Chronological List of the Best Poirot Episodes
Rewatching the entire series now & updating this list as I go along.
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- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserMelissa GreenwoodVacationing Poirot investigates the stabbing of an obnoxious cruise passenger.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonWhile Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat.
- DirectorRoss DevenishStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonHastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
- DirectorBrian FarnhamStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot is drawn into a case where a man is found dead on the grounds of his estate, apparently frightened to death by the spirits that haunt it.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot is asked to protect a woman from her violent husband, but events take a turn when the husband soon becomes the victim of a gruesome murder.
- DirectorRenny RyeStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot and Hastings attend the Victory Ball, a popular costume party. During the festivities, one of the guests is found stabbed to death, and another succumbs to a drug overdose the next day.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
- DirectorPeter Barber-FlemingStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranShortly after opening an ancient Egyptian tomb, members of an English-American museum expedition start dropping off like flies. Can it truly be the Pharaoh's curse? Poirot travels to Egypt to unravel the mystery.
- DirectorPeter Barber-FlemingStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPauline MoranA man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time.
- DirectorKen GrieveStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonRosalie CrutchleyWhile in Belgium, Poirot relates to Chief Inspector Japp a case from his early days in the Belgian police force that nearly eluded the brilliance of his 'little grey cells.'
- DirectorBrian FarnhamStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonAn obnoxious man who outbid Poirot at an auction for an antique mirror is murdered after seeking Poirot's assistance to look into the dealings of his business associate.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonVernon DobtcheffThe tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserDiane FletcherWhile Poirot and Hastings are holidaying in France, a businessman tells Poirot that his life is in danger. The next day he is found stabbed to death on a nearby golf course.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserAnn MorrishAn elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
- DirectorPaul UnwinStarsDavid SuchetRachael StirlingAidan GillenLucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
- DirectorDavid MooreStarsDavid SuchetElisabeth Dermot WalshRupert Penry-JonesElinor Carlisle seems to be the obvious murderer of her ailing aunt and the beautiful romantic rival who broke up her engagement, but Poirot uncovers darker motives.
- DirectorAndy WilsonStarsDavid SuchetJames FoxEmma Griffiths MalinA wealthy American heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
- DirectorMaurice PhillipsStarsDavid SuchetPhilip AnthonyRobert BathurstWhen a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to his death, Poirot is called in to investigate.
- DirectorAshley PearceStarsDavid SuchetJoe AbsolomSimon MolloyA pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger.
- DirectorJames KentStarsDavid SuchetHarriet WalterRaji JamesA foreign revolution, a kidnapped princess, and a trove of priceless rubies are linked to a prestigious girls' school, where staff members are brutally murdered.
- DirectorCharlie PalmerStarsDavid SuchetOlivia GrantAnna SkellernFour clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler solution.
- DirectorCharlie PalmerStarsDavid SuchetAmelia BullmoreZoë WanamakerDuring a village's Hallowe'en party, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder from years before. No one believes her tale until her body is found later on in the evening, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket.