The Best Episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot

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#1 - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
S13:E511/13/2013
An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery together there in order to prevent an unscrupulous and ingenious serial killer from claiming more victims.
Director:Hettie Macdonald
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Director:Hettie Macdonald
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8.5/10(3438 votes)
#2 - The ABC Murders
S4:E11/5/1992
Beside the bodies of three murder victims lies a copy of the ABC Railway Guide.
Director:Andrew Grieve
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andrew Grieve
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8.4/10(4818 votes)
#3 - Five Little Pigs
S9:E112/14/2003
Lucy Crale hires Poirot to solve the murder of her father sixteen years before, and Poirot finds a number of possible suspects who are still alive.
Director:Paul Unwin
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Paul Unwin
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8.2/10(2174 votes)
#4 - The Chocolate Box
S5:E62/21/1993
Poirot returns to Belgium for the first time since the Great War. There he revisits a twenty-year-old murder mystery that was never officially solved.
Director:Ken Grieve
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Ken Grieve
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8.1/10(3224 votes)
#5 - Evil Under the Sun
S8:E14/20/2001
After collapsing with heart problems, Hercule Poirot visits a seaside health farm on Burgh Island. While there, the flirtatious heiress Arlena Stewart is found strangled on a secluded beach.
Director:Brian Farnham
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Brian Farnham
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8.1/10(3164 votes)
#6 - 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.
Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Edward Bennett
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8.1/10(2907 votes)
#7 - Peril at End House
S2:E11/7/1990
Poirot and Hastings take a holiday in Cornwall, looking for peace and quiet. They meet Miss Nick Buckley, who lives near their hotel at End House, and she tells Poirot she has had three near-fatal accidents in a few weeks. He then finds a bullet hole in her hat, returns with her to End House and is drawn into a complex murder investigation.....
Director:Renny Rye
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Renny Rye
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8.1/10(2692 votes)
#8 - The Labours of Hercules
S13:E411/6/2013
In an effort to recover his confidence after a rare professional failure, Poirot sets off for the Swiss Alps in pursuit of a missing maid.
Director:Andy Wilson
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andy Wilson
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8.0/10(5700 votes)
#9 - Murder on the Orient Express
S12:E312/25/2010
Poirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express when it is blocked by a blizzard in Croatia.
Director:Charles Palmer
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Charles Palmer
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8.0/10(4879 votes)
#10 - Death on the Nile
S9:E34/12/2004
A wealthy British heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
Director:Andy Wilson
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andy Wilson
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8.0/10(3156 votes)
#11 - Sad Cypress
S9:E212/26/2003
Young Elinor Carlisle, engaged to marry the dashing Roddy Winter, finds herself charged with the fatal poisoning of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. Poirot has the job of saving Elinor, but the evidence against her is overwhelming.
Director:David Moore
Writer:Unknown
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Director:David Moore
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8.0/10(3059 votes)
#12 - After the Funeral
S10:E33/26/2006
Hercule Poirot's solicitor, Gilbert Entwhistle, asks Poirot to help solve a riddle and a murder.
Director:Maurice Phillips
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Maurice Phillips
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8.0/10(2696 votes)
#13 - Elephants Can Remember
S13:E16/9/2013
Poirot investigates a strange and gruesome murder of an elderly psychiatrist. Ariadne Oliver is pressed to try and uncover the truth behind two decade-old deaths. They soon find out that their separate investigations are linked and work together to try and solve the mystery.
Director:John Strickland
Writer:Unknown
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Director:John Strickland
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8.0/10(2583 votes)
#14 - 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.
Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Edward Bennett
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7.9/10(2850 votes)
#15 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
S3:E19/16/1990
Recovering from the horrors of World War I, British Army officer Arthur Hastings hopes to find peace and quiet at a country manor in the English countryside. But when the matriarch dies during the night from strychnine poisoning, Hastings enlists the help of an old friend staying nearby with other war refugees to help solve the murder: former Belgian police detective Hercule Poirot.
Director:Ross Devenish
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Ross Devenish
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7.9/10(2685 votes)
#16 - Cat Among the Pigeons
S11:E29/21/2008
Poirot finds a connection between a recent murder and a revolution in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Ramat.
Director:James Kent
Writer:Unknown
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Director:James Kent
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7.9/10(2663 votes)
#17 - Lord Edgware Dies
S7:E22/19/2000
Lady Edgware has a dilemma in that her husband has consistently refused to give her a divorce. She asks Hercule Poirot to visit the man and see if there is any possibility of convincing him. When Lord Edgware is found dead, there is no great surprise, but there are a good number of suspects.
Director:Brian Farnham
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Brian Farnham
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7.9/10(2655 votes)
#18 - The Clocks
S12:E412/26/2011
Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler solution.
Director:Ashley Pearce
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Ashley Pearce
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7.9/10(2425 votes)
#19 - Dead Man's Folly
S13:E310/30/2013
Ariadne 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, during the fête, the girl playing her murder victim winds up well and truly murdered.
Director:Tom Vaughan
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Tom Vaughan
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7.8/10(2771 votes)
#20 - Hallowe'en Party
S12:E210/27/2010
During a village's Hallowe'en party, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder from years before. No one believes her tale until her body is found later on in the evening, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket.
Director:Philip Martin
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Philip Martin
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7.8/10(2579 votes)
#21 - Murder on the Links
S6:E32/11/1996
Poirot and Hastings are on holiday in Deauville and receive a visit from Paul Renauld, who believes he's being cheated by Chileans. Renauld is kidnapped and his body is later found buried in a new golf bunker. French detective Giraud unwisely challenges Poirot to catch the killer before he can.
Director:Andrew Grieve
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andrew Grieve
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7.8/10(2560 votes)
#22 - Death in the Clouds
S4:E21/12/1992
On an airplane, flying from Paris to London, one of the passengers is killed by a poison dart while Poirot sleeps.
Director:Stephen Whittaker
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Stephen Whittaker
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7.8/10(2499 votes)
#23 - Third Girl
S11:E39/28/2008
Three single girls share a London flat. The first works as a secretary; the second is an artist; the third, who comes to Poirot for help, disappears believing she is a murderer.
Director:Dan Reed
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Dan Reed
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7.8/10(2121 votes)
#24 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
S2:E52/4/1990
Matthew Davenheim, a rich banker, disappears on a walk from his country house to the village post office, and Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard is put onto the case. Poirot, who has developed an interest in conjuring tricks, bets Japp five pounds that he can solve the mystery without leaving his apartment.
Director:Andrew Grieve
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andrew Grieve
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7.8/10(1920 votes)
#25 - The Yellow Iris
S5:E31/31/1993
Friends and family gather at a dinner party to mark the second anniversary of a woman's death. Meanwhile, Poirot is caught up in a coup d'etat and arrested as a spy, which prevents him from solving a murder at a French restaurant owned by an Italian in Buenos Aires.
Director:Peter Barber-Fleming
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Peter Barber-Fleming
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