@GHolf wrote:

Item: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Language: en-US
Type of Problem: Incorrect_content

Thanks for your report!

Extra Details: Season 3 appears to be missing the first episode "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". Therefore, the episodes in the database are off by one, e.g. Episode 1 should be 2, etc. There are 11 episodes in this season.

Please read the following older content issue report from 2015 regarding the same issue:

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/790-agatha-christie-s-poirot/discuss/55447dea92514119e0000fde

My co-moderator Elizabeth Jennings wrote in one of the replies:

"As for the first episode missing, there is conflicting information regarding the episode "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". TVDB has is as episode 10 in season 2, but TVRage has it as the first episode of season 3. Other sources are incomplete. I'm inclined to trust TVDB more than TVRage so I think the episode should stay in season 2. Plus that episode aired the previous year from the other episodes in season 3, so it really seems it belongs in season 2. If you have any sources that prove otherwise, please share."

Information from Acorn's "Complete Cases Collection" Blu-Ray disc. Thanks!

Can you describe in more detail what this information on the Blu-Ray includes? Does it say that this was the original tv airing schedule? Or is this just the listing on the Blu-Ray disc? TMDb always wants the order of the original airing on tv - not the order on DVD/Blu Ray. In order to change our listing, we need proof that this aired differently - do you have such proof?

EDIT: What you also could do -> create an episode group for the DVD/Blu-Ray order instead. But this depends on your information, of course!

Thanks for the detail. First - Now that I know it can live at the end of season 2, I'm OK. I just wanted to get my Plex listings correct.

For more information - The case describes the collections as "(Original UK broadcast order)". The enclosed collectors guide indicates the first broadcast as on September 16, 1990. Neither of these indicate whether it was season 2 or season 3, only the order of broadcast. The season I assumed (bad on me) was from the way the actual disks are labeled. I guess it depends on when season 2 officially ends and season 3 begins.

Thanks! Gordon

@GHolf wrote:

Thanks for the detail. First - Now that I know it can live at the end of season 2, I'm OK. I just wanted to get my Plex listings correct.

Okay, that solves your issue!

For more information - The case describes the collections as "(Original UK broadcast order)". The enclosed collectors guide indicates the first broadcast as on September 16, 1990. Neither of these indicate whether it was season 2 or season 3, only the order of broadcast. The season I assumed (bad on me) was from the way the actual disks are labeled. I guess it depends on when season 2 officially ends and season 3 begins.

Thanks for the information!

I agree, the dilemma here is to decide if this episode counts as season 2 or 3 -> it's kind of inbetween. So, we will keep it like that until someone else finds definite proof!

The box indicates that the episode is the start of Season 3 - https://www.acornonline.com/graphics/products/large/XA0442_lg_bc_ALT1.jpg

Peril at End House should also be two episodes as it was broadcast in 2 parts. ITV dramas can be difficult in this respect as sometimes they were shown together on the same night with one part each before/after the news, and I suppose it's can be debatable if that counts as two episodes or not. But the copy I have ends the first part with "To be Continued" and credits which to me makes it a separate episode, and the running length of each part is the same as the other episodes (approx. 1 hour once you count for adverts).

Please, continue this discussion in this open content report.