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Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective

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Post by Nux »

somberi wrote: post #5

I highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot

Truly an excellent production!

Great acting, music, recreation of the era, awesome attention to detail and of course delightful mysteries.

It sets the bar very high, to the point it has alas kind of ruined "other Poirots" for me.

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Post by TimTheTinker »

kadal wrote: post #8
somberi wrote: post #5

I highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot

So sad that netflix doesn't have it any more

My wife and I have been subscribed to acorn.tv for several years instead of Netflix. It has many eminently watchable shows, especially Poirot and Foyle’s War, my favorite.

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Post by abhgh »

somberi wrote: post #5

I highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot

Very enjoyable series, and David Suchet is stellar. It is also interesting to see some of the cast who went on to greater fame like Alice Eve, Peter Baelish and Talulah Riley; there are probably more I'm unable to remember right now.

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Post by aquadrop »

somberi wrote: post #5

I highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot

Yes, excellent one. Especially first 8 season with all the initial actors. It worked great as our family dinner night series.

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Post by chrismeller »

Honestly, aside from some of the classics (And then there were none, murder on the links, orient express) the Poirot series is my absolute favorite of any mystery novel ever.

Never seen the TV show, but if you can get past the language of the books you can’t beat them.

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Post by sandworm101 »

somberi wrote: post #5

I highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot

https://youtu.be/fvrj5E_elzg

More than just the music, the opening animation is iconic.

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Post by sandworm101 »

eatonphil wrote: post #3

If you're interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen's Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc's Lupin and Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe. If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I'd love to hear (especially intere…

Rowand Atkinson recently did an amazing take on Maigret, three or four 2-hour episodes iirc. Some of his best dramatic work imho.

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Post by eatonphil »

sandworm101 wrote: post #18
eatonphil wrote: post #3

If you're interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen's Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc's Lupin and Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe. If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I'd love to hear (especially intere…

Rowand Atkinson recently did an amazing take on Maigret, three or four 2-hour episodes iirc. Some of his best dramatic work imho.

Wow that's cool! Will have to watch.

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Post by parenthesis »

somberi wrote: post #5

I highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot

For me it went down the pan starting series 10. Too much `sexing-up' type deviation from the books; no more Hastings, Miss Lemon and Japp; I think they even stopped using the wonderful theme tune to which you refer.

But, yes, before that, absolutely wonderful!

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