The Best Episodes of Maigret

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   7.9/10(170 votes)

   #1 - Maigret Sets a Trap

   S1:E63/16/1992

   Maigret sets out to catch a serial killer.

   Director:John Glenister

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:John Glenister

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   7.8/10(256 votes)

   #2 - The Patience of Maigret

   S1:E12/9/1992

   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

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   Director:James Cellan Jones

   Writer:Alan Plater
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   7.8/10(187 votes)

   #3 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

   S1:E22/16/1992

   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

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   Director:John Glenister

   Writer:Alan Plater
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   7.8/10(134 votes)

   #4 - Maigret and the Minister

   S2:E54/11/1993

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

   Director:Nicholas Renton

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Nicholas Renton

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   7.8/10(129 votes)

   #5 - Maigret and the Maid

   S2:E64/18/1993

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Stuart Burge

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   7.7/10(143 votes)

   #6 - Maigret on the Defensive

   S2:E33/28/1993

   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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   Director:Stuart Burge

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.7/10(135 votes)

   #7 - Maigret's Boyhood Friend

   S2:E44/4/1993

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

   Director:John Strickland

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.6/10(159 votes)

   #8 - Maigret and the Mad Woman

   S1:E43/2/1992

   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:Unknown

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   Director:John Glenister

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   7.6/10(145 votes)

   #9 - Maigret on Home Ground

   S1:E53/9/1992

   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:Unknown

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   Director:James Cellan Jones

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    7.6/10(181 votes)

    #10 - Maigret and the Nightclub Dancer

    S2:E13/14/1993

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

    Director:John Strickland

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:John Strickland

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    7.5/10(159 votes)

    #11 - Maigret Goes to School

    S1:E32/23/1992

    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:Unknown

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    Director:James Cellan Jones

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    7.4/10(153 votes)

    #12 - Maigret and the Hotel Majestic

    S2:E23/21/1993

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

    Director:Nicholas Renton

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Nicholas Renton

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