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 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) was

first adapted in 1978 by Mersham for

EMI Films, whilst Fox's remake was

released in late 2020. A repeat run of the ninth season began 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, Eminent Sedanya for Blood of the Time Lords (all 2022), the Toymaker for Matryoshka, Old Emily Barnfather/the Bucca for The Stuff of Legend, Dorothy Stubbs for The Sitter (all 2024), and Lavinia Smith for Smith & Sullivan (2025)
• [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 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), and 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

Doctor Who On This Day #81

  

1950 - Actress Mary Tamm born

in Bradford

1965 - 100,000 BC, Episode 2:

The Cave of Skulls repeated and

The Daleks, Episode 7: The Rescue

first screened, both on ABC

1968 - The Reign of Terror, Episode

3: A Change of Identity repeated and

Planet of Giants, Episode 3: Crisis

first screened, both on TV1

1969 - The Space Pirates, Episode

3 first screened on BBC1

1974 - Planet of the Daleks, Episodes

2 and 5 both repeated on ABC

1975 - The Time Warrior, Part 2 repeated on ABC; and
Genesis of the Daleks, Part 3 first screened on BBC1 
1976 - The Android Invasion, Part

1 first screened on TROS
1978 - The Seeds of Doom, Part 6 first

screened and The Masque of Mandragora,

 Part 4 repeated, both on ABC

1979 - Underworld, Part 2 repeated

and Part 4 first screened, both on ABC

1982 - Nightmare of Eden Omnibusr epeated on WTTW 11;

Meglos, Part 4 repeated and Full Circle, Part 1 first screened,

both on ABC; and Time Flight, Part 1 first screened on BBC1
1983 - Day of the Daleks, Episode

1 and Full Circle, Part 3 both repeated on KQED Plus

1984 - Planet of Evil, Part 1 repeated on KQED Plus;
Enlightenment, Part 4 repeated on ABC; and The

Twin Dilemma, Part 1 first screened on BBC1

1985 - The Three Doctors Omnibus

repeated on WTTW 11
1986 - City of Death, Part 3 repeated on KQED Plus

1987 - Warriors' Gate Omnibus repeated on KQED

Plus; and The Ultimate Foe Omnibus repeated on ABC

1988 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part 3 repeated on TV

de Galicia; The Armageddon Factor, Part 6 repeated on

KQED Plus; and City of Death, Part 1 repeated on TV2

1989 - Carnival of Monsters, Episode 2 repeated on KQED
Plus; and The Android Invasion, Part 1 repeated on ABC

1990 - The King's Demons, Part 1 and Silver

Nemesis Omnibus both repeated on KQED Plus
1991 - The Invasion of Time, Part 1

repeated on KQED Plus

1993 - The Silurians, Episode 1 repeated on UK Gold;
The Androids of Tara Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus;
and Kinda, Part 3 repeated on ABC
1994 - The Stones of Blood, Part 1 repeated on UK Gold

1995 - The Ambassadors of Death, Episode

1 repeated on UK Gold; and The Mark of

the Rani, Part 4 first screened on VOX

1997 - The Green Death Omnibus repeated on UKTV
 (Aus); and Genesis of the Daleks, Part 2 repeated on ZTV

1998 - The Daleks, Episode 7: The Rescue repeated on
Space; and The Caves of Androzani Omnibus repeated

on UK Gold

1999 - The Time Meddler, Episode 3 and The War Games,
Episode 10 both repeated on Space; The War Machines and
The Sontaran Experiment Omnibuses both repeated on KQED
Plus; and Attack of the Cybermen, Part 1 repeated on UKTV
 (Aus)
2000 - The Web Planet, Episode 6: The Centre repeated

on Space; and The Curse of Peladon, Episode 3 first

screened on TG4
2001 - The Android Invasion, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated 

on BBC America; The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part 5

repeated on Prime and UKTV (Aus) and Part 6 repeated

on Prime; and Snakedance, Part 1 repeated on BBC Prime
2002 - Planet of Evil, Part 3 repeated on BBC Kids (Can);
Arc of Infinity, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on NHPTV; and

Death Comes to Time: The Child, Part 3 released on BBCi

2003 - The Sea Devils Omnibus repeated on UK Gold; and
The Invasion of Time, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on BBC
Kids (Can)

2004 - Spearhead from Space, Episode 3 repeated on ABC; 
and Mawdryn Undead Omnibus repeated on BBC Kids (Can)
2005 - The Sun Makers, Part 4 repeated on ABC; and Project 
Who? Part 1: Bigger on the Inside first broadcast on Radio 2
2006 - Bad Wolf first screened on Ztélé
2007 - The Unquiet Dead first screened

on SVT2; and The Doctor Dances repeated

on ΣΚΑΙ
2008 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episodes 4 and 5 both
repeated on MTV3 SciFi and TV4; World War Three repeated
 on OETA; The Empty Child and Doctor Who Confidential: 
Special Effects both repeated on WLIW 21; Boom Town
 repeated on WVPB; and Rise of the Cybermen and
Doomsday both repeated on UK Gold

2009 - New Earth repeated on Ozarks PTV; Army

 of Ghosts and Doomsday both repeated on Syfy

(FRG); The Shakespeare Code first screened on WTVP;

Gridlock repeated on Syfy (Ben); Daleks in Manhattan

and Doctor Who Confidential: A New York Story both

 first screened on MPTV; Human Nature first screened

on WXXI; 42 and Doctor Who Confidential: Space

Craft both first screened on Idaho PTV; and The

Fires of Pompeii repeated on BBC3
2010 - Boom Town repeated and Planet of the Dead and
The Waters of Mars both first screened, all on Syfy (Spa);
Daleks in Manhattan repeated on HRT2; and Journey's

End and Doctor Who Confidential: The End of an Era

both repeated on BBC3
2011 - Aliens of London repeated on Space; and

The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords

both repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2012 - The Brain of Morbius, Episodes 1 and 2 both
repeated on Radio 4 Extra; Four to Doomsday, Parts 3

and 4 both repeated on Syfy (Aus); Arc of Infinity,

Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on MTV3 SciFi and TV4;

The Lazarus Experiment repeated on Watch; The

Sound of Drums and The Wedding of River Song both

repeated on BBC America; The End of Time, Part

1 repeated on ABC2; and Doctor Who Confidential

Cutdown: Look Who's Talking repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2013 - The Big Bang repeated on Watch; The Power of 
Three and The Angels Take Manhattan both repeated

on BBC3; and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: Bigger

on the Inside repeated on UKTV (Aus)
2014 - Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel both
repeated on RAI4; Forest of the Dead, Planet of the Dead,
The Waters of Mars, The Eleventh Hour, Victory of the
Daleks, The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone and The Day 
of the Doctor repeated and The Time of the Doctor first
screened, all on France 4; The Beast Below repeated

 on France 4 and TV3 (Spa); Vincent and the Doctor

repeated on BBC3; The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens and
Doctor Who Confidential: Extra Time all repeated on BBC

 Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; The Impossible Astronaut

repeated on Jeem TV (ME); A Good Man Goes to War

repeated on AXN Adria; Let's Kill Hitler repeated on BBC

Nordic; Asylum of the Daleks repeated on BBC

Entertainment EU, Rom and ME; Dinosaurs on a

Spaceship repeated on BBC America, BBC Entertainment

EU, Rom, ME and UKTV (NZ); A Town Called Mercy and

The Power of Three both repeated on BBC America and

Really Scary TV; The Angels Take Manhattan repeated on

BBC America; The Bells of Saint John repeated on OETA and
Really Scary TV; The Rings of Akhaten repeated on Really
Scary TV; Cold War repeated on Syfy (Ben); The Name

of the Doctor repeated on WVPB; and Doctor Who

 Confidential: Alien Abduction repeated on BBC

Nordic HD, BBC Polska HD, BBC Entertainment

 EU, Rom and ME

2015 - The Gunfighters, Episodes 3 and 4 and The War
Machines, Episodes 1 and 2 all repeated on Retro TV;
Pyramids of Mars, Part 2 repeated on KPTS; Planet of Evil,
Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on Syfy (Aus) and Omnibus

repeated on Horror; The Pirate Planet, Part 2, The

Stolen Earth and The Almost People all repeated on Syfy

(Aus); Four to Doomsday, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on

KBTC; New Earth and Doctor Who Confidential: New New

Doctor both repeated on Iowa PTV; The Age of Steel

repeated on KNCT; Love & Monsters repeated on WILL;

Fear Her, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and Smith and

Jones all repeated on KCPT2; The Shakespeare

Code, Gridlock, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution

of the Daleks, The Lazarus Experiment and Asylum

of the Daleks all repeated on Watch; The Next

Doctor repeated on France 4; The Waters of Mars, The 

Snowmen and The Name of the Doctor all repeated on

BBC America; Victory of the Daleks repeated on KCPT;

A Christmas Carol repeated on BBC America and France

4; Night Terrors repeated on WPT; Closing Time repeated

on Idaho PTV; The Angels Take Manhattan repeated on

MPTV and WVPB; Cold War repeated on MPB; Journey

to the Centre of the TARDIS repeated on OETA; The

Caretaker first screened on TLC TV; In the Forest of the

Night first screened on RAI4; Death in Heaven and Last 

Christmas both repeated on Fox (FRG); and Doctor Who

Proms  (2010) repeated on BBC Nordic HD and BBC

Polska HD

2016 - Four to Doomsday, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated

 on Retro TV; Dalek, Midnight and A Town Called Mercy all 
repeated on Syfy (Aus); New Earth repeated on TV Cultura;
Tooth and Claw repeated on Watch; The Shakespeare Code
 and Doctor Who Confidential: Stage Fright both repeated on
ABC2; The Runaway Bride repeated on BBC Entertainment
AP; The Impossible Astronaut repeated on Einsfestival; Let's
Kill Hitler repeated on BBC First (ME); Time Heist repeated
on BBC Nordic HD; and The Zygon Invasion repeated on
RAI4
2017 - The Daemons, Episode 3 repeated on The Zone; 
Warriors of the Deep, Part 4 and The Awakening, Part 1
both repeated on Retro TV; Father's Day and The Empty
Child both repeated on BBC Polska HD; Bad Wolf repeated

on Space; The Shakespeare Code, 
Gridlock, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The 
Lazarus Experiment and 42 all repeated on BBC America; The 
Fires of Pompeii  repeated on FX (Ind); The Beast Below, Victory 
of the Daleks, Cold Blood and Vincent and the Doctor all repeated 
on Syfy (Bra); The Almost People repeated on Syfy (Aus); The God Complex and Closing Time both repeated on DR3; Death in Heaven
 repeated on BBC First (ME); The Magician's Apprentice and 
The Witch's Familiar both repeated on Fox (FRG); and The Girl 
Who Died and The Woman Who Lived both repeated on Syfy (LA)

2018 - Battlefield, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on Retro TV;

The Girl in the Fireplace, Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of

Steel all repeated on BBC America; Smith and Jones and The

Shakespeare Code both repeated on W; The Family of Blood
 repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Girl Who Waited repeated on ABC
and ABC ME; Before the Flood and The Girl Who Died both 
repeated on BBC Polska HD; Smile repeated on BBC First (ME);

and The Lie of the Land and Empress of Mars both repeated

on Syfy (Bra)
2019 - The Time Meddler, Episodes 1 and 2 both repeated

on Retro TV; The Face of Evil, Part 4 and The Robots of Death,

Parts 1 and 2 all repeated on Jones! too; and The Magician's

Apprentice repeated on BBC Polska HD

2019 - Terror of the Autons Omnibus repeated on Retro TV;

The Robots of Death Omnibus repeated on MPTV; The Keeper

 of Traken, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on KBTC; Delta and 

the Bannermen Omnibus repeated on Iowa PTV; The End of

Time Omnibus repeated on One ARD; The Big Bang, The

Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon, The Curse of the

Black Spot, The Doctor's Wife and The Rebel Flesh all

repeated on W; The Angels Take Manhattan and The Bells

of Saint John both repeated on BBC Polska HD; and Rosa

repeated on Fox (FRG)

2020 - Terror of the Autons Omnibus

repeated on Retro TV; The Robots of

Death Omnibus repeated on MPTV;

Warriors' Gate, Part 4 and The Keeper

of Traken, Part 1 both repeated on

KBTC; Delta and the Bannermen

Omnibus repeated on Iowa PTV;

The End of Time, Parts 1 and 2 both

repeated on One ARD; The Big Bang,

The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the

 Moon, The Curse of the Black Spot,

The Doctor's Wife and The Rebel Flesh

all repeated on W; The Angels Take

Manhattan and The Bells of Saint John

both repeated on BBC Polska HD; and

Rosa repeated on Fox (FRG)

2021 - Planet of the Dead repeated

on ABC2; Journey to the Centre of the

TARDIS, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare

in Silver and The Name of the Doctor all

repeated on Syfy (Fra); and The Zygon

Invasion repeated on BBC Polska HD

2022 - Arc of Infinity, Parts 1 and

2 both repeated on Retro TV; The

Caves of Androzani, Part 4 and

Vengeance on Varos, Part 1 both

repeated on Forces TV; Mindwarp

Omnibus, Before the Flood and The

Girl Whi Died all repeated on One

ARD; Rise of the Cybermen repeated

on Fox SciFi; The Runaway Bride

repeated on Syfy (Fra); The Waters

of Mars repeated on BBC First Turkey;

and The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

repeated on BBC Polska HD

2025 - Silence in the Library

repeated on ABC Entertains

2026 - Frontios, Parts 1 and 2 both

repeated on KBTC