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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...
  1. 7.9/10(146 votes)

    #1 - Maigret Sets a Trap

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    S1:E6

    Maigret sets out to catch a serial killer.

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    Writer:N/A
  2. 7.9/10(108 votes)

    #2 - Maigret and the Maid

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    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.

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    Director:Stuart Burge
    Writer:N/A
  3. 7.8/10(217 votes)

    #3 - The Patience of Maigret

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    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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  4. 7.7/10(153 votes)

    #4 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

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    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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  5. 7.7/10(124 votes)

    #5 - Maigret on the Defensive

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

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    Director:Stuart Burge
    Writer:N/A
  6. 7.7/10(116 votes)

    #6 - Maigret and the Minister

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    S2:E5

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

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  8. 7.6/10(114 votes)

    #7 - Maigret's Boyhood Friend

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

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  9. 7.5/10(151 votes)

    #8 - Maigret and the Nightclub Dancer

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

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  10. 7.4/10(135 votes)

    #9 - Maigret and the Mad Woman

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    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.

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  11. 7.4/10(123 votes)

    #10 - Maigret on Home Ground

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    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. 7.4/10(126 votes)

    #11 - Maigret and the Hotel Majestic

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

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  13. 7.3/10(132 votes)

    #12 - Maigret Goes to School

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    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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Best Episodes Summary

"Maigret Sets a Trap" is the best rated episode of "Maigret". It scored 7.9/10 based on 146 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".