Hercule Poirot in Cards on the Table

David Suchet returns as Hercule Poirot on ITV1 in the UK on Sunday 19th March in Cards on the Table.

Look out for Honeysuckle Weeks (of Foyle's War) and Zoe Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver, Christie's humorous self-caricature.

A psychological problem for Poirot, one of his favorite cases. Mr Shaitana, a connoisseur of the bizarre, holds a dinner party in his Park Lane flat. He invites four investigators of crime and four people whom he says have committed murders and not been caught.

After the two groups play two separate games of bridge, Shaitana is found murdered. The four successful murderers are equally suspicious. They include a young woman domestic, a widow who may have killed her husband, a doctor who lost several patients, and a major who may have killed a botanist on the Amazon.

The detectives are Poirot, Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard, Colonel Race (known from The Man in the Brown Suit and here revealed to be a Secret Service agent) and Mrs Ariadne Oliver, the crime novelist and gentle self-parody of Christie.

The cast of Cards on the Table is:

Hercule Poirot -  David Suchet
Mr Luxmore -  Philip Bowen 
Mrs Luxmore -  Cordelia Bugeja 
Mrs Craddock -  Zigi Ellison 
Major Despard -  Tristan Gemmill 
Dr Roberts -  Alex Jennings 
Miss Burgess -  Lucy Liemann 
Mrs Lorrimer -  Lesley Manville 
Miss Meredith -  Lyndsey Marshal 
Millie -  Jenny Ogilvie 
Colonel Hughes -  Robert Pugh 
Serge Maurice -  Douglas Reith 
Shaitana -  Alexander Siddig 
Mrs Oliver -  Zoë Wanamaker 
Miss Dawes -  Honeysuckle Weeks 
Supt Jim Wheeler -  David Westhead 
Sgt O'Connor -  Philip Wright 
Shaitana's butler -  James Alper