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Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

Original Air Date—8 January 1989
Poirot is approached by a Mrs. Todd, whose cook, Eliza Dunn, has suddenly disappeared.
Poirot manages to track down the cook , and she tells him that a stranger, acting for a law
firm, told her that she had inherited a property in the North of England but she had to go there
immediately. Her heavy trunk was called for but it was deposited at the train station, where
Poirot makes an interesting discovery, connected to a recent bank robbery.

Season 1, Episode 2: Murder in the Mews

Original Air Date—15 January 1989
Poirot is enlisted by Japp to help solve a mystery that took place on Bonfire Night in a mews
flat. A Mrs. Allen was found shot, apparently a suicide, but she was holding the gun that
killed her in the wrong hand, and foul play is suspected. Furthermore, the ash-tray in the room
contained the stubs of Turkish cigarettes smoked by one Major Eustace, a disreputable
acquaintance.The victim was engaged to be married and seemingly had no cause to take her
own life. Did she? Or was it murder in the mews?

Season 1, Episode 3: The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

Original Air Date—22 January 1989
Mr. Waverly, a man whose wealth belongs to his rich wife, comes to engage Poirot's services.
He has had a letter telling him that his little son Johnnie will be kidnapped for ransom.
Although Poirot is present at the Waverly home, the kidnapping goes ahead but all is not as it
first seems.

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Season 1, Episode 4: Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Original Air Date—29 January 1989
The estranged, elderly Gascoigne brothers are found dead within days of each other. The one,
Anthony, died in his home in Brighton in circumstances that give no cause for suspicion. The
other brother, Henry, an eccentric, reclusive painter, however, has fallen downstairs and been
dead for some time before his death is discovered. Poirot had been eating in the same
restaurant as Henry just before the death. Henry had been pointed out as a creature of habit, a
man who always ate exactly the same meal on every visit. On this last occasion, though, he
had had a completely different set of courses, which leads Poirot to suspect foul play.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Third Floor Flat

Original Air Date—5 February 1989
Hercule Poirot is bored to tears and with three weeks since his last case, is worried that his
little gray cells will stop working. Captain Hastings suggest a evening at the theater to see the
latest murder mystery but even that doesn't help when Poirot finds the plot to be absurd. On
their return home to Whitehaven Mansions, they learn that the new occupant of the flat two
floors below Poirot's has been found shot. She had only moved in that very same day and was
an unknown. Poirot puts his little gray cells to good use and assists Inspector Japp of Scotland
Yard in identifying the murderer.

Season 1, Episode 6: Triangle at Rhodes

Original Air Date—12 February 1989
Just as his holiday on the island of Rhodes is coming to an end, Hercule Poirot finds himself
investigating a murder when one of the hotel guests, Valentine Chantry, is poisoned in the
bar. The drink she had was apparently meant for her husband and had been bought by
Douglas Gold, with whom she had been carrying on since her arrival. Gold is arrested and
everyone assumes he is the perpetrator but Poirot thinks otherwise however and looks to the
other guests in the hotel as more likely suspects. When a local pathologist confirms that the
poison used was local in origin, Poirot realizes that only when he learns who purchased the
poison will he learn the killer's identity.

Season 1, Episode 7: Problem at Sea

Original Air Date—19 February 1989
While on a Mediterranean cruise, Poirot is asked to investigate the murder of one of the
passengers, Mrs. Clapperton who is found stabbed in the chest in her stateroom. She was
somewhat haughty and generally disliked by the other passengers. Her henpecked husband,
Colonel Clapperton, was ashore for the entire day with two other passengers. General Forbes,
who admits to having been in love with the dead woman when they knew each other many
years before, says he was having a nap. Then there is Miss Ellie Henderson, who is attracted
to Colonel Clapperton but whose wife is in the way of any possible relationship. With
everyone having a reasonable alibi, it is left to Poirot to find the killer.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Incredible Theft

Original Air Date—26 February 1989
Tommy Mayfield is a British industrialist who has developed a new fighter plane. Up to now
he has paid all development costs himself and he very much wants the government to
contribute. It is reluctant to do so because of an apparent indiscretion some years before when
Mayfield was supposed to have sold heavy artillery to the Japanese. In order to get back into
the government's good books, he decides to lay a trap for Mrs. Vanderlyn, a known Nazi
sympathizer and possible spy. The bait is the plans for the new fighter but Mayfield's wife is
so concerned that she asks Hercule Poirot to spend the weekend at their house to make sure
Vanderlyn doesn't get away with anything.

Season 1, Episode 9: The King of Clubs

Original Air Date—12 March 1989
A deck with a missing card provides Poirot with the clue he needs to solve the murder of the
tyrannical head of a movie studio.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Dream

Original Air Date—19 March 1989
Hercule Poirot is puzzled when Benedict Farley summons him to a late night meeting. Farley
is known as the king of pies as his company manufactures a well-known brand of meat pies.
At their meeting, he tells Poirot of a recurring dream where he takes a gun from his desk
drawer, walks to his office window and commits suicide. His only question for Poirot is
whether someone could be manipulating him psychologically. When Farley is found dead the
next day - in circumstances that appear to match those in his dream - Poirot and Captain
Hastings find themselves assisting Inspector Japp in a case that involves false identities and
an affair. It is Miss Lemon, however, who provides Poirot with the vital information that
allows him to solve the case

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Peril at End House

Original Air Date—7 January 1990
While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life
is in danger.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Veiled Lady

Original Air Date—14 January 1990
Poirot 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.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Lost Mine

Original Air Date—21 January 1990
When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in
Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Cornish Mystery

Original Air Date—28 January 1990
Alice 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.

Season 2, Episode 5: The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

Original Air Date—4 February 1990
Banker Mr. Davenheim steps out of his house, into the fog, and disappears. Where has he
gone? Poirot bets good friend inspector Japp five pounds that he can solve the mystery within
the week, without leaving his flat, using Captain Hastings to collect the clues.

Season 2, Episode 6: Double Sin

Original Air Date—11 February 1990
A 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.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

Original Air Date—18 February 1990
When 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.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Kidnapped Prime Minister

Original Air Date—25 February 1990
When 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.

Season 2, Episode 9: The Adventure of the Western Star

Original Air Date—4 March 1990
Poirot is thrilled to receive an invitation from renowned Belgian actress Marie Marvelle. She
has been receiving anonymous notes about the Western Star, a valuable diamond purchased
by her husband a cut-rate price several years before. The notes speak to the mystical nature of
the diamonds and that they should be returned to their rightful owners. The next day, Lady
Yardly claims to also have received similar notes about her own fabulous diamond, the
Eastern Star. When Poirot and Hastings visit Lord and Lady Yardly the diamond is stolen in a
daring robbery. Needless to say, none of this sits well with Poirot who finds he has a very
tight knot to untie.

Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Original Air Date—16 September 1990
Hastings 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.

Season 3, Episode 2: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Original Air Date—6 January 1991
At 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.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

Original Air Date—13 January 1991
London & Scottish bank officer Mr. Shaw is scheduled to ride the maiden voyage of the
Queen Mary to transfer $1 million in Liberty Bonds to the banks branch in America. But
when Mr. Shaw is first almost run down in the street, and then poisoned, the assistant bank
manager must take the bonds instead. The bank hires Poirot to accompany the bonds, so he
and Mr. Hastings are able to ride the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary, much to Hastings
delight. But when the bonds are stolen, suspicion falls on the assistant manager who has a
history of large gambling debts.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Plymouth Express

Original Air Date—20 January 1991
Poirot investigates the murder of Florence Carrington while traveling on the express train to
Plymouth. Her father, mining entrepreneur Gordon Halliday, will spare no expense to have
the crime solved. She had recently been approached by her estranged husband Rupert, asking
for money and was seen having lunch with a one-time suitor, Armand de la Rochefort, of
whom her father disapproves. However, the victim's jewelry was stolen and Poirot realizes
that to find the murderer, they must first find the jewels.

Season 3, Episode 5: Wasps' Nest

Original Air Date—27 January 1991
At a village fête, Poirot runs into an old friend, John Harrison and his fiancé Molly Deane, a
fashion model. Harrison invites Poirot and Hastings to tea the following week where Poirot
learns that Molly had once been engaged to a local artist, Claude Langton. Poirot is puzzled
by a number of apparently unrelated incidents but concludes that someone is being untruthful
and that a murder is being planned. Courtesy of Hastings' new hobby, photography, Poirot
knows exactly what is going to occur. Insp. Japp is hospitalized with a case of appendicitis.

Season 3, Episode 6: The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

Original Air Date—3 February 1991
Having been lured to the village of Marsden Leigh under false pretenses - the local hotel
owner is unable to solve the crime in his own manuscript and so invites the detective to solve
a "murder" - Poirot and Hastings are asked to look into the death of Mr. Mantravers, owner of
the local manor house. The local rumor mill has it that the Marsden Manor is haunted by
several ghosts and Mantravers' wife is convinced that her husband was frightened to death. In
the end, Poirot initiates a clever ruse to obtain a confession from the murderer.
Season 3, Episode 7: The Double Clue
Original Air Date—10 February 1991
Chief Inspector Japp, afraid that he will soon find himself unemployed, needs Poirot's
assistance in solving a string of jewel robberies. Japp is under intense pressure to catch the
thief but Poirot counsels patience. When the jewel thief strikes again, Poirot and Captain
Hastings go to the home of Marcus Hardman, a jewelry collector from whom an emerald
necklace was stolen. Poirot is apparently quite taken with the exiled Russian Countess Vera
Rossakoff and to Japp's great consternation, days pass with no progress in the case. With the
famous detective otherwise occupied, Hastings and Miss Lemon decide to investigate on their
own. Poirot however knows well who the criminal is.

Season 3, Episode 8: The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

Original Air Date—17 February 1991
Lady Chatterton asks for Poirot's assistance when she comes to fear for the safety of her
friend, Marguerite Clayton. Specifically, she is convinced that Marguerite's husband Edward
Clayton, known for his violent temper, will kill her. Poirot is invited to a party in order to
meet Clayton, but he never shows up. The next day, Poirot finds himself being interviewed by
Inspector Japp when Edward Clayton's body is found hidden in an elaborate Spanish chest
located in the same room as the party the previous evening. When Marguerite's friend Major
Rich is arrested for the murder, Poirot correctly deduces the true nature of the crime and the
identity of the culprit.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Theft of the Royal Ruby

Original Air Date—24 February 1991
When Prince Farouq of Egypt foolishly lets a tart wear a fabulously valuable royal ruby, she
simply walks away with it. With Hastings away in Scotland for the Christmas holidays, Poirot
finds himself spending Christmas with the Lacey family. Colonel Lacey, a well-known
Egyptologist, was one of the few people who knew the ruby was in England. As Poirot
investigates, he learns that the Colonel is having financial difficulties and also that one of the
house guests, Desmond Lee-Wortley, may not be of the soundest character. With the help of
the children in the household, Poirot sets a trap for the thief.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Affair at the Victory Ball

Original Air Date—3 March 1991
Poirot attends the Victory Ball, a costume party where you are expected to dress as someone
famous, as himself. However, when two members of a party of six dressed as characters from
classical Italian comedy are subsequently found dead, Poirot finds himself working with Chief
Inspector Japp to solve the case. The solution to the deaths of Viscount Cronshaw and Coco
Courtney is to be found in determining the correct time of death and identifying an impostor
at the ball. Poirot takes to the airwaves and reveals the identity of the killer on a live BBC
radio broadcast.

Season 3, Episode 11: The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

Original Air Date—10 March 1991
Hercule Poirot accompanies his friend Captain Hastings on a weekend shooting party at the
home of Harrington Pace, but he isn't having a very good time. He comes down with the flu
and takes to his bed but when Pace is shot dead in his study, he rises to the occasion to assist
Inspector Japp in solving the case. Pace was not very likable and treated those around him
badly. He refused to acknowledge his illegitimate half brother, who worked on the family
estate as the gamekeeper, refusing him even a small loan that would allow him to marry. His
two nephews did not benefit from the family wealth having been told they may inherit
something on this death. The solution to the case lies in correctly identifying the mysterious
housekeeper, Mrs. Middleton, whom Pace had hired for a month and determining her exact
role in this mysterious affair.

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: The ABC Murders

Original Air Date—5 January 1992
Poirot receives clues and taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his
random victims and crime scenes alphabetically.

Season 4, Episode 2: Death in the Clouds

Original Air Date—12 January 1992
After spending a bit of a holiday in Paris, Poirot finds himself on a flight to London with an
odd assortment of people, some of whom he had met during his stay. When one of the
passengers, Madame Gisele, is murdered during the flight by a poisoned dart, Poirot is asked
by Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard to assist with the investigation. Gisele was a well-known
moneylender with penchant towards blackmail. When Lady Horbury denies knowing the dead
woman - which Poirot knows is false - the police clearly have their prime suspect. Poirot
however, sees a far more complex plot to gain access to the victims money.

Season 4, Episode 3: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Original Air Date—19 January 1992
After 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.

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

Original Air Date—17 January 1993
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.

Season 5, Episode 2: The Underdog

Original Air Date—24 January 1993
Invited to the home of chemical company CEO Rueben Astwell for dinner and to view Mr.
Astwell's collection of Belgian miniatures, Poirot finds Astwell universally disliked and
shortly thereafter murdered. But the murder is only one piece of the puzzle when Poirot
discovers Astwell's chemical company has developed synthetic rubber so precious that
someone has broken into the company to try and steal the formula. Astwell himself is more
than willing to sell it to the highest bidder, even the Nazi's.
Season 5, Episode 3: Yellow Iris
Original Air Date—31 January 1993
Exactly two years ago, in Buenos Aires, circumstances prevented Poirot from investigating
the sudden death of the beautiful Iris Russell. Now he has the chance to try again, this time in
London, when a yellow iris, mysteriously left on his doorstep, alerts Poirot that the killer may
strike once more.

Season 5, Episode 4: The Case of the Missing Will

Original Air Date—7 February 1993
A 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.

Season 5, Episode 5: The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

Original Air Date—14 February 1993
Poirot and his friend Captain Hastings find themselves investigating the murder of Count
Foscatini, who was found in his flat. As it turns out, the dead man's valet, Mr. Graves, has
been dating Miss Lemon and has been less than honest with her about his profession. As for
the dead nobleman, the police believe he was being blackmailed. The Italian Embassy denies
any knowledge of the man and denies that he had any official role in the country. Poirot
doubts the veracity of their claims but also concludes that others are lying as well.

Season 5, Episode 6: The Chocolate Box

Original Air Date—21 February 1993
Accompanying Inspector Japp to Brussels, who is receiving an award from the Belgian
government, Hercule Poirot tells him a case from 20 years before. Poirot was a young
policeman at the time and at the request of Virginie Mesnard, agrees to investigate the death
of rising young politician, Paul Deroulard. The courts had already ruled that he had died of a
heart attack, but she believes he was murdered. Poirot believed Deroulard had been poisoned,
likely from a box of chocolates he had been given by an aristocrat, Xavier St. Alard. In the
end, Poirot identified the killer, even obtaining a confession, but chose not to make it public,
for reasons that he explains to his colleagues.

Season 5, Episode 7: Dead Man's Mirror

Original Air Date—28 February 1993
Poirot is outbid at an auction for an antique mirror by the dislikeable Gervais Chevenix, who
requests Poirot's attendance at his country home as he believes he is being defrauded by a
business associate, John Lake. Poirot arrives at the Chevenix house with Hastings and meets
Chevenix's wife Vanda, an eccentric who believes in reincarnation and predicts a death in the
household, his adopted daughter Ruth and her cousin Hugo,a struggling manufacturer of
tubular steel furniture, who will inherit Chevenix's money if they marry and Miss Lingard, a
secretary helping Chevenix research a book he is writing. Hugo is engaged to Susan and Ruth
has already married Lake in secret. As the household are dressing for dinner, the butler sounds
the gong to summon them, and then a shot rings out. Vanda's prophecy has come true and her
husband has been murdered.

Season 5, Episode 8: The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

Original Air Date—7 March 1993
On his doctor's orders Poirot has gone to stay in the seaside resort of Brighton, where he is
frequently mistaken for Lucky Len, who gives out money on behalf of a newspaper to people
who recognize him. Poirot is staying at the Metropolitan hotel, as are Mr. Opalsen, a theatrical
producer, and his wife who is an actress starring in a play at a local theatre. A set of valuable
pearls which Mrs. Opalsen wears in the play is stolen from her room, and suspicion falls on
her maid Celestine, who was in the room next door. Celestine loves Andrew, the
impoverished young author of Mrs. Opalsen's play but they cannot afford to get married and
she is accused of taking the jewels to finance their marriage. Poirot solves the case and
unmasks the real culprit, being rewarded by Opalsen and getting a bonus when he identifies
the real Lucky Len.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Original Air Date—1 January 1995
The 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.

Season 6, Episode 2: Hickory Dickory Dock

Original Air Date—12 February 1995
Miss Lemon persuades Poirot to investigate a series of apparently minor thefts in a university
hostel, but simple kleptomania soon turns to baffling homicide.

Season 6, Episode 3: Murder on the Links

Original Air Date—11 February 1996
Poirot and Hastings are in Deauville, and Poirot is approached by business-man Paul Renaud
concerning threats by Chileans. The next morning the maid finds Madame Renaud bound and
gagged and her husband's corpse is later found on a nearby golf course. Giraud, a pompous
French police officer, dismissive of Poirot's reputation, lays a wager with him. The detective
who fails to catch the killer must make a sacrifice. Giraud will relinquish his trade mark pipe.
Poirot must shave off his moustache.

Season 6, Episode 4: Dumb Witness

Original Air Date—16 March 1996
An 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.

Season 7

Season 7, Episode 1: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Original Air Date—2 January 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.
Season 7, Episode 2: Lord Edgware Dies
Original Air Date—19 February 2000
Lady Edgware, the well-known stage actress Jane Wilkinson, has a dilemma in that her
husband has consistently refused to give her a divorce. She asks Hercule Poirot to visit the
man to see if there is any possibility of convincing him. Lord Edgware is nothing short of
nasty, treating all those around him very badly. When he is found dead, there is no great
surprise, but there certainly are a good number of suspects. The police believe Lady Edgware
to be the culprit, but she has a cast-iron alibi, having attended a private dinner over the time
her husband was killed. There is also the man's nephew, who would inherit his fortune, and
his personal assistant, whom he treated very badly; and then there is the family butler, who
clearly has his own interests at heart.

Season 8

Season 8, Episode 1: Evil Under the Sun

Original Air Date—20 April 2001
Recovering from a sudden collapse, Poirot finds little comfort in doctor's orders confining
him to a strict regimen at an island health resort with Captain Hastings. However, better
medicine is to be found in the murder of another guest, a famous film actress, and a long list
of suspects.

Season 8, Episode 2: Murder in Mesopotamia

Original Air Date—8 July 2001
While 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.

Season 9

Season 9, Episode 1: Five Little Pigs

Original Air Date—14 December 2003
Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the fourteen-year-old murder case in which her mother
was hanged for poisoning her philandering painter father.

Season 9, Episode 2: Sad Cypress

Original Air Date—26 December 2003
Elinor 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.

Season 9, Episode 3: Death on the Nile

Original Air Date—12 April 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.

Season 9, Episode 4: The Hollow

Original Air Date—26 April 2004
Poirot stumbles on the murder scene of philandering Dr. John Christow at a country estate as
his mistress, his hostess, and his wife (with a revolver) stand over him.

Season 10

Season 10, Episode 1: The Mystery of the Blue Train

Original Air Date—11 December 2005
Poirot investigates the brutal hammer murder of Ruth Kettering, an American heiress and the
theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.

Season 10, Episode 2: Cards on the Table

Original Air Date—11 December 2005
The 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.

Season 10, Episode 3: After the Funeral

Original Air Date—26 March 2006
When a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to
his death, Poirot is called in to investigate.

Season 10, Episode 4: Taken at the Flood

Original Air Date—2 April 2006
Hercule Poirot finds himself trying to solve the mystery of the Cloade family. Rosaleen is the
young widow of Gordon Cloade who was killed in a gas explosion in his London home.
Rosaleen has inherited her late husband's substantial fortune and she and her brother David
Hunter are refusing to share it with other members of Gordon Cloade's family. There have
been persistent rumors that Rosaleen's first husband, an intrepid explorer, is still alive and as
such would nullify her marriage to Gordon. What Poirot learns however is of a far greater
deception that will alter everyone's perception of what they believe to their reality.

Season 11

Season 11, Episode 1: Mrs McGinty's Dead

Original Air Date—1 September 2008
James Bentley is tried for the murder of Abigail McGinty, the charwoman of Broadhinny who
also took in Bentley as her lodger. The evidence is overwhelming, and soon after he is
sentenced to hang. Superintendent Spence is not convinced of the man's guilt, and so he visits
Poirot, asking him to look into the case. Poirot then heads off to the village, where he
becomes the paying guest of Maureen and Major Johnnie Summerhayes. Ariadne Oliver,
Poirot's novelist friend, has also come to Broadhinny to collaborate on a stage adaptation of
one of her novels with dramatist Robin Upward. With the clue of a bottle of ink purchased by
the dead woman shortly before her death, Poirot searches Mrs. McGinty's belongings and
finds an edition of The Sunday Comet newspaper, where an article concerning two women
connected with famous murders has been cut out. With the story are two photographs of the
women. Poirot discovers that Mrs. McGinty had seen one of the photographs before, and
knew to whom it belonged to. But which woman was this case connected with? Are any of the
people living in Broadhinny related to these women, as one of their children? Or perhaps one
of them is one of the actual women? The puzzle pieces begin to fit in, especially after Poirot is
shoved into the path of an oncoming train by an unknown entity. But will the murderer strike
again?

Season 11, Episode 2: Cat Among the Pigeons

Original Air Date—8 September 2008
When the middle-Eastern country of Ramat is over-run by anti-monarchist revolutionaries,
the surviving heir to the throne, Princess Shaista, is spirited away to safety in a small girls'
school, Meadowbank, which is run by the progressive Miss Bulstrode. However, when the
bullying games mistress Miss Springer is found stabbed through the chest with a javelin, it
appears that Meadowbank may not be the haven it promised to be. As Poirot assists Inspector
Kelsey, they begin to find that some of the staff may not be quite what they appear, a situation
which is compounded when another teacher, Mademoiselle Blanche is found dead and
Princess Shaista is kidnapped from the school. With the princess' life in peril, and the prized
rubies of Ramat missing, it is up to Poirot to discover who is the cat among the pigeons.

Season 11, Episode 3: Third Girl

Original Air Date—15 September 2008
Poirot is visited by a distraught girl, Norma Restarick, who fears she may have killed
someone but runs away, telling him that he's too old rather than explaining further. By
coincidence, Poirot's friend Ariadne Oliver lives in the same apartment block as Norma and
her two roommates and recently went to their party, where Norma was distressed when she
was offered ice cream. Norma's ex-nanny, Miss Lavinia Seagram, an alcoholic, also lived in
the block but was recently found dead, with the verdict being suicide. Ariadne is unconvinced
and searches the nanny's apartment, finding a clue which she puts in her handbag. Soon
afterward she is attacked and the bag and its contents are stolen. Poirot visits the Restarick
family home in the country, owned by Norma's great-uncle, Sir Roderick, an elderly and half-
blind man who is dependent upon Sonia, his young personal assistant (who may well be a
gold-digger). Andrew Restarick, Norma's father, explains to Poirot that he spent much of
Norma's childhood working abroad, leaving her with her unstable mother and Nanny
Seagram. Norma admits to Poirot that she blames herself for her mother's suicide, which took
place when the little girl was on an outing with the nanny and wanted to stop for an ice cream.
She now believes that if she had got home earlier she would have saved her mother, hence her
revulsion at being offered ice cream. Poirot and Ariadne visit Miss Battersby, Norma's former
school teacher, where they discover something very suspicious about Norma's friends and
family. Also convinced that Miss Seagram's death was not suicide, Poirot enlists Norma's help
in setting a trap to catch whoever killed her old nanny and is now trying to frame her.

Season 11, Episode 4: Appointment with Death

Original Air Date—22 September 2008
Syria, 1937: Hercule Poirot is one of several people present at an archaeological dig to find
the skull of St John the Baptist, led by the exuberant Lord Boynton and his loyal son Leonard.
The enterprise has been financed by Boynton's rich, rude and overbearing American wife. She
bullies her three adopted children, Carol, Jinny and Raymond, as well as the family's nanny.
Sarah King, a young English doctor, falls for Raymond and would love to tear him from his
mother's apron-strings, and another doctor, Dr Gerard, takes an interest in Jinny, as does a
Polish nun, who, with Jinny, is subject to an attack - by white slavers, according to the
independent travel-writer Dame Celia Westholme. A mysterious young American, Jefferson
Cope, whose link to the Boyntons seems tenuous, completes the group. Only his Lordship has
any love for his wife so that, when she is found stabbed to death one blisteringly hot
afternoon, Poirot has more than his fair share of suspects to interrogate.

Season 12

Season 12, Episode 1: The Clocks

Original Air Date—30 December 2009
Investigating a spy-ring, Lt. Colin Race comes to Wilbraham Crescent, where he literally
bumps into agency typist Sheila Webb, as she comes flying out of number 19, the home of
blind receptionist Millicent Pebmarsh. Sheila has discovered the body of a man whose
identity proves hard to confirm, surrounded by four clocks, stopped at the same time. Miss
Pebmarsh does not know the man and did not ask for the services of Sheila, who is the initial
chief suspect. However, as Poirot is brought in to assist Inspector Hardcastle in the case, and
the murderer strikes again, Poirot comes to realize that the man was killed elsewhere and
brought to Miss Pebmarsh's house. The neighbors claim to have seen nothing but Poirot
believes one of them may have had a secret which was worth killing for and sets out to
unmask them, as well as explaining the significance, if any, of the clocks. At the same time,
Colin solves his investigation with Poirot's help.

Season 12, Episode 2: Three Act Tragedy

Original Air Date—1 January 2010
Poirot attends a party at great actor Charles Cartwright's Cornish mansion. A local priest dies
drinking a cocktail, but there's no poison in his glass. How did he die, and why? Poirot and
Cartwright decide to investigate together.

Season 12, Episode 3: Hallowe'en Party

Original Air Date—26 May 2010
When Ariadne Oliver and her friend, Judith Butler, attend a children's Halloween party in the
village of Woodleigh Common, a young girl named Joyce Reynolds boasts of having
witnessed a murder from years before. Joyce's story is heard by all the party, including her
strange brother Leopold, the impeccable hostess Rowena Drake, her bookish son Edmund,
and the local Reverend Cottrell. Mrs Whittaker, the church organist, and Frances Drake,
Rowena's feisty daughter, are dismissive of her story, but later that evening Joyce's lifeless
body is discovered face-down in the apple-bobbing bucket. At Mrs Oliver's behest, Poirot
travels down to Woodleigh Common to investigate the murder. Although the local police and
Joyce's stepmother dismiss the dead girl's claim, Poirot takes Joyce's story seriously. Mrs
Goodbody, a gossiping charwoman, tells Poirot there have been a number of suspicious
deaths in the village in recent years which Joyce could indeed have witnessed, and that old
curses still haunt the village - a claim supported by the affable gardener, Michael Garfield.
While Poirot is busy piecing together the facts, another child is found drowned in a river. He
realizes that he needs to act quickly in order to save Judith's daughter, Miranda, who is also in
danger.

Season 12, Episode 4: Murder on the Orient Express

Original Air Date—11 July 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 the Serbian mountains.

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