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''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' is a popular British Television Series that stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie 's fictional detective Hercule Poirot . It first aired in 1989 and so far 57 episodes have been aired. It airs on ITV and was originally made by LWT and is now made by Granada Productions . In the United States , it airs as '''''Poirot'''''. Suchet has indicated his desire to film all the remaining stories in the canon. By most critics, Suchet's characterisation is considered to be the best and very accurate to the character in the books. Suchet said that he prepared for the part by reading all the . - 27 April 2007. Many writers have adapted Agatha Christie's book for television, with Clive Exton and Anthony Horowitz the most prolific. Ten other writers have contributed to the show. CAST Recurring cast:
Since 1989, several notable actors have appeared in Agatha Christie's Poirot, including Jenny Agutter , Robert Bathurst , Frances Barber , Emily Blunt , Lucy Briers , Peter Capaldi , John Castle , Anna Chancellor , Stephanie Cole , James D'Arcy , Frances De La Tour , Daisy Donovan , Lindsay Duncan , Christopher Eccleston , Edward Hardwicke , Oliver Ford Davies , Emma Fielding , Edward Fox , James Fox , Jenny Funnell , Beth Goddard , Elliott Gould , Elspet Gray , Geraldine James , Celia Imrie , Phyllida Law , Steven Mackintosh , Roger Lloyd-Pack , Alastair MacKenzie , Paul McGann , Sarah Miles , Jeremy Northam , Nathaniel Parker , Sean Pertwee , Tim Pigott-Smith , Diana Quick , Joely Richardson , Alexander Siddig , David Soul , Elizabeth Spriggs , Rachael Stirling , Zoë Wanamaker (as Ariadne Oliver in Cards On The Table ) and Honeysuckle Weeks . EPISODES See Also: List of Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes Episodes in Series One, Three, and Five are 52 minutes long. Episodes in the second series are also 52 minutes except ''Peril at End House'' and ''The Mysterious Affair at Styles'', which are 103 minutes long. Episodes in Series Four, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven are 103 minutes long. The 52-minute episodes are based on Christie's short stories featuring Poirot, many published in the 1920s. The TV dramatizers considerably embellished the stories' plots and set them in the 1930s instead of the 1920s. The longer episodes are based on Christie's novels. The chronology of these episodes differs from that of the novels and, as with the shorter episodes, some stories whose book versions were set in other decades are moved to the 1930s. Episodes released in 2003 and thereafter lack Fraser, Jackson and Moran, who had appeared in most episodes before then. The absence of their characters (Hastings, Inspector Japp, and Miss Lemon) is consistent with the books on which the scripts are based, but it was through interaction with those characters that many of Poirot's humorous, humanizing idiosyncrasies were portrayed in the earlier episodes. The later episodes lack the humour of the earlier as well as their signature theme music (see the audio sample box), and are written, directed, acted, and scored in a more sombre fashion, depicting an older and somewhat darker Poirot. In 1992, writers David Renwick and Michael Baker received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers Of America for the Second Series episode ''The Lost Mine'', which, like the other ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' episodes, aired in the U.S. as part of the PBS Anthology Series '' Mystery! ''. DVD RELEASES All episodes so far aired of ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' have been released on DVD in the UK (Region 2). In 2006, a magazine collection, also titled ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', was first released with a DVD of an episode and an accompanying magazine that looks into the episode, the life of Agatha Christie and the world of the 1930s , with each issue. Eight episodes have been released individually and as a boxed set on DVD in Australia (Region 4). REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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