London Weekend Television's acclaimedperiod crime drama began in 1989 - David
Suchet's portrayal of the Queen of Crime's
creation is now regarded as the definitive Hercule Poirot.
Hugh Fraser, Phillip Jackson and Pauline
Moran also joined the series as Captain
Hastings, Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
The programme endured until late 2013,
when ITV Studios concluded their adapt-
ations of all seventy of Christie's works with Curtain, the Belgian's last case.
Suchet (born 1946) was later cast as the Landlord for Knock Knock, whilst Fraser
and Jackson both starred in Big Finish plays.
Five of the serials here were based on short stories from Poirot's Early Cases (published
in 1974), three more from Murder in the
Mews and Other Stories (1937), and two from The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960). A repeat run of the first, ten-part season began on ITV3 last night - the mysteries featured Geoffrey Beevers, Caroline John, Mary
Tamm, and a total of thirty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook (UK TX: January 8 1989)
- Brigit Forsyth (Mrs. Todd) was Ruth Maxtible in The Evil of the Daleks
- Danny Webb (Porter here; Mutti in At Bertram's Hotel, 2007; Garroway in Elephants Can Remember) was John Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
- [John] Antony Carrick (Todd) was Captain Rossini in The Masque of Mandragora
- David [William] Yelland (West here; Warrender in Spider's Web, 1982; George in Taken at the Flood, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Third Girl, Three Act Tragedy, Hallowe'en Party, The Big Four, Curtain; Hastings in Black Coffee, 2012; Robarts in Witness for the Prosecution, 2017; Wargrave in And Then There Were None, 2023) voiced Walter Pritchett for The Red Lady (2015)
- Christopher Brown (Golfer) was Marriner in Enlightenment
- Geoffrey Bateman (Waverly) was Dymond in Nightmare of Eden
- Jonathan Magnanti (PC) voiced Lawrence Yeadon for Nightshade (2016)
- Jamie Harcourt was also a camera operator on The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit
- Clifford Rose (Makinson) was Rorvik in Warriors' Gate
- Philip [born Roy James] Locke (Cutter) was Bigon and the voice of Control in Four to Doomsday
- Cheryl Hall (Molly) was Shirna in Carnival of Monsters
- John [Gibb Marshall] Sessions (Radio Voice here; Pye in The Moving Finger, 2006) provided the voice of Gus for Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced General Tannis for Death Comes to Time, Mozart for My Own Private Wolfgang (2007), and Roland/Mummer for Castle of Fear (2009)
- Charles Pemberton (Stooge here; Rose in A Pocketful of Rye, 1985) was a Cyberman in Tomb of the Cybermen, and Technician in The War Games
- Denys [Vernon] Hawthorne (Bonnington) was Rudge in Terror of the Vervoids
- Holly De Jong (Dulcie) voiced Amelia Doory for Project: Twilight (2001)
- George Little (Dicker here, Triangle at Rhodes, The Dream, Double Sin) was Haroun ed-Din in The Crusade
- Robert Hines (Jimmy) voiced Minister Tralfinial for The Last (2004)
- Josie Lawrence (Mrs. Grant here; Hannah for By the Pricking of My Thumbs, 2006) voiced Gaznak for Salvation Nine (2022), and Professor Margo Hodgson for The Merfolk Murders (2024)
- Valentino Musetti (stuntman here, The Incredible Theft, The Veiled Lady; co-ordinator on Thirteen at Dinner) was Mongol Bandit in (episode 5 of) Marco Polo, Saracen Warrior in The Crusade (1), Egyptian in The Daleks' Master Plan, Pirate in The Smugglers, Prisoner in The Mind of Evil and Colony in Space (1), and Stuntman in The Time Monster (1)
- Annie Lambert (Valentine here; Vere in Finessing the King) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
- Martyn Whitby (Postman) was a Drayman in The Mark of the Rani
- Ben [Patrick] Aris (Fowler) was Lieutenant Shears in Invasion of the Dinosaurs
- John Normington (Clapperton) was Morgus in The Caves of Androzani, and Trevor Sigma in The Happiness Patrol
- Albert Welling (Carlile) played the titular Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
- John [Derek] Carson [Parker] (Carrington here; Abernethie in After the Funeral) was Director Ambril in Snakedance
- Phyllida [Ann] Law (Julia here; Mrs. Smythe in Hallowe'en Party) was Bea Nelson-Stanley in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, and voiced Belldonia for The Bride of Peladon (2008)
- Niamh Cusack (Valerie here; Emma in 4.50 from Paddington, 2004) voiced Clarimonde for Zaltys (2017)
- Gawn Grainger (Walton) was George Stephenson in The Mark of the Rani
- Cathy Murphy (Maid) was Mum in The Christmas Invasion
- Sean [Carl] (Oglander here; Griffith in The Moving Finger, 2006; Stubbs in Dead Man's Folly, 2013; DI Lejeune in The Pale Horse, 2020) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
- David [Bernard] Swift (Reedburn here; Wanstead for Nemesis, 1998) was cast as Count Federico in The Masque of Mandragora but was replaced by Jon Laurimore
- Christopher Saul (Tremlett) was a Trooper in The Awakening
- Tommy Wright (Workman) was the Guardmaster in The Creature from the Pit
- Donald [Harold Gunn] Bisset (Mayor) was Colin McLaren in The Highlanders
- Paul Lacoux (Stillingfleet) voiced Dr. Mathias for The Harvest (2004)
- Arthur Howell (Instructor here; PC in Murder Most Foul; stuntman on The Mystery of the Spanish Chest) was a Confederate Horseman in The War Games
- Marc Boyle was stuntman on Terror of the Autons too, then Prisoner/ UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, Kronos in The Time Monster, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, and fight arranger on The Time Warrior
- Bill Weston (stuntman here, The ABC Murders, Dead Man's Mirror) was a Militiaman in The Smugglers (4), where Hugh Fraser made his TV debut as an Extra
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