The BEST episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot
Every episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot!
The adventures of Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, adapted for television over more than twenty years and covering every Poirot book and short story ever written. This enormous lifelong project starring David Suchet takes the eponymous detective from England to Egypt, from country estate to weekend lodge, from dinner party to train ride, with his good friend Captain Hastings at his side, solving some of the most celebrated murder mysteries ever conceived.
#1 - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Season 13 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2013
An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery together there in order to prevent an unscrupulous and ingenious serial killer.
#2 - Murder on the Orient Express
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/25/2010
On the Orient Express from Istanbul, a ruthless American businessman is found dead.
#3 - The Labours of Hercules
Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2013
Poirot's pursuit of an infamous art thief leads him to a hotel in the Alps, where he is met with a plethora of mysteries and the reappearance of a familiar face from the past.
#4 - The Hollow
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2004
At a weekend house party a guest is found dying - with his wife holding a gun.
#5 - Hallowe'en Party
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/27/2010
Novelist Ariadne Oliver calls in her old friend Poirot to investigate a drowning.
#6 - The Clocks
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/26/2011
Poirot goes to Dover to help determine who is responsible for a man's murder.
#7 - Death on the Nile
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/12/2004
On a Nile cruise ship, Poirot is asked to investigate the death of a honeymooning heiress.
#8 - Dead Man's Folly
Season 13 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/2013
Ariadne Oliver is organising a 'murder hunt' at a summer fete, but calls for Poirot's help when she fears she may become involved in a real crime.
#9 - Sad Cypress
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/26/2003
Poirot has five days to investigate the case of an heiress accused of a double murder.
#10 - Three Act Tragedy
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/2010
Poirot is attending a dinner party when one of the guests chokes to death. Is it murder?
#11 - The Big Four
Season 13 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/2013
As the threat of world war looms large, Poirot seeks the help of friends both old and new when he is pitted against a dangerous group of murderous dissidents.
#12 - The Mystery of the Blue Train
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2006
Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a woman on the Blue Train.
#13 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1995
Poirot investigates when murderer Simeon Lee is found dead.
#14 - Taken at the Flood
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/2/2006
When a stranger is found murdered, a family ask for Poirot's help in identifying him.
#15 - Peril at End House
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1990
While Poirot is staying in Cornwall, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.
#16 - The ABC Murders
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1992
Three bodies are found. Beside each lies a copy of the ABC Railway Guide. The police are baffled. But the killer has made one mistake. He has challenged Hercule Poirot to unmask him.
#17 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1990
When his weekend hostess is found murdered, Hastings sends for his friend Hercule Poirot.
#18 - Lord Edgware Dies
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2000
Poirot solves the case of a wealthy man whose estranged wife wanted him gone
#19 - Elephants Can Remember
Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/9/2013
While Poirot investigates the murder of a renowned psychiatrist, Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth of her own.
#20 - Dumb Witness
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/1996
Poirot reflects on which member of Emily Arundel's family could have poisoned her medicine, and the key witness turns out to be a pet dog.
#21 - Five Little Pigs
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/14/2003
Poirot re-examines the murder of Amyas Crale, whose wife was hanged for the crime.
#22 - Hickory Dickory Dock
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/1995
A spate of thefts is followed by a series of brutal murders at a student hostel in London.
#23 - After the Funeral
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/26/2006
The day after Richard Abernethie's funeral, his niece is murdered as well.
#24 - Murder in Mesopotamia
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/2/2002
Poirot and his old friend Capt. Hastings arrive at the headquarters of an archaeological dig where an Arab worker has recently been found strangled.
#25 - Murder on the Links
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/1996
Poirot investigates the death of a man found murdered with a love letter in his pocket.