The Worst Episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot

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6.9/10(2487 votes)
#1 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
S1:E31/22/1989
Country squire Marcus Waverly calls on Poirot for help in dealing with kidnap threats against his son. Hastings is appalled by the thought of someone going around kidnapping children and it becomes a race against time to find the identity of the mystery letter writer.
Director:Renny Rye
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Renny Rye
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7.0/10(2164 votes)
#2 - The King of Clubs
S1:E93/12/1989
Hastings and Poirot visit a film set where an overbearing studio boss bullies the cast and humiliates an aging actor he later fires. That night the boss is found dead at home from a head wound, a playing card left nearby, and Poirot joins Japp to find the killer.
Director:Renny Rye
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Renny Rye
Writer:Unknown
7.1/10(2156 votes)
#3 - 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.
Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
7.2/10(2424 votes)
#4 - The Big Four
S13:E210/23/2013
With the world on the brink of WWII, there is more political turmoil when it appears that the famous Peace Party is in fact a cover for the Big Four.
Director:Peter Lydon
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Peter Lydon
Writer:Unknown
7.2/10(2378 votes)
#5 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds
S1:E41/29/1989
At a London restaurant where he often eats, Poirot notices that another regular customer has diverted from his usual meal. As old Anthony Gascoigne lies dying in Brighton, his estranged twin brother, Henry, falls to his death. A tragic accident, or murder? Poirot begins to see connections and decides the answer to the mystery lies in a blackberry pie.
Director:Renny Rye
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Renny Rye
Writer:Unknown
7.2/10(1806 votes)
#6 - The Adventure of the Western Star
S2:E93/4/1990
Marie Marvelle, a Belgian film star, receives threatening letters from a chinaman which demand her famous diamond, the Western Star. Marie visits her old friend Hercule Poirot in London, seeking his help, and Poirot tackles the case with relish.
Director:Richard Spence
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Richard Spence
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7.3/10(2947 votes)
#7 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
S7:E11/2/2000
Living quietly in the small village of King's Abbot, sleuth Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the murder of successful industrialist Roger Ackroyd. The number of potential killers is almost as great as the population of the village itself. As Poirot investigates he sees that there might be a connection to the suicide of a local woman, and the death the previous year of her husband.
Director:Andrew Grieve
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andrew Grieve
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7.3/10(2323 votes)
#8 - Problem at Sea
S1:E72/19/1989
Aboard a cruise, Poirot and Hastings observe controlling Mrs. Clapperton and her put-upon husband, a former music-hall performer. When most passengers go ashore, two young women coax the Colonel into joining them while his wife stays behind in her cabin — or does she?
Director:Renny Rye
Writer:Unknown
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7.3/10(1985 votes)
#9 - 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.
Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Edward Bennett
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7.3/10(1919 votes)
#10 - The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
S2:E72/18/1990
A glamorous nightclub singer turned spy has stolen the US Navy's plans for a new submarine, and an FBI agent called Burt is in London to catch her. Burt dismisses Poirot as a gumshoe, and Poirot is likewise not impressed by the self-important G-man. Poirot is drawn into the case when it appears that the submarine plans will fall into the hands of the Fascist government in Italy unless they are recovered. When Poirot meets a young couple who've got an amazing bargain on a prime apartment, he sees a connection with the spy case.
Director:Richard Spence
Writer:Unknown
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7.3/10(1860 votes)
#11 - The Double Clue
S3:E72/10/1991
Japp (who is really worried that failure could cost him his job) seeks Poirot's help in investigating a series of jewel thefts, and two remarkable things happen. Poirot falls in love (with the beautiful and clever Countess Vera Rossakoff) and he also meets a criminal intellect which he finds worthy of him. As the countess is his main suspect, Poirot spends most of his time with her - which for once leaves Hastings and Miss Lemon to do most of the actual detective work. In the end, this case may have to be put down as the one that got away.
Director:Andrew Piddington
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andrew Piddington
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7.3/10(1694 votes)
#12 - The Underdog
S5:E21/24/1993
A wealthy industrialist is found dead in his study. Is his death related to a discovery made at his chemical factory? And is his wife all she seems?
Director:John Bruce
Writer:Unknown
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Director:John Bruce
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7.4/10(2748 votes)
#13 - Murder in Mesopotamia
S8:E27/2/2001
While accompanying his friend Hastings to a dig in Iraq, Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the murder of an archaeologist's wife.
Director:Tom Clegg
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Tom Clegg
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(2679 votes)
#14 - 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.
Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Edward Bennett
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7.4/10(2542 votes)
#15 - Triangle at Rhodes
S1:E62/12/1989
On holiday in Rhodes, Poirot observes glamorous divorcée Valentine flirting with a married man while vacationing with her fifth husband. The man's wife confides in Poirot as tensions rise, and what looks like a reconciliation between the two couples ends in tragedy at a cocktail hour.
Director:Renny Rye
Writer:Unknown
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7.4/10(2447 votes)
#16 - Taken at the Flood
S10:E44/2/2006
Hercule Poirot finds himself trying to solve the mystery of the Cloade family
Director:Andy Wilson
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andy Wilson
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7.4/10(2127 votes)
#17 - 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.
Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Edward Bennett
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7.4/10(1883 votes)
#18 - The Kidnapped Prime Minister
S2:E82/25/1990
Poirot is called in when the British Prime Minister and his secretary are kidnapped in France on their way to a League of Nations conference - and he is given just a day and a half to solve the case.
Director:Andrew Grieve
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andrew Grieve
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7.4/10(1824 votes)
#19 - The Plymouth Express
S3:E41/20/1991
An Australian shipping tycoon wants Poirot to check out his daughter's suitors. Then the young lady takes a trip on the Plymouth Express, and Poirot finds himself investigating a jewel theft on the train.
Director:Andrew Piddington
Writer:Unknown
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7.4/10(1687 votes)
#20 - The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
S5:E52/14/1993
Poirot is drawn into the underworld of London's Little Italy when Captain Hastings looks for a new car, but instead finds murder.
Director:Brian Farnham
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Brian Farnham
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7.5/10(3170 votes)
#21 - 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.
Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Edward Bennett
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7.5/10(3139 votes)
#22 - The Mystery of the Blue Train
S10:E11/1/2006
After traveling on the Blue Train from Calais to Nice, Hercule Poirot is pressed into service to help solve the murder of heiress Ruth Kettering who is found savagely beaten in her compartment.
Director:Hettie Macdonald
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Hettie Macdonald
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7.5/10(3009 votes)
#23 - Appointment with Death
S11:E412/25/2009
On holiday in Jerusalem, Poirot hears about an archaeological expedition to Syria led by the eccentric Lord Boynton and his son Leonard, who believe they are on the track of the head of St John the Baptist. Drawn to visit the dig, Poirot meets Boynton's dominating, fabulously rich, American-born second wife. However, events are overtaken by the discovery of Lady Boynton's dead body and revelations about her fortune.
Director:Ashley Pearce
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Ashley Pearce
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7.5/10(2039 votes)
#24 - 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.
Director:Edward Bennett
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Edward Bennett
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7.5/10(1991 votes)
#25 - Double Sin
S2:E62/11/1990
Poirot tells a surprised Hastings he's decided to retire and suggests they take a holiday in the Lake District. On the way, Hastings befriends a young woman who is missing a collection of valuable miniatures. The case involves a famous writer and a beautiful woman in a sports car, and to the relief of Hastings Poirot's thoughts of retirement soon seem far away.
Director:Richard Spence
Writer:Unknown
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