Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot
Genre	Crime drama
Based on	Hercule Poirot stories by Agatha Christie
Screenplay by	Clive Exton and others
Starring	David Suchet
Composers	Christopher Gunning (series 1–9) Stephen McKeon (series 10–11) Christian Henson (series 12–13)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	13
No. of episodes	70 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers	Brian Eastman and others
Running time	36 x ~50 minutes 34 x ~89–102 minutes
Production companies	LWT (1989–2002) LWT Productions (1989–1996) Granada Productions (2002–2008) Agatha Christie Ltd. (1989–2013) ITV Productions (2008–2009) ITV Studios (2009–2013) WGBH Boston (2008–2013) Carnival Films (1993–1994) Mittal Productions (1990–2009) Picture Partnership Productions (1994–1996)
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	8 January 1989 (1989-01-08) – 13 November 2013 (2013-11-13)
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Agatha Christie's Poirot, or simply Poirot (UK: /pwɑːroʊ/^[1]), is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. The ITV show is based on many of Agatha Christie's famous crime fiction series, which revolves around the fictional private investigator, Hercule Poirot. David Suchet starred as the fictional detective. Initially produced by LWT, the series was later produced by ITV Studios. The series also aired on VisionTV in Canada and on PBS and A&E in the US.

The programme ran for 13 series and 70 episodes in total. Each episode was adapted from a novel or short story by Christie that featured Poirot. In each episode Poirot is both the main detective in charge of the investigation of a crime, usually murder, and the protagonist at the centre of most of the episode's action. At the programme's conclusion, which finished with "Curtain: Poirot's Last Case", based on the 1975 novel of the same name,^[2] every major literary work by Christie that featured the title character had been adapted.^[3]