Best Agatha Christie's Poirot Episodes
This is a list ranking the episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot in order of my personal favourite.
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- DirectorPaul UnwinStarsDavid SuchetRachael StirlingAidan GillenLucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
- DirectorHettie MacdonaldStarsDavid SuchetHelen BaxendaleHugh FraserAn ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery there in order to prevent a serial killer from claiming more victims.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonVernon DobtcheffThe tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
- DirectorJohn StricklandStarsDavid SuchetAdrian LukisAnnabel MullionAriadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA famous pie manufacturer tells Poirot that he has dreamt of his own suicide, then dies under the same circumstances he dreamt about the very next day.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserAnn MorrishAn elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
- DirectorTom VaughanStarsDavid SuchetSean PertweeChris GordonMrs Oliver is asked to devise a murder hunt for a Devon fête, but her sense of foreboding summons Poirot to the scene. Her fears are realized when the girl playing murder victim winds up truly murdered.
- DirectorPeter Barber-FlemingStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranA man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonPauline MoranMiss Lemon persuades Poirot to investigate a series of apparently minor thefts in a university hostel, but simple kleptomania soon turns to baffling homicide.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonAlice Pengelley visits Poirot in London, telling him she thinks she is being poisoned by her husband. When Poirot arrives in Cornwall the next day to investigate Mrs. Pengelley's charges, he is too late, and finds her dead.
- DirectorRichard SpenceStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhen U.S. Navy plans for a new submarine are stolen and the thief tracked to London, the FBI sends an agent to work with Inspector Japp to recover them.
- DirectorJohn BruceStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranPoirot investigates when the cruel CEO of a chemical company is bludgeoned to death in his home after the company's formula for a revolutionary new synthetic rubber is targeted by a thief.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhen a reclusive painter is found dead, Poirot finds the vital clue in the dead man's last meal.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhen a woman is found shot in her flat after Bonfire Night, Poirot is enlisted to decipher whether the victim died by her own hand, or by someone else's.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA wealthy industrialist's plan to snare a Nazi sympathizer goes awry when the secret plans for a new fighter plane inexplicably disappear.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetFrances LowJon CartwrightAn enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.
- DirectorRichard SpenceStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA young woman is delivering a set of antique Napoleon miniatures to an American collector when they are stolen from her suitcase. Captain Hastings, under Poirot's guidance, sets out to find the thief.