But if you're impatient - especially if you're a loyal fan who has watched and enjoyed this series for a quarter century, enjoying it as I do as the TV equivalent of comfort food - the only way to get satisfaction, for now, is to seek out What you'll get, once you get there, are these three stories, unspooled weekly. Later this fall, the last three stories in the series will indeed show up on broadcast television, distributed to local public TV stations. The final three appear, beginning this week, not on broadcast TV, or even on cable - but on a streaming site called Acorn TV. But after two episodes were shown, the series vanished earlier this month. This season's last hurrah began, as usual, on PBS.

This year's final season of Poirot presents the last five of the 70 episodes produced for TV, a video canon covering virtually all of Christie's major Hercule Poirot novels and short stories. Kieron McCarron /Courtesy of Acorn TV/ITV The actor has grown into the role, including perfecting the twinkle in his eye. Suchet has been playing the detective ever since - referring to himself in the third person, always referring to his brain power as his 'little grey cells,' and invariably holding court at the end of each episode to both solve and explain the mystery at hand.ĭavid Suchet has been playing Poirot since 1989.

Suchet began playing Poirot, with his waxed mustache and elegant walking stick, on the PBS Mystery! series way back in 1989. That's because for the 13th and final season of Agatha Christie's Poirot, the show's producers and distributors have staged a sort of new-media bait and switch. In this case, though, it's not a whodunit. But as the final episodes of television's Poirot provide closure, they are, for the moment, somewhat of a mystery themselves. Hercule made his final appearance in 1975, in the novel Curtain - and this month, nearly a century after he first appeared in print, the mystery series completes its lengthy run as a TV series, still starring David Suchet in the title role.

It featured fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who proved the most popular of all her mystery-solving characters. 25 on Acorn TV.Īgatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920.

David Suchet plays Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot.

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