Super Sleuths – Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Aired 4-5 November 2006 on ITV3, UK
TV documentary
First episode in a series of six programmes featuring some of the most popular detective series on British TV (titled: 1) Poirot - 2) Inspector Morse - 3) Inspector Wexford - 4) Midsomer Murders - 5) A Touch of Frost - 6) Wycliffe)
Directed/produced by Janette Clucas and narrated by Sean Pertwee
Super Sleuths – Agatha Christie’s Poirot pays tribute to Christie and gives an insight into the creation and adaptation of her little Belgian detective from page to small screen.
Features interviews with cast and crew - hear among other things about the technique Suchet uses when doing the “mince”, and what “recycling” has got to do with the outdoor night-scenes from Whitehaven Mansion.
With, among others, Philip Jackson, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, David Suchet, writers Anthony Horowitz and Clive Eaton, producer Brian Eastman, Christie’s grandson Matthew Prichard and Simon Brett, the President of the Detection Club.
