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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Problem at Sea

Season 1, Episode 7, Aired Feb 19, 1989

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Poirot and Hastings are on board a ship steaming towards Alexandria, in Egypt. Poirot recovers from his usual sea-sickness to take an interest in some fellow-passengers, especially the Clappertons. The rich Mrs Clapperton is offensively rude to lesser mortals, while Colonel Clapperton is rumoured to be not a real colonel at all, but a retired music-hall performer. On arrival at Alexandria, Mrs Clapperton is found murdered in her cabin, and Poirot finds (as usual) quite a number of suspects.moreless

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Sheila Allen

Mrs Clapperton
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Ben Aris

Captain Fowler
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Geoffrey Beevers

Mr Tolliver

Hugh Fraser

Captain Hastings
David Suchet

Hercule Poirot

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Delightfully silly episode with all the best bits of Poirot.

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By qstevie, May 03, 2006

A supposedly luxury cruise (on what looks like a VERY small ship!) - a motley crew of characters and an 'impossible' murder - what more could you want? The victim is that ususal creature, the really nasty husband-bashing wife, who hasn't a good word to say about anyone and isn't slow at coming forward with a sarcastic comment.

True, it's not that difficult to work out the whodunnit element, but the supporting characters - and the sight of Captain Hastings on a stuffed camel for a photograph - make it well worth a watch.

The two 'misses' are fun too, and the elderly lady practising and performing her aria (you might want to turn down the volume at this bit!) The denoument is classic, and David Suchet obviously enjoys himself immensely.

On a minor point - I'm not sure about when this story came in Agatha Christie's Poirot career, but one of the main character traits of Poirot is he's afraid of the water and won't sail on the sea, so I'm not sure how he's managing a cruise!moreless
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- This episode is based on Agatha Christie's short story Problem at Sea, which is part of a collection called The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939). The story was first published in This Week in January, 1936. It also appeared in The Strand magazine a few weeks later under the title Poirot and the Crime in Cabin 66.
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