Agatha Christie's Poirot: Season 3

1990 · 11 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 3 of Agatha Christie's Poirot

Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective played by David Suchet, investigates crimes in England in the mid-to-late 1930s. He is joined by Captain Hastings, his closest friend, and Felicity Lemon, an efficient secretary he trusts completely. Each case is based on a story by Agatha Christie, so the challenge changes with every episode. The starting point is usually a murder hidden behind a seemingly perfect alibi. Poirot must dismantle elegant lies told by characters with secrets, and do so before the culprit escapes justice. The series airs on the British network ITV.

11episodes

Sep 16, 1990premiered

Mar 10, 1991Latest episode

10.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Sep 16, 1990 · 108 min · ★ 8.4
Recovering from the horrors of World War I, British Army officer Arthur Hastings hopes to find peace and quiet at a country manor in the English countryside. But when the matriarch dies during the night from strychnine poisoning, Hastings enlists the help of an old friend staying nearby with other war refugees to help solve the murder: former Belgian police detective Hercule Poirot.
Directed by: Ross Devenish · Written by: Clive Exton · Starring: Beatie Edney, David Rintoul, Gillian Barge, Michael Cronin
3x02 How Does Your Garden Grow?
Jan 6, 1991 · 53 min · ★ 8.0
Suggestions of a Communist conspiracy cast suspicion on a murdered woman's Russian servant. Meanwhile, Poirot has a rose named after him, and a ceremony at the Chelsea Flower Show makes him the centre of attention. Hastings receives a packet of seeds and develops hay fever.
Directed by: Brian Farnham · Written by: Andrew Marshall · Starring: Anne Stallybrass, Tim Wylton, Margery Mason, Catherine Russell
3x03 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
Jan 13, 1991 · 53 min · ★ 7.7
The London and Scottish Bank is sending a huge shipment of Liberty Bonds to New York on the liner Queen Mary. Poirot, who suffers terribly from sea-sickness, is asked to see the bonds safely across the Atlantic.
Directing: Andrew Grieve · Writer: Anthony Horowitz · Starring: David Quilter, Ewan Hooper, Paul Young, Lizzy McInnerny
3x04 The Plymouth Express
Jan 20, 1991 · 52 min · ★ 7.4
An Australian shipping tycoon wants Poirot to check out his daughter's suitors. Then the young lady takes a trip on the Plymouth Express, and Poirot finds himself investigating a jewel theft on the train.
Directing: Andrew Piddington · Writer: Rod Beacham · Starring: Kenneth Haigh, Steven Mackintosh, Julian Wadham, John Stone
3x05 Wasps' Nest
Jan 27, 1991 · 53 min · ★ 8.2
Poirot visits a garden fete, where a wasps' nest adds to the tension. He meets the son of an old friend who has his girl-friend, a fashion model, with him, and Poirot soon suspects that they are both in danger. He has to solve a mystery which includes cyanide, failing brakes and mixed-up love lives. Meanwhile, Hastings has a new hobby which Poirot finds helpful in cracking the case.
Directing: Brian Farnham · Writer: David Renwick · Starring: Mark Chapman, Peter Capaldi, Martin Turner, Melanie Jessop
3x06 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
Feb 3, 1991 · 53 min · ★ 8.0
Poirot is summoned to Marsdon by the owner of a country inn there to solve a murder. But the inn-keeper is a would-be thriller writer, and to Poirot's dismay the murder turns out to be fictional. Thankfully, though, there is soon a real (if seemingly supernatural) murder at the big house. Things get even more interesting when a young wife claims that a tree in her garden is haunted by a laughing ghost, and there are also signs of black magic from East Africa. Poirot lays a clever ambush to smoke out the killer,confident that he or she will turn out to be human.
Directed by: Renny Rye · Written by: David Renwick · Starring: David Lloyd, Ian McCulloch, Geraldine Alexander, Alastair Duncan
3x07 The Double Clue
Feb 10, 1991 · 51 min · ★ 7.3
Japp (who is really worried that failure could cost him his job) seeks Poirot's help in investigating a series of jewel thefts, and two remarkable things happen. Poirot falls in love (with the beautiful and clever Countess Vera Rossakoff) and he also meets a criminal intellect which he finds worthy of him. As the countess is his main suspect, Poirot spends most of his time with her - which for once leaves Hastings and Miss Lemon to do most of the actual detective work.In the end, this case may have to be put down as the one that got away.
Directing: Andrew Piddington · Writer: Anthony Horowitz · Starring: Kika Markham, David Bamber, David Lyon, Charmian May
3x08 The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
Feb 17, 1991 · 53 min · ★ 7.8
Poirot is called in to help a woman who lives in fear of her husband, and he is invited to a dinner party which goes horribly wrong.
Directed by: Andrew Grieve · Written by: Anthony Horowitz · Starring: John McEnery, Caroline Langrishe, Pip Torrens, Malcolm Sinclair
3x09 The Theft of the Royal Ruby
Feb 24, 1991 · 48 min · ★ 7.9
Poirot prepares to spend a quiet Christmas on his own with a box of chocolates, but he has to give up his plans when the British government asks for his urgent help. Prince Farouk, a young member of the Egyptian royal family visiting London, has lost a famous ruby, and this is deemed to be a matter of national security.
Directed by: Andrew Grieve · Written by: Clive Exton, Anthony Horowitz · Starring: Frederick Treves, Stephanie Cole, David Howey, Tariq Alibai
3x10 The Affair at the Victory Ball
Mar 3, 1991 · 52 min · ★ 7.6
Poirot attends the Victory Ball, a costume party where you are expected to dress as someone famous, as himself. However, when two members of a party of six dressed as characters from classical Italian comedy are subsequently found dead, Poirot finds himself working with Chief Inspector Japp to solve the case. The solution to the deaths of Viscount Cronshaw and Coco Courtney is to be found in determining the correct time of death and identifying an impostor at the ball. Poirot takes to the airwaves and reveals the identity of the killer on a live BBC radio broadcast.
Directing: Renny Rye · Writer: Andrew Marshall · Starring: Mark Crowdy, David Henry, Haydn Gwynne, Nathaniel Parker
3x11 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge Season Finale
Mar 10, 1991 · 52 min · ★ 7.8
Hercule Poirot accompanies his friend Captain Hastings on a weekend shooting party at the home of Harrington Pace, but he isn't having a very good time. He comes down with the flu and takes to his bed but when Pace is shot dead in his study, he rises to the occasion to assist Inspector Japp in solving the case.
Directed by: Renny Rye · Written by: T.R. Bowen · Starring: Diana Kent, Jim Norton, Shaughan Seymour, Roy Boyd