Adaptations of Agatha Christie

Lists of adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie:

Film

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)
• 1956 Spider's Web
• 1959 Ten Little Indians
• 1970 The Murder at the Vicarage
• 1980 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
• 1981 The Seven Dials Mystery
• 1982 Spider's Web
• 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
• 2018 Ms. Ma, Nemesis
• 2020 The Pale Horse
• 2022 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
• 2023 Murder is Easy

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. 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)

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

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, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One)
• 2021: Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One)
• 2023: Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The London Case (PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S)

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.

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