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The Yellow Iris: Directed by Peter Barber-Fleming. With David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, David Troughton. A man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time.
The Yellow Iris is the third episode of series 5 of the ITV British television drama series Agatha Christie's Poirot featuring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, first broadcast on 31 January 1993 in the UK and was directed by Peter Barber-Fleming with dramatisation by Anthony Horowitz.
The following is a list of episodes for the British crime drama Agatha Christie's Poirot, starring David Suchet as Poirot, which aired on ITV from 8 January 1989-13 November 2013. Overall, 70 episodes were made over 13 series.
Episode Guide for Agatha Christie's Poirot 5x03: The Yellow Iris. Episode summary, trailer and screencaps; guest stars and main cast list; and more.
Original Airdate: 31 January 1993. Written by: Anthony Horowitz. Directed by: Peter Barber-Fleming. Recurring cast: Captain Hastings, Miss Lemon. Tropes: Adaptational Expansion: A plot involving shady dealings with Argentine military officers aiming for a coup is added to pad out the episode.
Hercule Poirot has a rare opportunity when he gets a second chance to solve a murder circumstance prevented him from solving two years before. On his way to visit Capt. Hastings in the Argentine, Poirot had stopped in Buenos Aires. While out for dinner, a young woman named Iris Russell was poisoned.
S05E03 The Yellow Iris Summary. Friends and family gather at a dinner-party to mark the second anniversary of a woman's passing. The atmosphere is so charged that one almost expects the victim to come back from the dead.