SEASON 10
Episode 1 The Mystery of the Blue Train
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and aired in December 2005. Poirot investigates the killing of a wealthy American Heiress who is murdered on the famous ‘Blue Train’.
Derek Kettering James D’Arcy
Lenox Alice Eve
Knighton Nicholas Farrell
Ada Mason Bronagh Gallagher
Corky Tom Harper
Lady at Ball Jane How
Steward Samuel James
Sister Rosalia Helen Lindsay
La Roche Oliver Milburn
Ruth Kettering Jaime Murray
Inspector Caux Roger Lloyd Pack
Dolores Etela Pardo
Katherine Georgina Rylance
Mirelle Milesi Josette Simon
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’ published in 1928
Poirot references the other most famous train ‘the Orient Express’ lining up the future episode from the ITV feature length productions of the Agatha Christie Poirot novels.
SEASON 10
Episode 2 Cards on the Table
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and aired in March 2006. Poirot is invited to join the mysterious Mr Shaitana for dinner only to discover later in the evening that his host has been murdered by one of the fellow guests.
Hercule Poirot David Suchet
Shaitana’s Butler James Alper
Mr Luxmore Philip Bowen
Mrs Luxmore Cordelia Bugeja
Mrs Craddock Zigi Ellison
Major Despard Tristan Gemmill
Dr Roberts Alex Jennings
Miss Burgess Lucy Liemann
Mrs Lorrimer Lesley Manville
Miss Meredith Lyndsey Marshal
Millie Jenny Ogilvie
Colonel Hughes Robert Pugh
Serge Mureau Douglas Reith
Shaitana Alexander Siddig
Ariadne Oliver Zoë Wanamaker
Miss Dawes Honeysuckle Weeks
Leighton House, London, England and The Peacock House, Holland Park, London, England both feature as Mr Shaitana’s home
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie ‘Cards on the Table’ published in 1936
Lyndsey Marshal who plays Ann Meredith also went on to play Amy Gibbs in the ITV Marple episode ‘Murder if Easy’ in 2008 as well as Agatha Christie in a later TV adaptation called ‘Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar’ in 2019.
SEASON 10
Episode 3 After the Funeral
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and aired in March 2006. Poirot is called in to investigate the grizzly murder of Cora Lansquanet (Galaccio) who is found killed soon after she announced at her brother’s funeral….”well he was murdered wasn’t he?!”
Hercule Poirot David Suchet
Vicar (as Phillip Anthony) Philip Anthony
Gilbert Entwhistle Robert Bathurst
Maude Abernethie Anna Calder-Marshall
Richard Abernethie John Carson
Inspector Morton Kevin Doyle
George Abernethie Michael Fassbender
Rosamund Fiona Glascott
Helen Abernethie Geraldine James
Dr. Larraby Dominic Jephcott
Janet Vicky Ogden
Michael Shane Julian Ovenden
Susannah Henderson Lucy Punch
Lanscombe William Russell
‘Miss Sorrel’ Annabel Scholey
Giovanni Gallaccio Anthony Valentine
Timothy Abernethie Benjamin Whitrow
Cora Gallaccio / Miss Gilchrist Monica Dolan
Rotherfield Park in East Tisted, Alton, Hampshire, England is the house setting for Enderby Hall.
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie ‘Cards on the Table’ published in 1936
Rotherfield Park was also used in the filming of ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ and Monica Dolan who played Miss Gilchrist also went on to play Janet McIntyre in the 2016 mini series ‘The Witness for the Prosecution’.
There was also a 1963 adaptation featuring Miss Marple rather then Hercule Poirot under the alternative title of ‘Murder at the Gallop’ starring Margaret Rutherford.
SEASON 10
Episode 4 Taken at the Flood
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and aired in April 2006. A young woman is left all her husbands money at the expense of his dependent wider family. When she is prevented from sharing her wealth by her overbearing brother, the family call in Poirot to help prove claims that the widow’s first husband is still alive to invalidate the will.
Hercule Poirot, David Suchet
Adela Marchmont, Jenny Agutter
Rowley Cloade, Patrick Baladi
Rosaleen / Eileen, Eva Birthistle
David Hunter, Elliot Cowan
Lynn Marchmont, Amanda Douge
Frances Cloade, Penny Downie
Pebmarsh, Richard Durden
Beatrice Lippincott, Claire Hackett
Supt. Harold Spence, Richard Hope
‘Aunt’ Kathy Cloade, Celia Imrie
Major James Porter, Nicholas Le Prevost
Dr. Lionel Woodward, Tim Pigott-Smith
Mrs Leadbetter, Elizabeth Spriggs
Jeremy Cloade, Pip Torrens
Enoch Arden / Charles, Tim Woodward
George, David Yelland
‘True’ Rosaleen, Martha Barnett
The George Hotel, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire is the location for ‘The Stag Inn’ and Englefield House, Theale, Reading, Berkshire, England is the location for ‘Furrowbank’.
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie ‘Taken at the Flood’ (also known as ‘There is a Tide’ published in 1948.
Tim Piggot-Smith who plays Dr. Lionel Woodward previously appeared in the Peter Ustinov version of Dead Man’s Folly in 1986 as Sir George Stubbs.
The title ‘Taken at the flood’ is from Shakespeare’s Julius Cesar when Brutus says “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to Fortune”.
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