Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Poirot. Series 1 [videorecording] / Agatha Christie Ltd. ; ITV Global Entertainment ; screenplays by Clive Exton ... [et al.] ; directed by Edward Bennett and Renny Rye ; produced by Brian Eastman.

Edition:

Remastered [ed.].

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : ITV Studios Home Entertainment ; Silver Springs, MD: Distributed by Acorn Media, c2011.

Description:

3 videodiscs (501 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian detective is on the case in the first series of the hit PBS mystery. Fan favorite David Suchet stars as the dapper sleuth who solves the thorniest of cases with his formidable intellect. Set in glittering 1930s Europe, these remastered adaptations capture every splendid detail of the Art Deco era.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Private investigators -- England -- London -- Drama.

Belgians -- England -- Drama.

Feature films.

Detective and mystery films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.

Other Author:

Exton, Clive.

Bennett, Edward, 1950-

Rye, Renny.

Eastman, Brian.

Suchet, David.

Fraser, Hugh.

Jackson, Philip, 1948-

Acorn Media (Firm)

Agatha Christie Ltd.

ITV Global Entertainment.

ITV Studios.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Other Title:

Agatha Christie Poirot. Series 1.

Masterpiece theatre (Television program)

Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Notes:

Title from container.

Based on the novels by Agatha Christie.

Originally broadcast on the BBC and on PBS Masterpiece Mystery in 1989.

"Now remastered & in original U.K. broadcast order."

Release date: Jan. 31, 2012.

David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson.

DVD ; NTSC ; Dolby digital ; full screen (4x3).

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

The adventures of the Claphman Cook -- Murder in the Mews -- The adventure of Johnnie Waverly -- Four and twenty blackbirds -- The third floor flat -- Triangle at Rhodes -- Problem at sea -- The incredible theft -- The king of clubs -- The dream.

ISBN:

9781598286274

1598286277

Publisher Number:

AMP-8627

Other Number:

770414895

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

314321

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Poirot

Medium:

[videorecording]