Maigret

Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.

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Drama
Crime
Created By

Georges Simenon

First Aired on

Feb 09, 1992

2 seaons till Apr 18, 1993

Popularity: 13.8568
14 votes
Networks
(GB)
Production

Granada Television (GB)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: Maigret and the Maid

Seasons & episodes

Total 2 seasons, 12 episodes

Season 1

Aired

6 Episodes
  • Episode 1The Patience of Maigret60 min

    Maigret's patience is tested when the crime boss he has investigated for years, Manuel Palmari, commits another jewellery heist. But when Palmari himself is murdered, Maigret works with the criminal's shady mistress, Aline, to find the killer.

  • Episode 2Maigret and the Burglar's Wife60 min

    Alfred Jussiaum is a safecracker. While he's on the job he finds the dead body of a woman in the house he's robbing. Afraid, he leaves town and asks his wife Ernestine to go to inspector Maigret and report the murder. Maigret goes to the house and the owner a dentist who lives with his mother denies there ever was a robbery much less a murder. Maigret is not convinced and he soon finds out that the doctor's wife who supposedly travelled to Holland the day of the murder hasn’t reached her destination and is nowhere to be found. Someone is lying!

  • Episode 3Maigret Goes to School60 min

    A schoolmaster from a small fishing village arrives at Maigret's office claiming he's about to be wrongly arrested for murdering the town's disliked postmistress. Maigret travels to the village and discovers a conspiracy of vast proportions amid surly, distrusting villagers.

  • Episode 4Maigret and the Mad Woman60 min

    An old lady believes that there has been an intruder in her apartment, but before Maigret has a chance to investigate, he learns that she has been murdered in her apartment.

  • Episode 5Maigret on Home Ground60 min

    Maigret responds to a warning that a crime is to be committed in the church in his home town during the first mass on All Soul's Day.

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