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Poirot Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

First aired: Jan/08/1989
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: Dermot Crowley (Arthur Simpson), Danny Webb (Porter), Phillip Manikum (Police Sergeant), Jona Jones (Policeman), Nicholas Coppin (Policeman), Katy Murphy (Annie), Brigit Forsyth (Ernestine Todd), Freda Dowie (Eliza Dunn), Richard Bebb (Cameron), Antony Carrick (Todd), Brian Poyser (Selection Army Speaker)

Poirot is asked to find a cook called Eliza, missing from Mrs Todd's house in Clapham. He is reluctant to get involved, as he looks on the case as too trivial for him, but when he has visited the house and seen some of the missing Eliza's possessions, Poirot takes the case.



2 :01x02 - Murder in the Mews

First aired: Jan/15/1989
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: Barrie Cookson (Dr Brett), Nicholas Delve (Freddie), David Yelland (Laverton West), Beccy Wright (Maid), Christopher Brown (Golfer), Moya Ruskin (Singer), Juliette Mole (Jane Plenderleith), James Faulkner (Major Eustace), John Cording (Inspector Jameson), Gabrielle Blunt (Mrs Pierce)

Poirot launches a murder hunt when a young lady is found shot dead in Hastings's garage. It appears that she was engaged to marry a pompous politician - and Poirot refuses to believe that she killed herself.



3 :01x03 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

First aired: Jan/22/1989
Director: Renny Rye
Guest star: Jona Jones (Policeman), Jonathan Magnanti (Policeman), Phillip Manikum (Police Sergeant), Dominic Rougier (Johnnie Waverly), Carol Frazer (Jessie Withers), Samantha Beckinsale (Barmaid), Robert Putt (Rogers), Patrick Connor (Hughes), Sandra Freeman (Miss Collins), Patrick Jordan (Tredwell), Geoffrey Bateman (Marcus Waverly), Julia Chambers (Ada Waverly)

Poirot is called in by landowner Marcus Waverly when anonymous letters threaten to kidnap his son, Johnnie.



4 :01x04 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds

First aired: Jan/29/1989
Director: Renny Rye
Guest star: Marjie Lawrence (Irene Mullen), Geoffrey Larder (Merry Clarke), Richard Howard (George Lorrimer), Denys Hawthorne (Bonnington), Cheryl Hall (Molly), Holly De Jong (Delores Long), Tony Aitken (Tommy Danzer), Philip Locke (Cutter), Hilary Mason (Mrs Hill), Charles Pemberton (Skooge), Su Elliot (Edith), Andrew MackIntosh (doctor), Guy Standeven (Vicar), Clifford Rose (McKinnon), Stephen Pruslin (Pianist), Peter Waddington (Forensic officer), John Sessions (Radio announcer)

Poirot notices something very curious in a London restaurant, then he sees a possible connexion with the deaths of two elderly twin brothers. It's all to do with a blackberry pie.



5 :01x05 - The Third Floor Flat

First aired: Feb/05/1989
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: James Aidan (Major Sadler), Suzanne Burden (Pat Matthews), Norman Lumsden (Vicar), Alan Partington (Inspector Flint), Gillian Bush Bailey (Mrs Sadler), Susan Porrett (Trotter), Amanda Elwes (Mildred), Robert Hines (Jimmy), Josie Lawrence (Mrs Grant), John Golightly (Donovan, removal man), George Little (Dicker), Jona Jones (Policeman), Helena McCarthy (Woman on Coffee Stall)

During the night Poirot is disturbed by the shooting of a resident of his own apartment building. At first sight, the case seems to be about bigamy, but Poirot has his doubts.



6 :01x06 - Triangle at Rhodes

First aired: Feb/12/1989
Director: Renny Rye
Guest star: Patrick Monckton (Hotel Manager), Martyn Whitby (Postman), Yannis Hatziyannis (Purser), Tilemanos Emanuel (Customs Officer), Georgia Dervis (Greek Girl), Timothy Kightley (Major Barnes), Peter Settelen (Douglas Gold), Frances Low (Pamela Lyle), George Little (Dicker), Jon Cartwright (Commander Chantry), Dimitri Andreas (Greek cashier), Anthony Benson (Stelton), Angela Down (Marjorie Gold), Al Fiorentini (Police Inspector), Stephen Gressieux (Italian policeman), Annie Lambert (Valentine Chantry)

Poirot investigates the poisoning of the beautiful and flirtatious Mrs Valentine Chantry at the Palace Hotel on the Aegean island of Rhodes.



7 :01x07 - Problem at Sea

First aired: Feb/19/1989
Director: Renny Rye
Guest star: Dorothea Phillips (Kelly Morgan), Sheila Mathews (Mrs Clapperton), Anne Firbank (Ellie Henderson), Louisa Janes (Ismene), Panayotis Kaldis (First Hawker), Yorgos Kotanidis (Photographer), Stathis Mauropoulos (Second Hawker), Sheri Shepstone (Emily Morgan), James Ottaway (Russell), John Normington (Colonel John Clapperton), Ben Aris (Captain Fowler), Geoffrey Beevers (Tolliever), Jack Chissick (Bates), Melissa Greenwood (Kitty Mooney), Victoria Hasted (Pamela Cregan), Colin Higgins (Skinner), Roger Hume (General Forbes), Caroline John (Mrs Tolliver)

Poirot and Hastings are on hand when the rich and overbearing Mrs Clapperton is murdered on board a steam-ship bound for Alexandria, in Egypt.



8 :01x08 - The Incredible Theft

First aired: Feb/26/1989
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: John Stride (Tommy Mayfield), Dan Hildebrand (Chauffeur), John Carson (Sir George Carrington), Phyllida Law (Lady Carrington), Ciaran Madden (Lady Mayfield), Carmen Du Sautoy (Joanna Vanderlyn), Phillip Manikum (Police Sergeant), Albert Welling (Carlile), Guy Scantlebury (Reggie Carrington)

The British aircraft manufacturer Lord Mayfield tries to trap Lady Vanderlyn, a suspected German spy, with Poirot in the offing. But his plan goes wrong, so Poirot has to save the day.



9 :01x09 - The King of Clubs

First aired: Mar/05/1989
Director: Renny Rye
Guest star: Jack Klaff (Prince Paul of Maurania), Cathy Murphy (Maid), Sean Pertwee (Ronnie Oglander), David Swift (Henry Reedburn), Rosie Timpson (Miss Deloy), Jeffrey Harmer (Assistant Movie Director), Gawn Grainger (Ralph Walton), Marc Culwick (Young Man), Avril Elgar (Mrs Oglander), Niamh Cusack (Valerie St Clair), Abigail Cruttenden (Geraldine Oglander), Vass Anderson (Frampton), Jonathan Coy (Bunny Saunders)

Did the English actress Valerie St Clair murder Henry Reedburn, a shady film producer? Her boyfriend Prince Paul of Maurania hires Poirot to save her from the rope, but Poirot is dismayed to find that Valerie is not telling the truth.



10 :01x10 - The Dream

First aired: Mar/19/1989
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: Mary Tamm (Louise Farley), Tommy Wright (First Watchman), Fred Bryant (Second Watchman), Richard Bebb (Newscaster), Martin Wenner (Herbert Chudley), Christopher Saul (Tremlett), Joely Richardson (Joanna Farley), Neville Phillips (Holmes), Christopher Gunning (Bandmaster), Alan Howard (Hugo Cornworthy and Benedict Farley), Arthur Howell (Fencing Instructor), Paul Lacoux (Dr Stillingfleet), George Little (Dicker)

Eccentric tycoon Benedict Farley takes Poirot's advice about his bad dreams, and then he is found dead. The police believe Farley killed himself, but Poirot suspects a fiendishly clever murder - by hypnotic suggestion.



11 :02x01 - Peril at End House

First aired: Jan/07/1990
Director: Renny Rye
Guest star: Christopher Baines (Charles Vyse), Jeremy Young (Bert Croft), Polly Walker (Nick Buckley), Alison Sterling (Freddie Rice), Carol MacReady (Mildred Croft), John Harding (Commander George Challenger), Elizabeth Downes (Maggie Buckley), Mary Cunningham (Ellen Wilson), Geoffrey Greenhill (Wilson), Paul Geoffrey (Jim Lazarus), Jenny Funnell (Nurse)

While they are holiday in Cornwall, Poirot and Hastings meet Miss Nick Buckley of End House. She has nearly died from three accidents in a few weeks, but Poirot suspects foul play when he finds a bullet hole in Miss Buckley's hat.



12 :02x02 - The Veiled Lady

First aired: Jan/14/1990
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: Carole Hayman (Mrs Godber), Don S. Williams (Police constable), Tony Stephens (Police sergeant), Lloyd McGuire (Museum guard), Terence Harvey (Lavington), Peter Geddis (Museum guard), Frances Barber (Lady Millicent Castlevaughn)

Poirot finds himself disguised as a Swedish locksmith as he helps Lady Millicent Castle-Vaughn to recover an old love letter from a blackmailer.



13 :02x03 - The Lost Mine

First aired: Jan/21/1990
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: Chris Walker (First Officer), Vincent Wong (Chinaman), Ozzie Yue (Restaurant Manager), Hi Ching (Chow Feng), Gloria Connell (Miss Devenish), Joe Fraser (Second Officer), Susan Leong (Chinese Tart), Colin Stinton (Charles Lester), Daryl Kwan (Oriental Gentleman), James Saxon (Reggie Dyer), Richard Albrecht (Lobby Clerk), Barbara Barnes (Mrs Lester), Peter Barnes (Wilkins), Anthony Bate (Lord Pearson), John Cording (Inspector Jameson), Julian Firth (Bank Teller)

The banker Lord Pearson hires Poirot to find a missing customer called Ling who was going to sell him a map of a lost silver mine. When Ling turns up dead, Poirot finds he has a big case to crack.



14 :02x04 - The Cornish Mystery

First aired: Jan/28/1990
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: Amanda Walker (Alice Pengelley), Jerome Willis (Edward Pengelley), Graham Callan (Lawyer), Laura Girling (Edwina Marx), Chloe Salaman (Freda Stanton), Jonathan Whaley (Policeman), Tilly Vosburgh (Jessie Dawlish), Hugh Sullivan (Vicar), John Bowler (Jacob Radnor), Derek Benfield (Dr Adams), Richard Braine (Newsom), Edwina Day (Landlady), Hugh Munro (Judge), John Rowe (Prosecutor)

Mrs Pengelley, the wife of a Cornish dentist, thinks her husband is having an affair with his nurse and is trying to poison her, so she sends for Poirot.

When Poirot arrives in Cornwall, he finds Mrs Pengelley is dead. Did the amorous dentist do it, or is there more to the case than meets the eye?



15 :02x05 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

First aired: Feb/04/1990
Director: Andrew Grieve
Guest star: Patrick Page (Illusionist), Malcolm Mudie (Chief Engineer), Jonty Miller (Mechanic), Fiona McArthur (Maid), Tony Mathews (Gerald Lowen), Bob Mason (Sergeant), Mel Martin (Charlotte Davenheim), Stewart Harwood (Man delivering Parrot), Peter Doran (Policeman), Kenneth Colley (Matthew Davenheim & Billy Kellett), Richard Beale (Merritt the Boatman)

Wealthy banker Matthew Davenheim leaves his country house to walk to the post office - and disappears. He was expected to meet his colleague Lowen from the train but Lowen meets nobody on his walk to the house from the station.



16 :02x06 - Double Sin

First aired: Feb/11/1990
Director: Richard Spence
Guest star: Caroline Milmoe (Mary Durant), Jeffrey Perry (Hotel Receptionist), Michael Shannon (Baker Wood), Harry Goodier (Billy Arkwright), Anne Small (Pianist), Jack Williams (Second Urchin), George Little (Dicker), Adam Kotz (Norton Kane), Elspet Gray (Elizabeth Penn), Miranda Forbes (Landlady), Paul Gabriel (Speedy Tours Representative), Amanda Garwood (Lady Amanda Manderley), David Hargreaves (Sergeant Vinney), Gerard Horan (P.C. Flagg)

Poirot plans to retire and takes a holiday in the Lake District, with Hastings for company. But on the way there they fall in with a mystery which includes a stolen art collection, a famous writer and a woman in a sports car. Poirot decides not to retire, after all.



17 :02x07 - The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

First aired: Feb/18/1990
Director: Richard Spence
Guest star: Jennifer Landor (Carla Romero / Elsa Hart), Nigel Whitmey (Luigi Valdarno), Gordon Wharmby (O'Brien), Ian Price (Teddy Parker), Anthony Pedley (Mafia assassin), John Michie (James Robinson), Nick Maloney (Bernie Cole), Peter Howell (Mr Paul), Samantha Bond (Stella Robinson), Jemma Churchill (Elsie), Luke Hayden (Romero), William Hootkins (FBI Agent Burt)

FBI G-man Burt is in London in pursuit of a woman spy who has stolen U.S. plans for a new submarine. Poirot meets Burt and does not think much of him. Then it appears that Mussolini's Fascists are also after the plans, and Poirot starts to take an interest. He sees a connection between the stolen plans and an amazingly cheap London apartment.





18 :02x08 - The Kidnapped Prime Minister

First aired: Feb/25/1990
Director: Andrew Grieve
Guest star: Roy Heather (Transport Superintendent), Ronald Hines (Sir Bernard Dodge), David Horovitch (Commander Daniels), Daniel John (Street urchin), Henry Moxon (Prime Minister McAdam), Milo Sperber (Mr Fingler), Lisa Harrow (Mrs Daniels), Patrick Godfrey (Lord Estair), Oliver Beamish (Sergeant Hopper), Kate Binchy (Egan's Landlady), Timothy Block (Major Norman), Anthony Chinn (Shi Mong), Sam Clifton (Street urchin), Jack Elliott (John Egan)

The British Prime Minister is kidnapped in France, and Poirot is given less than two days to find him.



19 :02x09 - The Adventure of the Western Star

First aired: Mar/04/1990
Director: Richard Spence
Guest star: Barry Woolgar (Inspector Dougall), Bill Thomas (Steward), Struan Rodger (Henrik Van Braks), Stephen Hancock (Mullings), Caroline Goodall (Lady Yardly), Julian Gartside (Hotel Receptionist), Oliver Cotton (Gregorie Rolf), Ian Collier (Sergeant), Alister Cameron (Lord Yardly), Rosalind Bennett (Marie Marvelle), Bruce Montague (Hoffberg)

A Belgian film star who is a friend of Poirot's owns a famous diamond called the Western Star. When she gets letters from a chinaman she visits her friend and asks for his help.



20 :02x10 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles

First aired: Sep/16/1990
Director: Ross Devenish
Guest star: Eric Stovell (Chemist), Bryan Coleman (Vicar), Merelina Kendall (Mrs Dainty), Tim Preece (Philips), Donald Pelmear (Judge), Carolyn Swift (Nurse), Ken Robertson (Army Officer), Gordon Dulieu (Clerk of the Court), Jeffrey Robert (Foreman of the Jury), Robert Vowles (Hire Car Driver), David Michaels (Soldier), Tim Munro (Edwin Mace), David Savile (Summerhaye), Penelope Beaumont (Mrs Raikes), Michael D. Roberts (Tindermans), Beatie Edney (Mary Cavendish), David Rintoul (John Cavendish), Gillian Barge (Mrs Emily Inglethorp), Michael Cronin (Alfred Inglethorp), Joanna McCallum (Evelyn Howard), Anthony Calf (Lawrence Cavendish), Allie Byrne (Cynthia Murdoch), Lala Lloyd (Dorcas), Michael Godley (Dr Wilkins), Morris Perry (Mr Wells)

While Hastings is staying in the country with his friends the Inglethornes, the lady of the house is murdered. Unimpressed by the local police, Hastings sends for Poirot.



21 :03x01 - How Does Your Garden Grow?

First aired: Jan/06/1991
Director: Brian Farnham
Guest star: Philip Praeger (Police Constable), John Rogan (Pathologist), Catherine Russell (Katrina Reiger), Anne Stallybrass (Mary Delafontaine), Tim Wylton (Henry Delafontaine), Stephen Petcher (Photographer), Ralph Nossek (Dr Sims), Dorcas Morgan (Lucy), Margery Mason (Amelia Barrowby), Trevor Darby (Mr Trumper), John Burgess (Mr Harrison), Peter Birch (Nicholai)

When a Russian is murdered in London, the Communists are suspected.

Meanwhile, Poirot has a rose named after him.



22 :03x02 - The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

First aired: Jan/13/1991
Director: Andrew Grieve
Guest star: Christopher Owen (Chief Purser), Oliver Parker (Philip Ridgeway), Edward Phillips (Flower Seller), David Quilter (Mr Shaw), Jonathan Stratt (Mr McNeil), Natalie Ogle (Esmee Dalgleish), Lizzy McInnerny (Nurse Long/Miranda Brooks), Dallas Adams (Hood), Richard Bebb (Newsreader), Ewan Hooper (Mr Vavasour), Robin Hunter (Police Officer), Kieron Jecchinis (Tom Franklin)

Poirot guards a shipment of Liberty Bonds sent to New York on the liner Queen Mary.



23 :03x03 - The Affair at the Victory Ball

First aired: Jan/20/1991
Director: Renny Rye
Guest star: Mark Crowdy (Viscount Cronshaw), Bryan Matheson (Butler), Sarah Crowden (Receptionist), Charles Collingwood (BBC Announcer), Andrew Burt (James Ackerly), Kate Harper (Mrs Mallaby), Natalie Minardi Slater (Mrs Davidson), Nathaniel Parker (Chris Davidson), David Henry (Eustace Beltane), Haydn Gwynne (Coco Courtney), Brian Mitchell (Second Actor)

While Poirot attends a fancy dress ball as himself, he is asked to investigate the killing of Lord Cronshaw.



24 :03x04 - Wasp's Nest

First aired: Jan/27/1991
Director: Brian Farnham
Guest star: Julian Forsyth (Waiter), Hilary Tindall (Commere at Fashion Show), Kate Lynn Evans (Mrs Henderson), John Boswall (Dr Belvedere), Peter Capaldi (Claude Langton), Melanie Jessup (Molly Deane), Martin Turner (John Harrison), Serena Scott Thomas (Fashion Model)

A wasps' nest causes trouble while Poirot visits a garden fete, then he has to solve a crime involving both cyanide and the brakes of a car.



25 :03x05 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

First aired: Feb/03/1991
Director: Renny Rye
Guest star: David Lloyd (Museum Attendant), Ian McCulloch (Jonathan Maltravers), Hilary Sesta (Doctor's Receptionist), Geoffrey Swann (Police Sergeant), Ralph Watson (Danvers), Pat Keen (Civil Defence Organiser), Edward Jewesbury (Dr Bernard), Neil Duncan (Captain Black), Anita Carey (Miss Rawlinson), Richard Bebb (Newsreader), Desmond Barrit (Samuel Naughton), Geraldine Alexander (Susan Maltravers)

Poirot is called in to solve a murder which turns out to be fictional. Then there is a real murder - but the prime suspect appears to be a ghost.



26 :03x06 - The Double Clue

First aired: Feb/10/1991
Director: Andrew Piddington
Guest star: William Osborne (Receptionist), Michael Packer (Redfern), Richard Ryan (Porter), Nicholas Selby (Mr Johnstone), Yitkin Seow (Nacora), Charmian May (Lady Beatrice Runcorn), David Lyon (Marcus Hardman), Kika Markham (Countess Vera Rossakoff), David Bamber (Bernard Parker), William Chubb (Blake), Meriel Dickinson (Katherine Bird), Mark Fletcher (Constable)

Japp comes to Poirot in a state of anxiety. He has been asked to solve a spate of audacious high society jewel robberies and will be made the scapegoat if he fails. The set in wait together but when the next robbery happens, Poirot appears as if he may have met his match.



27 :03x07 - The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

First aired: Feb/17/1991
Guest star: John Noble (Rigoletto), Antonia Pemberton (Lady Chatterton), Victoria Scarborough (Party Dancer), Malcolm Sinclair (Edward Clayton), Sam Smart (Smithy), Pip Torrens (Major Rich), Melissa Wilson (Maid), Metin Yenal (Umpire), Andy Mulligan (Reporter), John McEnery (Colonel Curtiss), Caroline Langrishe (Marguerite Clayton), Catherine Bott (Gilda), Richard Cawte (Young Officer), Edward Clayton (Rouse), Peter Copley (Burgoyne), Clem Davies (Reporter), Roger Kemp (Doctor), Christopher Lamb (Party Dancer)

Lady Chatterton asks for Poirot's assistance - she fears for the safety of her friend, Marguerite Clayton and is convinced that marguerite's husband Edward, known for his violent temper, will kill his wife.Poirot is invited to a party to meet Clayton but he does not appear, and subsequently Poirot finds himself interviewed by Japp when Clayton's body is found in an elaborate Spanish chest.



28 :03x08 - The Theft of the Royal Ruby

First aired: Feb/24/1991
Guest star: Nigel Le Vaillant (Desmond Lee-Wortley), Helena Michell (Sarah Lacey), Robyn Moore (Gloria Lee-Wortley/Iris Moffatt), Iain Rattray (Head Waiter), Gordon Reed (Mr Dupre), Jonathan R. Scott (Colin), James Taylor (Waiter), Frederick Treves (Colonel Lacey), Christopher Leaver (Parsloe), David Howey (Jesmond), Edward Holmes (Michael), John Vernon (David Welwyn), Peter Aldwyn (Durbridge), Tariq Alibai (Prince Farouq), Stephanie Cole (Mrs Lacey), John Dunbar (Peverill), Susan Field (Mrs Ross), Siobhan Garahy (Annie Bates), Alessia Gwyther (Bridget)



29 :03x09 - The Plymouth Express

First aired: Mar/03/1991
Guest star: Adrian McLoughlin (Station Official), Alfredo Michelson (Armand de la Rochefort), Stephen Riddle (Barman), John Stone (Gordon Halliday), Richard Vanstone (Sergeant), Julian Wadham (Rupert Carrington), Shelagh McLeod (Florence Carrington), Nigel Makin (Reception Clerk), Steven Mackintosh (Newsboy), John Abbott (Detective), Marion Bailey (Jane Mason), Leon Eagles (Bank Manager), Duncan Faber (Porter), Kenneth Haigh (Mr McKenzie), Robert Locke (Naval Officer)



30 :03x10 - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

First aired: Mar/10/1991
Guest star: Arthyr Whybrow (Mr Anstruther), Raymond Trickitt (Constable Cooke), Clare Travers-Deacon (Joan), Shaughan Seymour (Archie Havering), Christopher Scoular (Sergeant Forgan), Jim Norton (Roger Havering), Diana Kent (Zoe Havering/Mrs Middleton), Bernard Horsfall (Harrington Pace), Roy Boyd (Jack Stoddard), Denyse Alexander (Mrs Middleton), Victoria Alcock (Ellie)



31 :04x01 - The A.B.C. Murders

First aired: Jan/05/1992
Director: Andrew Grieve
Guest star: Miranda Forbes (Mrs Turton), Nicholas Farrell (Donald Fraser), Donald Douglas (Franklin Clarke), Lucinda Curtis (Mrs Marbury), Vivienne Burgess (Lady Clarke), John Breslin (Barnard), Cathryn Bradshaw (Mary Drower), Philip Anthony (Doctor), Claude Close (Doncaster Sergeant), Jeremy Hawk (Deverill), Norman McDonald (Strange), Donald Sumpter (Alexander Bonaparte Cust), Gordon Salkilld (Hotel commissionaire), Peter Penry-Jones (Detective Superintendant Carter), Allan Mitchell (Dr Kerr), Michael Mellinger (Franz Ascher), Nina Marc (Thora Grey), Alex Knight (Andover Sergeant), Pippa Guard (Megan Barnard), Clifford Milner (Policeman)

Three people are killed, and the murderer leaves a copy of the ABC Railway Guide next to each dead body, apparently to taunt the police. Then he (or she) challenges Hercule Poirot to solve the crimes.



32 :04x02 - Death in the Clouds

First aired: Jan/12/1992
Director: Stephen Whittaker
Guest star: Amanda Royle (Venetia Kerr), Sarah Woodward (Jane Grey), Harry Audley (Barraclough), Jenny Downham (Anne Giselle), Guy Manning (Jean Dupont), Eve Pearce (Madame Giselle), Gabrielle Lloyd (Elise), Richard Ireson (Inspector Fournier), Roger Heathcott (Daniel Clancy), Cathryn Harrison (Lady Horbury), David Firth (Lord Horbury), John Bleasdale (Mitchell), Shaun Scott (Norman Gale)

While Poirot sleeps on a flight across the English Channel, another passenger is killed by a poison dart. It appears that the victim, Madame Giselle, was a money-lender.



33 :04x03 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

First aired: Jan/19/1992
Guest star: Emma Grey (Hopscotch Girl), Tom Durham (Lionel Arnholt), John Carlin (Dr Bennett), Nicolas Brook (Waiter), David Bowles (Sgt Evans), Stephen Bird (Page Boy), Mark Heal (Police Constable), Cassandra Holliday (Receptionist), Dawn Keeler (Mrs Pinner), Rosalind Knight (Georgina Morley), Eileen Maciejewska (Manager), Alan Penn (Antonio), John Peters (Sergeant), George Waring (First Coroner), Keith Woodhams (Desk Clerk), John Warner (Coroner), Sara Stewart (Jane Olivera), Julie Smith (Hopscotch Girl), Bruce Alexander (Albert Chapman), Ben Bazell (Sergeant Beddoes), Nigel Bellairs (Mr Letheran), Peter Blythe (Alastair Blunt), Oliver Bradshaw (Mr Hendry), Carolyn Colquhoun (Mabelle Sainsbury-Seale), Christopher Eccleston (Frank Carter), Karen Gledhill (Gladys Neville), Joe Greco (Alfred Biggs), Joanna Phillips-Lane (Gerda Grant), Kevork Malikyan (Mr Amberiotis), Trilby James (Agnes Fletcher), Helen Horton (Julia Olivera), Mary Healey (Beryl Chapman), Laurence Harrington (Henry Morley)



34 :05x01 - The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

First aired: Jan/17/1993
Guest star: Robert Wisdom (Waiter), Grant Thatcher (Sir Guy Willard), Jon Strickland (Dr Leonard Fosswell), Mozaffar Shafeie (Hassan), Rolf Saxon (Dr Robert Ames), Peter Reeves (Dr John Willard), Olivier Pierre (Dr Henry Schneider), Anna Cropper (Lady Willard), Simon Cowell-Parker (Nigel Harper), Paul Birchard (Rupert Bleibner), Bill Bailey (Felix Bleibner)

Shortly after opening an ancient Egyptian tomb, members of an English-American museum expedition start dropping off like flies. Can it truly be the Pharaoh's curse? Poirot travels to Egypt to unravel the mystery.



35 :05x02 - The Underdog

First aired: Jan/24/1993
Guest star: Jonathan Phillips (Charles), Andrew Seear (Humphrey Naylor), Michael Vaughan (Sergeant), Bill Wallis (Horace Trefusis), Denis Lill (Sir Reuben Astwell), Ian Gelder (Victor Astwell), John Evitts (Parsons), Lucy Davidson (Gladys), Ann Bell (Lady Astwell), Charles Armstrong (Receptionist), Adie Allen (Lily)



36 :05x03 - The Yellow Iris

First aired: Jan/31/1993
Guest star: Hugh Ross (Stephen Carter), Geraldine Somerville (Pauline Wetherby), David Troughton (Barton Russell), Yolanda Vazquez (Lola Valdez), Arturo Venegas (Hotel Receptionist), Tracy Miller (Singer), Robin McCaffrey (Iris Russell), Leonard Maguire (Mr Grove), Joseph Long (Luigi), Carol Kenyon (Singer), Dorian Healy (Anthony Chapell), Stefan Gryff (General Pereira)



37 :05x04 - The Case of the Missing Will

First aired: Feb/07/1993
Guest star: Mark Kingston (Andrew Marsh), Jon Laurimore (Walter Baker), Stephen Oxley (Doctor), Neil Stuke (Peter Baker), Susan Tracy (Phyllida Campion), Terrence Hardiman (John Siddaway), Gillian Hanna (Margaret Baker), Beth Goddard (Violet Wilson), Richard Durden (Dr Pritchard), Rowena Cooper (Sarah Siddaway), Scott Cleverdon (President), Edward Atterton (Robert Siddaway)



38 :05x05 - The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

First aired: Feb/14/1993
Guest star: Anna Mazzotti (Margherita Fabbri), David Neal (Bruno Vizzini), Leonard Preston (Mr Graves), Vincent Riotta (Mario Asciano), David Verrey (Chef), David Willoughby (Lad), Barrie Wilmore (Manager), Janet Lee Price (Miss Rider), Victoria Kean (Bridesmaid #2), Arthur Cox (Dr Hawker), Vittorio Amandola (1st Secretary), Michael Tudor Barnes (Neighbour), Ben Bazell (Sergeant Beddoes), Alberto Janelli (Darida), Sara Kean (Bridesmaid #1), Sidney Kean (Count Foscatini)



39 :05x06 - The Chocolate Box

First aired: Feb/21/1993
Guest star: David de Keyser (Gaston Beaujeu), Richard Derrington (Henri), Mark Eden (Boucher), Preston Lockwood (Francois), Geoffrey Whitehead (Xavier St Alard), Jonathan Hackett (Claude Chantalier), Rosalie Crutchley (Madame Deroulard), James Coombes (Paul Deroulard), Kirsten Clark (Jeanette), Jonathan Barlow (Jean-Louis Ferraud), Michael Beint (Coroner), Linda Broughton (Denise), Anna Chancellor (Virginie Mesnard), Lucy Cohu (Marianne Deroulard)



40 :05x07 - Dead Man's Mirror

First aired: Feb/28/1993
Guest star: Fiona Walker (Miss Lingard), Derek Smee (Auctioneer), John Rolfe (Registrar), Jeremy Northam (Hugo Trent), James Greene (Snell), Emma Fielding (Ruth Chevenix), Jon Croft (Lawrence), Tushka Bergen (Susan Cardwell), Richard Lintern (John Lake), Zena Walker (Vanda Chevenix), Iain Cuthbertson (Gervase Chevenix)



41 :05x08 - Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

First aired: Mar/07/1993
Guest star: Karl Johnson (Saunders), Peter Kelly (Lucky Len), James McCusker (Journalist), Simon Molloy (Holidaymaker), Jo Powell (Holidaymaker), Graham Rowe (Manager), Colin Stepney (Guest), Eileen Dunwoodie (Holidaymaker), Andrew Carr (Hubert Devine), Arthur Cox (Dr Hawker), Trevor Cooper (Ed Opalsen), Sorcha Cusack (Margaret Opalsen), Hermione Norris (Celestine), Elizabeth Rider (Grace), Simon Shepherd (Andrew Hall), Tim Stern (Bellboy)

Poirot investigates when Mrs Opalsen's pearls are stolen while she is staying at the Grand Metropolitan Hotel. But everywhere he goes he is mistaken for a tabloid newspaper's 'Lucky Len' character.



42 :06x01 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas

First aired: Jan/01/1995
Guest star: Liese Benjamin (Young Stella), Oscar Pearce (Gerrit), Steve Delaney (Sergeant Coombes), Colin Meredith (Shopkeeper), Peter Hughes (Mr Charlton), Joanna Dickens (Cook), Michael Keats (Constable), Chris Webber (Train Steward), Mark Tandy (Superintendent Sugden), Scott Handy (Young Simeon), John Horsley (Tressilian), Vernon Dobtcheff (Simeon Lee), Simon Roberts (Alfred Lee), Catherine Rabett (Lydia Lee), Eric Carte (George Lee), Andrée Bernard (Magdalene Lee), Brian Gwaspari (Harry Lee), Sasha Behar (Pilar Estravados), Olga Lowe (Stella), Ayub Khan-Din (Horbury)



43 :06x02 - Hickory Dickory Dock

First aired: Feb/12/1995
Director: Andrew Grieve
Guest star: Polly Kemp (Patricia Lane), Sarah Badel (Mrs Hubbard), Rachel Bell (Mrs Nicholetis), Alec Linstead (Pharmacist), Mark Denny (Jarrow Marcher), Terry Francis (Journalist), Peter Glancy (Customs Officer), Jessica Lloyd (Celia Austin), Elinor Morriston (Valerie Hobhouse), Gilbert Martin (Colin McNabb), Granville Saxton (Casteman), Jonathan Firth (Nigel Chapman), Damian Lewis (Leonard Bateson), David Burke (Sir Arthur Stanley), Brian McDermott (Chief Inspector), Bernard Lloyd (Endicott), Andy Linden (Giorgios), Terry Duggan (Butcher), John Webb (Vicar), Mark Webb (Journalist), Paris Jefferson (Sally Finch)

A mouse is the only witness to a string of crimes at a student hostel run by Miss Lemon's sister. A series of thefts at the hostel ends in death, and Poirot has a complex plot to untangle in the world smuggling meets political intrigue. The mouse also takes part in the scene where the crime is solved.

Poirot and Japp stay with each other, but they find they have rather different ideas about food.



44 :06x03 - Murder on the Links

First aired: Feb/11/1996
Director: Andrew Grieve
Guest star: Richard Bebb (News Commentator), Simon Holmes (Projectionist), Ray Gatenby (Station Master), Randal Herley (Judge), Peter Yapp (Lawyer), Terry Raven (Tramp), Margaret Clifton (Concierge), Tim Berrington (Golfer), Howard Lee (Golfer), Christopher Hammond (Policeman), Joseph Morton (Policeman), James Vaughan (Adam Letts), Henrietta Voigts (Leonie), Belinda Stewart-Wilson (Dubbing Secretary), Diane Fletcher (Eloise Renauld), Damien Thomas (Paul Renauld), Ben Pullen (Jack Renauld), Katherine Fahey (Bernadette Daubreuil), Sophie Linfield (Marthe Daubreuil), Terence Beesley (Stonor), Jacinta Mulcahy (Bella Duveen), Bill Moody (Giraud), Bernard Latham (Lucien Bex), Andrew Melville (Dr Hautet)



45 :06x04 - Dumb Witness

First aired: Mar/16/1997
Director: Edward Bennett
Guest star: Ann Morrish (Emily Arundell), Pauline Jameson (Isabel Tripp), Jestyn Phillips (Steward), Stephen Tomlin (Vicar), Sarah Stephenson (Mrs Finch), Norma West (Wilhelmina Lawson), Layla Harrison ( Katya), Tobias Saunders (Alexis), Geoffrey Freshwater (Sergeant Keeley), Pat O'Toole (Sarah), Muriel Pavlow (Julia Tripp), Julia St. John (Bella), Tim Williams (American), Darren McSweeney (Intellectual on Bus), Geoffrey Banks (Starter), Patrick Ryecart (Charles Arundell), Kate Buffery (Theresa Arundell), Paul Herzberg (Jacob Tanios), Jonathan Newth (Dr Greinger)

When elderly spinster Emily Arundell meets with a number of accidents Hercule Poirot advises her to change her will so that the motive for her murder no longer exists.

However, it is not long before Miss Arundell dies - and the only witness to her murder is her wire haired fox terrier Bob.



46 :07x01 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

First aired: Jan/02/2000
Director: Andrew Grieve
Guest star: Charles Early (P. C. Jones), Rosalind Bailey (Mrs Ferrars), Charles Simon (Hammond), Elizabeth Kettle (Mrs Folliott), Graham Chinn (Landlord), Clive Brunt (Petty Officer), Alice Hart (Mary), Gregor Truter (Inspector Davis), Vivien Heilbron (Mrs Ackroyd), Flora Montgomery (Flora Ackroyd), Jamie Bamber (Ralph Paton), Oliver Ford Davies (Dr Sheppard), Selina Cadell (Caroline Sheppard), Roger Frost (Parker, the Butler), Malcolm Terris (Roger Ackroyd), Nigel Cooke (Geoffrey Raymond), Daisy Beaumont (Ursula Bourne)

Poirot has taken a cottage in the village of King's Abbot, with the intention of retiring. Then a widow seems to kill herself, and local gossip claims she had murdered her husband, was having an affair with the rich Roger Ackroyd and was being blackmailed.

Poirot tries to not to be drawn out of his garden, but when Roger Ackroyd is killed, he is unimpressed by the way the police are working and reluctantly decides it's up to him to crack the case. In the end, he realizes that village life and retirement are not for him, after all.



47 :07x02 - Lord Edgware Dies

First aired: Feb/19/2000
Director: Brian Farnham
Guest star: Rory Firth (Pageboy), Christopher Guard (Alton), Aliza James (Lucie Adams), Lesley Nightingale (Miss Carroll), John Quentin (Sir Montagu Corner), Janet Hargreaves (Lady Corner), John Hart Dyke (Thompson), Nicola Michaels (Airport Clerk), Fenella Woolgar (Ellis), Iain Fraser (Donald Ross), Virginia Denham (Alice), Mark Brignal (Addison), Helen Grace (Jane Wilkinson), John Castle (Lord Edgware), Fiona Allen (Carlotta Adams), Dominic Guard (Bryan Martin), Hannah Yelland (Geraldine Marsh), Tim Steed (Ronald Marsh), Jonathan Aris (Receptionist), Deborah Cornelius (Penny Driver), Tom Beard (Duke of Merton)

Lady Edgeware is also the actress Jane Wilkinson, and she is anxious to get a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgeware, so that she can marry another man. So when Lord Edgeware is killed, his wife is the prime suspect. Oddly enough, though, the dead man had just agreed to a divorce - and Poirot was acting for his wife.

Poirot is of course asked to investigate the murder on behalf of Lady Edgeware, who says she been framed. He soon finds other suspects.



48 :08x01 - Evil Under the Sun

First aired: Apr/20/2001
Director: Brian Farnham
Guest star: Jason Davies (Dominic Hobson), Paul Ready (Bellboy), Grant Gillespie (Jack Lovett), Harriet Eastcott (Librarian), Lawrence McGrandles, Jr. (Simon Kelso), Rebecca Johnson (Gladys Narracott), Rosalind March (Mrs Castle), Marsha Fitzalan (Rosamund Darnley), Guy Vincent (Barman), Kenneth Gilbert (Applegood), David Mallinson (Kenneth Marshall), Louise Delamere (Arlena Stuart), Carolyn Pickles (Emily Brewster), Russell Tovey (Lionel Marshall), Steve Bennett (Policeman), David Timson (Horace Blatt), Ian Thompson (Major Barry), Tim Meats (Stephen Lane), Tamzin Malleson (Christine Redfern), Michael Higgs (Patrick Redfern), Roger Alborough (Chief Constable Weston), Kevin Moore (Coroner)

On his doctor's orders, Poirot is visiting a health resort in Devon, and Hastings is with him to keep him company. Soon after they arrive, another guest, Arlena Stuart, is found strangled, and Poirot finds the case baffling. Then he begins to wonder if the murder might be connected with the killing of another rich woman a few years before.



49 :08x02 - Murder in Mesopotamia

First aired: Jul/08/2001
Director: Tom Clegg
Guest star: Dinah Stabb (Annie Johnson), Georgina Sowerby (Amy Leatheran), Jeremy Turner-Welch (Bill Coleman), Christopher Hunter (Father Lavigny), Alexi Kaye-Campbell (Joseph Mercado), Deborah Poplett (Marie Mercado), Barbara Barnes (Louise Leidner), Ron Berglas (Dr Eric Leidner), Dejeb Magri (Murdered Man), Pandora Clifford (Sheila Maitland), Christopher Bowen (Richard Carg), Iain Mitchell (Superintendent Maitland), Kamel Touati (Squat Man), Hichem Rostom (Hotel Receptionist), Zouheir Bornaz (Police Sergeant)

Poirot travels to the Middle East, where Hastings is interested in an archaeological dig.

Of course, Poirot arrives in the nick of time to tackle a series of mysteries which culminate in murder.



50 :09x01 - Five Little Pigs

First aired: Dec/14/2003
Director: Paul Unwin
Guest star: Talulah Riley (Young Angela), Melissa Suffield (Young Lucy), Aimee Mullins (Lucy Crale), Roger Brierley (Judge), Annette Badland (Mrs Spriggs), Patrick Malahide (Sir Montague Depleach), Aidan Gillen (Amyas Crale), Rachael Stirling (Caroline Crale), Julie Cox (Elsa Greer), Sophie Winkleman (Angela), Gemma Jones (Cynthia Williams), Toby Stephens (Philip Blake), Marc Warren (Meredith)

A young woman called Lucy Crale is living overseas and receives an old letter her mother Caroline wrote her from prison, shortly before she died while serving a life sentence for the murder of Lucy's father, the artist Amyas Crale.

Amyas was killed sixteen years before, and at the time it seemed like an open and shut case, but in her letter Caroline tells Lucy she didn't do it, so Lucy travels to London and hires Poirot to solve the case.

Poirot finds that Amyas was a notorious womanizer and begins by investigating his love life.



51 :09x02 - Sad Cypress

First aired: Dec/26/2003
Director: Dave Moore
Guest star: Timothy Carlton (Judge), Stuart Laing (Ted Horlick), Linda Spurrier (Mrs Bishop), Geoffrey Beevers (Seddon), Ian Taylor (Turner), Jack Galloway (Marsden), Louise Callaghan (Hunterbury Maid), Alistair Findlay (Prosecuting Counsel), Diana Quick (Mrs Welman), Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh (Elinor Carlisle), Marion O'Dwyer (Nurse O'Brien), Rupert Penry-Jones (Roddy Winter), Paul McGann (Dr Peter Lord), Kelly Reilly (Mary Gerrard), Phyllis Logan (Nurse Hopkins)

Roddy Winter is about to marry Elinor Carlisle, but what is his relationship with his old flame, Mary Gerrard? Then Mary dies suddenly - she was poisoned. All the evidence points overwhelmingly to Elinor being the killer, but she insists she has been framed.

Poirot is called in to look into the killing on Elinor's behalf, and he quickly decides there is more to the case than meets the eye.



52 :09x03 - Death on the Nile

First aired: Apr/12/2004
Director: Andy Wilson
Guest star: Zoë Telford (Rosalie Otterbourne), Elodie Kendall (Joanna Southwood), Barbara Flynn (Mrs Allerton), Daniel Lapaine (Tim Allerton), David Soul (Andrew Pennington), George Yiasoumi (Cruise Manager), Félicité Du Jeu (Louise Bourget), Frances De La Tour (Salome Otterbourne), Alastair MacKenzie (Ferguson), James Fox (Colonel Race), Emma Malin (Jacqueline de Bellefort), Steve Pemberton (Doctor Bessner), J. J. Field (Simon Doyle), Emily Blunt (Linnet Doyle), Judy Parfitt (Miss Van Schuyler), Daisy Donovan (Cornelia Robson)

Simon and Linnet Doyle have just got married, but in order to marry the rich and beautiful Linnet Simon had to break off his engagement to her old school friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort.

Simon and Linnet are now on their honeymoon, on board a steamer cruising the Nile in Egypt, but they are being stalked by Jacqueline, who is still furious about the way she has been treated.

Poirot is also on board, which is just as well when murder breaks out.



53 :09x04 - The Hollow

First aired: Apr/26/2004
Director: Simon Langton
Guest star: Edward Fox (Gudgeon), Edward Hardwicke (Sir Henry Angkatell), Teresa Churcher (Elsie Patterson), Paula Jacobs (Mrs Pearstock), Tom Georgeson (Inspector Grange), Ian Talbot (Victor Simms), Andrew Watson (Young Officer), Megan Dodds (Henrietta Savernake), Jonathan Cake (John Christow), Dale Rapley (Sergeant Coombes), Lysette Anthony (Veronica Cray), Claire Price (Gerda Christow), Lucy Briers (Beryl Collins), Harriet Cobbold (Simmons), Jamie de Courcey (Edward Angkatell), Sarah Miles (Lady Angkatell), Caroline Martin (Midge Hardcastle)

Poirot is staying in the country with the Angkatells, and his fellow-guests include Dr John Christow, his wife Gerda, and Henrietta Savernake, an artist.

Christow is suspected of having an affair with Henrietta, and when he is shot dead his wife is found with the gun in her hand. Did she kill her husband in a jealous rage, or was she framed?



54 :10x01 - The Mystery of the Blue Train

First aired: Jan/01/2006
Director: Hettie MacDonald
Guest star: Oliver Milburn (Count de la Roche), Jaime Murray (Ruth Kettering), Georgina Rylance (Katherine Grey), Josette Simon (Mirelle Milesi), Jane How (Jane How), Samuel James (Steward), Roger Lloyd Pack (Inspector Caux), Tom Harper (Corky), James D'Arcy (Derek Kettering), Lindsay Duncan (Lady Tamplin), Alice Eve (Lenox Tamplin), Nicholas Farrell (Major Knighton), Bronagh Gallagher (Ada Mason), Elliott Gould (Rufus Van Aldin)

Poirot is dining alone in a London restaurant and strikes up a friendship with Katherine Grey. She has just inherited a lot of money and is about to travel to visit relations in the South of France, but is nervous. Poirot offers to go with her on the Blue Train.

Apart from Poirot and Katherine, others on the train include the Tamplin family (Katherine's cousins), millionaire Rufus van Aldin and his daughter Ruth Kettering, Ruth's penniliess husband Derek, and her boyfriend - and Ruth has a very valuable ruby with her called 'The Heart of Fire'. And then Ruth gets killed on the train in a gruesome and disfiguring attack, and at the same time her ruby is stolen. And after the arrival of Katherine and Poirot at the Tamplins' villa, Katherine is also attacked. Poirot finds himself dealing with several crimes at once.



55 :10x02 - Cards on the Table

First aired: Mar/19/2006
Guest star: Lucy Liemann (Miss Burgess), Jenny Ogilvie (Millie), Douglas Reith (Serge Maurice), James Alper (Shaitana's Butler), Alex Jennings (Dr Roberts), Philip Bowen (Luxmore), Zigi Ellison (Mrs Craddock), Lesley Manville (Mrs Lorrimer), Tristan Gemmill (Major Despard), Zoë Wanamaker (Ariadne Oliver), Honeysuckle Weeks (Rhoda Dawes), Robert Pugh (Colonel Hughes), David Westhead (Superintendent Wheeler), Philip Wright (Sergeant O'Connor), Lyndsey Marshal (Anne Meredith), Alexander Siddig (Shaitana), Cordelia Bugeja (Mrs Luxmore)

A millionaire called Shaitana invites Poirot and three others who are interested in the detection of murder (the writer Ariadne Oliver, Inspector Wheeler of Scotland Yard, and Colonel Hughes of the secret service) to dinner. Shaitana has offered to show them four murderers who did not get caught, but his game ends when he is drugged, stabbed and killed during a hand of bridge. No one has come into the house or gone out of it - so who can identify the killer?



56 :10x03 - After the Funeral

First aired: Mar/26/2006
Director: Maurice Phillips
Guest star: Julian Ovenden (Michael Shane), Lucy Punch (Susannah Henderson), Monica Dolan (Cora Gallaccio & Miss Gilchrist), Robert Bathurst (Gilbert Entwhistle), Fiona Glascott (Rosamund Shane), Philip Anthony (Vicar), Annabel Scholey (Miss Sorrell), John Carson (Richard Abernethie), Vicky Ogden (Janet), Anna Calder-Marshall (Maude Abernethie), Anthony Valentine (Giovanni Gallaccio), William Russell (Lanscombe), Benjamin Whitrow (Timothy Abernethie), Michael Fassbender (George Abernethie), Dominic Jephcott (Dr Larraby), Kevin Doyle (Inspector Morton), Geraldine James (Helen Abernethie)

Richard Abernethie dies, and his sister Cora claims he was murdered, but the family won't have it, and Richard's body has been cremated. Then Cora is chopped up with an axe, and Poirot takes the case.



57 :10x04 - Taken at the Flood

First aired: Apr/02/2006
Director: Andy Wilson
Guest star: Tim Woodward (Enoch Arden), Richard Durden (Pebmarsh), David Yelland (George), Tim Pigott-Smith (Dr Lionel Cloade), Elliot Cowan (David Hunter), Claire Hackett (Beatrice Lippincott), Eva Birthistle (Rosaleen), Nicholas Le Prevost (Major James Porter), Pip Torrens (Jeremy Cloade), Patrick Baladi (Rowley Cloade), Jenny Agutter (Adela Marchmont), Richard Hope (Superintendent Spence), Penny Downie (Frances Cloade), Elizabeth Spriggs (Mrs Leadbetter), Amanda Douge (Lynn Marchomt), Celia Imrie (Aunt Kathy Cloade)

In 1940, the rich Gordon Cloade marries a young widow, but he is soon killed by a bomb falling on London - and it seems his fortune will go to his widow, as he left no will. Then Poirot is called in by a member of the Cloade family who believes Mrs Cloade's first husband is still alive, so that she was never properly married to Cloade and should inherit nothing. The great detective is asked to find the mysterious first husband - with help from the spirit world.



Appointment with Death

First aired: Sep/22/2008
Guest star: Beth Goddard (Sister Agnieszka), Angela Pleasence (Nanny Taylor), Christian McKay (Jefferson Cope), Jawad Elalami (Labourer), Abdelkader Aizoun (Concierge), Badri Mansour (Taxi Driver), Zakaria Atifi (Mahmoud), Paul Freeman (Colonel Carbury), Christina Cole (Dr Sarah King), Tim Curry (Lord Boynton), John Hannah (Dr Theodore Gerard), Tom Riley (Raymond Boynton), Emma Cunniffe (Carol Boynton), Zoe Boyle (Jinny Boynton), Elizabeth McGovern (Dame Celia Westholme), Mark Gatiss (Leonard Boynton)

Poirot travels to North Africa to attend an archaeological dig where he soon finds himself having to investigate the death of a aristocrat's wife.



58 :11x01 - Mrs McGinty's Dead

First aired: Sep/01/2008
Guest star: Mary Stockley (Eve Carpenter), Zoë Wanamaker (Ariadne Oliver), Paul Rhys (Robin Upward), Siân Phillips (Mrs. Upward), Catherine Russell (Pamela Horsfall), Amanda Root (Mrs. Rendell), Richard Lintern (Guy Carpenter), Philippa Burt (Court Attendant), Alex Dee (Sommelier), Ruth Gemmell (Mrs. Sweetiman), Billy Geraghty (Joe Burch), Emma Amos (Bessie Burch), Leighton Haberfield (Sergeant), Joe Absolom (James Bentley), Simon Molloy (District Judge), Richard Hope (Superintendent Spence), David Yelland (George), Sarah Smart (Maude), Raquel Cassidy (Maureen Summerhayes), Richard Dillane (Major Johnny Summerhayes), Simon Shepherd (Dr. Rendell)

James Bentley is arrested and convicted for the murder of Mrs McGinty after he lodges at her her house and she is discovered dead. Superintendent Spence is not convinced though that he is guilty and he asks Poirot for help in discovering the real killer.



59 :11x02 - Cat Among the Pigeons

First aired: Sep/08/2008
Guest star: Anton Lesser (Inspector Kelsey), Katie Leung (Hsui Tai Wan), Natasha Little (Ann Shapland), Carol MacReady (Miss Johnson), Miranda Raison (Mlle Blanche), Claire Skinner (Miss Rich), Harriet Walter (Miss Bulstrode), Jo Woodcock (Jennifer Sutcliffe), Susan Wooldridge (Miss Chadwick), Amara Karan (Princess Shaista), Raji James (Prince Ali Yusef), Jane How (Lady Veronica), Amanda Abbington (Miss Blake), Elizabeth Berrington (Miss Springer), Georgia Cornick (Patricia Forbes), Adam Croasdell (Adam Goodman), Adam De Ville (Bob Rawlinson), Lois Edmett (Julia Upjohn), Don Gallagher (Mr Forbes), Georgie Glen (Mrs Forbes), Pippa Haywood (Mrs Upjohn)

Prince Ali Yusuf is killed in a coup but before his death his friend manages to hide the family jewels in the tennis racquet of a British schoolgirl. Princess Shaista starts school in the United Kingdom and is the rightful heir to the jewels but nobody knows where they are.

When Poirot becomes involved he discovers that not everything is as it seems.



60 :11x03 - The Third Girl

First aired: Sep/15/2008
Guest star: John Warnaby (Inspector Nelson), Simon Hill (Bus Ticket Inspector), Tessa Bell-Briggs (Daphne the Waitress), Ysobel Gonzalez (Nurse), Sean Kingsley (Policeman), Jade Longley (Young Norma Restarick), Juliet Howland (Mary Restarick), Tim Stern (Alf Renny), Caroline O'Neill (Nanny Lavinia Seagram), Tom Mison (David Baker), Clemency Burton-Hill (Claudia Reece-Holland), Jemima Rooper (Norma Restarick), Matilda Sturridge (Frances Cary), Peter Bowles (Sir Roderick Horsfield), Lucy Liemann (Sonia), James Wilby (Andrew Restarick), Haydn Gwynne (Miss Battersby)

A young heiress tells Poirot that she is worried that she might have killed someone. When her childhood nanny is found murdered it looks like she might have been telling the truth. Poirot investigates the case and finds out more sinister things about the case.



62 :12x01 - The Clocks

First aired: Dec/26/2011

As Colin Race is looking into the death of two Navy personnel, an upset Sheila Webb runs out of 19 Wilbraham Crescent and right into him. Has she murdered the middle-aged man that has been discovered stabbed on the sitting room floor. Four clocks which have frozen at the time of 4:13, are found in the room with the body and Miss Pebmarsh who owns the house insists that she never asked for Shelia’s secretarial services. Race contacts Poirot for help with the case and he soon observes that there are mounting complications involved with case.



63 :12x02 - Three Act Tragedy

First aired: Jan/03/2010
Guest star: Anastasia Hille (Cynthia Dacres), Nigel Pegram (Reverend Babbington), Anna Carteret (Mrs Babbington), Tony Maudsley (Superintendent Crossfield), Jodie McNee (Annie), Prue Clarke (Hospital Matron), Ronan Vibert (Captain Dacres), Suzanne Bertish (Miss Milray), Martin Shaw (Sir Charles Cartwright), Art Malik (Sir Bartholomew Strange), Kate Ashfield (Muriel Wills), Kimberley Nixon (Egg Lytton Gore), Jane Asher (Lady Mary Lytton Gore), Tom Wisdom (Oliver Manders)

One of the guests chokes to death on a cocktail when Poirot a dinner party at Sir Charles Cartwright's house. Poirot is left baffled when there seems no motive for the murder and there are no traces of poison. When another guest dies at a similar party a few weeks later which the same guests are attending there seems to be more evidence this time.



64 :12x03 - Hallowe'en Party

First aired: Oct/27/2010



Murder on the Orient Express

First aired: Dec/25/2010
Guest star: Brian J. Smith (Hector MacQueen), Toby Jones (Samuel Ratchett), David Morrissey (John Arbuthnot)

Hercule Poirot boards the famous Orient Express train in Istanbul as it makes it's way towards London along with many glamorous international passengers. A ruthless American businessman on board asks Poirot to watch his back but he refuses. When Poirot wakes up the following morning he learns that the train stuck in a snowdrift and the businessman dead. With the train completely cut off Poirot finds himself investigating the murder.