Adaptations of Agatha Christie

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Lists of adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie:

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Film

YearTitleStory based onCharacterCountryNotes
1928 The Passing of Mr. Quinn The Coming of Mr Quin Dr. Alec PortalFirst Christie film adaptation
1929 Die Abenteurer G.m.b.H. The Secret Adversary names changedGermanFirst foreign Christie film adaptation; names changed from the novel.
1931 Alibi The stage play Alibi and the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Hercule PoirotFirst Christie film adaptation to feature Hercule Poirot
1931 Black Coffee Black Coffee Hercule Poirot
1932 Le Coffret de Laque Black Coffee Hercule PoirotFranceAdaptation of Black Coffee
1934 Lord Edgware Dies Thirteen at Dinner Hercule Poirot
1937 Love from a Stranger The stage play Love from a Stranger and the short story Philomel Cottage names changedReleased in the US as A Night of Terror
1945 And Then There Were None The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None names changedFirst Christie film adaptation of And Then There Were None
1947 Love from a Stranger The stage play Love from a Stranger and the short story Philomel Cottage Cecily HarringtonReleased in the UK as A Stranger Walked In
1957 Witness for the Prosecution The stage play Witness for the Prosecution and the short story The Witness for the Prosecution Leonard Vole
1960 The Spider's Web Spider's Web Hailsham-Brown
1960 Chupi Chupi Aashey The Mousetrap and Three Blind Mice (radio play and short story) names changedIndiaUncredited adaptation possibly the only notable film version of the celebrated play. [ citation needed ]
1961 Murder, She Said 4.50 from Paddington Miss MarpleFirst Christie film adaptation to feature Miss Marple
1963 Murder at the Gallop After the Funeral Miss MarpleThe original Novel features Hercule Poirot instead of Miss Marple
1964 Murder Most Foul Mrs McGinty's Dead Miss MarpleThe original Novel features Hercule Poirot instead of Miss Marple
1964 Murder Ahoy! NoneMiss MarpleAn original film, not based on any book, although it borrows some elements of They Do It with Mirrors
1965 Ten Little Indians The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None names changed
1965 Gumnaam And Then There Were None names changedIndiaUncredited adaptation
1965 The Alphabet Murders The A.B.C. Murders Hercule Poirot
1970 Nadu Iravil And Then There Were None names changedIndiaUncredited adaptation in Tamil
1972 Endless Night Endless Night Michael Rogers
1973 Dhund The Unexpected Guest names changedIndiaDhund (translation: Fog) produced and directed by B. R. Chopra
1974 Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot
1974 And Then There Were None The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None names changedReleased in the US as Ten Little Indians
1978 Death on the Nile The stage play Murder on the Nile and the novel Death on the Nile Hercule Poirot
1980 The Mirror Crack'd The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Miss Marple
1982 Evil Under the Sun Evil Under the Sun Hercule Poirot
1983 Taina "Chyornykh Drozdov" (= Secret of the Blackbirds)
(Russian : Тайна "Чёрных дроздов")
The novel A Pocket Full of Rye names changedSoviet Union
1985 Ordeal by Innocence Ordeal by Innocence Arthur Calgary
1987 Desyat Negrityat (= Ten Little Niggers)
(Russian : Десять негритят)
The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Lawrence WargraveSoviet Union
1988 Appointment with Death The stage play Appointment with Death and the novel Appointment with Death Hercule Poirot
1989 Ten Little Indians The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Lawrence Wargrave
1989 Zagadka Endhausa
(Russian : Загадка Эндхауза)
Peril at End House Hercule PoirotSoviet Union
1990 Myshelovka
(Russian : Мышеловка)
The stage play The Mousetrap Sergeant TrotterSoviet Union
1995 Innocent Lies Towards Zero names changedLoose adaptation of Towards Zero after scripts issue.
2003 Shubho Mahurat The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side names changedIndia (Bengali)Loosely based on Miss Marple Novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
2004 Mindhunters n/anames changedVery loose adaptation of The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None
2005 Mon petit doigt m'a dit... By the Pricking of My Thumbs Prudence BeresfordFrance
2007 L'Heure zéro Towards Zero names changedFrance
2008 Le crime est notre affaire 4.50 from Paddington Prudence BeresfordFranceThe adaptation replaces Miss Marple with Prudence Beresford.
2008 Le Grand Alibi The Hollow names changedFrancePoirot does not appear in the adaptation.
2011 Aduthathu The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None names changedIndia (Tamil)
2012 Grandmaster The A.B.C. Murders names changedIndia (Malayalam)
2012 Associés contre le crime The Case of the Missing Lady Prudence BeresfordFrance
2015 Aatagara The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None names changedIndia (Kannada)
2016 Chorabali Cards on the Table names changedBangladesh (Bengali)
2017 Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot
2017 Crooked House Crooked House Charles Hayward
2022 Death on the Nile Death on the Nile Hercule PoirotA sequel to 2017's Murder on the Orient Express.
2023 A Haunting in Venice Hallowe'en Party Hercule PoirotA sequel to 2022's Death on the Nile.

Television

Miss Marple television series

Episodes of the television series Miss Marple include:

Agatha Christie's Marple television series

Episodes of the television series Agatha Christie's Marple include:

Agatha Christie's Poirot television series

Episodes of the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot include:

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie television series

The French-language television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie adapted thirty-six of Christie's works of detective fiction. It included a four-part mini-series set in 1930s France (2006) and a distinct two-series run with Series One also set in 1930s France (2009–2012, 11 episodes) and Series Two set in mid-1950s to 1960s France (2013–2020, 27 episodes).

BBC Radio

Many of Christie's novels have been adapted for BBC Radio over the course of several years. [1] The most prominent productions were the dramatisations of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories:

Poirot

(Starring John Moffatt as Poirot, unless otherwise stated)

Miss Marple

(Starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple)

Notable others

Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and Lizzy Watts as Ellie

Starring Hugh Bonneville as Nevile and Marcia Warren as Lady Tresselian

Starring Melinda Walker as Emily Trefusis, Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Enderby, John Moffatt as Mr. Rycroft and Geoffrey Whitehead as Inspector Narracott

Geoffrey Whitehead as Justice Wargrave, Lyndsey Marshal as Vera Claythorne, Alex Wyndham as Philip Lombard, John Rowe as Dr. Armstrong, and Joanna Monro as Emily Brent

Starring Naomi Frederick as Iris and Amanda Drew as Ruth

Starring Mark Umbers as Arthur Calgary and Jacqueline Defferary as Gwenda

Graphic novels

Euro Comics India began issuing a series of graphic novel adaptations of Christie's work in 2007.

Video games

Animation

In 2004, the Japanese broadcasting company Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai turned Poirot and Marple into animated characters in the anime series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple , introducing Mabel West (daughter of Miss Marple's mystery-writer nephew Raymond West, a canonical Christie character) and her duck Oliver as new characters.

Related Research Articles

Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen. Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Royal Magazine in December 1927, "The Tuesday Night Club", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, and her last appearance was in Sleeping Murder in 1976.

<i>Agatha Christies Poirot</i> British television detective series (1989–2013)

Agatha Christie's Poirot, or simply Poirot, is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. The ITV show is based on many of Agatha Christie’s famous crime fiction series, which revolves around the fictional private investigator, Hercule Poirot. David Suchet starred as the fictional detective. Initially produced by LWT, the series was later produced by ITV Studios. The series also aired on VisionTV in Canada and on PBS and A&E in the US.

<i>The Mirror Crackd from Side to Side</i> 1962 Miss Marple novel by Agatha Christie

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, a novel by Agatha Christie, was published in the UK in 1962 and a year later in the US under the title The Mirror Crack'd. The story features amateur detective Miss Marple solving a mystery in St. Mary Mead.

Ariadne Oliver is a fictional character in the novels of Agatha Christie. She is a crime fiction novelist, the creator of the fictional Finnish detective Sven Hjerson, and a friend of Hercule Poirot.

<i>Peril at End House</i> 1932 Poirot novel by Agatha Christie

Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joan Hickson</span> British actress (1906–1998)

Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks.

<i>The Regatta Mystery</i> Agatha Christie short story

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1939. The first edition retailed at $2.00.

John Michael Frederick Castle is an English actor. He is best known for his film and television work, most notably playing Bill in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966) and Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter (1968). Other significant credits include Man of La Mancha (1972), I, Claudius (1976) and RoboCop 3 (1993).

<i>Three Blind Mice and Other Stories</i> Collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. The first edition retailed at $2.50.

This page details the books featuring the fictional character Hercule Poirot, created by Agatha Christie.

<i>Agatha Christies Marple</i> British ITV television series

Agatha Christie's Marple is a British ITV television programme loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to the third series, until her retirement from the role, and by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. Unlike the counterpart TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, the show took many liberties with Christie’s works, most notably adding Miss Marple’s character to the adaptations of novels in which she never appeared. Following the conclusion of the sixth series, the BBC acquired the rights for the production of Agatha Christie adaptations, suggesting that ITV would be unable to make a seventh series of Marple.

<i>Miss Marple</i> (TV series) BBC adaptation of the novels by Agatha Christie starring Joan Hickson

Miss Marple, titled Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the series, is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC1. All twelve original Miss Marple novels by Christie were dramatised.

<i>Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories</i> Agatha Christie collection

Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories is a short story collection by Agatha Christie published in the UK only in November 1991 by HarperCollins. It was not published in the US but all the stories contained within it had previously been published in American volumes. It retailed at £13.99. It contains two stories with Hercule Poirot, two with Parker Pyne, two with Harley Quin and two gothic tales.

The Agatha Christie series is a series of adventure games developed by AWE Games and published by The Adventure Company and DreamCatcher Interactive, based on the works of the English mystery writer Agatha Christie.

In Agatha Christie's mystery novels, several characters cross over different sagas, creating a fictional universe in which most of her stories are set. This article has one table to summarize the novels with characters who occur in other Christie novels; the table is titled Crossovers by Christie. There is brief mention of characters crossing over in adaptations of the novels. Her publications, both novels and short stories, are then listed by main detective, in order of publication. Some stories or novels authorised by the estate of Agatha Christie, using the characters she created, and written long after Agatha Christie died, are included in the lists.

Raymond West is a fictional character who appears or is mentioned in several of Agatha Christie's novels and short stories featuring Jane Marple.

John Curran is an Irish literary scholar and archivist, best known as an expert on the work of Dame Agatha Christie, English author of detective fiction and the world's bestselling novelist. He was born in Dublin and for years edited the Agatha Christie newsletter, subscriptions to which are handled through the author's official website. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Christie at Trinity College. He served as a National Trust consultant during the restoration of Christie's Devon residence, the Greenway Estate.

Hercule Poirot is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and short stories adapted by Michael Bakewell, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1985 and 2007. With the exception of the first two adaptations, the series stars John Moffatt as Poirot.

Miss Marple is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories. The original series consisted of adaptations of all twelve Miss Marple novels, dramatised by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams. They were broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1993 and 2001 and starred June Whitfield as Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English detective fiction writer and creator of fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

References

  1. "Series: Agatha Christie". www.radioechoes.com. 1942–1998. Retrieved 25 January 2019.