Here is a quick run-through of some of the Christie highlights on UK terrestrial TV from Christmas Day until New Years Day. If you have access to streaming sites such as Britbox you can search for a wider variety but it is far more fun to sit down and enjoy something at the same time as others …
December 29 – 31 look particularly enticing. I haven’t included all the Suchet Poirots (apart from Hercule Poirot’s Christmas) because they are dotted all over the place, usually in the early hours of the morning. Otherwise, apart from Lucy Worsley’s documentary series about AC, all the productions are either Hickson Marples or feature films; the Orient Express is the good (Finney) version. It is strange that the Drama Channel has ditched Nemesis, At Bertram’s Hotel, Sleeping Murder and The Murder at the Vicarage from its Marple series – they are amongst the best.
BOXING DAY
ITV3 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas at 21:00
Drama The Body in the Library at 17:00
December 27th
Channel 5 Murder at the Gallop at 9:20
Drama The Moving Finger at 19:00
December 28th
Drama A Pocketful of Rye at 19:00
December 29th
BBC2 Agatha Christie – Lucy Worsley part 1 at 13:25
BBC2 Evil Under the Sun at 14:25
BBC2 Death on the Nile at 16:15
Drama 4:50 from Paddington at 19:00
December 30th
BBC2 Lucy Worsley part 2 at 13:25
BBC2 Witness for the Prosecution at 14:30
BBC2 Murder on the Orient Express at 16:25
Drama A Caribbean Mystery at 16:50
Drama They do it with Mirrors at 19:10
December 31
BBC 2 Lucy Worsley part 3 at 9:15
Drama A Murder is Announced at 15:20
Drama The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side at 18:45
Swigatha 