Starring: David Suchet
Directed by: Ashley Pearce , Charles Palmer
Produced by: Karen Thrussell , Rebecca Eaton
Written by: Agatha Christie , Stewart Harcourt , Mark Gatiss
David Suchet returns as the endearing sleuth in three baffling cases based on Christie classics. After dinner party guests mysteriously drop dead in Three Act Tragedy, Poirot helps an old friend find the killer. As Britain readies for war in The Clocks, Poirot investigates an unidentified corpse and four puzzling timepieces. And in Hallowe'en, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver and Poirot join forces to solve the macabre murder of a young costume party guest.
Item Number: 16195
David Suchet returns as the endearing sleuth in three baffling cases based on Christie classics. After dinner party guests mysteriously drop dead in Three Act Tragedy, Poirot helps an old friend find the killer. As Britain readies for war in The Clocks, Poirot investigates an unidentified corpse and four puzzling timepieces. And in Hallowe'en, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver and Poirot join forces to solve the macabre murder of a young costume party guest.
Disc 1
Three Act Tragedy
DEADLY DINNERS WHET POIROT'S INVESTIGATIVE APPETITE
While visiting the Cornish coast, Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) attends a dinner at which one of the guests suddenly dies. An inquest finds no evidence of foul play. But Poirot's host, renowned stage actor Sir Charles Cartwright, thinks otherwise, and another death at a later party with the same guests seems to confirm his suspicions. Together with Sir Charles and his vivacious friend Egg, Poirot applies "la technique classique"-eliminating the suspects, one by one.
Disc 2
The Clocks
POIROT IDENTIFIES A MAN WHOSE TIME RAN OUT
While trying to unmask a mole at Dover's military base, Lt. Colin Race enlists Poirot to help him aid a pretty secretary apparently framed for murder. Called to a residence on a quiet street for a temporary typing job, she found only a man's corpse lying on the floor. No one can identify the body, find a murder weapon, or explain the presence of four strange clocks-none of which belongs in the home, and all of which stopped at 4:13.
Disc 3
Hallowe'en Party
POIROT LOOKS FOR GHOSTS FROM A YOUNG GIRL'S PAST
Wholesome fun at Woodleigh Common turns harrowing when a children's Halloween party ends in the murder of 13-year-old Joyce Reynolds. Poirot is summoned by an old acquaintance, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, to help in the investigation. He seizes on a clue: immediately before her death, Joyce had boasted of having witnessed a murder several years before, although she didn't realize it was a murder at the time. Although everyone pooh-poohs her claim, Poirot knows that "old sins cast long shadows."
Three Act Tragedy
| Hercule Poirot | --- | David Suchet |
| Sir Charles Cartwright | --- | Martin Shaw |
| Egg | --- | Kimberley Nixon |
| Sir Bartholomew Strange | --- | Art Malik |
| Miss Milray | --- | Suzanne Bertish |
| Cynthia Dacres | --- | Anastasia Hille |
| Captain Dacres | --- | Ronan Vibert |
| Miss Wills | --- | Kate Ashfield |
| Lady Mary | --- | Jane Asher |
| Mrs Babbington | --- | Anna Carteret |
| Reverend Babbington | --- | Nigel Pegram |
| Oliver Manders | --- | Tom Wisdom |
| Coroner | --- | Michael Hobbs |
| Annie | --- | Jodie McNee |
| French Boy | --- | James Hurran |
| Supt Crossfield | --- | Tony Maudsley |
| Matron | --- | Prue Clarke |
| George | --- | David Yelland |
Directed by Ashley Pearce
Written by Agatha Christie, Nick Dear
Produced by Karen Thrussell
Executive Produced by Michele Buck, Rebecca Eaton
Original Music by Christian Henson
Cinematography by Peter Greenhalgh
Film Editing by David Blackmore
The Clocks
| Hercule Poirot | --- | David Suchet |
| Annabel Larkin | --- | Olivia Grant |
| Fiona Hanbury | --- | Anna Skellern |
| Lt. Colin Race | --- | Tom Burke |
| Sven Hjerson | --- | Andrew Havill |
| Mrs Swinburne | --- | Victoria Wicks |
| Sheila Webb | --- | Jaime Winstone |
| Nora Brent | --- | Sinead Keenan |
| Miss Martindale | --- | Lesley Sharp |
| Miss Pebmarsh | --- | Anna Massey |
| Inspector Hardcastle | --- | Phil Daniels |
| Constable Jenkins | --- | Ben Righton |
| Mrs Hemmings | --- | Beatie Edney |
| Rachel Waterhouse | --- | Abigail Thaw |
| Matthew Waterhouse | --- | Guy Henry |
| Vice Admiral Hamling | --- | Geoffrey Palmer |
| May | --- | Phoebe Strickland |
| Jenny | --- | Isabella Parriss |
| Valerie Bland | --- | Tessa Peake-Jones |
| Joe Bland | --- | Jason Watkins |
Directed by Charles Palmer
Written by Agatha Christie, Stewart Harcourt
Produced by Karen Thrussell
Executive Produced by Damien Timmer
Original Music by Christian Henson
Cinematography by
Film Editing by Matthew Tabern
Hallowe’en Party
| Hercule Poirot | --- | David Suchet |
| Judith Butler | --- | Amelia Bullmore |
| Ariadne Oliver | --- | Zoë Wanamaker |
| Rowena Drake | --- | Deborah Findlay |
| Miranda Butler | --- | Mary Higgins |
| Mrs Reynolds | --- | Sophie Thompson |
| Frances Drake | --- | Georgia King |
| Edmund Drake | --- | Ian Hallard |
| Reverend Cottrell | --- | Timothy West |
| Miss Whittaker | --- | Fenella Woolgar |
| Joyce Reynolds | --- | Macy Nyman |
| Leopold Reynolds | --- | Richard Breislin |
| George | --- | David Yelland |
| Mrs Goodbody | --- | Paola Dionisotti |
| Michael Garfield | --- | Julian Rhind-Tutt |
| Inspector Raglan | --- | Paul Thornley |
| Olga Seminoff | --- | Vera Filatova |
| Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe | --- | Phyllida Law |
| Mr Fullerton | --- | Eric Sykes |
Directed by Charles Palmer
Written by Agatha Christie, Mark Gatiss
Produced by Karen Thrussell
Executive Produced by Michele Buck, Rebecca Eaton
Original Music by Christian Henson
Cinematography by Cinders Forshaw
Film Editing by Matthew Tabern