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

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    Maigret Season 1 Episode 11 - Maigret's Patience
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Maigret's Patience

    S1:E11

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

    Director:Andrzej Kostenko
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Maigret Season 1 Episode 18 - Maigret's Holiday
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Maigret's Holiday

    S1:E18

    Even on holiday, Maigret must investigate crime.

    Director:Pierre Joassin
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Maigret Season 1 Episode 19 - Maigret Goes Home
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Denys de La Patellière
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Maigret Season 1 Episode 22 - Maigret in Finland
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Pekka Parikka
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Maigret Season 1 Episode 23 - Maigret Sets a Trap
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Juraj Herz
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Maigret Season 1 Episode 24 - Maigret Is Afraid
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #6 - Maigret Is Afraid

    S1:E24

    Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.

    Directors:Christian Karcher, Claude Goretta
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Maigret Season 1 Episode 25 - Maigret and the Elusive Witness
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Pierre Granier-Deferre
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Maigret Season 1 Episode 26 - Maigret and the Liberty Bar
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Michel Favart
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Maigret Season 1 Episode 27 - Maigret and the Vanishing Mr. Owen
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Pierre Koralnik
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Maigret Season 1 Episode 28 - Maigret Versus Mister Cadavre
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Pierre Joassin
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Maigret Season 1 Episode 29 - Mrs. Four and Her Children
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Philippe Bérenger
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Maigret Season 1 Episode 30 - Murder in a Vegetable Garden
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Edwin Baily
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Maigret Season 1 Episode 31 - A First Class Murder
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - 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?

    Director:Christian de Chalonge
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Maigret Season 1 Episode 32 - Maigret Sees Double
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:François Luciani
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Maigret Season 1 Episode 33 - Maigret Among the Rich
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Maigret Among the Rich

    S1:E33

    Maigret investigates a threatening letter at the Parendon mansion.

    Directors:Denys Granier-Deferre, Pierre Joassin
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Maigret Season 1 Episode 34 - Maigret and the Diamond Cruncher
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Maigret and the Diamond Cruncher

    S1:E34

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

    Director:André Chandelle
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Maigret Season 1 Episode 35 - My Friend Maigret
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Bruno Gantillon
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Maigret Season 1 Episode 36 - Maigret and the Open Window
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Maigret and the Open Window

    S1:E36

    A shot is heard at 3pm from the waiting room of a shady financier. Minutes later he is found shot dead. Among the witnesses are two inspectors waiting to issue a summons. A suicide? Maigret sees it as a classic Agathe Christie mystery: enclosed scene and limited suspects, all of whom have motive. He keeps everyone there and lets them simmer until someone comes to a boil.

    Director:Pierre Granier-Deferre
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Maigret Season 1 Episode 37 - Maigret and the Wine Merchant
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Maigret and the Wine Merchant

    S1:E37

    A wealthy wine dealer's death doesn't bother his wife or "secretary."

    Director:Christian de Chalonge
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Maigret Season 1 Episode 39 - Maigret and the Madman of Saint Clothilde
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Maigret and the Madman of Saint Clothilde

    S1:E39

    Maigret is traveling by train on vacation to meet his wife and niece when he sees a man jump off the moving train. He follows and ends up in the hospital at Saint Clothilde with minor injuries. Then he finds out that there have been several unusual murders in the area, locally attributed to a "madman" and he begins an investigation with considerable resistance from local authorities.

    Director:Claudio Tonetti
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Maigret Season 1 Episode 40 - Felicia's house
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Felicia's house

    S1:E40

    Maigret is called to a farmhouse in Normandy; the owner has been killed. There he meets a 23-year-old woman named Felicie who is extremely defensive. She and Maigret keep up a barrage of unkind words the length of the story, it's wonderful to watch.

    Director:Christian de Chalonge
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Maigret Season 1 Episode 41 - Maigret goes to School
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Maigret goes to School

    S1:E41

    Maigret goes to a small village after receiving a letter from the son of the schoolteacher. The schoolteacher is currently in prison awaiting trial for the murder of the village's postmistress. She was supposedly killed when he was out of the classroom for a few minutes one morning collecting graded essays from his house which is attached to the school. The schoolteacher is an outsider in a very insular community. Maigret investigates a collection of drunks and children to find the truth.

    Directors:Yves de Chalonge, Yven de Chalonge
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Maigret Season 1 Episode 42 - Maigret and the Princess
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Maigret and the Princess

    S1:E42

    A count who is also a diplomat is murdered.

    Director:Laurent Heynemann
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Maigret Season 1 Episode 43 - Maigret’s Failure
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Maigret’s Failure

    S1:E43

    After receiving some threatening anonymous letters, an old classmate of Maigret wants him to investigate. Then, the classmate is killed.

    Director:Jacques Fansten
    Writers:Claire Level, Steve Hawes

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  25. Maigret Season 1 Episode 44 - Signed Picus
    10.0/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Signed Picus

    S1:E44

    A man finds a note signed Picpus written on a piece of blotting paper. Picpus says he is going to kill a fortune teller. And sure enough, a fortune teller is found murdered.

    Director:Jacques Fansten
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Maigret's Patience" is the best rated episode of "Maigret". It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Andrzej Kostenko and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/15/1994. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Maigret's Holiday".