The Lost Mine
- Episode aired Jan 21, 1990
- TV-14
- 50m
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7.3/10
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When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.
Chris Walker
- First Officer
- (as Christopher Walker)
- Director
- Writers
- Michael Baker
- David Renwick
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe "war room" tracking the car for Scotland Yard is based on the RAF war rooms of WW2, right down to the cue sticks moving cars instead of airplanes.
- GoofsLord Pearson tells Poirot and Hastings that a lump of ore can be refined into "top grade twenty-four karat silver". But the karat is a unit of purity for gold, not other precious metals. Silver purity is measured in parts per thousand, with pure silver being 999.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Captain Hastings: Community Chest. You've won second prize in a beauty contest. Collect ten pounds.
Hercule Poirot: Thank you very much, Hastings. It would appear that skill plays but a little part in this game, hein?
Captain Hastings: It's all about skill. What to buy and when. Where to put your property.
- ConnectionsReferences George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)
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Monopoly error
I believe there is an error in this episode in that the monopoly set used by Poirot and Hastings has as its 'men' the little silver coloured items such as the top hat. But that was a later version of monopoly dating I think from the late seventies or the eighties.
The version in my house when I was a child dated from the fifties and had as its 'men' types of transport such as ship, car, motor bike, train and they were coloured such as blue and red, not silver. There may have been an earlier version in the thirties when this was set, but it was not the one using the silver 'men'.
I would be very grateful if someone could advise me on the contents of the monopoly sets going back to the 30s so that it might be possible to check back to what would have been in place in 1935 when this Poirot story was set.
This is a very simple and basic error of poor research but unfortunately the scenes with the monopoly set recur rather frequently through the whole programme and therefore it could not be re-recorded, as I initially thought when I saw the opening scene.
The version in my house when I was a child dated from the fifties and had as its 'men' types of transport such as ship, car, motor bike, train and they were coloured such as blue and red, not silver. There may have been an earlier version in the thirties when this was set, but it was not the one using the silver 'men'.
I would be very grateful if someone could advise me on the contents of the monopoly sets going back to the 30s so that it might be possible to check back to what would have been in place in 1935 when this Poirot story was set.
This is a very simple and basic error of poor research but unfortunately the scenes with the monopoly set recur rather frequently through the whole programme and therefore it could not be re-recorded, as I initially thought when I saw the opening scene.
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- maryburnside
- Jan 23, 2007
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- Filming locations
- Columbia Road, London, E2, England, UK(Chinatown)
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- Runtime50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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