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Wednesday October 20, 2004

Poirot... mon ami and Miss Marple...

For me David Suchet is the perfect Poirot . He does a brilliant job of acting out the mannerisms of the Belgium detective living in London. The series has been going for some time now and sadly the later ones do not feature Hastings played by Hugh Fraser who is also exceptionally good at his role. Japp who is always asking Poirot's help to sort his cases out is played by Philip Jackson.

I suppose my favourites are the two hour long programmes and the" ABC murders" must be one of the best of all them. Do not even consider watching the efforts of Peter Ustinov playing Poirot. Ustinov may have been a good actor but Suchet's Poirot is untouchable.

However without Agatha Christie these programmes and books would not be here and her other famous character Miss Marple is played brilliantly by Joan Hickson . The series of Miss Marple was shown originally on BBC. I don't think I have a favourite of these except maybe the way "Nemesis" and "A Caribbean Mystery" are interlinked by the character Rafael. In the Caribbean Mystery she works with Rafael to solve a series murders while on a holiday. In Nemesis, Rafael leaves Miss Marple instructions in his will to find out the truth about his son's fiancee murder.

In both cases repeats can be seen on various cable/satellite channels.

( Oct 20 2004, 03:00:00 AM PDT ) Permalink

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