Writer:	Agatha Christie, David Pirie
Director:	Dave Moore
Star:	David Suchet (Hercule Poirot)
Guest Star:	Kelly Reilly (Mary Gerrard),  Phyllis Logan (Nurse Hopkins),  Diana Quick (Mrs Welman),  Stuart Laing (Ted Horlick),  Linda Spurrier (Mrs Bishop),  Alistair Findlay (Prosecuting Counsel),  Louise Callaghan (Hunterbury Maid),  Geoffrey Beevers (Seddon),  Ian Taylor (Turner),  Jack Galloway (Marsden),  Paul McGann (Dr Peter Lord),  Rupert Penry-Jones (Roddy Winter),  Marion O'Dwyer (Nurse O'Brien),  Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh (Elinor Carlisle),  Timothy Carlton (Judge)

This episode is based on Agatha Christie's book Sad Cypress (1940).

Interviewed by Francis Wyndham a quarter of a century later, Agatha Christie said: "Sad Cypress could have been good, but it was quite ruined by having Poirot in it. I always thought something was wrong with it but didn't discover what until I read it again some time after." (edit)

The Murderer: Damn you, you filthy little foreigner! There is no way they would have found out! (edit)

Rupert Penry-Jones (Roddy) was in a play where he had shaved his head. The producers wanted him so badly for the part that they made a wig for him, which took three weeks to make! (edit) The location for Aunt Laura's house was an elderly people's home. The lift seen in the film was built especially for this episode. (edit)

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