Appointment with Death Poster

Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV series 1989– )

Appointment with Death (#11.4)

NOT_RATED  80 min  -  Drama | Mystery | Crime
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While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig in 1937 Syria, overbearing, abusive Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.

Director:

Ashley Pearce

Writers:

Agatha Christie (novel), Guy Andrews (screenplay)

Original Air Date:

25 July 2010
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Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
David Suchet ...
Tim Curry ...
Lord Boynton
Jawad Elalami Jawad Elalami ...
Labourer
Christina Cole ...
Tom Riley ...
Raymond
Cheryl Campbell Cheryl Campbell ...
Zoe Boyle ...
Emma Cunniffe Emma Cunniffe ...
Carol
Angela Pleasence Angela Pleasence ...
Nanny
Aizoun Abdelkader Aizoun Abdelkader ...
Concierge (as Abdelkader Aizoun)
Paul Freeman ...
Beth Goddard Beth Goddard ...
Christian McKay ...
Mark Gatiss ...
Leonard
Mansour Badri Mansour Badri ...
Taxi Driver (as Badri Mansour)
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Storyline

Syria, 1937: Hercule Poirot is one of several people present at an archaeological dig to find the skull of St John the Baptist, led by the exuberant Lord Boynton and his loyal son Leonard. The enterprise has been financed by Boynton's rich, rude and overbearing American wife. She bullies her three adopted children, Carol, Jinny and Raymond, as well as the family's nanny. Sarah King, a young English doctor, falls for Raymond and would love to tear him from his mother's apron-strings, and another doctor, Dr Gerard, takes an interest in Jinny, as does a Polish nun, who, with Jinny, is subject to an attack - by white slavers, according to the independent travel-writer Dame Celia Westholme. A mysterious young American, Jefferson Cope, whose link to the Boyntons seems tenuous, completes the group. Only his Lordship has any love for his wife so that, when she is found stabbed to death one blisteringly hot afternoon... Written by don@minifie-1  

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Stabbed To Death | Nanny | Doctor | Nun | Skull  | See more »

Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Crime | Thriller

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Language:

English

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Filming Locations:

Casablanca, Morocco See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

ITV Studios, WGBH, Agatha Christie See more »
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Did You Know?

Trivia

A 1945 West End theatrical adaptation of the original 1938 novel eliminated Poirot's character and changed the identity of the killer. It is notable that 'Joan Hickson', later to play Christie's Miss Marple, was in the cast. See more »

Quotes

Hercule Poirot: You see, mon ami, the voices of the little gray cells have begun to sing to Poirot.
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Connections

Remake of Appointment with Death (1988) See more »

Soundtracks

"Dido's Lament"
(uncredited)
Written by Henry Purcell See more »