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The Best Episodes of Maigret

Every episode of Maigret ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
Genres:DramaCrime
Network:ITV1

Best Episodes Summary

"Maigret Sets a Trap" is the best rated episode of "Maigret". It scored 7.9/10 based on 144 votes. Directed by John Glenister and written by N/A, it aired on 3/16/1992. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Maigret and the Maid".

  • Maigret Sets a Trap
    7.9/10144 votes
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    #1 - Maigret Sets a Trap

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/1992

    Maigret sets out to catch a serial killer.

    Director: John Glenister

    Writer: N/A

  • Maigret and the Maid
    7.9/10107 votes
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    #2 - Maigret and the Maid

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/18/1993

    Maigret investigates the murder of Peg Leg, who has been shot in his room. He appears to have been entertaining a guest, but the housekeeper denies that anyone else was there.

    Director: Stuart Burge

    Writer: N/A

  • The Patience of Maigret
    7.8/10212 votes
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    #3 - The Patience of Maigret

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/1992

    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.

    Director: James Cellan Jones

    Writer: Alan Plater

  • Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
    7.7/10149 votes
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    #4 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/1992

    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!

    Director: John Glenister

    Writer: Alan Plater

  • Maigret on the Defensive
    7.7/10122 votes
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    #5 - Maigret on the Defensive

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/28/1993

    Maigret is accused of trying to seduce a 17-year-old niece of a high-ranking public official.

    Director: Stuart Burge

    Writer: N/A

  • Maigret and the Minister
    7.7/10114 votes
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    #6 - Maigret and the Minister

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 4/11/1993

    The Minister of Public Works asks Maigret to investigate the theft of a government report.

    Director: Nicholas Renton

    Writer: N/A

  • Maigret and the Nightclub Dancer
    7.6/10149 votes
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    #7 - Maigret and the Nightclub Dancer

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/1993

    A stripper reports a conspiracy to murder a countess and is found strangled.

    Director: John Strickland

    Writer: N/A

  • Maigret's Boyhood Friend
    7.6/10112 votes
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    #8 - Maigret's Boyhood Friend

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/4/1993

    Maigret is asked by an old schoolfriend to investigate the murder of his lover.

    Director: John Strickland

    Writer: N/A

  • Maigret and the Mad Woman
    7.4/10133 votes
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    #9 - Maigret and the Mad Woman

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/2/1992

    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.

    Director: John Glenister

    Writer: N/A

  • Maigret on Home Ground
    7.4/10121 votes
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    #10 - Maigret on Home Ground

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/1992

    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.

    Director: James Cellan Jones

    Writer: N/A

  • Maigret and the Hotel Majestic
    7.4/10124 votes
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    #11 - Maigret and the Hotel Majestic

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/21/1993

    Maigret investigates when the wife of an American industrialist is found strangled in the kitchen of the Hotel Majestic.

    Director: Nicholas Renton

    Writer: N/A

  • Maigret Goes to School
    7.3/10130 votes
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    #12 - Maigret Goes to School

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/1992

    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.

    Director: James Cellan Jones

    Writer: N/A