The BEST episodes written by Agatha Christie

8.37

242 votes

#1 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 2 - Episode 3

When Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit Tommy's elderly aunt at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence is told by another resident, Mrs. Lancaster, that the corpse of a child is hidden behind a fireplace. Tuppence realises there could be more to the old lady's words than she originally thought, especially when Tommy's aunt dies weeks later, and Mrs. Lancaster mysteriously disappears. With Tommy away on business, who better to help her than Miss Marple, who is visiting an old friend at the nursing home. With a cryptic painting on their hands, the two end up in the Norfolk village of Farrell St. Edmund to find the subject of their painting, a lone cottage in a wooded forest, while also trying to learn the closely-guarded secrets of the residents.

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8.33

152 votes

#2 - The Blue Geranium

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 5 - Episode 3

While visiting her friend Dermot in Little Ambrose, Miss Marple is drawn into investigating the apparently drowning of a recent acquaintance. Within a few days, a second occupant suspiciously dies from fright.

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8.29

479 votes

#3 - The Hollow

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 9 - Episode 4

At a weekend house party a guest is found dying - with his wife holding a gun.

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8.24

220 votes

#4 - The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 5 - Episode 2

Miss Marple finds herself spending the weekend at Chimneys, the stately home of Lord Caterham whose late wife was her cousin. The weekend has a diplomatic air to it as the Austrian Count Ludwig von Stainach is also there to negotiate a trade agreement with the British that will give the British access to iron ore. An important person goes missing, and Marple's search leads to a decades-old murder that might be connected to a mysterious diamond theft.

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8.24

282 votes

#5 - Towards Zero

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 3 - Episode 3

A wealthy woman holds a party at her Devon estate for family and friends, including old schoolmate Miss Marple. When a solicitor and the hostess herself are both murdered, Miss Marple tries to find a clever killer with a devious plan.

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8.21

550 votes

#6 - Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 9 - Episode 3

On a Nile cruise ship, Poirot is asked to investigate the death of a honeymooning heiress.

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8.18

199 votes

#7 - Murder Is Easy

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 4 - Episode 2

A village is plagued by a spate of seemingly accidental deaths, but Miss Marple is convinced a more sinister hand is involved when a villager on her way to Scotland Yard is conveniently dispatched.

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8.17

272 votes

#8 - 4:50 from Paddington

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 1 - Episode 3

A friend of Miss Marple claims to have seen a murder committed on a passing train, but the police dismiss it, as no body has been found in the train or surrounding area, so the two women begin an investigation of their own.

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8.14

574 votes

#9 - Sad Cypress

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 9 - Episode 2

Poirot has five days to investigate the case of an heiress accused of a double murder.

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8.06

152 votes

#10 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 5 - Episode 4

Hollywood star Marina Gregg leaves Los Angeles for the picturesque countryside of St Mary Mead. Having taken up residence at Gossington Hall with her dashing young English husband, film director Jason Rudd, his secretary, Ella Blunt and Marina's exclusive personal assistant, Hailey Preston, it's not long before she becomes lady of the manor. But when a local fan, Heather Badcock consumes a poisoned daiquiri, Marina finds herself starring in a real-life mystery - supported by Miss Marple and Inspector Hewitt, who suspect that the lethal cocktail was intended for someone else.

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8.04

590 votes

#11 - The Mystery of the Blue Train

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 10 - Episode 1

Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a woman on the Blue Train.

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8.04

608 votes

#12 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 6 - Episode 1

Poirot investigates when murderer Simeon Lee is found dead.

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8.04

247 votes

#13 - At Bertram's Hotel

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 3 - Episode 1

Miss Marple leaves St. Mary Mead for a trip to London's elite, Victorian, and "too good to be true" Bertram's Hotel, where she used to spend her holidays as a child. Soon after her arrival, a maid is found murdered on the roof and Miss Marple tries to uncover the truth with the help of another maid.

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8.03

224 votes

#14 - The Sittaford Mystery

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 2 - Episode 4

Heavy snow is falling in Dartmoor and the shadowy guests in the local hotel decide to take part in a seance in order to amuse themselves. But the evening takes on a more sinister edge when the table-turning suggests that Clive Trevelyan, an eminent politician, is in danger. Meanwhile, at Sittaford House, Miss Marple discovers that poisoned Turkish Delight has been sent to Trevelyan. John Enderby, Trevelyan's loyal right hand man, is so concerned for his friend's safety that he wants to check on him. Unfortunately, Trevelyan is staying at the hotel - six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot...

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8.03

235 votes

#15 - A Murder Is Announced

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 1 - Episode 4

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are summoned by a newspaper notice to the house of Letitia Blacklock, anticipating a murder game. But things become too real when someone is shot dead.

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8.03

544 votes

#16 - Taken at the Flood

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 10 - Episode 4

When a stranger is found murdered, a family ask for Poirot's help in identifying him.

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8.02

737 votes

#17 - Peril at End House

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 1

While Poirot is staying in Cornwall, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.

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8.02

605 votes

#18 - The ABC Murders

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 4 - Episode 1

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.

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8.01

548 votes

#19 - Lord Edgware Dies

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 7 - Episode 2

Poirot solves the case of a wealthy man whose estranged wife wanted him gone

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7.98

174 votes

#20 - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 4 - Episode 4

As the sole witness to a dying man's enigmatic last words, would-be young adventurer Bobby Attfield is determined to solve the riddle they posed, and forms an unlikely alliance with the beautiful socialite Frankie Derwent and visiting family friend Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie).

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7.98

595 votes

#21 - Dumb Witness

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 6 - Episode 4

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.

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7.97

627 votes

#22 - Five Little Pigs

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 9 - Episode 1

Poirot re-examines the murder of Amyas Crale, whose wife was hanged for the crime.

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7.97

248 votes

#23 - Sleeping Murder

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 2 - Episode 1

Miss Marple helps Gwenda and Giles Reed to solve an old crime when they move into their new home and Gwenda thinks that she has witnessed a murder there years before.

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7.95

574 votes

#24 - Hickory Dickory Dock

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 6 - Episode 2

A spate of thefts is followed by a series of brutal murders at a student hostel in London.

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7.89

184 votes

#25 - They Do It with Mirrors

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 4 - Episode 3

Carrie-Louise and her third husband Lewis Serrocold run a correctional facility for young men on their estate, Stonygates, where they also house a rag-tag of family and step-family. After a fire tears through Carrie Louise's office, her sister, Ruth Van Rydock, urges their old - and somewhat less glamorous - friend, Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie), to visit the blithely unsuspecting philanthropist.

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7.88

563 votes

#26 - After the Funeral

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 10 - Episode 3

The day after Richard Abernethie's funeral, his niece is murdered as well.

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7.88

315 votes

#27 - The Body in the Library

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 1 - Episode 1

When a mysterious blonde is found in the Bantry's library at Gossington Hall, Dolly Bantry calls on the help of Miss Marple to investigate it and clear her husband's name. The blonde is soon discovered to have been in line to inherit a fortune, and the investigation takes a different turn.

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7.87

569 votes

#28 - Murder in Mesopotamia

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 8 - Episode 2

Poirot and his old friend Capt. Hastings arrive at the headquarters of an archaeological dig where an Arab worker has recently been found strangled.

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7.87

557 votes

#29 - Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 6 - Episode 3

Poirot investigates the death of a man found murdered with a love letter in his pocket.

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7.84

631 votes

#30 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 4 - Episode 3

Poirot investigates the murder of his dentist, who is shot just after he leaves.

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7.84

277 votes

#31 - The Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 1 - Episode 2

A series of scandals in the village of St. Mary Mead seem to all revolve around Colonel Protheroe, and he is then found shot through the head at the vicarage. A young painter, Lawrence Redding, confesses to the crime, but then his lover also confesses. It is up to Miss Marple to unravel the mystery, and there is no shortage of people with a motive.

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7.82

271 votes

#32 - The Moving Finger

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 2 - Episode 2

Poison pen letters are spread around a village, and result in suicides, but Miss Marple isn't convinced the writer has only contributed to their deaths by the letters.

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