Fourth, a couple of clues are removed partly as the result of the deleted student characters, including the silk scarf and the green ink. Third, Miss Lemon's role is significantly expanded (which seems just right since her role is central to the story), and she is present throughout much of the investigation - and gets involved, too. Second, the story is set around the 1936 Jarrow March (which occurred in October, not in April, as the lecture note at Hickory Dock seems to imply.a careless mistake), Sir Arthur Stanley becomes a leading Labour politician (and not a chemistry professor as in the novel), and Japp has a grudge against him because he investigated the death of his wife about ten years ago. Especially that end scene in Japp's kitchen (faggot, phobie du faggot, spotted dick etc.). He is eventually invited to stay with Poirot at Whitehaven - which, of course, gives room for some comic relief, like the bidet thing, but it all gets a bit too much, in my opinion. First, we have the addition of Chief Inspector Japp (who replaces the book's Inspector Sharpe), and a subplot concerned with him coping (or not coping) at home in Mrs Japp's absence. Anyway, I guess it works somehow or other.Īs to plot changes, the list is actually quite long. That seems a bit excessive, especially since the Series Five episode I mentioned (set at about the same time) covers the difficulty facing female students at universities. A further change I don't quite understand is making all the residents of the hostel students - even Valerie Hobbhouse, who becomes a student of design and fashion. Gopal Ram, Akibombo, Elizabeth Johnston, Miss Reinjeer, Achmed Ali, Genevieve Maricaud, Jean Tomlinson and the two Turks (who, I assume, would be somewhat out of place as students in the 1930s - but, more importantly, they don't really provide important plot points, possibly apart from Akibombo, so it makes sense to delete them for time constraints reasons, too). He removes all the foreign students, including Mr.

Horowitz partly succeeds in that the 1930s student feel that we also got in the adaptation of 'The Case of the Missing Will' works quite well. To begin with, the task of transforming a student hostel situation - post-war in its very nature - into a believable 1930s student rooms is not an easy one. Horowitz's script, I would say, falls somewhere in between. McGinty's Dead), and sometimes not as much (Third Girl). Sometimes the transition is seamless (e.g. In the years to come this would become a common occurrence - moving the plot of post-war novels back to that decade. This was the first of the post-war novels to be adapted for the series and its established 1930s setting. It was adapted for television by Anthony Horowitz and directed by Andrew Grieve.

This episode was based on the novel Hickory Dickory Dock, first published in 1955.

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