Doctor Who: 10 Famous Writers The Doctor Has Met

Like most of the writers on this list, Agatha Christie’s works have been adapted into several television shows and films across the decades. A crime novelist who started writing during the ‘Golden Age’ of crime in the 1920’s and 30’s, her character Hercule Poirot is probably the most well-known fictional detective from that era.

However, in The Unicorn and The Wasp, it is the Doctor and Donna who end up playing amateur sleuths, after crashing a garden party Christie is attending, and discovering there is a murderer on the loose. The episode is a rather good parody of Christie’s own plots, and has lots of fun referencing the titles of her books in characters’ conversation. Some of Christie’s real life back story is mentioned in the episode too. Specifically it centres around her disappearance for a few days in 1926, which in good old Doctor Who fashion, is explained as alien related.

Christie’s stories continue to be remade for new audiences, and a new series of Poirot films are currently coming out, with Kenneth Branagh in the star role. The next one, Death on the Nile, comes out in 2022.