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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Hickory Dickory Dock

Season 6, Episode 2, Aired Feb 12, 1995

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- There is a reference in this episode to the famous Jarrow March, when a group of unemployed men marched to London from Jarrow in the North of England. This places the events in the year 1936.
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- This episode has been criticized for turning Agatha Christie's colourful and zany household of students into a duller bunch. In particular, the charming African, Akibombo, and the punctilious Indian, Ram Lal, were left out of the production.
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- David Burke, who appears in Hickory Dickory Dock as the dying Sir Arthur Stanley, is better known as Dr Watson to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in another Granada Television series - see TV.com's guide to Sherlock Holmes (1984) .
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- Japp: What's that thing in the bathroom, Poirot? Poirot: Comment? Japp: Like a erm… footbath. Poirot: Oh, the bidet. Japp: Bidet. It's got a sort of fountain thing in the middle. What's that for? Poirot: Ah, it is of no significance. Japp (to Miss Lemon): Nearly got a squirt in the eye when I turned it on. (Miss Lemon splutters)
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- This episode is based on Agatha Christie's book Hickory Dickory Dock (1955).
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- The title of this episode alludes to an old children's nursery rhyme, which goes like this... Hickory, dickory, dock! The mouse ran up the clock; The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock! Several times during the episode, we hear and see a handsome grandfather clock ticking away the time - and twice we also see that the little mouse which is practically a guest star in the episode has climbed up and is sitting on top of the clock.
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