Hickory Dickory Dock
- Episode aired Feb 12, 1995
- TV-14
- 1h 43m
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7.6/10
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A spate of petty thefts is followed by a series of brutal murders at a student hostel in London.A spate of petty thefts is followed by a series of brutal murders at a student hostel in London.A spate of petty thefts is followed by a series of brutal murders at a student hostel in London.
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- TriviaAlthough Agatha Christie's original story took place in the 1950s, the setting is moved to the 1930s for continuity reasons.
- GoofsSally Finch's cover story is that she was a student on a Fulbright scholarship in 1936. The Fulbright program did not begin until 1946.
- Quotes
Mrs. Hubbard: I know it's a wicked thing to say, but I think she might have been a secret drinker.
Chief Inspector Japp: After all the bottles we found in her room, there's no secret about it.
- ConnectionsVersion of Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie: Pension Vanilos (2015)
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These Suchet-led adaptations of Poirot are frustratingly uneven because the producers brought in a different creative team for each one. Sometimes they understand the strength of the source material, and other times they go off on some unrelated direction that they graft onto the plot.
They already start with a disadvantage. Suchet produces an entertaining character for sure. But the foibles of Christie's detective were all found to be assets in how he approached a problem. It was almost as if he were from some alien world where people thought differently and so could "see" things we could not.
In this case, he's just a comic man who incidentally solves mysteries as if that were another eccentricity.
So instead of the puzzle and his attempts to unwind it, we get:
-- a bunch of buffoonery about Poirot's and Japp's eating habits
-- some excessive cinematic nonsense about a mouse who appears through the story
-- in an unrelated insertion, we have the chanting of a nursery rhyme every time something bad is happening
This is the worst of a bad lot. Please avoid it.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
They already start with a disadvantage. Suchet produces an entertaining character for sure. But the foibles of Christie's detective were all found to be assets in how he approached a problem. It was almost as if he were from some alien world where people thought differently and so could "see" things we could not.
In this case, he's just a comic man who incidentally solves mysteries as if that were another eccentricity.
So instead of the puzzle and his attempts to unwind it, we get:
-- a bunch of buffoonery about Poirot's and Japp's eating habits
-- some excessive cinematic nonsense about a mouse who appears through the story
-- in an unrelated insertion, we have the chanting of a nursery rhyme every time something bad is happening
This is the worst of a bad lot. Please avoid it.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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- Former St Paul's Choir School, Carter Lane, London, England, UK(Hickory Road hostel - exterior)
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