Agatha Christie's Poirot: Season 1

1989 · 10 episodes · ★ 7.5

What Season 1 of Agatha Christie's Poirot

Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective played by David Suchet, investigates cases in England in the mid-to-late 1930s. He is joined by Captain Hastings, his closest friend, and Felicity Lemon, a highly efficient secretary he can fully trust. Each episode adapts a story by Agatha Christie, so the challenge changes from one chapter to the next. Poirot faces alibis that seem perfect and carefully planned lies told by characters with secrets to hide. His task is to separate the truth from deception before the culprit gets away with it. The series airs on ITV.

10episodes

Jan 8, 1989premiered

Mar 19, 1989Latest episode

8.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
Jan 8, 1989 · 52 min · ★ 7.7
A Mrs Ernestine Todd, from Clapham, asks Poirot to help her find her cook, Eliza, who has disappeared. Poirot, who aims to accept only really significant cases, is at first insulted by such a trivial request. However, after he sees the contents of the missing cook's trunk, he decides the case could prove to be worthy of his talents.
Directing: Edward Bennett · Writing: Clive Exton · Starring: Brigit Forsyth, Dermot Crowley, Freda Dowie, Antony Carrick
1x02 Murder in the Mews
Jan 15, 1989 · 52 min · ★ 7.7
Within hours of the Bonfire Night fireworks beginning Poirot finds himself investigating a violent death in Hastings' mews garage.
Directing: Edward Bennett · Writing: Clive Exton · Starring: Juliette Mole, David Yelland, James Faulkner, Gabrielle Blunt
1x03 The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
Jan 22, 1989 · 52 min · ★ 7.1
Country squire Marcus Waverly calls on Poirot for help in dealing with kidnap threats against his son. Hastings is appalled by the thought of someone going around kidnapping children and it becomes a race against time to find the identity of the mystery letter writer.
Directing: Renny Rye · Writing: Clive Exton · Starring: Geoffrey Bateman, Julia Chambers, Dominic Rougier, Carol Frazer
1x04 Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Jan 29, 1989 · 52 min · ★ 7.3
At a London restaurant where he often eats, Poirot notices that another regular customer has diverted from his usual meal. As old Anthony Gascoigne lies dying in Brighton, his estranged twin brother, Henry, falls to his death. A tragic accident, or murder? Poirot begins to see connections and decides the answer to the mystery lies in a blackberry pie.
Directing: Renny Rye · Writing: Russell Murray · Starring: Richard Howard, Tony Aitken, Charles Pemberton, Charles Pemberton
1x05 The Third Floor Flat
Feb 5, 1989 · 50 min · ★ 7.8
A new tenant two floors below Poirot's flat asks to meet the woman living above her. Bored, Poirot joins Hastings at a murder-mystery play, only to find Patricia Matthews, her roommate, and their dates are there too — and a real mystery unfolds.
Directing: Edward Bennett · Writing: Michael Baker · Starring: Suzanne Burden, Nicholas Pritchard, Robert Hines, Amanda Elwes
1x06 Triangle at Rhodes
Feb 12, 1989 · 53 min · ★ 7.5
On holiday in Rhodes, Poirot observes glamorous divorcée Valentine flirting with a married man while vacationing with her fifth husband. The man's wife confides in Poirot as tensions rise, and what looks like a reconciliation between the two couples ends in tragedy at a cocktail hour.
Directing: Renny Rye · Writing: Stephen Wakelam · Starring: Angela Down, Timothy Kightley, Frances Low, Jon Cartwright
1x07 Problem at Sea
Feb 19, 1989 · 53 min · ★ 7.5
Aboard a cruise, Poirot and Hastings observe controlling Mrs. Clapperton and her put-upon husband, a former music-hall performer. When most passengers go ashore, two young women coax the Colonel into joining them while his wife stays behind in her cabin — or does she?
Directing: Renny Rye · Writing: Clive Exton · Starring: Melissa Greenwood, Victoria Hasted, Roger Hume, Ben Aris
1x08 The Incredible Theft
Feb 26, 1989 · 51 min · ★ 7.2
Industrialist Lord Mayfield hosts an Air Marshal at his estate to review classified aircraft designs. Among the guests are an unscrupulous widow and an MP who's brought Poirot along fearing her influence over Mayfield. When the plans vanish, Poirot investigates.
Directing: Edward Bennett · Writing: Clive Exton, David Reid · Starring: John Stride, Carmen du Sautoy, Ciaran Madden, John Carson
1x09 The King of Clubs
Mar 12, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 7.4
Hastings and Poirot visit a film set where an overbearing studio boss bullies the cast and humiliates an aging actor he later fires. That night the boss is found dead at home from a head wound, a playing card left nearby, and Poirot joins Japp to find the killer.
Directing: Renny Rye · Writing: Michael Baker · Starring: Niamh Cusack, David Swift, Jonathan Coy, Jack Klaff
1x10 The Dream Season Finale
Mar 19, 1989 · 51 min · ★ 7.8
Millionaire business man Benedict Farley, a well known eccentric, consults Poirot about bad dreams he has been having. Mr. Farley has dreamed repeatedly of killing himself. Sadly, he does not follow Poirot's advice. When Farley is found dead, Poirot fails to believe that it is suicide and suspects a murder plot relying on hypnosis.
Directing: Edward Bennett · Writing: Clive Exton · Starring: Alan Howard, Joely Richardson, Mary Tamm, Martin Wenner