One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Synopsis: Television detective series based on Agatha Christie’s stories featuring the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. The story concerns a powerful financier who commits bigamy and, together with his actress first wife, commits a succession of murders to conceal the fact , with the wife disguising herself as several women. The television version begins in India in 1921 with the closing moments of a performance of Much Ado About Nothing, emphasising mask and Beatrice’s lines about being deceived by Hero, Margaret and Ursula. At the close, as Poirot sums up, there is a flashback to the performance, this time stressing Hero’s lines ‘And when I lived, I was your other wife/And when you loved, you were my other husband’ (V,iv, 60-61). [With acknowledgment to Susanne Greenhalgh for providing the synopsis].
Series: Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United Kingdom
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Notes: Available on DVD (region 2) in the UK as part of the AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: COMPLETE COLLECTION and in the US (region 1)as part of POIROT: MOVIE COLLECTION.
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Mystery