![]() ![]() ![]() " Murder on the Orient Express" and " Elephants Can Remember" move the narrative forward to 1938, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. " Death in the Clouds" and " Sad Cypress" are moved forward to 1937. " The Adventure of the Clapham Cook", " How Does Your Garden Grow?" and " Death in the Clouds" were all moved back to 1935. It deals with the detective's first mystery in England. " The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (Christie's first Poirot novel) is taken outside the established series narrative, set back in 1917 (although the novel was set in 1916). The chronology differs significantly from that of the novels and, as with the shorter episodes, all the stories whose book versions were set in other decades are moved to in or around the year 1936. ![]() The longer episodes are based on Christie's novels. as is shown by the inclusion of actual historical events such as Fred Perry's win at the French Open and the Jarrow March. The TV adaptations were considerably embellished from the original stories' plots and were set in 1936 instead of the 1920s et al. The shorter episodes are based on Christie's short stories featuring Poirot, many published in the 1920s. ![]() It first aired on 8 January 1989 and all episodes have aired on ITV (ITV1 from 2001-2013, STV and UTV).Įpisodes run for either approximately 50 minutes, or approximately 100 minutes (the latter are marked "feature-length" in the table below). The following is a list of episodes for the British crime drama Agatha Christie's Poirot. ![]()
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