Adaptations of

Agatha Christie

Adaptations of the works of Agatha

Christie:

Film
Year Title Story based on Character Country Notes

First
The Coming of Mr Dr. Alec
1928 The Passing of Mr. Quinn Christie film
Quin Portal
adaptation

First
Christie
foreign film
The Secret Changed adaptation;
1929 Die Abenteurer G.m.b.H. German
Adversary Names Name
changed
from the
novel.

First
The stage play Alibi Christie film
and the novel The Hercule adaptation
1931 Alibi
Murder of Roger Poirot to feature
Ackroyd Hercule
Poirot

Hercule
1931 Black Coffee Black Coffee
Poirot

Adaptation
Hercule
1932 Le Coffret de Laque Black Coffee French of Black
Poirot
Coffee

Hercule
1934 Lord Edgware Dies Thirteen at Dinner
Poirot

The stage play Love Released in

from a Stranger and Changed the US as A
1937 Love from a Stranger
the short story Names Night of
Philomel Cottage Terror

1945 And Then There Were None The stage play And Changed First
Then There Were Names Christie film
None and the novel adaptation
And Then There of And Then
Were None
 There Were
None

The stage play Love Released in

from a Stranger and Cecily the UK as A
1947 Love from a Stranger
the short story Harrington Stranger
Philomel Cottage Walked In

The stage play

Witness for the
Prosecution and the Leonard
1957 Witness for the Prosecution
short story The Vole
Witness for the
Prosecution

Hailsham-
1960 The Spider's Web Spider's Web
Brown

Uncredited
adaptation
possibly the
The Mousetrap and
only
Three Blind Mice Changed
1960 Chupi Chupi Aashey India notable film
(radio play and Names
version of
short story)
the
celebrated
play.

First
Christie film
4.50 from Miss adaptation
1961 Murder, She Said
Paddington Marple to feature
Miss
Marple

1963 Murder at the Gallop After the Funeral Miss The original
Marple Novel
features
Hercule
Poirot
instead of
 Miss
Marple

The original
Novel
features
Miss Hercule
1964 Murder Most Foul Mrs McGinty's Dead
Marple Poirot
instead of
Miss
Marple

An original
film, not
based on
any book,
Miss although it
1964 Murder Ahoy! None
Marple borrows
some
elements of
They Do It
with Mirrors

The stage play And

Then There Were
Changed
1965 Ten Little Indians None and the novel
Names
And Then There
Were None

And Then There Changed Uncredited

1965 Gumnaam India
Were None Names adaptation

Hercule
1965 The Alphabet Murders The A.B.C. Murders
Poirot

Uncredited
And Then There Changed
1970 Nadu Iravil India adaptation
Were None Names
in Tamil

Michael
1972 Endless Night Endless Night
Rogers
1973 Dhund The Unexpected Changed India Dhund
Guest Names (translation:
Fog)
produced
and
directed by
B. R.
Chopra

Murder on the Hercule

1974 Murder on the Orient Express
Orient Express Poirot

The stage play And

Released in
Then There Were
Changed the US as
1974 And Then There Were None None and the novel
Names Ten Little
And Then There
Indians
Were None

The stage play

Murder on the Nile Hercule
1978 Death on the Nile
and the novel Death Poirot
on the Nile

The Mirror Crack'd Miss

1980 The Mirror Crack'd
from Side to Side Marple

Hercule
1982 Evil Under the Sun Evil Under the Sun
Poirot

Taina "Chernykh Drozdov" The novel A Pocket Changed

1983 Soviet
(Secret of the Blackbirds) Full of Rye Names

Arthur
1985 Ordeal by Innocence Ordeal by Innocence
Calgary

The stage play And

Then There Were
Lawrence
1987 Desyat Negrityat None and the novel Russia
Wargrave
And Then There
Were None

1988 Appointment with Death The stage play Hercule

Appointment with Poirot
 Death and the novel
Appointment with
Death

The stage play And

Then There Were
Lawrence
1989 Ten Little Indians None and the novel
Wargrave
And Then There
Were None

Loose
adaptation
Names of Towards
1995 Innocent Lies Towards Zero
Change Zero after
scripts
issue.

Loosely
based on
Miss
Marple
The Mirror Crack'd Names
2003 Shubho Mahurat India(Bengali) Novel The
from Side to Side Changed
Mirror
Crack'd
from Side
to Side

Very loose
adaptation
of The
stage play
And Then
Changed
2004 Mindhunters n/a There Were
Names
None and
the novel
And Then
There Were
None

2005 Mon petit doigt m'a dit... By the Pricking of Prudence French
 My Thumbs Beresford

Changed
2007 L'Heure zéro Towards Zero French
Names

The original
Novel
features
4.50 from Prudence
2008 Le crime est notre affaire French Miss
Paddington Beresford
Marple
instead of
Bersesford

No Belgian
Changed
2008 Le Grand Alibi The Hollow French Detectives
Names
here.

The stage play And

Then There Were
Changed
2011 Aduthathu None and the novel India
Names
And Then There
Were None

Changed India
2012 Grandmaster The A.B.C. Murders
Names (Malayalam)

The stage play And

Then There Were
Changed
2015 Aatagara None and the novel India
Names
And Then There
Were None

Changed
2016 Chorabali Cards on the Table India (Bengali)
Names

Murder on the Hercule

2017 Murder on the Orient Express
Orient Express Poirot

Charles
2017 Crooked House Crooked House
Hayward

2020 Death on the Nile Death on the Nile Hercule A sequel to

Poirot 2017's
Murder on
 the Orient
Express.

Television
1938 Love from a Stranger (Based on the
stage play of the same name from the
short story Philomel Cottage)
1947 Love from a Stranger
1949 Ten Little Indians
1955 Spider's Web (Based on the stage
play of the same name)
1959 Ten Little Indians
1970 The Murder at the Vicarage
1980 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1982 Spider's Web
1982 The Seven Dials Mystery
1982 The Agatha Christie Hour
1982 Murder is Easy
1982 The Witness for the Prosecution
1983 The Secret Adversary
1983 Partners in Crime
1983 A Caribbean Mystery
1983 Sparkling Cyanide
1985 Murder with Mirrors
1985 Thirteen at Dinner
1986 Dead Man's Folly
1986 Murder in Three Acts
1989 The Man in the Brown Suit
1997 The Pale Horse
 2001 Murder on the Orient Express
2003 Sparkling Cyanide
2007 Hercule Poirot's Christmas (A
French film adaptation)
2015 Partners in Crime
2015 And Then There Were None
2016 The Witness For The Prosecution
2018 Ordeal by Innocence
2018 The ABC Murders
2020 The Pale Horse

Miss Marple television series …

Episodes of the television series Miss

Marple include:
 1984 The Body in the Library
1985 The Moving Finger
1985 A Murder is Announced
1985 A Pocket Full of Rye
1986 The Murder at the Vicarage
1987 Sleeping Murder
1987 At Bertram's Hotel
1987 Nemesis
1987 4.50 from Paddington
1989 A Caribbean Mystery
1991 They Do It with Mirrors
1992 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to
Side

Agatha Christie's Marple television …

series

Episodes of the television series Agatha

Christie's Marple include:

2004 The Body in the Library

2004 The Murder at the Vicarage
2004 4.50 from Paddington
2005 A Murder is Announced
2005 Sleeping Murder
2006 The Moving Finger
2006 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2006 The Sittaford Mystery
2007 Towards Zero
2007 Nemesis
2007 At Bertram's Hotel
2007 Ordeal by Innocence
2009 A Pocket Full of Rye
2009 Murder is Easy
2009 They Do It with Mirrors
2009 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2010 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to
Side
2010 The Secret of Chimneys
2010 The Blue Geranium
2010 The Pale Horse
2013 A Caribbean Mystery
2013 Greenshaw's Folly
2013 Endless Night
Agatha Christie's Poirot television
series
…

Episodes of the television series Agatha

Christie's Poirot include:

1989 The Adventure of the Clapham

Cook
1989 Murder in the Mews
1989 The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
1989 Four and Twenty Blackbirds
1989 The Third Floor Flat
1989 Triangle at Rhodes
1989 Problem at Sea
1989 The Incredible Theft
1989 The King of Clubs
1989 The Dream
1990 Peril at End House
1990 The Veiled Lady
1990 The Lost Mine
1990 The Cornish Mystery
1990 The Disappearance of Mr.
Davenhiem
1990 Double Sin
1990 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
1990 The Kidnapped Prime Minister
1990 The Adventure of the Western Star
1990 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1991 How Does Your Garden Grow?
1991 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
1991 The Plymouth Express
1991 Wasps' Nest
1991 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
1991 The Double Clue
1991 The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
1991 The Theft of the Royal Ruby
1991 The Affair at the Victory Ball
1991 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
1992 The ABC Murders
1992 Death in the Clouds
1992 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
1993 The Adventure of the Egyptian
Tomb
1993 The Under dog
1993 The Yellow Iris
1993 The Case of the Missing Will
1993 The Adventure of the Italian
Nobleman
1993 The Chocolate Box
1993 Dead Man's Mirror
1993 The Jewel Robbery at the Grand
Metropolitan
1995 Hercule Poirot's Christmas
1995 Hickory Dickory Dock
1996 Murder on the Links
1996 Dumb Witness
2000 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2000 Lord Edgware Dies
2001 Evil Under the Sun
2002 Murder in Mesopotamia
2003 Five Little Pigs
2003 Sad Cypress
2004 Death on the Nile
2004 The Hollow
2006 The Mystery of the Blue Train
2006 Cards on the Table
2006 After the Funeral
2006 Taken at the Flood
2008 Mrs. McGinty's Dead
2008 Cat Among the Pigeons
2008 Third Girl
 2009 Appointment with Death
2010 Three Act Tragedy
2010 Hallowe'en Party
2010 Murder on the Orient Express
2011 The Clocks
2013 Elephants Can Remember
2013 The Big Four
2013 Dead Man's Folly
2013 The Labours of Hercules
2013 Curtain

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)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Murder on the Links
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Mystery of the Blue Train (* Maurice
Denham as Poirot)
Peril at End House
Lord Edgware Dies (aka Thirteen at
Dinner)
Murder in Mesopotamia
Murder on the Orient Express
Three Act Tragedy
Death in the Clouds
The A.B.C. Murders
Dumb Witness
Cards on the Table
Death on the Nile
Appointment with Death
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (* Peter Sallis
as Poirot)
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
 Sad Cypress
Evil Under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
Taken at the Flood
Mrs McGinty's Dead
After the Funeral
Dead Man's Folly
Hallowe'en Party
Elephants Can Remember

Miss Marple …

(Starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple)

Murder at the Vicarage

A Pocket Full of Rye
 At Bertram's Hotel
4.50 from Paddington
A Caribbean Mystery
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Nemesis
The Body in the Library
A Murder Is Announced
The Moving Finger
They Do It With Mirrors
Sleeping Murder

Notable others …

Endless Night
Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and
Lizzy Watts as Ellie

Towards Zero

Starring Hugh Bonneville as Nevile and

Marcia Warren as Lady Tresselian

The Sittaford Mystery

Starring Melinda Walker as Emily Trefusis,

Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Enderby,
John Moffatt as Mr. Rycroft and Geoffrey
Whitehead as Inspector Narracott

And Then There Were None

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

Sparkling Cyanide

Starring Naomi Frederick as Iris and

Amanda Drew as Ruth

Ordeal by Innocence

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.

2007 The Murder on the Links. Adapted

by François Rivière, illustrated by Marc
Piskic
2007 Murder on the Orient Express.
Adapted by François Rivière, illustrated
by Solidor (Jean-François Miniac).
2007 Death on the Nile. Adapted by
Francois Riviere, illustrated by Solidor
(Jean-François Miniac)
2007 The Secret of Chimneys. Adapted
by François Rivière, illustrated by
Laurence Suhner
2007 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Adapted and illustrated by Bruno
Lachard
2007 The Mystery of the Blue Train.
Adapted and illustrated by Marc Piskic
2007 The Man in the Brown Suit.
Adapted and illustrated by Alain Paillou
2007 The Big Four. Adapted by Hichot
and illustrated by Bairi
2007 The Secret Adversary. Adapted by
François Rivière and illustrated by Frank
Leclercq
2007 The Murder at the Vicarage.
Adapted and illustrated by "Norma"
2007 Murder in Mesopotamia. Adapted
by François Rivière and illustrated by
Chandre
2007 And Then There Were None.
Adapted by François Rivière and
illustrated by Frank Leclercq
2007 Endless Night. Adapted by
Francois Rivière and illustrated by Frank
Leclercq
2008 Ordeal by Innocence. Adapted and
illustrated by Chandre
2008 Hallowe'en Party. Adapted and
illustrated by Chandre
2008 Peril at End House Adapted by
Thierry Jollet and illustrated by Didier
 Quella-Guyot
2009 Dumb Witness Adapted and
illustrated by "Marek"
2010 Cards on the Table Adapted and
illustrated by Frank Leclercq
2010 Five Little Pigs Adapted by Miceal
O'Griafa, David Charrier
2012 Dead Man's Folly Adapted and
illustrated by Marek
2013 Evil Under the Sun Adapted by
Thierry Jollet and illustrated by Didier
Quella-Guyot

Video games
1988 The Scoop (published by Spinnaker
Software and Telarium) (PC)
2005 Agatha Christie: And Then There
Were None (PC and Wii).
2006 Agatha Christie: Murder on the
Orient Express (PC)
2007 Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile
(I-Spy hidden-object game) (PC)
2007 Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
(PC and Wii)
2008 Agatha Christie: Peril at End House
(I-Spy hidden-object game)
2009 Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders
(DS)
 2009 Agatha Christie: Dead Man's Folly (I-
Spy hidden-object game) (PC)
2010 Agatha Christie 4:50 from
Paddington (I-Spy hidden-object game)
(PC)
2016 Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders
(PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One)

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.

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

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