A few times changes were made to the books, I can only imagine for good reason, too many characters, budget restraints etc. The adaptations remained fairly faithful to the book, there was never a fear of them doing what they did with the Marple series, and transplant Poirot into novels he was never intended to be in, for a good reason each of her works had a certain flavour. I would imagine it became more difficult for the producers over time, they were able to cherry pick adaptations during the early years, some books were much more suitable to the screen then others, The ABC murders and Death in the Clouds would have been so much easier to work with then say The Big Four or Cards on the Table. By the time you reach Elephants can remember in Series 13 there was something very dark about the production. One good example is Series 3's Plymouth Express, a much darker presentation they anything that had gone before. The productions evolved over time, the early hour long format episodes were much lighter viewing, over time they became more gritty, more daring. I literally grew up with Poirot, Sunday nights as a nine and ten year old were all about Poirot, Pistachio nuts, Terry's Pyramint.
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