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Episodes in Series One, Three, and Five are 52 minutes long. Episodes in the second series are also 52 minutes except Peril at End House and The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which are 103 minutes long. Episodes in Series Four, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven are 103 minutes long.

The 52-minute episodes are based on Christie's short stories featuring Poirot, many published in the 1920s. The TV dramatizers considerably embellished the stories' plots and set them in the 1930s instead of the 1920s.

The longer episodes are based on Christie's novels. The chronology of these episodes differs from that of the novels and, as with the shorter episodes, some stories whose book versions were set in other decades are moved to the 1930s.

In 1992, writers David Renwick and Michael Baker received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Second Series episode The Lost Mine, which, like the other Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes, aired in the U.S. as part of the PBS anthology series Mystery!.

Episodes released in 2003 and thereafter lack Fraser, Jackson and Moran, who had appeared in most episodes before then. The absence of their characters (Hastings, Inspector Japp, and Miss Lemon) is consistent with the books on which the scripts are based, but it was through interaction with those characters that many of Poirot's humorous, humanizing idiosyncrasies were portrayed in the earlier episodes. The later episodes lack the humour of the earlier as well as their signature theme music and are written, directed, acted, and scored in a more sombre fashion, depicting an older and somewhat darker Poirot.

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