British Horror: Haunted (1995)

Happy New Year: Poirot--The Case Of The Missing Will (1993)

Here's to the new year...1926!  Of course, the story actually takes place ten years later in 1936...and I think in the summer, but the New Year's ringing in at the beginning makes it fair game.  Also, it's one the better short story mysteries in the early days of Poirot--before the novels started coming out.

Christmas Creep #8: Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost Of Christmas Past

I confess that I have never seen this version before, but it's got a "underground" reputation for being very ghostly.  What I have seen of it so far also includes a feature that I have never encountered in a film of A Christmas Carol, that is framed by it's reading of author Charles Dickens.  I have a strange sense from photos that the Ghost Of Christmas Past may be Scrooge's dead sister....that's nasty!

Poirot: The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

S3E2 Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Million... by paulmuaddib84

Oh dear!  Poirot at sea!!

Poirot: The ABC Murders

Poirot: The Veiled Lady

The open grand slam in Wimbledon is our favorite of the 4 grand slams tennis tournaments of the year.  While we have structured a few Fright Nights around the others from time to time, this is the one that we always mark with something at least vaguely British or at least tennis related.  This particular episode actually takes place, in part, in the village of Wimbledon, which Captain Hastings seems to think is a "big place." (see clip above).  Fred Perry is actually mentioned in the episode as making the tourism is Wimbledon much worse--this gives a rather shocking reminder that before Scotsman Andy Murray won the slam in recent years how long it had been between UK winners of that beloved British tournament.  So this Friday is dedicated to UK related mysteries--a few set in former colonies, chose at random from a good old fashioned grab bag. And yes, this one was chosen at random, I swear!  It must be fate.