The Best Episodes Directed By Edward Bennett

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(7 votes)

   #1 - Episode 6

   S2:E64/6/2016

   With Sam missing, Sidney and Geordie are forced to investigate a crime together.

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   8.2/10(26 votes)

   #2 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas

   S6:E112/25/1994

   Poirot's Christmas is interrupted by Simeon Lee, who believes his life is threatened. Simeon is soon killed and his diamonds stolen.

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   8.1/10(12 votes)

   #3 - The Prodigal Father

   S2:E83/6/2015

   Porthos uncovers the truth about his past and questions his allegiance to the Musketeers.

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   7.9/10(27 votes)

   #4 - The Third Floor Flat

   S1:E52/5/1989

   A new tenant two floors below Poirot's flat asks to meet the woman living above her. Bored, Poirot joins Hastings at a murder-mystery play, only to find Patricia Matthews, her roommate, and their dates are there too — and a real mystery unfolds.

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   7.9/10(12 votes)

   #5 - A Marriage of Inconvenience

   S2:E72/27/2015

   The King’s cousin is ambushed while under Musketeer escort as she travels from Mantua to Sweden to make a political marriage that will be advantageous to France.

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   7.8/10(24 votes)

   #6 - The Veiled Lady

   S2:E21/14/1990

   Poirot calls to see the veiled lady of the title (Lady Millicent Castle-Vaughn) at her London hotel. Lady Millicent is about to be married, but a mean blackmailer called Lavington has got hold of a love letter she wrote years before to another man. Lavington wants twenty thousand pounds, and Poirot makes up his mind to recover the letter himself, even if it means impersonating a Swiss locksmith.

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   7.8/10(22 votes)

   #7 - Dumb Witness

   S6:E43/16/1997

   Poirot and Hastings are at Lake Windermere for an attempt on the world speed-boat record. An elderly widow is hurt by falling down stairs, then later killed by poisoning with phosphorus.

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8. 

   7.8/10(23 votes)

   #8 - The Dream

   S1:E103/19/1989

   Millionaire business man Benedict Farley, a well known eccentric, consults Poirot about bad dreams he has been having. Mr. Farley has dreamed repeatedly of killing himself. Sadly, he does not follow Poirot's advice. When Farley is found dead, Poirot fails to believe that it is suicide and suspects a murder plot relying on hypnosis.

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   7.8/10(21 votes)

   #9 - The Cornish Mystery

   S2:E41/28/1990

   Poirot travels to Cornwall, summoned by a Mrs Pengelley, who suspects her dentist husband is poisoning her because he's fallen in love with his young assistant. Unhappily, Poirot finds Mrs Pengelley dead on his arrival, so he sets out to catch her killer.

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10. 

    7.7/10(43 votes)

    #10 - The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

    S1:E11/8/1989

    A Mrs Ernestine Todd, from Clapham, asks Poirot to help her find her cook, Eliza, who has disappeared. Poirot, who aims to accept only really significant cases, is at first insulted by such a trivial request. However, after he sees the contents of the missing cook's trunk, he decides the case could prove to be worthy of his talents.

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11. 

    7.7/10(31 votes)

    #11 - Murder in the Mews

    S1:E21/15/1989

    Within hours of the Bonfire Night fireworks beginning Poirot finds himself investigating a violent death in Hastings' mews garage.

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12. 

    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #12 - Last Seen Wearing

    S2:E23/8/1988

    The schoolgirl daughter of rich parents has been missing for six months. Morse believes she has been killed, and his investigations show curious goings on at the missing girl's school. But before Morse can unravel the mystery, he finds another.

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13. 

    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #13 - The Complex Murder

    S5:E11/7/2016

    Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman and his team are left stumped when millionaire environmentalist and scientist Dan Hagen is shot on his boat while out at sea. The evidence seems to point to a robbery gone wrong, but with no other boats reported in the area, Goodman suspects a member of Dan’s team, his wife of nine months, his ex-girlfriend, his scientist partner and a research graduate who were diving together in plain sight of one another at the time of the murder. A metal toy soldier with no fingerprints found at the scene is the only clue.

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14. 

    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #14 - The Incredible Theft

    S1:E82/26/1989

    Industrialist Lord Mayfield hosts an Air Marshal at his estate to review classified aircraft designs. Among the guests are an unscrupulous widow and an MP who's brought Poirot along fearing her influence over Mayfield. When the plans vanish, Poirot investigates.

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15. 

    7.3/10(20 votes)

    #15 - The Lost Mine

    S2:E31/21/1990

    Hastings and Poirot are playing Monopoly when they are interrupted by Lord Pearson, the elegant Chairman of the London and Shanghai Bank. The banker asks them to investigate the disappearance of a Mr Ling - a highly-valued customer who before he went missing had arranged to sell Lord Pearson a map showing the location of a long-lost silver mine. Ling is found murdered, a young stockbroker is implicated, and Poirot has to untangle a complicated plot.

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    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #16 - One for the Road

    S5:E21/14/2016

    The outgoing governor of Saint Marie is poisoned at her leaving party.

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17. 

    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #17 - Episode 5

    S2:E53/30/2016

    Will Gary go to the gallows? Will Geordie go to prison? Are Sidney and Geordie's crime fighting days over? The case of a suspicious death takes a surprising turn.

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