SEASON 8
Episode 1 Evil Under the Sun
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and aired in April 2001.
Hercule Poirot, David Suchet
Hastings, Hugh Fraser
Chief Inspector Japp, Philip Jackson
Miss Lemon, Pauline Moran
Patrick Redfern, Michael Higgs
Christine Redfern, Tamzin Malleson
Arlena Stuart, Louise Delamere
Stephen Lane, Tim Meats
Rosamund Darnley, Marsha Fitzalan
Emily Brewster, Carolyn Pickles
Kenneth Marshall, David Mallinson
Lionel Marshall, Russell Tovey
Major Barry, Ian Thompson
Horace Blatt, David Timson
Mrs Castle, Rosalind March
William, Paul Ready
Gladys Narracott, Rebecca Johnson
Barman, Guy Vincent
Chief Constable Weston, Roger Alborough
Coroner, Kevin Moore
Nathan Lloyd, Jason Davies
Mr Applegood, Kenneth Gilbert
Simon Kelso, Lawrence McGrandles Jr.
Jack Lovett, Grant Gillespie
Librarian, Harriet Eastcott
Waiter (as Andrew Macbean), Andrew MacBean
Policeman, Steve Bennett
Officer, Andrew Ashby
Filmed on the famous Burgh Island off the coast of Devon – also the inspiration of ‘And Then There Were None’ and where Agatha Christie herself stayed.
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie ‘Evil Under the Sun’ published in 1941. The novel is a wider a development of the short story ‘Triangle at Rhodes’.
Russel Tovey who plays Lionel Marshall (the TV adaptation features a son rather than a daughter Linda) also stars as PC Terence Reed in Murder is Easy of the Marple Series.
SEASON 8
Episode 2 Murder in Mesopotamia
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder In Mesopotamia first aired in June 2002. Poirot is in Iraq and invited to join an archaeological dig where he meets the beautiful Mrs Louise Leidner, wife of the dig leader Dr Eric Leidner, who is afraid for her life as she has been receiving threatening letters purporting to be from her supposedly deceased first husband.
Hercule Poirot, David Suchet
Hastings, Hugh Fraser
Dr. Leidner, Ron Berglas
Mrs. Leidner, Barbara Barnes
Anne Johnson, Dinah Stabb
Amy Leatheran, Georgina Sowerby
Bill Coleman, Jeremy Turner-Welch
Sheila Maitland, Pandora Clifford
Father Lavigny, Christopher Hunter
Richard Carey, Christopher Bowen
Superintendent Maitland, Iain Mitchell
Joseph Mercado, Alexi Kaye Campbell
Mrs. Mercado, Deborah Poplett
Squat Man, Kamel Touati
Hotel Receptionist, Hichem Rostom
Police Sergeant, Zoubeir Bornaz
Murdered Man (as Rejeb Magri), Dejeb Magri
Workman, Hammadi Maaroufi
Abdullah (as Ramzi Brairi), Ramzi Brari
Filming took place in studios in Berkshire as well as in Oudhna, Tunisia
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie ‘Murder in Mesopotamia’ published in 1936. The TV adaptation stays close to the original, if slightly implausible (!) original story.
Barbara Barnes who plays Mrs Leidner also featured as Mrs Lester in a 1990 episode of Poirot, ‘The Lost Mine’