8.6/102,685 votesLoading...#1 - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2013
An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery together there in order to prevent an unscrupulous and ingenious serial killer from claiming more victims.
Director: Hettie Macdonald
Writer: N/A
8.5/102,947 votesLoading...#2 - The ABC Murders
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1992
Beside the bodies of three murder victims lies a copy of the ABC Railway Guide.
Director: Andrew Grieve
Writer: N/A
8.4/104,252 votesLoading...#3 - Five Little Pigs
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 12/14/2003
Lucy Crale hires Poirot to solve the murder of her father sixteen years before, and Poirot finds a number of possible suspects who are still alive.
Director: Paul Unwin
Writer: N/A
8.2/101,838 votesLoading...#4 - The Chocolate Box
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/1993
Poirot returns to Belgium for the first time since the Great War. There he revisits a twenty-year-old murder mystery that was never officially solved.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
8.1/102,342 votesLoading...#5 - The Labours of Hercules
Season 13 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2013
In an effort to recover his confidence after a rare professional failure, Poirot sets off for the Swiss Alps in pursuit of a missing maid.
Director: Andy Wilson
Writer: N/A
8.0/102,457 votesLoading...#6 - Peril at End House
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1990
Poirot and Hastings take a holiday in Cornwall, looking for peace and quiet. They meet Miss Nick Buckley, who lives near their hotel at End House, and she tells Poirot she has had three near-fatal accidents in a few weeks. He then finds a bullet hole in her hat, returns with her to End House and is drawn into a complex murder investigation.....
Director: Renny Rye
Writer: N/A
8.0/102,723 votesLoading...#7 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 12/25/1994
Poirot's Christmas is interrupted by Simeon Lee, who believes his life is threatened. Simeon is soon killed and his diamonds stolen.
Director: Edward Bennett
Writer: N/A
8.0/102,814 votesLoading...#8 - Evil Under the Sun
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 4/20/2001
After collapsing with heart problems, Hercule Poirot visits a seaside health farm on Burgh Island. While there, the flirtatious heiress Arlena Stewart is found strangled on a secluded beach.
Director: Brian Farnham
Writer: N/A
8.0/102,764 votesLoading...#9 - Sad Cypress
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 12/26/2003
Young Elinor Carlisle, engaged to marry the dashing Roddy Winter, finds herself charged with the fatal poisoning of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. Poirot has the job of saving Elinor, but the evidence against her is overwhelming.
Director: David Moore
Writer: N/A
8.0/104,329 votesLoading...#10 - Death on the Nile
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 4/12/2004
A wealthy British 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
Writer: N/A
8.0/102,691 votesLoading...#11 - After the Funeral
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 3/26/2006
Hercule Poirot's solicitor, Gilbert Entwhistle, asks Poirot to help solve a riddle and a murder.
Director: Maurice Phillips
Writer: N/A
8.0/105,160 votesLoading...#12 - Murder on the Orient Express
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 12/25/2011
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: Charlie Palmer
Writer: N/A
8.0/102,367 votesLoading...#13 - Elephants Can Remember
Season 13 Episode 1 - Aired 6/9/2013
Poirot investigates a strange and gruesome murder of an elderly psychiatrist. Ariadne Oliver is pressed to try and uncover the truth behind two decade-old deaths. They soon find out that their separate investigations are linked and work together to try and solve the mystery.
Director: John Strickland
Writer: N/A
7.9/102,437 votesLoading...#14 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1990
Recovering from the horrors of World War I, British Army officer Arthur Hastings hopes to find peace and quiet at a country manor in the English countryside. But when the matriarch dies during the night from strychnine poisoning, Hastings enlists the help of an old friend staying nearby with other war refugees to help solve the murder: former Belgian police detective Hercule Poirot.
Director: Ross Devenish
Writer: N/A
7.9/102,203 votesLoading...#15 - Dumb Witness
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/1997
Poirot and Hastings are at Lake Windermere for an attempt on the world speed-boat record. An elderly widow is hurt by falling down stairs, then later killed by poisoning with phosphorus.
Director: Edward Bennett
Writer: N/A
7.9/102,309 votesLoading...#16 - Lord Edgware Dies
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2000
Lady Edgware has a dilemma in that her husband has consistently refused to give her a divorce. She asks Hercule Poirot to visit the man and see if there is any possibility of convincing him. When Lord Edgware is found dead, there is no great surprise, but there are a good number of suspects.
Director: Brian Farnham
Writer: N/A
7.9/102,341 votesLoading...#17 - Cat Among the Pigeons
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2008
Poirot finds a connection between a recent murder and a revolution in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Ramat.
Director: James Kent
Writer: N/A
7.9/102,334 votesLoading...#18 - The Clocks
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 12/26/2011
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.
Director: Ashley Pearce
Writer: N/A
7.9/102,096 votesLoading...#19 - Dead Man's Folly
Season 13 Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/2013
Ariadne 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, during the fête, the girl playing her murder victim winds up well and truly murdered.
Director: Tom Vaughan
Writer: N/A
7.8/101,779 votesLoading...#20 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1990
Matthew Davenheim, a rich banker, disappears on a walk from his country house to the village post office, and Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard is put onto the case. Poirot, who has developed an interest in conjuring tricks, bets Japp five pounds that he can solve the mystery without leaving his apartment.
Director: Andrew Grieve
Writer: N/A
7.8/102,167 votesLoading...#21 - Death in the Clouds
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1992
On an airplane, flying from Paris to London, one of the passengers is killed by a poison dart while Poirot sleeps.
Director: Stephen Whittaker
Writer: N/A
7.8/101,620 votesLoading...#22 - The Yellow Iris
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/1993
Friends and family gather at a dinner party to mark the second anniversary of a woman's death. Meanwhile, Poirot is caught up in a coup d'etat and arrested as a spy, which prevents him from solving a murder at a French restaurant owned by an Italian in Buenos Aires.
Director: Peter Barber-Fleming
Writer: N/A
7.8/102,208 votesLoading...#23 - Murder on the Links
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/1996
Poirot and Hastings are on holiday in Deauville and receive a visit from Paul Renauld, who believes he's being cheated by Chileans. Renauld is kidnapped and his body is later found buried in a new golf bunker. French detective Giraud unwisely challenges Poirot to catch the killer before he can.
Director: Andrew Grieve
Writer: N/A
7.8/102,431 votesLoading...#24 - Hallowe'en Party
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 10/27/2010
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: Philip Martin
Writer: N/A
7.7/101,896 votesLoading...#25 - The Dream
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/19/1989
Millionaire business man Benedict Farley, a well known eccentric, consults Poirot about bad dreams he has been having. Mr. Farley has dreamed repeatedly of killing himself. Sadly, he does not follow Poirot's advice. When Farley is found dead, Poirot fails to believe that it is suicide and suspects a murder plot relying on hypnosis.
Director: Edward Bennett
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot
Every episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot!
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"Curtain: Poirot's Last Case" is the best rated episode of "Agatha Christie's Poirot". It scored 8.6/10 based on 2685 votes. Directed by Hettie Macdonald and written by N/A, it aired on 11/13/2013. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The ABC Murders".