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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!

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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

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    Maigret Season 2 Episode 1 - Maigret and the Nightclub Dancer
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Maigret and the Nightclub Dancer

    S2:E1

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

    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Maigret Season 2 Episode 2 - Maigret and the Hotel Majestic
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Maigret and the Hotel Majestic

    S2:E2

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

    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Maigret Season 2 Episode 3 - Maigret on the Defensive
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Maigret on the Defensive

    S2:E3

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

    Director:Stuart Burge
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Maigret Season 2 Episode 4 - Maigret's Boyhood Friend
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Maigret's Boyhood Friend

    S2:E4

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

    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Maigret Season 2 Episode 5 - Maigret and the Minister
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Maigret and the Minister

    S2:E5

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

    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Maigret Season 2 Episode 6 - Maigret and the Maid
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Maigret and the Maid

    S2:E6

    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:Unknown

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  8. Maigret Season 1 Episode 2 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

    S1:E2

    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!

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  9. Maigret Season 1 Episode 3 - Maigret Goes to School
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Maigret Goes to School

    S1:E3

    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.

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  10. Maigret Season 1 Episode 4 - Maigret and the Mad Woman
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Maigret and the Mad Woman

    S1:E4

    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.

    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Maigret Season 1 Episode 5 - Maigret on Home Ground
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Maigret on Home Ground

    S1:E5

    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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  12. Maigret Season 1 Episode 6 - Maigret Sets a Trap
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Maigret Sets a Trap

    S1:E6

    Maigret sets out to catch a serial killer.

    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Maigret Season 1 Episode 1 - The Patience of Maigret
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #12 - The Patience of Maigret

    S1:E1

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Maigret and the Nightclub Dancer" is the best rated episode of "Maigret". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by John Strickland and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/14/1993. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Maigret and the Hotel Majestic".