SEASON 13, EPISODE 2 Poirot returned to our screens in 2013’s The Big Four, reunited with his faithful colleagues Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, and Miss Lemon (pictured right). Last seen together in 2001’s Evil Under the Sun, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson and Pauline Moran reprised their iconic roles for the second episode of the final series of Agatha Christie’s Poirot. The episode was watched by 4.4 million viewers in the UK alone, when it premiered on 23rd October 2013. The Big Four sees Poirot take on a web of international intrigue, when four terrible masterminds conspire to control the world. People become pawns in a deadly game and who better to assist Poirot in his attempts to solve the mystery than his trusted friends. Japp, now Assistant Commissioner at the Met, joins Poirot to investigate the unusual death of a Russian doctor. We also re-encounter the ever-loyal and fastidious Miss Lemon, whose aim in life is to perfect her filing system, and who didn’t actually appear in the original novel. Finally, returning from Argentina is Poirot’s dearest friend, Captain Hastings, ready to assist in any way he can, despite the gloomy circumstances in which the audience find him. These photos of the set were taken by our team after The Big Four was filmed. The first shows Hastings house in Argentina - the back drop of which was created digitally. Below is the chessboard used by Poirot in the accompanying clip, the very board which helps him find the first clue in the mystery. Among Agatha Christie’s most controversial novels, The Big Four takes Poirot across the world, with deaths and disappearances following in his wake. Christie finished the novel in 1926, following the trauma of her divorce and the loss of her mother. It was originally a series of short stories, which she worked into a novel in order to support her then unstable finances. The TV adaptation was written by Agatha Christie veteran Mark Gatiss, who not only wrote the scripts for Hallowe’en Party and Cat Among the Pigeons, but also starred in Appointment with Death and the Marple episode, The Murder at the Vicarage.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:45:19 +0000
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