Chronological List of the Best Poirot Episodes
by Kam76 | created - 23 Jun 2016 | updated - 01 Mar 2018 | PublicRewatching the entire series now & updating this list as I go along.
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1.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Third Floor Flat
(1989)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,935
2.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Problem at Sea
(1989)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot's Mediterranean cruise is disrupted when an unlikeable passenger is found murdered in her stateroom.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Melissa Greenwood, Victoria Hasted
Votes: 1,782
3.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Peril at End House
(1990)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Polly Walker
Votes: 2,291
4.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
(1990)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,658
5.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
(1990)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Beatie Edney
Votes: 2,313
6.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Wasps' Nest
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,510
7.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Ian McCulloch
Votes: 1,473
8.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, John McEnery
Votes: 1,443
9.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Affair at the Victory Ball
(1991)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,394
10.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The ABC Murders
(1992)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Donald Sumpter
Votes: 2,776
11.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, Rolf Saxon
Votes: 1,506
12.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Yellow Iris
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, David Troughton
Votes: 1,515
13.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Chocolate Box
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.'
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Rosalie Crutchley, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 1,713
14.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Dead Man's Mirror
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Iain Cuthbertson
Votes: 1,362
15.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
(1994)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Simon Roberts
Votes: 2,578
16.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Murder on the Links
(1996)
TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Diane Fletcher, Damien Thomas
Votes: 2,077
17.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Dumb Witness
(1996)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Ann Morrish, Patrick Ryecart
Votes: 2,083
18.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Five Little Pigs
(2003)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
Director: Paul Unwin | Stars: David Suchet, Rachael Stirling, Aidan Gillen, Toby Stephens
Votes: 4,090
19.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Sad Cypress
(2003)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: David Moore | Stars: David Suchet, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Rupert Penry-Jones, Kelly Reilly
Votes: 2,629
20.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Death on the Nile
(2004)
TV-14 | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: David Suchet, James Fox, Emma Griffiths Malin, JJ Feild
Votes: 4,140
21.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
After the Funeral
(2006)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to his death, Poirot is called in to investigate.
Director: Maurice Phillips | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Anthony, Robert Bathurst, Anna Calder-Marshall
Votes: 2,577
22.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Mrs McGinty's Dead
(2008)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Ashley Pearce | Stars: David Suchet, Joe Absolom, Simon Molloy, Richard Hope
Votes: 2,054
23.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Cat Among the Pigeons
(2008)
TV-14 | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: James Kent | Stars: David Suchet, Harriet Walter, Raji James, Adam De Ville
Votes: 2,230
24.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Clocks
(2009)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: David Suchet, Olivia Grant, Anna Skellern, Tom Burke
Votes: 2,216
25.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Hallowe'en Party
(2010)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: David Suchet, Amelia Bullmore, Zoë Wanamaker, Deborah Findlay
Votes: 2,311
26.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Murder on the Orient Express
(2010)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Philip Martin | Stars: David Suchet, Tristan McShepherd, Sam Crane, Toby Jones
Votes: 4,980
27.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Elephants Can Remember
(2013)
TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.
Director: John Strickland | Stars: David Suchet, Adrian Lukis, Annabel Mullion, Zoë Wanamaker
Votes: 2,248
28.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
(2013)
TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: David Suchet, Helen Baxendale, Hugh Fraser, Anne Reid
Votes: 2,566
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