Adaptations of Agatha Christie

Lists of adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie:

Film

Year Title Story based on Character Country Notes
1928 The Passing of Mr. Quinn The Coming of Mr Quin Dr. Alec Portal First Christie film adaptation
1929 Die Abenteurer G.m.b.H. The Secret Adversary Names changed German First foreign Christie film adaptation; names changed from the novel.
1931 Alibi The stage play Alibi and the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Hercule Poirot First Christie film adaptation to feature Hercule Poirot
1931 Black Coffee Black Coffee Hercule Poirot
1932 Le Coffret de Laque Black Coffee Hercule Poirot France Adaptation of Black Coffee
1934 Lord Edgware Dies Thirteen at Dinner Hercule Poirot
1937 Love from a Stranger The stage play Love from a Stranger and the short story Philomel Cottage Names changed Released in the US as A Night of Terror
1945 And Then There Were None The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Names changed First Christie film adaptation of And Then There Were None
1947 Love from a Stranger The stage play Love from a Stranger and the short story Philomel Cottage Cecily Harrington Released in the UK as A Stranger Walked In
1957 Witness for the Prosecution The stage play Witness for the Prosecution and the short story The Witness for the Prosecution Leonard Vole
1960 The Spider's Web Spider's Web Hailsham-Brown
1960 Chupi Chupi Aashey The Mousetrap and Three Blind Mice (radio play and short story) Names changed India Uncredited adaptation possibly the only notable film version of the celebrated play. [citation needed]
1961 Murder, She Said 4.50 from Paddington Miss Marple First Christie film adaptation to feature Miss Marple
1963 Murder at the Gallop After the Funeral Miss Marple The original Novel features Hercule Poirot instead of Miss Marple
1964 Murder Most Foul Mrs McGinty's Dead Miss Marple The original Novel features Hercule Poirot instead of Miss Marple
1964 Murder Ahoy! None Miss Marple An original film, not based on any book, although it borrows some elements of They Do It with Mirrors
1965 Ten Little Indians The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Names changed
1965 Gumnaam And Then There Were None Names changed India Uncredited adaptation
1965 The Alphabet Murders The A.B.C. Murders Hercule Poirot
1970 Nadu Iravil And Then There Were None Names changed India Uncredited adaptation in Tamil
1972 Endless Night Endless Night Michael Rogers
1973 Dhund The Unexpected Guest Names changed India Dhund (translation: Fog) produced and directed by B. R. Chopra
1974 Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot
1974 And Then There Were None The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Names changed Released in the US as Ten Little Indians
1978 Death on the Nile The stage play Murder on the Nile and the novel Death on the Nile Hercule Poirot
1980 The Mirror Crack'd The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Miss Marple
1982 Evil Under the Sun Evil Under the Sun Hercule Poirot
1983 Secret of the Blackbirds
(Russian: Тайна "Чёрных дроздов")		 The novel A Pocket Full of Rye Names changed Soviet Union
1985 Ordeal by Innocence Ordeal by Innocence Arthur Calgary
1987 Desyat Negrityat (= Ten Little Niggers)
(Russian: Десять негритят)		 The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Lawrence Wargrave Soviet Union
1988 Appointment with Death The stage play Appointment with Death and the novel Appointment with Death Hercule Poirot
1989 Ten Little Indians The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Lawrence Wargrave
1989 Zagadka Endhausa
(Russian: Загадка Эндхауза)		 Peril at End House Hercule Poirot Soviet Union
1990 Myshelovka
(Russian: Мышеловка)		 The stage play The Mousetrap Sergeant Trotter Soviet Union
1995 Innocent Lies Towards Zero Names changed Loose adaptation of Towards Zero after scripts issue.
2003 Shubho Mahurat The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Names changed India (Bengali) Loosely based on Miss Marple Novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
2004 Mindhunters n/a Names changed Very loose adaptation of The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None
2005 Mon petit doigt m'a dit... By the Pricking of My Thumbs Prudence Beresford France
2007 L'Heure zéro Towards Zero Names changed France
2008 Le crime est notre affaire 4.50 from Paddington Prudence Beresford France The adaptation replaces Miss Marple with Prudence Beresford.
2008 Le Grand Alibi The Hollow Names changed France Poirot does not appear in the adaptation.
2011 Aduthathu The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Names changed India (Tamil)
2012 Grandmaster The A.B.C. Murders Names changed India (Malayalam)
2012 Associés contre le crime The Case of the Missing Lady Prudence Beresford France
2015 Aatagara The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None Names changed India (Kannada)
2016 Chorabali Cards on the Table Names changed Bangladesh (Bengali)
2017 Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot
2017 Crooked House Crooked House Charles Hayward
2022 Death on the Nile Death on the Nile Hercule Poirot A sequel to 2017's Murder on the Orient Express.
2023 A Haunting in Venice Hallowe'en Party Hercule Poirot A sequel to 2022's Death on the Nile.

Television

Miss Marple television series

Episodes of the television series Miss Marple include:

Agatha Christie's Marple television series

Episodes of the television series Agatha Christie's Marple include:

Agatha Christie's Poirot television series

Episodes of the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot include:

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).

Checkmate television series

Multiple Christie stories were adapted for the 2022 series Min Guo Da Zhen Tan, retitled Checkmate in English territories. The setting is changed to China in the 1910s and 1920s, and follows a new set of characters. 8 stories were each dramatised as 3 episode serials, with a singular story arc connecting them.

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)

Miss Marple

(Starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple)

Notable others

Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and Lizzy Watts as Ellie

Starring Hugh Bonneville as Nevile and Marcia Warren as Lady Tresselian

Starring Melinda Walker as Emily Trefusis, Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Enderby, John Moffatt as Mr. Rycroft and Geoffrey Whitehead as Inspector Narracott

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

Starring Naomi Frederick as Iris and Amanda Drew as Ruth

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.

Video games

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.