The Best Episodes of Maigret Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   10.0/10(3 votes)

   #1 - Maigret Goes Home

   S1:E1910/20/1995

   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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   Director:Denys de La Patellière

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   10.0/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Maigret in Finland

   S1:E229/27/1996

   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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   Director:Pekka Parikka

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   10.0/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Maigret and the Elusive Witness

   S1:E2510/3/1997

   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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   Director:Pierre Granier-Deferre

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   10.0/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Mrs. Four and Her Children

   S1:E291/15/1999

   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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   Director:Philippe Bérenger

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   10.0/10(4 votes)

   #5 - A First Class Murder

   S1:E3111/26/1999

   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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   Director:Christian de Chalonge

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   10.0/10(4 votes)

   #6 - Maigret’s Boyhood Friend

   S1:E459/29/2003

   Maigret is not at all pleased to become reacquainted with the dubious Leon Florentin, who was at school with him and now needs his help.

   Director:Laurent Heynemann

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Laurent Heynemann

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   #7 - Maigret and the Little Pigs without Tails

   S1:E473/29/2004

   While assisting the police elsewhere in France, Maigret becomes unofficially involved in a missing persons case involving the husband (Marcel Blanc) of a young woman (Germaine Blanc). She's trying very hard to find her husband who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but she is very reticent when speaking about it to Maigret. As he follows her and finally gains her partial trust, the plot begins to expand to include stolen paintings, crooked boxing and a fence who turns out to be Germaine's father.

   Director:Charles Nemes

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Charles Nemes

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   10.0/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Maigret at the Doctors

   S1:E506/25/2004

   Dr. Baron is a respectable physician, married with two children. When his servant girl from Brittany dies of poisoning, her parents file a complaint with the police. Maigret travels to the doctor's home in Neuilly and investigates allegations of foul play associated with another servant; he also learns that a vagrant visited the house weekly.

   Director:Claudio Tonetti

   Writers:Claire Level, Steve Hawes

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   Director:Claudio Tonetti

   Writers:Claire Level, Steve Hawes
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   10.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - Maigret and the Ladys Companion

   S1:E521/17/2005

   A young woman tries to convince Maigret that the death of the cultured woman she worked for was actually a homicide. She accuses the victim's family, but the local judge defends the family on the basis of their high social standing and tells Maigret that her allegations are preposterous and should be disregarded.

   Director:Franck Apprederis

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Franck Apprederis

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    10.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Maigret at the Etoile du Nord

    S1:E5412/23/2005

    A man is killed in a hotel in Paris. Maigret meets there a young woman who says she is a prostitute. But it seems to Maigret she is not what she wants him to believe... This seems to become the very last Bruno Cremer's Maigret.

    Director:Charles Nemes

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Charles Nemes

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    9.8/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Signed Picus

    S1:E446/30/2003

    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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    Director:Jacques Fansten

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    9.8/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Maigret and the Tramp

    S1:E485/3/2004

    A tramp is found, unconscious and wounded, in the Seine.

    Director:Laurent Heynemann

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Laurent Heynemann

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    9.8/10(4 votes)

    #13 - A Shadow in the Courtyard

    S1:E495/28/2004

    When the wealthy owner of a pharmaceutical company is shot and killed at his desk with a plundered safe behind him, Maigret wonders if it was just a robbery gone wrong. Whatever it was, he's convinced the answer lies down the block, where the victim's ex-wife and her husband, his girlfriend and his wastrel son all live.

    Director:Charles Nemes

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Charles Nemes

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    9.7/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Maigret's Patience

    S1:E114/15/1994

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

    Director:Andrzej Kostenko

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Andrzej Kostenko

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    9.7/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Maigret and the Ghost

    S1:E125/13/1994

    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?

    Director:Hannu Kahakorpi

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Hannu Kahakorpi

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    9.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Maigret Sees Double

    S1:E323/3/2000

    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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    Director:François Luciani

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    9.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Maigret and the Open Window

    S1:E366/22/2001

    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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    Director:Pierre Granier-Deferre

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    9.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Maigret and the Madman of Saint Clothilde

    S1:E395/10/2002

    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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    Director:Claudio Tonetti

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    9.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Felicia's house

    S1:E406/3/2002

    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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    Director:Christian de Chalonge

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    9.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Maigret and the Princess

    S1:E422/21/2003

    A count who is also a diplomat is murdered.

    Director:Laurent Heynemann

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Laurent Heynemann

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    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Maigret at the Hotel Majestic

    S1:E71/22/1993

    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.

    Director:Claude Goretta

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Claude Goretta

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    9.5/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Maigret and the Candle Auction

    S1:E176/16/1995

    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.

    Director:Pierre Granier-Deferre

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Pierre Granier-Deferre

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    9.5/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Maigret and the Death of Harbour Master

    S1:E202/2/1996

    Maigret tries to find the person responsible for the death of a harbor master who, after disappearing for six weeks, could no longer speak and had no physical reactions to anything.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    9.5/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Maigret Sets a Trap

    S1:E2310/11/1996

    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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    Director:Juraj Herz

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    9.5/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Murder in a Vegetable Garden

    S1:E302/5/1999

    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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    Director:Edwin Baily

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