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Season 12 Episode 4: The Clocks
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The opening music is 'Kiss a dream', from the album 'Swingers & Crooners' (2008) by Marquee All Stars Big Band.
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Season 12 Episode 2: Hallowe'en Party
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At the reading of Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe's Will, one of the shots of those present is clearly mirrored. This appears in a brief wide view of four of the characters sitting in the reverse order from the order in which they appear in the rest of the scene.
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Season 12 Episode 1: Three Act Tragedy
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Poirot travels to and from Monte Carlo on board The Blue Train, the main setting for the earlier episode The Mystery of the Blue Train.
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Season 10 Episode 4: Taken at the Flood
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Chilworth Manor, near Guildford, England was used as the filming location for Adela Marchmont's house. It is a country house hotel and has been used for other productions, such as an episode of Foyle's War called The Funk Hole and the movie The Wedding Date (2005).
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Season 10 Episode 3: After the Funeral
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Monica Dolan plays Cora Gallaccio and Miss Gilchrist in After the Funeral. She is sometimes credited for the episode (for instance, in the Radio Times in March 2006) as 'Linda Coonam', a made-up name which rearranges the letters in 'Monica Dolan'.
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Rotherfield Park was used as Enderby Hall.
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The interiors of Cora and Miss Gilchrist's cottage are the same as those used for Veronica Cray's in another Poirot episode, The Hollow.
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Two actors from previous episodes return here: John Carson (Richard Abernethie) played Sir George Carrington in The Incredible Theft, while Philip Anthony, a vicar in After the Funeral, played a doctor in The ABC Murders.
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Season 10 Episode 1: The Mystery of the...
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Stephen McKeon takes over the role of composer from Christopher Gunning in this episode.
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Season 9 Episode 3: Death on the Nile
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During the interview between Poirot and Allerton on the top deck, the shots of Poirot show the boat is moving along the river. In the shots of Allerton, there is no movement at all.
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Gwyneth Paltrow was originally rumoured to be playing the part of Linnet Doyle, but Emily Blunt replaced her.
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Agatha Christie said of Death on the Nile: "The book is one of the best of my foreign travel ones. I think the central situation is intriguing and has dramatic possibilities, and the three characters, Simon, Linnet, and Jacqueline, seem to me to be real and alive."
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Season 9 Episode 2: Sad Cypress
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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!
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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.
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Season 7 Episode 2: Lord Edgware Dies
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In an earlier TV version of the story in which Peter Ustinov played Poirot, David Suchet played Inspector Japp!
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Season 7 Episode 1: The Murder of Roge...
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Amazingly, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd led to a motion in the committee of the Detection Club for Agatha Christie to be expelled, as she had supposedly "broken the rules". Only the casting vote of Dorothy L. Sayers, the club's president, defeated the motion.
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Agatha Christie wrote The Murder of Roger Ackroyd during the winter of 1925-26, based on suggestions by James Watt and Lord Louis Mountbatten. The murderer turns out to be Poirot's assistant, Dr James Sheppard, who is the narrator of the book - a trick which had not been thought of in detective fiction before.
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Season 6 Episode 2: Hickory Dickory Dock
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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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