Shows Like Poirot

The Short Answer

1. Miss Marple — Agatha Christie's other great detective, Joan Hickson's Miss Marple solves village murders through sharp observation of human nature rather than physical evidence — the closest match here to Poirot's own methods. (BritBox)
2. Marble Hall Murders — Anthony Horowitz's mystery-within-a-mystery follows editor Susan Ryeland and fictional detective Atticus Pünd, a puzzle-box structure built in direct homage to Christie's own plotting. (PBS Masterpiece)
3. Father Brown — G.K. Chesterton's mild-mannered priest-detective solves 1950s Cotswolds murders through quiet insight into character and conscience — gentle, episodic, and steeped in the same golden-age charm as Poirot. (BritBox)
4. Death in Paradise — A fish-out-of-water British detective solves locked-room-style murders on a fictional Caribbean island, with the same fair-play, everyone's-a-suspect structure Christie made famous. (BritBox)
5. Maigret — Rowan Atkinson plays Georges Simenon's pipe-smoking Parisian detective, another European puzzle-solver in the same understated, character-first tradition as Poirot. (PBS Masterpiece)
6. Tommy & Tuppence — Another Agatha Christie detective duo, the husband-and-wife amateur sleuths bring a lighter, more playful energy to the same puzzle-box mystery format. (BritBox)
7. Endeavour — A prequel following a young Endeavour Morse through 1960s and '70s Oxford CID — slower-paced, character-driven detective work in the same classic British mystery mold. (PBS Masterpiece)