The BEST episodes written by Clive Exton

The Full House
star
9.02
208 votes

#1 - The Full House

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 3 - Episode 2

Poet Mr Rockmeteller Todd (Rocky) wants a quiet life in his cabin in the Long Island woods but his Aunt Isobel, who keeps him supplied with money, wants him out clubbing every night and to send her a report of what is going on. Jeeves - who somehow attracts the women of New York like a magnet - goes clubbing in his place and Rocky writes reports from his details. However, he makes it sound so good that the aunt decides to see for herself. Meanwhile, Bicky Bickersteth's father believes Bicky is in Colorado learning farming (if he wants to keep his allowance), but he is staying in New York and his father finds out. Bertie lends Rocky his place to impress his aunt but Bicky's father arrives and also believes Bertie's apartment belongs to his son, and seeing that he is apparently doing well, cuts his allowance off. It is down to Jeeves to save the day.

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Kidnapped
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9.01
213 votes

#2 - Kidnapped

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 2 - Episode 5

Bertie's club, the Drones, are electing a new dining committee chairman. Bertie wishes to be elected, but discovers that no one with a criminal record can stand. Pauline Stoker is being stalked by a mysterious stranger. Bertie, always chivalrous, is called upon to protect her on her way back to Chuffnell Regis. The trip results in startling results, including an encounter with several Drones in blackface. Because Chuffy Chuffnell cannot get permission to turn Chuffnell Hall into a hotel, Pauline tries to persuade Sir Roderick Glossop to turn it into a sanatorium.

The Ties That Bind
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8.98
199 votes

#3 - The Ties That Bind

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 4 - Episode 6

Bertie is at Totleigh Towers for the marriage of Roderick Spode and Madeline Bassett. Friend Ginger Winship is engaged to Lady Florence Craye so Bertie thinks that he's finally safe as far as marriage is concerned. However, Parliamentary candidate Ginger falls for his secretary and throws the Parliamentary election, causing Florence to dump him, and Spode decides to stand in his place, throwing in his title and causing Madeline to dump him. Both women now have their eyes firmly set on Bertie. Meanwhile the Butlers' and Valets' book from the Ganymede Club has been stolen, having all the secrets of the people they worked for. Also there is a problem with the drains at Totleigh Towers so Bertie calls in Tuppy Glossop, who has bought a new invention which clears drains, or so he believes, but when he tries it out it makes things far worse. The show ends with Bertie getting the blame for a spoiled wedding and with the guests chasing him and Jeeves widdershins around a church while the end titles come up.

A Plan for Gussie
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8.95
208 votes

#4 - A Plan for Gussie

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 2 - Episode 2

Gussie Fink-Nottle has been keeping a notebook containing insulting observations on Sir Watkyn Bassett and Sir Roderick Spode, in order to keep his courage up about them. When he loses the notebook, he calls on Bertie to help find it. The Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker and Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng wish to marry, but Stiffy's guardian Sir Watkyn doesn't approve. Stiffy blackmails Bertie into helping her convince her guardian otherwise. Meanwhile Bertie comes into possession of a policeman's helmet.

Hot Off the Press
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8.91
232 votes

#5 - Hot Off the Press

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 3 - Episode 5

Sir Watkyn Bassett is writing his memoirs of his misspent youth, which also include a lot of other misspent youths of people who are now famous. Bertie, who has just become engaged, is sent to destroy the manuscript. Guests at the house include would-be dictator Roderick Spode, Gussie Fink-Nottle and, nearby, another old enemy of Bertie's, Constable Oates. The local vicar is Stinker Pinker. Added to this is a number of tough young ladies, a local play and a dog that gets arrested, all of which means a lively time for Bertie and Jeeves.

Right Ho! Jeeves
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8.77
180 votes

#6 - Right Ho! Jeeves

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 3 - Episode 4

Gussie Fink-Nottle is to visit Deverill Hall but gets drunk and ends up sentenced to 14 days in jail. Bertie is also due there, where Aunt Agatha is trying to match him up with Gertrude Winkworth. So that Gussie doesn't get in trouble, Bertie turns up pretending to be him, but then Gussie turns up too (having just been fined) with Jeeves posing as his butler. Gussie pretends to be Bertie and woos Gertrude successfully. Meanwhile, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, who is in love with Gertrude, appears (he has been rejected by the fierce Dame Daphne Winkworth and her four sisters), pretending to be Bertie's butler. When it seems that things can't get any worse, Aunt Agatha and Gussie's girlfriend Madeline Bassett turn up.

Bridegroom Wanted!
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8.76
226 votes

#7 - Bridegroom Wanted!

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 4 - Episode 3

Bingo Little wants to marry a waitress so needs his uncle's blessing. Bertie is pushed into helping him by pretending to be author Rosie M. Banks again. His uncle, Lord Bittlesham, is under Sir Roderick Glossop who has moved to America (a watered down Sir R who actually likes Bertie). Trying to sort things out, Bertie manages to make Blair Eggleston break off his engagement with Honoria who now wants to marry Bertie and get a theatrical Agent with a very muscular friend after him. Meanwhile Bingo marries the waitress, who turns out to be the real Rosie M. Banks, so she and Lord Bittlesham are also after Bertie who decides the best thing is to take the next ship to London. But so do all the others and, confronted by all of them on board, he and Jeeves jump ship. Eight and a half months later, they turn up back in England, with long beards and looking like they have spent much of that time in an open boat and in savage lands.

Pearls Mean Tears
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8.76
238 votes

#8 - Pearls Mean Tears

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 2 - Episode 3

Aunt Agatha intends to engage Bertie to "a nice quiet girl" named Aline Hemmingway. Bertie is forced to spend some time with Aline and her brother, Rev. Sidney Hemmingway, but finds them dreary. After Sidney loses money at the races, he borrows £100 from Bertie with Aline's pearl necklace on deposit. Coincidentally, Aunt Agatha's pearl necklace goes missing. Biffy Biffen cannot find a girl to whom he was engaged. He comes to Jeeves for help, but Jeeves, who happens to be the girl's uncle, misunderstands Biffy's intentions and does not wish to help.

The Delayed Arrival
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8.60
200 votes

#9 - The Delayed Arrival

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 4 - Episode 4

Aunt Dahlia's magazine is in deep money trouble again so she wants to sell it to a Mr Trotter. To make it more saleable, she plans on paying a thousand pounds to a famous novelist for a story, which means she has to pawn her pearl necklace. Meanwhile, Lady Florence Craye has an on-off engagement with the homicidal Darcy "Stilton" Cheesewright, with Bertie being the cause of the break-ups. An expert is brought in to value the pearls, which have been replaced with fakes, and there is a race on to sell the magazine and get the real ones back in time. Both Jeeves and Bertie appear in drag in this episode.

Trouble at Totleigh Towers
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8.58
198 votes

#10 - Trouble at Totleigh Towers

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 4 - Episode 5

Bertie goes to Totleigh Towers at Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng's request. She wants him to steal an African statue which she thinks is evil. Gussie Fink-Nottle at Madeline Bassett's request has become a vegetarian, but this is too much for him and he falls for the cook (Emerald) who has been feeding him steak and kidney pie at midnight. Madeline, with Gussie out of the way, falls for Bertie, who steals the statue but has to return it when the owner (Major Plank) will not buy it back. Bertie then blacks up to pretend to be an African wanting to get the statue back for his tribe, just as the real Africans turn up. Jeeves can sort things out though, for a price.

Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer
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8.56
249 votes

#11 - Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 2 - Episode 1

Aunt Dahlia sends Bertie to sneer at an 18th century cow creamer in order to reduce the price for Uncle Tom. But when he makes a mess of the job rival silver collector Sir Watkin Bassett gets ahold of it. So Bertie goes off to Totleigh Towers where everyone either wants Bertie to steal the cow-creamer, or threatens to beat him to a jelly if he does. Stiffy Byng, Stinker Pinker, and Aunt Dahlia being of the former category, and the Amateur Dictator Roderick Spode and Sir Watkin Bassett being of the latter.

Return to New York
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8.53
178 votes

#12 - Return to New York

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 4 - Episode 1

Aunt Agatha wants to pack her wayward nephews Claude and Eustace Wooster off to Africa but both have fallen in love with a singer at a nightclub Bertie took them to the night before, and sneak back from the docks to Bertie's place to pursue her. Bertie wants to marry a painter (Gwladys Pendlebury) and has fallen foul of a soup manufacturer. Bertie's efforts to help Tuppy end in a disaster and Aunt Agatha ends up as a laughing stock, and looking for the cause, blames Bertie.

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Jeeves the Matchmaker
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8.50
244 votes

#13 - Jeeves the Matchmaker

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 2 - Episode 6

Bertie is interested in parenthood, and decides to begin by marrying Bobbie Wickham. Jeeves does not approve; but Bobbie is too preoccupied with other things to give Bertie due attention. Meanwhile Bertie must put up with her niece Clementina, who has a ferocious appetite. Tuppy Glossop has broken off with Angela Travers again and is infatuated with dog-lover Daisy Dalgleish. Tuppy is convinced he can impress her in a rugby match, but Jeeves interferes. Bingo Little is also in love, with a tea shop waitress. His obstacle is his allowance from his Uncle Mortimer, who may not approve the match. Jeeves recommends his uncle be regularly read romance novels to soften him up. They do—too much.

The Purity of the Turf
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8.50
331 votes

#14 - The Purity of the Turf

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 1 - Episode 3

Uncle George has become engaged to a young waitress and Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to offer her a hundred pounds to end the scandalous engagement, but Jeeves has other plans. Then it's off to Twing Hall where Lady Wickhammersley has banned gambling due to an unfortunate incident in which Lord Wickhammersley lost the East Wing with a bad hand. So Bertie, Bingo, and Jeeves start gambling on events in the village fair, such as the Boys and Girls Mixed Animal Potato Race and the Mothers Sack Race.

Tuppy and the Terrier
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8.46
375 votes

#15 - Tuppy and the Terrier

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 1 - Episode 2

After a round of golf with Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, Bertie find trouble in the form of Bobbie Wickham, first involving hot-water bottle piercing, then by giving away Aunt Agatha's dog to a broadway producer. Meanwhile Tuppy's become infatuated with an Opera singer and Jeeves hatches a plan involving a little concert in which Bertie must sing.

Jeeves Takes Charge
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8.45
445 votes

#16 - Jeeves Takes Charge

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 1 - Episode 1

Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to marry Honoria Glossop so that she will mould his character and infuse much needed strong blood in the Wooster line. But old chum Bingo Little is in love with her, so Bertie hatches a scheme to set things straight. Luckily, Jeeves has arrived to save Bertie from his own schemes (and hangovers).

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Brinkley Manor
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8.42
271 votes

#17 - Brinkley Manor

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 1 - Episode 5

Jeeves returns to London to persuade Anatole to return to Brinkley Court, whereto Bertie subsequently goes to reconcile Angela Travers with Tuppy Glossop, who is growing increasingly suspicious and jealous of his relationship with her. In order to bolster Gussie Fink-Nottle's courage to deliver the prizes and propose to Madeline Bassett, both Bertie and Jeeves spike his orange juice. Jeeves finally sorts out all the fractured relationships with a plan to set off the fire alarm.

Comrade Bingo
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8.39
204 votes

#18 - Comrade Bingo

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 3 - Episode 6

Bingo Little has joined The Red Dawn, an outspoken Communist group, to be near Charlotte Rowbotham, with whom he is in love. Bertie is pushed by Aunt Dahlia into going to Marsham Manor (near Goodwood) with her so she can get Cornelia Fothergill to sign her latest novel to her, so she can use it in her magazine. However, she doesn't tell Bertie that she wants him to steal a painting to accomplish this (we see why Bertie would never have made it as a burglar). Roderick Spode is also there, now the seventh earl of Sidcup (the sixth Earl having died) and is giving a farewell tour to his Black Shorts.

The Once and Future Ex
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8.32
203 votes

#19 - The Once and Future Ex

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 4 - Episode 2

Bertie bumps into his former fiancée Lady Florence in a bookshop while buying a birthday present for Jeeves. But after a row with her present suitor, the insanely jealous Darcy "Stilton" Cheesewright she renews her engagement to Bertie. Friend George Caffyn needs $50,000 for his play but can only get it from Chichester Clam when he sells his boats to Lord Worplesden, but the press pack haunting them is stopping the deal from going through. Jeeves sees a fancy dress party as a way of sorting everything out.

Jeeves in the Country
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8.31
237 votes

#20 - Jeeves in the Country

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 2 - Episode 4

Bertie's insistence on playing the trombone drives Jeeves to give notice. Bertie hires a less satisfactory valet, Brinkley. Bertie's friend, Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnell, quickly snaps Jeeves up. Bertie rents a country cottage from Chuffy in Devon and practices his horn. Chuffy is intent on selling Chuffnell Hall to J. Washburn Stoker, so that he can afford to marry Stoker's daughter Pauline. He discovers, to his concern, that Pauline was once engaged to Bertie—and that Washburn wants Bertie to stay away from his daughter. Jeeves produces a plan to get Pauline and Chuffy together that results in the burning down of Bertie's cottage. Sympathetic to Bertie, however, Jeeves resumes working for him at the end of the episode.

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The Hunger Strike
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8.05
307 votes

#21 - The Hunger Strike

Jeeves and Wooster - Season 1 - Episode 4

Aunt Dahlia coerces Bertie into handing out the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School by threatening to withhold the services of her master chef, Anatole. Newt-fancier Gussie Fink-Nottle comes to Jeeves for advice about Madeline Bassett, with whom he is enamoured. Since she is staying at Brinkley Court with Aunt Dahlia, Bertie delegates Gussie to give the prizes. Bertie tries to sort out Tuppy Glossop and Angela Travers's relationship, Gussie and Madeline's relationship, and an issue Aunt Dahlia has with her husband — all without the help of Jeeves. Disaster ensues when he recommends that they go without dinner.

Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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8.05
599 votes

#22 - 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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Peril at End House
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8.02
727 votes

#23 - 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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The ABC Murders
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8.02
593 votes

#24 - 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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And No Birds Sing
star
8.00
100 votes

#25 - And No Birds Sing

Rosemary & Thyme - Season 1 - Episode 1

Rosemary Boxer goes to visit her friend Daniel Kellaway, who suffers from eczema, to receive a cash grant for her university but is asked by him to investigate the dying trees in the grounds of his mansion home. Laura Thyme has left her home after being cheated on by her husband and goes to see her friend Sam, who is later killed in a car accident whilst driving home one night. After meeting one another and forming a firm friendship, Rosemary and Laura begin to investigate into the accident and the dying trees.

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Murder in Mesopotamia
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7.89
561 votes

#26 - 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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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
star
7.86
623 votes

#27 - 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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Problem at Sea
star
7.68
883 votes

#28 - Problem at Sea

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 7

An obnoxious passenger threatens Poirot's hopes of resting on a Mediterranean cruise.

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The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
star
7.67
1293 votes

#29 - The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 1

Poirot becomes intrigued by the seemingly trivial case of a missing Clapham cook.

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Arabica and the Early Spider
star
7.67
116 votes

#30 - Arabica and the Early Spider

Rosemary & Thyme - Season 1 - Episode 2

The newly formed gardening duo 'Rosemary and Thyme' are called to help pop star Nev Connolly design and create the gardens for he and his wife Patsy's new house. Whilst working on the grounds, all are shocked when a digger uncovers the skeleton of a horse, which Patsy suspects could be Arabica, a horse stolen from the stables where she once worked. That night, Rosemary is woken by the sound of a gunshot and hurries outside to find out where it came from. Joined by Laura, they discover that Nev has been shot dead. Returning to work the next day, Rosemary is intrigued by a cut in the ground. Digging around it, she uncovers the skeleton of a human hand...

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The Theft of the Royal Ruby
star
7.67
640 votes

#31 - The Theft of the Royal Ruby

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 3 - Episode 8

When the nation's security is threatened, Poirot is called in to help find a stolen ruby.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
star
7.66
543 votes

#32 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 7 - Episode 1

Recently retired Hercule Poirot investigates a neighbor's murder and the disappearance of the deceased's adopted son.

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They Understand Me in Paris
star
7.64
89 votes

#33 - They Understand Me in Paris

Rosemary & Thyme - Season 2 - Episode 4

Rosemary and Laura are called to Paris by Rosemary's old friend Dorothy, to catalog the plants in the 150 year-old gardens at her Riviera Villa (Villa Galavany) in order for them to be opened to the public. The duo realize they will face problems when one of Dorothy's neighbors called James Pretty makes it known he feels strongly against hordes of visitors coming to the area. Things get more hostile when Dorothy's husband Kasper is found dead, and one of her valuable pieces of silver is stolen...

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Double Sin
star
7.62
794 votes

#34 - Double Sin

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 6

Poirot takes Hastings on a rest cure in the Lake District.

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The Kidnapped Prime Minister
star
7.60
709 votes

#35 - The Kidnapped Prime Minister

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 8

When the Prime Minister is kidnapped in France, Poirot has only 32 hours to find him.

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Four and Twenty Blackbirds
star
7.60
914 votes

#36 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 4

Poirot is intrigued by a reclusive artist's unusual behavior in a restaurant.

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Triangle at Rhodes
star
7.59
830 votes

#37 - Triangle at Rhodes

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 6

On holiday, Poirot uncovers the complicated relationships between his fellow hotel guests.

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The Incredible Theft
star
7.58
760 votes

#38 - The Incredible Theft

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 8

Poirot suspects more than espionage when the plans for a new fighter plane are stolen.

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Murder in the Mews
star
7.57
978 votes

#39 - Murder in the Mews

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 2

On Bonfire Night, a murder enquiry grows more complex than the Gunpowder Plot.

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The Dream
star
7.47
745 votes

#40 - The Dream

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 10

An industrialist consults Poirot about his suicidal dreams.

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The Veiled Lady
star
7.47
556 votes

#41 - The Veiled Lady

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 2

Poirot and Hastings are summoned to meet a lady determined to preserve her anonymity.

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The Gongoozlers
star
7.46
88 votes

#42 - The Gongoozlers

Rosemary & Thyme - Season 2 - Episode 6

Gavin Patterson's TV Garden Makeover show is in need of a desperate boost of ratings so he hires yacht's woman Quinnie Dorell to present the show. Quinnie's knowledge of gardens however, isn't terribly good so she asks Rosemary and Laura to come and help her present the program. Events take a nasty turn when Rosemary falls from a scaffolding tower in a sabotage attempt seemingly aimed at Quinnie. Soon after, a young visiting journalist named Rosie FitzCarron is found dead in the secluded lake, but why...

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The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
star
7.46
904 votes

#43 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 3

Inspector Japp does not consider a ransom note a threat to public order. Poirot disagrees.

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The Cornish Mystery
star
7.46
803 votes

#44 - The Cornish Mystery

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 4

A woman believes her life is in danger and her neighbours close ranks against outsiders.

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The Third Floor Flat
star
7.43
823 votes

#45 - The Third Floor Flat

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 5

Poirot discovers a murder in his own block of flats.

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The Adventure of the Western Star
star
7.40
695 votes

#46 - The Adventure of the Western Star

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 9

When a Belgian film star receives threatening letters, she visits her old friend Poirot.

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The King of Clubs
star
7.39
747 votes

#47 - The King of Clubs

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 1 - Episode 9

Poirot uncovers a case of deception at a film studio - when is a murder not a murder?

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The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
star
7.33
576 votes

#48 - The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 5 - Episode 5

Poirot is drawn into the world of London's Little Italy when Hastings looks for a new car.

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The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
star
7.27
538 votes

#49 - The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 5 - Episode 1

Poirot investigates the mysterious death of an archaeologist.

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The Italian Rapscallion
star
7.07
87 votes

#50 - The Italian Rapscallion

Rosemary & Thyme - Season 2 - Episode 7

Rosemary and Laura travel to Italy to prepare the gardens for Emma Standish's new Italian restaurant but find themselves behind with the work. They decide to relax themselves and are recommended to go on a guided tour of Giardini Tremonti by the local fixer Fabrizio Biaggi. The tour however is halted when a lady named Janice Alexander is found dead. Fabrizio is arrested but Rosemary and Laura are asked to prove his innocence by Emma. As events unfold, a murderous trend emerges when retired Foreign Office diplomat Basil Slavinski is also found dead at the bottom of his cliff top garden...

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