Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 3

Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 2 DVD Cover Country UK Channel ITV Creator Agatha Christie (original stories) Clive Exton Genre Detective Broadcast 1991 No. of Episodes 10 Main Cast Character Actor Hercule Poirot David Suchet Captain Arthur Hastings Hugh Fraser Chief Inspector James Japp Philip Jackson Miss Felicity Lemon Pauline Moran

Third season of Agatha Christie's Poirot contains 10 episodes: "How Does Your Garden Grow?", "The Million Dollar Bond Robbery", "The Plymouth Express", "Wasps' Nest", "The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor", "The Double Clue", "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest", "The Theft of the Royal Ruby", "The Affair at the Victory Ball", and "The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge" (11 in case when special episode "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" is listed as S03E01).

The following weapons were used in Season 3 of the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot:

WARNING! THIS PAGE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS!

Revolvers

Webley .455 Mk IV / Mk V

In "The Double Clue" (S03E06) private detective Redfern (Michael Packer), hired by Poirot, uses a Webley revolver. The gun is seen only from the muzzle but some features allows to identify it as one of the series of .455 pre-Mk VI revolvers, most likely Mk IV or Mk V.

Webley Mk IV - .455 Webley

Webley Mk V - .455 Webley

Redfern, posing as a beggar, fires his revolver, loaded with blanks. Note that the cylinder is partially empty.

Another view of the scene.

Unidentified revolvers

Two revolvers are seen on the wall in Harrington Pace's house in "Mystery of Hunters Lodge" (S03E10).

Two revolvers are seen on the wall. The one at the left seems to have a "parrot's beak" grip, common for Webley .455 pre-Mk VI revolvers.

A revolver at the right is seen slightly better.

Pistols

M1911

Zoe Havering (Diana Kent), disguised as housekeeper Mrs Middleton, fires an M1911 at her uncle Harrington Pace in "Mystery of Hunters Lodge" (S03E10).

Original Colt M1911 (dated 1913) - .45 ACP

Zoe Havering in disguise fires the M1911.

Luger P08

A Luger P08 is seen on the wall in Harrington Pace's house in "Mystery of Hunters Lodge" (S03E10).

Luger P08 - 9x19mm

Two pistols are seen on the wall. Luger is at the left.

Unidentified pistol

A pistol is seen on the wall together with a Luger P08 in Harrington Pace's house in "Mystery of Hunters Lodge" (S03E10). It seems to be some model of late 19th-early 20th century.

Two pistols are seen on the wall. Unidentified pistol is seen at the right.

Rifles

Bolt action rifle

A bolt action hunting rifle is seen in gamekeeper Jack Stoddard's (Roy Boyd) house in "Mystery of Hunters Lodge" (S03E10).

A rifle and two shotguns in a gun rack in Stoddard's house.

Stoddard takes the rifle.

The bolt handle is seen.

Small caliber rifle

A rifle, described as "a small gun for hunting rooks, with tiny bullets", is seen in "Tragedy at Marsdon Manor" (S03E05). It is hold by Samuel Naughton (Desmond Barrit) and (in flashback scene) by Susan Maltravers (Geraldine Alexander). The gun seems to be a break action weapon.

Samuel Naughton poses as a ghost of murdered Jonathan Maltravers, holding a rifle that was the murder weapon.

Naughton, now without disguise, puts the rifle on table.

The murder of Jonathan Maltravers (Ian McCulloch) in flashback scene. The barrel is seen.

Susan Maltravers cocks the rifle.

She fires.

Shotguns

Double Barreled Shotgun

Several double barreled shotguns are seen in "Mystery of Hunters Lodge" (S03E10) in the scene of grouse hunt and in Harrington Pace's house.

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Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) readies his shotgun.

Jack Stoddard (Roy Boyd), the gamekeeper and master of grouse hunt, teaches Archie Havering (Shaughan Seymour) proper use of a shotgun.

Hastings' assistant (in deerstalker cap; uncredited) hands him a loaded shotgun and takes emptied one.

Harrington Pace (Bernard Horsfall) holds a shotgun with exposed hammers.

Stoddard and Havering with shotguns.

Havering fires.

Hastings with a shotgun.