 11 February 1996 | Captain Hastings |
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| Dumb Witness | 16 March 1996 | Captain Hastings |
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Series 7 (2000)
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| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | 2 January 2000 | Inspector Japp |
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| Lord Edgware Dies | 19 February 2000 |
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Series 8 (2001–02)
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| Evil Under the Sun[fn 3] | 20 April 2001 |
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| Murder in Mesopotamia | 2 June 2002 | Captain Hastings |
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Series 9 (2003–04)
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| Five Little Pigs | 14 December 2003 |
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| Sad Cypress | 26 December 2003 |
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| Death on the Nile | 12 April 2004 |
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| The Hollow | 26 April 2004 |
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Series 10 (2006)
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| The Mystery of the Blue Train | 1 January 2006 |
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| Cards on the Table | 19 March 2006 | Ariadne Oliver |
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| After the Funeral | 26 March 2006 |
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| Taken at the Flood | 2 April 2006 | George, Harold Spence |
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Series 11 (2008–09)
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| Mrs McGinty's Dead | 14 September 2008 |
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| Cat Among the Pigeons | 21 September 2008 |
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| Third Girl | 28 September 2008 |
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| Appointment with Death | 25 December 2009[fn 4] |
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Series 12 (2010–11)
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| Three Act Tragedy | 3 January 2010 |
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| Hallowe'en Party | 27 October 2010 |
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| Murder on the Orient Express[fn 5] | 25 December 2010 |
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| The Clocks[fn 6] | 26 December 2011[fn 7] |
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Series 13 (2013)
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| Elephants Can Remember | 9 June 2013 | Ariadne Oliver |
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| The Big Four | 23 October 2013 | Captain Hastings, AC Japp, Miss Lemon, George |
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| Dead Man's Folly | 30 October 2013 | Ariadne Oliver |
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| The Labours of Hercules | 6 November 2013 | Vera Rossakoff |
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| Curtain: Poirot's Last Case | 13 November 2013 | Captain Hastings, George |
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Combined stories
A number of Hercule Poirot short stories were expanded into other stories or novels and have not been filmed in their original form. These are:
| Original Story Title | Adaptation Title | Notes |
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| The Lemesurier Inheritance (1923) | The Labours of Hercules | Provides thematic inspiration for the opening scene of The Labours of Hercules. |
| The Market Basing Mystery (1923) | Murder in the Mews | Expanded into full length episode. |
| The Submarine Plans (1923) | The Incredible Theft | Expanded into full length episode. |
| Christmas Adventure (1923) | The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | Expanded into full length episode. |
| The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (1932) | The Mystery of the Spanish Chest | Expanded into full length episode. |
| The Second Gong (1932) | Dead Man's Mirror | Expanded into full length episode. |
| The Regatta Mystery (1936) | None | A story attributed to the character Parker Pyne, because Christie expanded the short story into a more famous telling sharing the same title and featuring Pyne as the detective. |
| The Greenshore Folly (posthumous) | Dead Man's Folly | Expanded into full length episode. |
| The Incident of the Dog's Ball (posthumous) | Dumb Witness | Expanded into full length episode. |
| The Capture of Cerberus (posthumous) | Not drawn on in any episode and unrelated to the better known final case of the same title in The Labours of Hercules. | Originally written to be the last of The Labours of Hercules, but Christie re-wrote the entire story (keeping the title) to its political content. |
| Black Coffee (play) | Black Coffee (novelisation by Charles Osborne) | In 2012, Suchet performed a rehearsed reading of Black Coffee, produced and presented by The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, in aid of Chichester Festival Theatre's restoration fund. |
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Numerous references in early episodes place the series primarily in 1935, progressing to 1936 by series four. Most references remain to 1936, moving slowly forward to 1937 by series eleven and 1938 by Murder on the Orient Express. The Big Four is set explicitly in early 1939. The most notable exceptions to this chronology are The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which narrates Poirot's first case in 1917, and final episode Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which is set primarily in 1949. The Chocolate Box shows Poirot in the early 1900s, though the framing narrative remains consistent with the series' usual timeframe.
- ↑ Peril at End House is the only episode in the entire show that is split into two back-to-back episodes, which aired on the same day.
- ↑ DVD releases invert the order of series eight, placing Evil Under the Sun after Murder in Mesopotamia, and mislabeling the former episode's airdate as "15 December 2002" (which was actually the airdate for France), and the latter's airdate as "8 July 2001" (which was actually the U.S. airdate that aired first along with France's).
- ↑ Appointment with Death was released on DVD with the rest of series eleven in October 2008, over a year before its first UK broadcast.
- ↑ Murder on the Orient Express was intended as the first episode of series twelve, but was held back until Christmas 2010 as a consequence of Appointment with Death's broadcast the previous year. All DVD releases restore the intended episode order.
- ↑ The Clocks was intended to be placed before Hallowe'en Party, but in the UK ITV did not initially schedule its broadcast in favour of the latter episode and Murder on the Orient Express. All DVD releases restore the intended episode order.
- ↑ The Clocks was released on DVD, along with the rest of series twelve, in January 2011.
References
- ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989–)". Screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- ↑ http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30
External links
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