<P> In the 1967 The Avengers episode "The Superlative Seven" John Steed is invited to a costume party aboard a chartered aeroplane . The aeroplane is being flown by remote control . Steed and the six other fancy - dressed guests, who are specialists in various combat styles, eventually land on a deserted island where they are informed that one of them is a trained assassin trying to kill them all . When the first murder is committed, Steed observes "Looks as though his back was broken". To which an off - screen protagonist responds, over a speaker, "Quite right, Mr Steed . And then there were six". CSI: Crime Scene Investigation based an episode of the show's second season under the same name focusing on a gang of armed robbers stealing from casinos outside the Las Vegas metropolitan area with each criminal killing a member of the gang to keep more of the proceeds . The animated US sitcom Family Guy loosely parodied the novel in the 2010 episode And Then There Were Fewer in which a number of previously regular characters were killed off . </P> <P> The 1998 anime film Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target is a combination of this story, with intended victims invited to a secluded island and the murderer hiding amongst them, and Christie's Hercule Poirot novel The A.B.C. Murders . </P> <P> The sixth game of the Touhou Project series Embodiment of Scarlet Devil contains references to the Christie novel in the Extra boss, such as the title of the music being played called "U.N Owen Was Her?", an attack named "And Then There Were None" and also dialogues quoting the book . </P> <P> The season 2 finale of the Australian TV show Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ("Murder under the Mistletoe", 2013) mirrors the plot of Christie's novel . Guests stranded in a secluded mansion are murdered one by one according to the circumstances described in the "12 Days of Christmas ." Like in the Christie novel, the guests soon realize that the murderer must be among them, but the culprit escapes detection by means of a bluff involving one of the corpses . The episode follows the 1965 film Ten Little Indians in re-imagining the island as a snowed - in inaccessible chalet . </P>

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