Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 9

David Suchet returned as Hercule
Poirot for four feature-length period

crime dramas, first shown in December

2003 and April 2004. However, other

regulars Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson

and Pauline Moran were absent from

all the cases here.

Five Little Pigs (released in 1942) and

The Hollow (1946) were dramatised by

Christie into stage plays - the former retitled Go Back for Murder. Poirot was

omitted from both productions, whilst

Sad Cypress was published in 1940.

Death on the Nile (issued in 1937) had been adapted by Mersham for EMI Films in 1978, whilst Fox's remake was released in late 2020.

A repeat run of the ninth season continued on ITV3 today - the mysteries

featured Paul McGann, Geoffrey Beevers (both in Sad Cypress), and

a total of and twenty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Five Little Pigs (UK TX: December 14 2003)

• Julie Cox (Elsa), Rachael [Atlanta] Stirling (Caroline) and Marc Warren (Blake) also appeard in ITV's The Murder at the Vicarage - Cox voiced Mary Shelley for Mary's Story (2009), The Silver Turk, The Witch from the Well and Army of Death (all 2011), whilst Stirling was Ada Gillyflower in The Crimson Horror, then voiced Demesne Furze for Trail of the White Worm (2012), Adelaine Dutemps for The Monster of Montmartre (2015), and Jill Meadows/ Silvi for Technophobia (2016) - Warren was Elton Pope in Love & Monsters
• Sophie Winkleman (Angela) voiced Kelly Westwood for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009), Rachel Allan for Before the Fall (2017), and Sofia Cozzi for Serpent in the Silver Mask (2018)
• Talulah [Jane] Riley [Milburn] (Young Angela here; Megan in The Moving Finger, 2006) was Miss Evangelista in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
• Annette Badland (Spriggs here; Gladys in A Pocketful of Rye, 1985) was Margaret Blaine [aka Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen] in Aliens of London, World War Three and Boom Town (then reprised for Big Finish's Sync), and voiced Queen Karlina for Equilibrium, Thelma for Suburban Hell (both 2015), Guilana for Asking for a Friend (2017), Judge/Computer for Barrister to the Stars, Mrs. Slinger/Batraxus for Whatever Remains, Mermaid/Maude Polwart for The Ghost Writers (all 2020), Mrs. Goose/Fleshkin for The Hunting Season (2021), the titular role for The Miniaturist, Mrs. Chinn for Mind of the Hodiac, and Eminent Sedanya for Blood of the Time Lords (all 2022)
• [David] Roger Brierley (Judge) was Trevor in (episode 8 of) The Daleks' Master Plan, and provided the voice of Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Stuart Walker was production designer on The Savages too
• Jason Gill was also costume assistant on Space, Time and all fourteen episodes (from A Christmas Carol to The Wedding of River Song) then was costume designer on Death is the Only Answer 

Sad Cypress (TX: Boxing Day)

• Diana Quick (Welman here; Gwenda in Ordeal by Innocence) voiced Prime for Scream of the Shalka, and Sophie Kinzky for Hidden Depths (2022)
• Phyllis Logan (Hopkins) was Andinio in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Jack [Stewart] Galloway (Marsden here; Archer in The Murder at the Vicarage, 1986) was Joseph Willow in The Awakening
• Michael Pickwoad was also production designer on sixty-two stories (from A Christmas Carol to The Doctor Falls) and Class

Death On The Nile (TX: April 12 2004/Published 1937)

• James [born William] Fox (Race here; Bantry in The Body in the Library, 2004) voiced Professor Chronotis for Shada
• JJ Feild (Doyle; Osbourne in The Pale Horse, 2010) voiced David McCallister for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
• Barbara [Jay] Flynn [born McMurray] (Allerton here; Phillipa in A Murder is Announced, 1977) was Tecteun in Once, Upon Time and Survivors of the Flux, and voiced Sister Chalice for The Skull of Sobek (2008), Anne Hartman for The Rockery (2019), and Professor Vansom for Secrets of Telos (2022)
• Steve Pemberton (Dr. Bessner here; Wake in Murder is Easy) was Strackman Lux in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
• Alastair Mackenzie (Ferguson here; Hillingdon in A Caribbean Mystery, 2013) voiced Julian St. Stephen for Counter Measures 1 (2012), Adric Traken for Prisoners of Fate (2013) and The Entropy Plague (2015)

The Hollow (TX: April 26/Published 1946)

• Lysette [Anne] Anthony [born Chodzko] (Veronica here; Elsa in Go Back for Murder, 2013) voiced Clara Harris for Assassin in the Limelight (2008), Hazel Bright for Hothouse (2009), and Sophia for The Secret History (2015)
• Tom Georgeson (Grange) was Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks, and Police Inspector in Logopolis
• Ian [Clive] Talbot (Simms) was Travis in The Silurians, and Klout in The Leisure Hive
• Lucy [Jane] Briers (Beryl) voiced Jenny Chaplin for After the Daleks (2021)
• Dale Rapley (Coombes) voiced Kommandant Kurt Muller/Sheldon Murchison for Operation Werewolf (2024)
• series executive producer Damien Timmer and Nigel Squibbs (mixer) both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too