London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television’s documented connection to The ABC Murders is its first television broadcast: the adaptation starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot was shown on the station on 5 January 1992. The reference places the broadcaster in the novel’s afterlife, as the story moved from print into television.

Role in the Adaptation

The account identifies London Weekend Television as the channel on which the television adaptation first appeared. It names David Suchet as Poirot and gives the broadcast date, 5 January 1992, but does not provide further details about the production or the station’s role in making it.

The Story Beyond the Novel

The broadcast is one point in the book’s wider media history. The same account discusses the novel’s newspaper serialization in 1935 and a proposed film adaptation that was abandoned after Agatha Christie objected to its script. Against those examples, the 1992 television showing records a screen adaptation that did reach viewers. The available evidence establishes the occasion, rather than offering a fuller history of the broadcaster or the production.