Although Agatha's Christie's Belgian detective and his little grey cells are familiar staples with today's television and movie audiences, few remember him from old-time radio. In a significant shift from the Christie canon, Poirot is now in America, where he is assisted by his secretary Abigail Fletcher and by Inspector Stevens of the NYPD. In this first episode of the radio series, the little Belgian and his mustaches are trying to relocate to New York and discovers that finding an apartment is not that easily done. Instead, he finds a corpse.
The Adventures of Hercule Poirot was a short-lived series on the Mutual Broadcasting Network, lasting only a year. Few of the 51 episodes survive. All episodes were new and not based on any of Agatha Christie's stories. Poirot was portrayed by stage and film actor Harold Huber, who also starred in the Fu Manchu radio series. The series was directed by Carl Eastman with scripts by Martin Stern. The show ran from February 22, 1945 to February 17, 1946, ending when Stern sued Huber and Eastman after discovering they had been selling the scripts independently without compensating him, the show later moved to CBS where it ran for two years as a fifteen-minute Monday-to-Friday serial. Huber also played Poirot on episodes of CBS radio's Mystery of the Week.
This first episode is noted for a recorded introduction by the grand dame herself, Agatha Christie, sent across the pond by short-wave radio. The program attempted to get Christie to speak live but atmospheric conditions prevented that. Luckily, they had the earlier recorded conversation prepared as a backup.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy5UZ8Wakns
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