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Hercule Poirot is a fictional character portrayed by David Suchet in the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (season 1), they were 42 years old.
They appear in all 70 aired episodes and have accumulated 24997 positive votes.
The character of Hercule Poirot is mainly associated with Captain Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.

Hercule Poirot

by David Suchet

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Episodes70

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    The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

    episode S1.E1 january 1989
    Poirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook, and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever darker crime.
  • 7.4
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    Murder in the Mews

    episode S1.E2 january 1989
    When a woman is found shot in her flat after Bonfire Night, Poirot is enlisted to decipher whether the victim died by her own hand, or by someone else's.
  • 6.9
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    The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

    episode S1.E3 january 1989
    Poirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems.
  • 7.2
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    Four and Twenty Blackbirds

    episode S1.E4 january 1989
    When a reclusive painter is found dead, Poirot finds the vital clue in the dead man's last meal.
  • 7.5
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    The Third Floor Flat

    episode S1.E5 february 1989
    Poirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot.
  • 7.4
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    Triangle at Rhodes

    episode S1.E6 february 1989
    An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • 7.3
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    Problem at Sea

    episode S1.E7 february 1989
    Poirot's Mediterranean cruise is disrupted when an unlikeable passenger is found murdered in her stateroom.
  • 7.1
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    The Incredible Theft

    episode S1.E8 february 1989
    A wealthy industrialist's plan to snare a Nazi sympathizer goes awry when the secret plans for a new fighter plane inexplicably go missing.
  • 7
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    The King of Clubs

    episode S1.E9 march 1989
    A deck with a missing card provides Poirot with the clue he needs to solve the murder of the tyrannical head of a movie studio.
  • 7.7
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    The Dream

    episode S1.E10 march 1989
    A famous pie manufacturer tells Poirot that he has dreamt of his own suicide, then dies under the same circumstances he dreamt about the very next day.
  • 8
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    Peril at End House

    episode S2.E1 january 1990
    While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.
  • 7.4
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    The Veiled Lady

    episode S2.E2 january 1990
    Poirot becomes a criminal himself when he agrees to help a beautiful woman recover a letter written in her youth that is being used to blackmail her.
  • 7.3
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    The Lost Mine

    episode S2.E3 january 1990
    When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.
  • 7.5
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    The Cornish Mystery

    episode S2.E4 january 1990
    Alice Pengelley visits Poirot in London, telling him she thinks she is being poisoned by her husband. When Poirot arrives in Cornwall the next day to investigate Mrs. Pengelley's charges, he is too late, and finds her dead.
  • 7.8
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    The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

    episode S2.E5 february 1990
    Poirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat.
  • 7.5
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    Double Sin

    episode S2.E6 february 1990
    A young woman is delivering a set of antique Napoleon miniatures to an American collector when they are stolen from her suitcase. Captain Hastings, under Poirot's guidance, sets out to find the thief.
  • 7.4
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    The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

    episode S2.E7 february 1990
    When U.S. Navy plans for a new submarine are stolen and the thief tracked to London, the FBI sends an agent to work with Inspector Japp to recover them.
  • 7.4
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    The Kidnapped Prime Minister

    episode S2.E8 february 1990
    When the prime minister is kidnapped right before an important international arms summit, Poirot has just 32--and a quarter--hours to find the prime minister.
  • 7.2
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    The Adventure of the Western Star

    episode S2.E9 march 1990
    After receiving threatening letters, an aristocrat is robbed of her famed diamond in front of Poirot's eyes.
  • 7.9
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    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    episode S3.E1 september 1990
    Hastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
  • 7.6
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    How Does Your Garden Grow?

    episode S3.E2 january 1991
    At a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.
  • 7.6
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    The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

    episode S3.E3 january 1991
    Poirot is entrusted with transferring $1 million in Liberty Bonds to America on the Queen Mary, but the bonds are cleverly stolen anyway.
  • 7.4
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    The Plymouth Express

    episode S3.E4 january 1991
    A mining entrepreneur hires Poirot to solve the brutal murder of his daughter and the theft of her jewels aboard the express train to Plymouth.
  • 7.7
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    Wasps' Nest

    episode S3.E5 january 1991
    Poirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it.
  • 7.6
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    The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

    episode S3.E6 february 1991
    Poirot is drawn into a case where a man is found dead on the grounds of his estate, apparently frightened to death by the spirits that haunt it.
  • 7.3
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    The Double Clue

    episode S3.E7 february 1991
    Poirot helps Chief Inspector Japp try to find a jewel thief, but is sidetracked when a bewitching Russian countess arrives on the scene.
  • 7.6
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    The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

    episode S3.E8 february 1991
    Poirot is asked to protect a woman from her violent husband, but events take a turn when the husband soon becomes the victim of a gruesome murder.
  • 7.5
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    The Theft of the Royal Ruby

    episode S3.E9 february 1991
    Poirot reluctantly agrees to help an Egyptian prince recover a valuable royal ruby that was brazenly stolen from him during the Christmas holidays.
  • 7.5
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    The Affair at the Victory Ball

    episode S3.E10 march 1991
    Poirot and Hastings attend the Victory Ball, a popular costume party. During the festivities, one of the guests is found stabbed to death, and another succumbs to a drug overdose the next day.
  • 7.5
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    The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

    episode S3.E11 march 1991
    Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.
  • 8.4
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    The ABC Murders

    episode S4.E1 january 1992
    Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
  • 7.8
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    Death in the Clouds

    episode S4.E2 january 1992
    While Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.
  • 7.7
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    One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

    episode S4.E3 january 1992
    After Poirot pays a routine visit to his dentist, the doctor apparently shoots himself to death a short time later. Chief Inspector Japp appropriately recruits the detective as both witness and consultant.
  • 7.6
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    The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

    episode S5.E1 january 1993
    Shortly after opening an ancient Egyptian tomb, members of an English-American museum expedition start dropping off like flies. Can it truly be the Pharaoh's curse? Poirot travels to Egypt to unravel the mystery.
  • 7.3
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    The Underdog

    episode S5.E2 january 1993
    Poirot investigates when the cruel CEO of a chemical company is bludgeoned to death in his home after the company's formula for a revolutionary new synthetic rubber is targeted by a thief.
  • 7.8
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    The Yellow Iris

    episode S5.E3 january 1993
    A man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time.
  • 7.6
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    The Case of the Missing Will

    episode S5.E4 february 1993
    A terminally ill man asks Poirot to be executor of his new will but is murdered before he can write it, and it is later discovered the old will has been stolen.
  • 7.4
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    The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

    episode S5.E5 february 1993
    Poirot investigates the murder of an Italian count who was also the employer of Miss Lemon's new boyfriend. He soon learns that the victim was being targeted by a blackmailer.
  • 8.2
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    The Chocolate Box

    episode S5.E6 february 1993
    While in Belgium, Poirot relates to Chief Inspector Japp a case from his early days in the Belgian police force that nearly eluded the brilliance of his 'little grey cells.'
  • 7.7
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    Dead Man's Mirror

    episode S5.E7 february 1993
    An obnoxious man who outbid Poirot at an auction for an antique mirror is murdered after seeking Poirot's assistance to look into the dealings of his business associate.
  • 7.5
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    Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

    episode S5.E8 march 1993
    While Poirot vacations in Brighton to boost his health, the beautiful pearl necklace of a theatre actress staying at his hotel is mysteriously stolen.
  • 8
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    Hercule Poirot's Christmas

    episode S6.E1 december 1994
    The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
  • 7.6
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    Hickory Dickory Dock

    episode S6.E2 february 1995
    Miss Lemon persuades Poirot to investigate a series of apparently minor thefts in a university hostel, but simple kleptomania soon turns to baffling homicide.
  • 7.8
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    Murder on the Links

    episode S6.E3 february 1996
    While Poirot and Hastings are holidaying in France, a businessman tells Poirot that his life is in danger. The next day he is found stabbed to death on a nearby golf course.
  • 7.9
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    Dumb Witness

    episode S6.E4 october 1996
    An elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
  • 7.3
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    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    episode S7.E1 january 2000
    Poirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.
  • 7.9
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    Lord Edgware Dies

    episode S7.E2 february 2000
    A beautiful actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her tyrannical husband - except that she has a cast-iron alibi for the night of the crime.
  • 8
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    Evil Under the Sun

    episode S8.E1 july 2003
    Poirot's rehabilitative health retreat on an island resort becomes an even more stimulating mental exercise when a flirtatious film star is found strangled on a nearby beach.
  • 7.4
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    Murder in Mesopotamia

    episode S8.E2 july 2001
    While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.
  • 8.4
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    Five Little Pigs

    episode S9.E1 december 2003
    Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
  • 8
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    Sad Cypress

    episode S9.E2 december 2003
    Elinor Carlisle seems to be the obvious murderer of her ailing aunt and the beautiful romantic rival who broke up her engagement, but Poirot uncovers darker motives.
  • 8
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    Death on the Nile

    episode S9.E3 april 2004
    A wealthy American heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
  • 7.7
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    The Hollow

    episode S9.E4 september 2004
    Poirot stumbles on the murder scene of philandering Dr Christow in a country house as his wife standing next to him with a revolver in her hand.
  • 7.5
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    The Mystery of the Blue Train

    episode S10.E1 december 2005
    Poirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Cards on the Table

    episode S10.E2 march 2006
    The 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.
  • 8
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    After the Funeral

    episode S10.E3 march 2006
    When a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to his death, Poirot is called in to investigate.
  • 7.4
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    Taken at the Flood

    episode S10.E4 december 2006
    A young widow is left in sole possession of her late husband's fortune, and her brother refuses to share it with her in-laws - so they enlist Poirot to try to prove that the widow's missing first husband might not be dead after all.
  • 7.7
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    Mrs McGinty's Dead

    episode S11.E1 september 2008
    A 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.
  • 7.9
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    Cat Among the Pigeons

    episode S11.E2 june 2009
    A foreign revolution, a kidnapped princess, and a trove of priceless rubies are linked to a prestigious girls' school, where staff members are brutally murdered.
  • 7.7
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    Third Girl

    episode S11.E3 july 2010
    After 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.
  • 7.5
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    Appointment with Death

    episode S11.E4 july 2010
    Syria 1937. While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig, the abusive and overbearing Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.
  • 7.7
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    Three Act Tragedy

    episode S12.E1 june 2011
    When a vicar chokes to death on a cocktail while attending a party held by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, Poirot initially dismisses the idea of murder but reconsiders when another guest dies in the same manner.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Hallowe'en Party

    episode S12.E2 july 2011
    During 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.
  • 8
    /10

    Murder on the Orient Express

    episode S12.E3 july 2010
    Poirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express when it is blocked by a blizzard in Croatia.
  • 7.9
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    The Clocks

    episode S12.E4 june 2011
    Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler solution.
  • 8
    /10

    Elephants Can Remember

    episode S13.E1 august 2014
    Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.
  • 7.2
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    The Big Four

    episode S13.E2 july 2014
    As the threat of world war looms large, Poirot seeks the help of friends both old and new when he is pitted against a dangerous group of dissidents responsible for a series of violent murders.
  • 7.9
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    Dead Man's Folly

    episode S13.E3 august 2014
    Mrs 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.
  • 8.1
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    The Labours of Hercules

    episode S13.E4 august 2014
    Poirot's pursuit of an infamous art thief leads him to a snowbound hotel in the Swiss Alps, where he is met with a plethora of mysteries and the reappearance of a familiar face from the past.
  • 8.5
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    Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

    episode S13.E5 august 2014
    An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery there in order to prevent a serial killer from claiming more victims.

Best moments10

  • 7.7
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Mrs McGinty's Dead

    episode S11.E1 september 2008
    A 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.
  • 7.8
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Hallowe'en Party

    episode S12.E2 july 2011
    During 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.
  • 7.5
    /10
    99% of the votes

    The Mystery of the Blue Train

    episode S10.E1 december 2005
    Poirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.
  • 7.5
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Cards on the Table

    episode S10.E2 march 2006
    The 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.
  • 8
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Sad Cypress

    episode S9.E2 december 2003
    Elinor Carlisle seems to be the obvious murderer of her ailing aunt and the beautiful romantic rival who broke up her engagement, but Poirot uncovers darker motives.
  • 8
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Death on the Nile

    episode S9.E3 april 2004
    A wealthy American heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
  • 7.7
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Three Act Tragedy

    episode S12.E1 june 2011
    When a vicar chokes to death on a cocktail while attending a party held by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, Poirot initially dismisses the idea of murder but reconsiders when another guest dies in the same manner.
  • 8
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Murder on the Orient Express

    episode S12.E3 july 2010
    Poirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express when it is blocked by a blizzard in Croatia.
  • 8.4
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Five Little Pigs

    episode S9.E1 december 2003
    Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
  • 7.9
    /10
    99% of the votes

    Dead Man's Folly

    episode S13.E3 august 2014
    Mrs 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.

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