Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot
GenreCrime drama
Based onHercule Poirot stories
by Agatha Christie
Screenplay byClive Exton and others
StarringDavid Suchet
Composers
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series13
No. of episodes70 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducersBrian 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
NetworkITV
Release8 January 1989 (1989-01-08) –
13 November 2013 (2013-11-13)
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Agatha Christie's Poirot, or simply Poirot (UK: /pwɑːr/[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]

  1. ^ "Definition". Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  2. ^ Kemp, Stuart (8 April 2013). "Agatha Christie's Poirots' Final Season Snags Healthy Pre-Sales". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 14 June 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  3. ^ "David Suchet to star in final Poirot adaptations". BBC News. 14 November 2011. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015.