FROM BOOK TO SERIES: HERCULE POIROT

I AM LATE .... very late!  I think ... actually I don't remember if I already posted about this book or not ...
I keep falling asleep during the audiobook ... which kind of makes sense - it is not one of my favorite episodes either.
This episdoe was aired about 10 days ago (the last one in April ... I'm so far behind ... I've got another Poirot and a Marple to do yet for this week as well ... I've got to catch up)

Its not a bad story - I guess I've just seen it done and redone so many different times by other shows that it's become almost "cliche"

DEATH IN THE CLOUDS
Originally, the navel was released as "Death in the Air" - I'm not sure why they changed the name ... after all it was "Air" in boh the US and the UK

It's an interesting premise ...

Airplanes ... tennis ... gambling ... illegitimate children ... and blackmail all lead to death by a wasp ... kind of.

It actually is fairly close to the book - very few things are different ...

The series episdoe includes a scene at a tennis match - a rather famous match according to IMDb.com ... it seems to be a match between the British champion and the German champion ... which face off against each other again during the Munich Olympics, after this novel, which Hitler attended ...
And that is one difference, really ...

While Agatha Christie is good at writing detective stories - predicting the future just wasn't her forte ...

The episode opens on a paza, where Poiro meets Jane Gray - and they make her a stewardess on a small charter flight
The story begins on the plane, Jane Gray is just a passenger who is trying her best NOT to notice the man seated across from her ... Poirot is trying to sleep through the duration of the flight, but he also notices Jane.

I think the most interesting thing between the book and the novel is ... that plane!!

You see, in the episode, all the seats face the same way - very much like planes these days.  The plane looks like it sits about 40 (maybe), and there seems like those employed by the passengers sit in the area where the stewardesses sit during the flight.

In the novel, it sounds as if there is a "first class" and "economy class" area aboard the flight ... a woman breaks her fingernail and sends her Ladies Companion back to bring her an emery board - well the beauty case which had the emery board in it ...

This is all very interesting -- you see, Airlines didn't really take off until after WW2 ... Although, shorter trips were still available, but the planes were rather small. 
This flight, according to the book there were 11 on board, but I don't know if that includes the stewards or the pilot/co-pilot ...

So the flights were small ... and in order to get on and off the plane, you didn't go down a long corriidor which could be taken away ... you had to go up/down a flight of stairs.

My mother had to get off a plane in the 70's by steps ... the airport had gotten hit by a freak snow storm and they weren't able to get to the terminal, so they had to disembark via a portable staircase ...
Oh she was MAD at my father!  We didn't hear them say anything about the flight having been changed or that anything had gone wrong ... so we were waiting and waiting at the boarding gate where she was supposed to come in to the terminal.
He finally decided to go down to luggage claim and there she was ... her face beet red with anger!  Oooooo ... Dad got an ear full in the car all the way home and then some.

Oops ... tangent.

You know what?  here are some links to the episode, parts 1&2 of the audiobook, and a little something special which I found of Youube ...

THESE ARE NOT MY WORKS ... NOT MY VIDEOS ... I only like them for your convenience.  

Poirot Episode - not the greatest quality but it was all I could find
http://youtu.be/SDq7nSL9ccA?si=v_xXnaMayxx5c3jl

Adudiobook - part 1
https://youtu.be/1ALGqdyAeso?si=MFFPRb6_wPKBngRu

Audiobook -- part 2
https://youtu.be/5U1wq4_hJ3E?si=HDgBIIHeg_8VjiCV

BBC Radio Show - I found this as well ... thought you might enjoy it
https://youtu.be/aHqnxvd9KIg?si=yR5NEcT6gS48W2l7