Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories This page details the other fictional characters created by Agatha Christie in her stories about the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Hastings first meets Poirot during his years as a private detective in Europe. Almost immediately after they both arrive in England, he becomes Poirot's partner, and appears in many of the novels and stories. Poirot's view of Hastings was of a man with plenty of imagination but not a great deal of brains. Hastings was capable of great bravery when the going got tough, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by the "Big Four"
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1988–1989 Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1988–1989 The following is a list of recurring "Saturday Night Live" characters and sketches introduced between October 8, 1988, and May 20, 1989, the fourteenth season of "SNL". A series of three (to date) sketches - "The Blind Date", "The Hospital Visit", and "The Game Show" - featuring Tom Hanks as San Bernardino advertising exec Jeff Morrow...whose life (to say nothing of everybody else around him) hasn't been the same since a pear fell from a tree and hit him on the head. Now burdened by untreatable chronic amnesia, Jeff sows chaos