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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

Season 5, Episode 8, Aired Mar 07, 1993

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Mrs Opalsen's famous pearls are stolen, and Poirot is happily on hand to investigate. A complex theft calls for a sophisticated solution. Unfortunately, Poirot is hindered everywhere he goes by being mistaken for 'Lucky Len'.

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Trevor Cooper

Ed Opalsen
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Andrew Carr

Hubert Devine
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Arthur Cox

Dr. Hawker

Hugh Fraser

Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson

Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran

Miss Lemon
David Suchet

Hercule Poirot

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An impossible theft for Poirot to try to solve.

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By qstevie, May 17, 2006

This is not really one of the classics. It's watchable, as are all the Poirot episodes, but the actual crime itself and the final explanation is a little bit far fetched.

Not quite sure why a production that is about to transfer to Broadway supposedly would have its first outing at a humble English seaside resort, nor why the presence of a highly expensive necklace is so necessary to what is an incredibly creaky play. Given that, the story does rattle along. The necklace, which is always kept inside a locked box inside a drawer is stolen, despite the presence of the maid in the room at the time of the supposed theft. How could it happen?

Needless to say it takes Poirot's little grey cells to finally work it all out, but the clues are there for the viewer (some of them a bit obvious too). The denouement takes a few liberties, but it's good, clean fun, as they say.moreless
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- This episode is based on Agatha Christie's short story The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan, which was part of a collection called Poirot Investigates (1924). The story was first published under the title The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls in The Sketch magazine on 14 March, 1923.
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- This was the last 1-hour episode of the series.
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