The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
- Episode aired Mar 10, 1991
- TV-14
- 50m
Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.
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- Constable Cooke
- (as Raymond Trickitt)
- Director
- Writers
- T.R. Bowen
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe house was used as the Stapleton house in the Sherlock Holmes Hound of the Baskervilles. The victim, played by Bernard Horsfall, was in that same episode as Frankland.
- GoofsLondon-bound trains are running to "King's Cross", yet they are marked LMS (London, Midland & Scottish Railway) and are decked in the LMS crimson lake corporate livery. Kings Cross was the London terminal for the London & North Eastern Railway, not LMS. Instead, London-bound LMS trains ran to St Pancras, their own terminus, ironically on the other side of the street from King's Cross.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Hercule Poirot: Is this gratitude, Hastings? Is it for this that Hercule Poirot exerts his talents on behalf of the world?
Chief Inspector Japp: You expect gratitude? Don't make me laugh. Now you know what a real detective feels like.
Hercule Poirot: A *real* detective!
[Japp smiles and nods]
Hercule Poirot: Chief Inspector Japp is truly most amusing, do you not think, Hastings?
Captain Hastings: Oh, yes, most amusing.
Hercule Poirot: For a policeman.
However, Hercule catches the flu and, with his penchant for the dramatic, is very ill indeed. When the host of the weekend, Harrington Pace, is shot dead, Poirot attempts to help Inspector Japp, even if that means he has to question one of the possible suspects while still in bed.
Turns out Pace was an abysmal human being, treating his illegitimate brother like a servant -- in fact, he was the gamekeeper -- and refusing to lend him money to get married and buy his own home. His two nephews didn't like him. The only one who saw the murderer enter was the housekeeper, Mrs. Middleton, and she has disappeared. Poirot knows one thing -- if they can find Middleton, they can solve the case.
In the end, Poirot takes on a hunting dog as a partner to help unmask a killer.
I really liked this, and I loved Poirot acting so ill, babying himself and asking others to do the same. Very funny. A delightful episode, some of it a little transparent, but still clever and entertaining.
- blanche-2
- Oct 17, 2014
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- Country of origin
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- Filming locations
- Castern Hall, Ilam, Staffordshire, England, UK(Hunter's Lodge)
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- Runtime50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1