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1. IMDB combines the series 6 and series 7 given here into season 6. [1]

IMDb is correct according to the DVDs. Have changed this page accordingly. - Aya ^T C 20:21, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IMDB also lists The Mysterious Affair at Styles as being the first episode of series 3, not the last of series 2. 82.255.84.11 (talk) 22:20, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

IMDB is not a reliable source, per Wikipedia's own rules Merry medievalist (talk) 05:03, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2. Several single episodes listed here have been transmitted during UK reruns as two-parters. I have seen Death in the Clouds, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Peril At End House, The ABC Murders and The Mysterious Affair at Styles split like this. Current re-run of Peril At End House on ITV3 is also split (Wed 2008/09/17 and Fri 2008/09/19) Shannock9 (talk) 06:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Superintendent Spence

Should Superintendent Spence (Richard Hope) be counted as a recurring character? He's so far been in two episodes and I think he's in about four books, does that make him recurring? steveking89 22:02, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

poirots last case

After watching the special programmes aired on ITV3 on jan10/11 2009 i am intrigued to know when they will be filming poirots last case CURTAIN does anyone know? Kymwood12 (talk) 10:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It aired in November 2013.Merry medievalist (talk) 05:34, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remaining stories not yet adapted

"The Lemesurier Inheritance"
"The Submarine Plans" (though this story was later reworked as "The Incredible Theft", which has been adapted)
"The Market Basing Mystery"
The Big Four
Dead Man's Folly
Elephants Can Remember
all twelve stories in The Labours of Hercules
the stage play Black Coffee
and Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.

Opera hat (talk) 00:01, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The show ran until November 2013, and included Curtain as its final episode.Merry medievalist (talk) 05:35, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Given the episodic nature of The Labours of Hercules, I think that transcribing this into a two-hour film will defeat the best intentions of the scriptwriters. I understand that no further one-hour versions of short-stories are intended, so this will reduce the outstanding stories to a manageable Thirteenth Series comprising the remaining four full-length novels. Rif Winfield (talk) 14:00, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are also two "lost" stories that were published 2009 in Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks.--Nedergard (talk) 09:18, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The spelling of Miss Whittaker's Christian name

I have altered the spelling of Miss Whittaker's Christian name in the episode "Hallowe'en Party". The spelling in the novel is Elizabeth (and not Elisabeth), and I don't think there's any reason to suppose that the spelling has been altered for the TV programme.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.205.8.194 (talk) 08:27, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. air dates & any other related "Masterpiece Mystery" data

Does anyone have an idea of possible U.S. air dates for series (season) 13? I kept seeing January 2013 for all of them, but recently noted a different set of dates, all UK air dates--but nothing for the U.S. Is there trouble getting them aired here, anyone know? It seems like the trouble started way back when Suchet became an associate producer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.21.154.18 (talk) 12:53, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This query is more than 11 years old. The program is available for streaming on Prime and for free on archive.org.Merry medievalist (talk) 05:43, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 12 August 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. While the OP makes a reasonable argument, the consensus is that we should stick with the current title, both to match the parent article and that the proposed title is potentially ambiguous. Jenks24 (talk) 15:37, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes → List of Poirot episodes – prefixing with the authorial title makes sense for the main article to disambiguate from the book character, but unlike Miss Marple (TV series) and Agatha Christie's Marple there is only one Poirot series to contend with. 64.228.91.73 (talk) 21:20, 12 August 2015 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 11:18, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I doubt that most people that people familiar with British TV would automatically know that there was only one Poirot series. Miss Marple (TV series) and Agatha Christie's Marple are separate series. Greg Kaye 01:35, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I can see the logic of the proposal, but Poirot currently (and since 2007) redirects to Hercule Poirot which covers the character in all appearances, not just this series. These include the 39 episodes of Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which are in a sense also Poirot episodes. It makes more sense IMO to leave it as is. Andrewa (talk) 05:35, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the main article is called Agatha Christie's Poirot, you will have to rename that article first -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 12:15, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Timeline

Despite what the article says about the timeline, the timeline is far from clear, and not necessarily from 1935 on. For example, two separate early episodes ("How Does Your Garden Grow?" and "The Double Clue") include Russian aristocrats who just fled from the 1917 revolutions, placing these episodes within a few years of 1917. In "The Double Clue", the Countess talks about being new to the country and knowing no-one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thephotog (talk • contribs) 16:14, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Syntax erros for table for Series 12

@U-Mos: I have attempted to correct the syntax errors in the table for series 12 but I'm not fully sure what were the intentions for the changes. Please check things are now all right. Many thanks. Thincat (talk) 21:51, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Right you are, thanks for that and apologies for not noticing the mistake! U-Mos (talk) 23:28, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why no articles about the episodes?

I thought I'd found a mistake in a link until I realized that the “Titles” all connect to the original publications' pages. If the Rings of Power episodes—to name just one recent example—get their own articles certainly these deserve to have detailed, reliable information on the production, casting, plots, design, reception, etc. This article concludes by throwing readers into the lap of IMDB, which WP has labeled an unreliable source.Merry medievalist (talk) 05:32, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the main difference (in a principled sense) is that the Suchet episodes are fairly closely based on the corresponding books or short stories whereas The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power episodes are not. So it makes some sense to have the TV episode as a section in the article on the book and to point out differences in the storylines. Following a faulty AFD a sensible discussion at WP:Articles for deletion/Death on the Nile (2004 film) let to a redirect. That episode is very likely notable whereas many episodes will not be. The early Suchet programmes were based on short stories and even the stories themselves do not have separate articles but are sections of the article about the overall volume of stories. So notability constrains all this. I see the Hickson Miss Marple (TV series) list has links to the book articles with the only exception being to the first, three-part, episode of The Body in the Library (film) (an exceptionally good programme in my opinion). Thincat (talk) 11:53, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]