Death in the Clouds

Episode aired Jan 12, 1992
TV-14TV-14
1h 43m

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7.8/10

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Crime Drama Mystery

While Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.While Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.While Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.

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1.7K

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Director
- Stephen Whittaker
Writers
- William Humble(dramatized by)
- Agatha Christie(novel)
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Jenny Downham and Shaun Scott in Poirot (1989)

Shaun Scott and Russell Richardson in Poirot (1989)

Harry Audley, Cathryn Harrison, and Roger Heathcott in Poirot (1989)

Guy Manning, Shaun Scott, and Sarah Woodward in Poirot (1989)

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Trivia
This episode can be dated to 1935, when Fred Perry of the UK defeated Gottfried von Cramm of Germany in the men's singles championship. Von Cramm defeated Perry in the 1936 championship.

Goofs
The story is set in the summer of 1935 and much of it takes place on board a Douglas DC-3. But the Douglas DC-3 had its maiden flight shortly before Christmas that year and it was not introduced into service until 1936.

Connections
Version of Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple: Kumo no naka no shi (sono ichi) Sora tobu misshitsu (2005)

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5/10

Death in the Clouds

Hercule Poirot is admiring the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris. On the flight from France to England while Poirot was asleep an old lady has been killed. It seems a poisoned dart was used.

Among the suspects is a crime writer and a snooty aristocrat, who was in Paris to see Fred Perry at the French Open and gamble. It seems she was in debt to the old lady.

Poirot and Japp visit Paris to find out more about the victim and seek out a woman who claims to be the victim's long lost daughter.

This feature length mystery has wonderful production values of vintage Paris and the recreation of the French Open. However it is padded more than a psychiatric cell. I know we have moved on from the Agatha short stories but really you can see the director falling back on various tricks just to drag the story out such as the scenes on the plane which go on for ages. We even have a character telling Poirot to get on with it during the denouement.

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