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The Best Episodes of Maigret

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The Best Episodes of Maigret

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

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  1. Background image for Night at the Crossroads
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Night at the Crossroads

    S1:E6

    Maigret investigates a murder at a crossroads in rural France. Everybody has something to hide, and he's got to find the guilty one.

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  2. Background image for Maigret at the Hotel  Majestic
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Maigret at the Hotel Majestic

    S1:E7

    A death at a luxury hotel gives Maigret plenty of additional headaches when one of the wealthy suspects proves to have a lot of local influence.

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Maigret's Patience
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Maigret's Patience

    S1:E11

    Maigret must play a long waiting game to catch a big-time crook.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Maigret and the Ghost
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Maigret and the Ghost

    S1:E12

    When Maigret's fellow police officer Lognon is shot in Helsinki, he's forced to travel to Finland in order to investigate Lognon's shooting with the help of a local police officer Ari Vaara. But how are a Swedish art dealer, his French wife and a mysterious Brit involved in the shooting?

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Maigret  and  Lock no.1
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Maigret and Lock no.1

    S1:E13

    A rich entrepreneur is assaulted and Maigret must find out who did it and why.

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Maigret and the Spinster
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Maigret and the Spinster

    S1:E14

    Young Cécile and her aunt are killed. Maigret must find out who did it.

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  8. Background image for Maigret Is Mistaken
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Maigret Is Mistaken

    S1:E15

    A young prostitute is killed in a posh Paris apartment, and Maigret is on the case. Who did it?

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    Director:Joyce Buñuel
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Maigret and the Old Lady
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Maigret and the Old Lady

    S1:E16

    The maid to a wealthy elderly woman is murdered. The latter tells the authorities that she believes it was a case of mistaken identity by the killer and that she herself was their target.

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Maigret and the Candle Auction
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Maigret and the Candle Auction

    S1:E17

    What began as a short trip to question an innkeeper in the Vendee turns into days as Inspector Maigret gets confined to the inn with the flu. Then, a guest is found murdered. The police cordon off the inn and begin a careful reconstruction of events, while Maigret conducts his own investigation.

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  11. Background image for Maigret's Holiday
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Maigret's Holiday

    S1:E18

    Even on holiday, Maigret must investigate crime.

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Maigret Goes Home
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Maigret Goes Home

    S1:E19

    Maigret returns to the small village where he was raised, after receiving an anonymous letter telling him that a crime would take place in the town church on All Saints' Day.

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  13. Background image for Maigret in Finland
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Maigret in Finland

    S1:E22

    When a French man is accused of murder in Finland and he refuses to talk unless to a French police, Inspector Maigret is once again forced to travel to Finland to investigate the case.

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    Director:Pekka Parikka
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Maigret Sets a Trap
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Maigret Sets a Trap

    S1:E23

    Four serial murders in the Marais district of Paris. Maigret sets a trap. Pretending to have arrested the assassin, he sends trained plainclothes policewomen out at night as bait. Maigret hopes that the killer's pride will force him to act.

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    Director:Juraj Herz
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Maigret Is Afraid
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Maigret Is Afraid

    S1:E24

    Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.

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  16. Background image for Maigret and the Elusive Witness
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Maigret and the Elusive Witness

    S1:E25

    A child while is going to church to make an altar boy sees a corpse in the street. No one else sees that corpse, and two minutes later, that corpse is disappeared. Later the child claims to have invented the story. Maigret must find out, first of all, if the corpse is really existed or if it is a lie of the child.

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  17. Background image for Maigret and the Liberty Bar
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Maigret and the Liberty Bar

    S1:E26

    Maigret is dispatched on a special murder case to the South of France with instructions from a very high source not to make waves while solving the crime. The homicide victim, an Australian ex-pat, was a hero in the French Resistance.

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    Director:Michel Favart
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Maigret and the Vanishing Mr. Owen
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Maigret and the Vanishing Mr. Owen

    S1:E27

    Maigret is spending a few days between assignments avoiding a long trip back to Paris and then on again to his next assignment. The seaside resort is run by an acquaintance from earlier days in Paris, Monsieur Louis. Staying at the resort is a art dealer, Monsieur Owen, who is wheelchair bound from MS and accompanied by a nurse. Also staying is a flamboyant actress with her newly acquired second husband and a dog. There is also a gentleman whom Monsieur Louis describes as a "fixer" who "helps" people not favored by Lady Luck at the Casino. A unknown dead man is found in Monsieur Owen's bath with the actress's dead dog. Both the second husband and Monsieur Owen have disappeared. The actress faints; the nurse demures. Maigret who is on vacation and "not involved" even after Monsieur Louis's request for help get interested in the strange actions of the characters.

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Maigret Versus Mister Cadavre
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Maigret Versus Mister Cadavre

    S1:E28

    Maigret travels ex officio to help the brother-in-law of commisionaire who is a friend of his. The brother-in-law is being anonymously accused of the murder of a man who died having been run over by a train just outside his property. At the same time an ex-inspector that Maigret had had dismissed also appears and seems to be following the same clues and talking to the same witnesses.

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Mrs. Four and Her Children
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Mrs. Four and Her Children

    S1:E29

    Maigret goes undercover at a boarding house where a woman with two boys is occupying room number 4, hence Mrs. Quatre/Four. She has fled her home and husband with the boys and is in hiding after seeing a dead woman's body in the conservatory with her husband at night. Her reports to the police have no backing as the body is gone and her husband has also disappeared. Maigret takes on the investigation under the name Mr. Fountaine because a detail referring to a fountain, he believes, gives veracity to her story.

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  21. Background image for Murder in a Vegetable Garden
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Murder in a Vegetable Garden

    S1:E30

    Maigret travels to Dole after a gun found with a murdered "vagrant" matched one used to kill another "vagrant" under a Paris bridge. There he encounters a pair of feuding sisters, one of whom owns the shed the victim was found in. The feud has been going on for 30 years, the source of which is both clear and muddied at the same time, just like the weather.

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    Director:Edwin Baily
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for A First Class Murder
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - A First Class Murder

    S1:E31

    Maigret is called for by his nephew, a new inspector in the north after a man was found dead in a first class carriage. The 106 train to Paris which started outside France was stopped at the Jeumont station for 50 minutes during which the murder took place. His nephew had the carriage and dining car detached and isolated but ran foul of politics as a French Consol and his family, secretary, and nanny were on board. The victim's identity papers were stolen and the train is filled with a mixture of the guilty and the innocent and dentists. But of the murder? And who is and what happened to Max?

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  23. Background image for Maigret Sees Double
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Maigret Sees Double

    S1:E32

    Maigret investigates the death of a seemingly boring accountant killed while standing at the bedroom window of his fourth floor flat. The victim had no strong feelings for his wife or his children, and a boring position at a bathroom fixture supplier, and has no friends, therefore, no enemies. His only love was a canary. Maigret calls his young nephew inspector to help find out just who the victim really was. He finds, literally, more of the same. But within that sameness, one difference.

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Maigret Among the Rich
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Maigret Among the Rich

    S1:E33

    Maigret investigates a threatening letter at the Parendon mansion.

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  25. Background image for Maigret and the Diamond Cruncher
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Maigret and the Diamond Cruncher

    S1:E34

    A wealthy Englishman emotionlessly identifies a picture of his dead wife.

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for My Friend Maigret
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - My Friend Maigret

    S1:E35

    Maigret, accompanied by an inspector from Scotland Yard, visits a small island where a man, who carried an old letter coming from Maigret, was murdered.

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    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Night at the Crossroads" is the best rated episode of "Maigret". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Bertrand Van Effenterre, Alain Tasma and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/27/1992. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Maigret at the Hotel Majestic".