However, a more upbeat string arrangement of the theme music is used for the end credits of " Hallowe'en Party", " The Clocks" and " Dead Man's Folly". The series logo was redesigned (the full opening title sequence had not been used since series 6 in 1996), and the main theme motif, though used often, was usually featured subtly and in sombre arrangements this has been described as a consequence of the novels adapted being darker and more psychologically driven. The visual style of later episodes was correspondingly different: particularly, an overall darker tone and austere modernist or Art Deco locations and decor, widely used earlier in the series, being largely dropped in favour of more lavish settings (epitomised by the re-imagining of Poirot's home as a larger, more lavish apartment). Story changes were often made to present female characters in a more sympathetic or heroic light, at odds with Christie's characteristic gender neutrality. Recurrent motifs in the additions included drug use, sex, abortion, homosexuality, and a tendency toward more visceral imagery.
The humour of the earlier series was downplayed with each episode being presented as serious drama and saw the introduction of gritty elements not present in the Christie stories being adapted. The episodes aired from series 9 in 2003 featured a radical shift in tone from the previous series. Michele Buck and Damien Timmer, who both went on to form Mammoth Screen, were behind the revamping of the series. Exton and Eastman left Poirot after 2001, when they began work on Rosemary & Thyme. Together, they wrote and produced the first eight series, which were highly enjoyable and comfortable to watch. Main article: List of Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes Production Ĭlive Exton in partnership with producer Brian Eastman adapted the pilot. At the programme's conclusion, which finished with " Curtain: Poirot's Last Case" (based on the 1975 novel Curtain, the final Poirot novel), every major literary work by Christie that featured the title character had been adapted. The programme ran for 13 series and 70 episodes in total each episode was adapted from a novel or short story by Christie that featured Poirot, and consequently in each episode Poirot is both the main detective in charge of the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and the protagonist who is at the centre of most of the episode's action. The series also aired on VisionTV in Canada and on PBS and A&E in the United States. Initially produced by LWT, the series was later produced by ITV Studios. David Suchet starred as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Hercule Poirot.
Poirot (also known as Agatha Christie's Poirot) is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. Picture Partnership Productions (1994–1996).
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