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"Agatha Christie: Poirot" The Third Floor Flat (1989)
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"Agatha Christie: Poirot" (1989)Original Air Date:
5 February 1989 (Season 1, Episode 5)Plot:
Hercule Poirot is bored to tears and with three weeks since his last case, is worried that his little gray cells will stop working... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Hitting close to home moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | David Suchet | ... | Hercule Poirot |
| Hugh Fraser | ... | Captain Hastings |
 | Philip Jackson | ... | Chief Inspector Japp |
| Pauline Moran | ... | Miss Lemon |
| Suzanne Burden | ... | Patricia Matthews |
| Nicholas Pritchard | ... | Donovan |
| Robert Hines | ... | Jimmy |
| Amanda Elwes | ... | Mildred |
| Josie Lawrence | ... | Mrs. Grant |
| Susan Porrett | ... | Trotter |
| Alan Partington | ... | Inspector Flint |
| James Aiden | ... | Major Sadler |
| Gillian Bailey | ... | Mrs. Sadler (as Gillian Bush Bailey) |
| Norman Lumsden | ... | Vicar |
| George Little | ... | Dicker |
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Continuity: The slip of paper Capt. Hastings takes out of his coat towards the end of the play (at the beginning of the episode) is larger than the one Poirot handed him. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Removal Man: You can pour that cup o' tea now, darling. This is the last bit.
Coffee Stall Owner: Right you are, dear.
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Hercule Poirot doesn't feel too good this morning: a) he has a cold, and b) no new cases have come his way in the past few weeks. He even picks the wrong murderer in a theatrical murder mystery that his friend Captain Hastings takes him to (though he insists that the writer of the play cheated the audience). But all that is about to change when a real murder happens - in an apartment just 2 floors below his own, no less!
Featuring fluid camera-work that immediately establishes the setting (3rd floor: the murder victim, 4th floor: the people who find the body, 5th floor: Poirot), a typically clever script (when Poirot, back in form and obviously pleased with himself, says "And now, I know everything!", few viewers will be prepared for his revelations), fine acting, and even some suspense at the end AFTER the culprit has been revealed, this early entry into the Poirot series is a good solid whodunit. (***)