Ariadne Oliver is a fictional character portrayed by Zoë Wanamaker in the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Cards on the Table (season 10), they were 56 years old.
They appear in 6 episodes out of a total of 70 aired
Episodes6
Cards on the Table
episode S10.E2 march 2006The enigmatic, sinister Mr. Shaitana, one of London's richest men, invites 8 guests, 4 of them possible murderers and 4 'detectives' to his opulent apartment.Mrs McGinty's Dead
episode S11.E1 september 2008A pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger.Third Girl
episode S11.E3 july 2010After a seemingly neurotic young heiress tells Ariadne Oliver and Poirot that she thinks she may have killed someone, her ex-nanny is found with her wrists slashed.Hallowe'en Party
episode S12.E2 july 2011During a village's Hallowe'en party, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder from years before. No one believes her tale until her body is found later on in the evening, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket.Elephants Can Remember
episode S13.E1 august 2014Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.Dead Man's Folly
episode S13.E3 august 2014Mrs Oliver is asked to devise a murder hunt for a Devon fête, but her sense of foreboding summons Poirot to the scene. Her fears are realized when the girl playing murder victim winds up truly murdered.
- Cards on the Table
- Mrs McGinty's Dead
- Third Girl
- Hallowe'en Party
- Elephants Can Remember
- Dead Man's Folly