Best Hercule Poirot Episodes
Best episodes from Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot TV Series
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- DirectorAshley PearceStarsDavid SuchetTim CurryJawad ElalamiSyria 1937. While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig, the abusive and overbearing Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.
- DirectorCharlie PalmerStarsDavid SuchetOlivia GrantAnna SkellernFour 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.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
- DirectorRoss DevenishStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonJoanna Phillips-LaneAfter Poirot pays a routine visit to his dentist, the doctor apparently shoots himself to death a short time later. Chief Inspector Japp appropriately recruits the detective as both witness and consultant.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonOliver Ford DaviesPoirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.
- DirectorHettie MacdonaldStarsDavid SuchetHelen BaxendaleHugh FraserAn ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery there in order to prevent a serial killer from claiming more victims.
- DirectorPaul UnwinStarsDavid SuchetRachael StirlingAidan GillenLucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
- DirectorAndy WilsonStarsDavid SuchetPatrick RyecartRupert EvansPoirot's pursuit of an infamous art thief leads him to a snowbound hotel in the Swiss Alps, where he is met with a plethora of mysteries and the reappearance of a familiar face from the past.
- DirectorCharlie PalmerStarsDavid SuchetAmelia BullmoreZoë WanamakerDuring 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.
- DirectorJohn StricklandStarsDavid SuchetAdrian LukisAnnabel MullionAriadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonVernon DobtcheffThe tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
- DirectorStephen WhittakerStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonSarah WoodwardWhile Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.
- DirectorBrian FarnhamStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot's rehabilitative health retreat on an island resort becomes an even more stimulating mental exercise when a flirtatious film star is found strangled on a nearby beach.
- DirectorAshley PearceStarsDavid SuchetMartin ShawKimberley NixonWhen a vicar chokes to death on a cocktail while attending a party held by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, Poirot initially dismisses the idea of murder but reconsiders when another guest dies in the same manner.
- DirectorAshley PearceStarsDavid SuchetJoe AbsolomSimon MolloyA pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger.
- DirectorAndy WilsonStarsDavid SuchetJames FoxEmma Griffiths MalinA wealthy American heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonPauline MoranMiss Lemon persuades Poirot to investigate a series of apparently minor thefts in a university hostel, but simple kleptomania soon turns to baffling homicide.
- DirectorTom VaughanStarsDavid SuchetSean PertweeChris GordonMrs 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 the girl playing murder victim winds up truly murdered.
- DirectorAndy WilsonStarsDavid SuchetJenny AgutterPatrick BaladiA young widow is left in sole possession of her late husband's fortune, her brother who dominates her refuses to let her share it with her in-laws, so they enlist Poirot to prove her missing first husband might not be dead.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhile Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.
- DirectorDan ReedStarsDavid SuchetDavid YellandJemima RooperAfter a seemingly neurotic young heiress tells Ariadne Oliver and Poirot that she thinks she may have killed someone, her ex-nanny is found with her wrists slashed.
- DirectorPhilip MartinStarsDavid SuchetTristan McShepherdSam CranePoirot 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.
- DirectorPeter LydonStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranAs the threat of world war looms large, Poirot seeks the help of friends both old and new when he is pitted against a dangerous group of dissidents responsible for a series of violent murders.
- DirectorJames KentStarsDavid SuchetHarriet WalterRaji JamesA foreign revolution, a kidnapped princess, and a trove of priceless rubies are linked to a prestigious girls' school, where staff members are brutally murdered.
- DirectorTom CleggStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserRon BerglasWhile Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.
- DirectorBrian FarnhamStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA beautiful actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her tyrannical husband - except that she has a cast-iron alibi for the night of the crime.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetFrances LowJon CartwrightAn enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.
- DirectorRoss DevenishStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonHastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot and Hastings attend the Victory Ball, a popular costume party. During the festivities, one of the guests is found stabbed to death, and another succumbs to a drug overdose the next day.
- DirectorSarah HardingStarsDavid SuchetJames AlperPhilip BowenThe enigmatic, sinister Mr. Shaitana, one of London's richest men, invites 8 guests, 4 of them possible murderers and 4 'detectives' to his opulent apartment.
- DirectorHettie MacdonaldStarsDavid SuchetJames D'ArcyAlice EvePoirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserDiane FletcherWhile Poirot and Hastings are holidaying in France, a businessman tells Poirot that his life is in danger. The next day he is found stabbed to death on a nearby golf course.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserAnn MorrishAn elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
- DirectorDavid MooreStarsDavid SuchetElisabeth Dermot WalshRupert Penry-JonesElinor Carlisle seems to be the obvious murderer of her ailing aunt and the beautiful romantic rival who broke up her engagement, but Poirot uncovers darker motives.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook, and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever darker crime.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhen a reclusive painter is found dead, Poirot finds the vital clue in the dead man's last meal.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhen a woman is found shot in her flat after Bonfire Night, Poirot is enlisted to decipher whether the victim died by her own hand, or by someone else's.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA famous pie manufacturer tells Poirot that he has dreamt of his own suicide, then dies under the same circumstances he dreamt about the very next day.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.
- DirectorMaurice PhillipsStarsDavid SuchetPhilip AnthonyRobert BathurstWhen a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to his death, Poirot is called in to investigate.
- DirectorBrian FarnhamStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonAn obnoxious man who outbid Poirot at an auction for an antique mirror is murdered after seeking Poirot's assistance to look into the dealings of his business associate.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot is asked to protect a woman from her violent husband, but events take a turn when the husband soon becomes the victim of a gruesome murder.
- DirectorSimon LangtonStarsDavid SuchetJonathan CakeMegan DoddsPoirot stumbles on the murder scene of philandering Dr Christow in a country house as his wife stands next to him with a revolver in her hand.
- DirectorAndrew PiddingtonStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot helps Chief Inspector Japp try to find a jewel thief, but is sidetracked when a bewitching Russian countess arrives on the scene.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserMelissa GreenwoodPoirot's Mediterranean cruise is disrupted when an unlikeable passenger is found murdered in her stateroom.
- DirectorPeter Barber-FlemingStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranShortly 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.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhen a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.
- 1989–201351mTV-147.5 (1.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorKen GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhile Poirot vacations in Brighton to boost his health, the beautiful pearl necklace of a theatre actress staying at his hotel is mysteriously stolen.
- DirectorJohn BruceStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA terminally ill man asks Poirot to be executor of his new will but is murdered before he can write it, and it is later discovered the old will has been stolen.
- DirectorBrian FarnhamStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot investigates the murder of an Italian count who was also the employer of Miss Lemon's new boyfriend. He soon learns that the victim was being targeted by a blackmailer.
- DirectorKen GrieveStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonRosalie CrutchleyWhile in Belgium, Poirot relates to Chief Inspector Japp a case from his early days in the Belgian police force that nearly eluded the brilliance of his 'little grey cells.'
- DirectorBrian FarnhamStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it.
- DirectorBrian FarnhamStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonAt a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetFrederick TrevesStephanie ColePoirot reluctantly agrees to help an Egyptian prince recover a valuable royal ruby that was brazenly stolen from him during the Christmas holidays.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranPoirot is entrusted with transferring $1 million in Liberty Bonds to America on the Queen Mary, but the bonds are cleverly stolen anyway.
- DirectorJohn BruceStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranPoirot investigates when the cruel CEO of a chemical company is bludgeoned to death in his home after the company's formula for a revolutionary new synthetic rubber is targeted by a thief.
- DirectorPeter Barber-FlemingStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranA man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time.
- DirectorRichard SpenceStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonAfter receiving threatening letters, an aristocrat is robbed of her famed diamond in front of Poirot's eyes.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonAlice Pengelley visits Poirot in London, telling him she thinks she is being poisoned by her husband. When Poirot arrives in Cornwall the next day to investigate Mrs. Pengelley's charges, he is too late, and finds her dead.
- DirectorAndrew PiddingtonStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA mining entrepreneur hires Poirot to solve the brutal murder of his daughter and the theft of her jewels aboard the express train to Plymouth.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot is drawn into a case where a man is found dead on the grounds of his estate, apparently frightened to death by the spirits that haunt it.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA deck with a missing card provides Poirot with the clue he needs to solve the murder of the tyrannical head of a movie studio.
- DirectorRichard SpenceStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA young woman is delivering a set of antique Napoleon miniatures to an American collector when they are stolen from her suitcase. Captain Hastings, under Poirot's guidance, sets out to find the thief.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot becomes a criminal himself when he agrees to help a beautiful woman recover a letter written in her youth that is being used to blackmail her.
- DirectorRichard SpenceStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhen U.S. Navy plans for a new submarine are stolen and the thief tracked to London, the FBI sends an agent to work with Inspector Japp to recover them.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhen the prime minister is kidnapped right before an important international arms summit, Poirot has just 32--and a quarter--hours to find the prime minister.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonA wealthy industrialist's plan to snare a Nazi sympathizer goes awry when the secret plans for a new fighter plane inexplicably disappear.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems.