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Overall, 70 episodes were made 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 ...
Agatha Christie's Poirot, or simply Poirot (UK: / p w ɑːr oʊ / [1]), is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. The ITV show is based on many of Agatha Christie 's famous crime fiction series, which revolves around the fictional private investigator Hercule Poirot .
Poirot has been receiving letters signed A.B.C., taunting him and predicting murders. According to the letters, the first killing is slated to occur in Andover on 31 March. Poirot gives this information to the police, but Inspector Crome, who has replaced the retired Inspector Japp, dismisses the letters' contents as an April Fools Day prank ...
The series consists of 27 full cast radio adaptations of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot stories, adapted by Michael Bakewell and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. [1]After the first adaptation, the six episode The Mystery of the Blue Train of 1985 (directed by David Johnston), all following productions were directed and produced by Enyd Williams.
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Cora is the divorced wife of an Italian artist named Gallaccio, whose surname she kept (interestingly, the producer of many episodes of the BBC's Miss Marple series was George Gallaccio). Gallaccio replaces the character of Mr. Guthrie as the art expert that Poirot relies upon.
The Mystery of the Blue Train was adapted for radio by BBC Radio 4, with Maurice Denham as Poirot, which was broadcast in six parts weekly, 29 December 1985—2 February 1986. [15] This was the first of the adaptations of Poirot novels by BBC Radio. [citation needed]
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