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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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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Maigret Season 1 Episode 2 - Maigret and the Flemish Shop
    7.2/10(179 votes)

    S1:E2

    Maigret is sent at the Border with Belgium to investigate on a shady affair.

    Director:Serge Leroy
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Maigret Season 1 Episode 3 - Maigret and the Judge
    7.2/10(155 votes)

    S1:E3

    Maigret observes a man dragging a corpse along the ground at night. The man is a judge; Maigret must discover the identity of the dead man.

    Director:Bertrand Van Effenterre
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Maigret Season 1 Episode 4 - Maigret in Montmartre
    7.2/10(191 votes)

    S1:E4

    A stripper starts to report a murder that has not yet happened, but leaves before making the report official. She is found murdered that morning. Complicating matters is the relationship she had with one of Maigret's assistants.

    Director:José Pinheiro
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Maigret Season 1 Episode 1 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
    7.5/10(211 votes)

    S1:E1

    Maigret learns from a shady acquaintance that a murder has occurred during a burglary at a dentist's home. Tho his wife has disappeared, neither the suspiciously uncooperative dentist nor his virago mother are talking, and there is no body.

    Director:Claude Goretta
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Maigret Season 1 Episode 35 - My Friend Maigret
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    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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  6. Maigret Season 1 Episode 28 - Maigret Versus Mister Cadavre
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    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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  7. Maigret Season 1 Episode 53 - Maigret and the Seven Little Crosses
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    S1:E53

    Mid-August in Paris, and Maigret is due to leave on vacation. His travel plans get interrupted when a 60-year-old woman is killed in her own apartment. The police suspect it may be the latest murder committed by a serial killer. The same night, anonymous calls for police assistance come in from all over Paris, as if someone's trying to send a cryptic message.

    Director:Jérôme Boivin
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Maigret Season 1 Episode 13 - Maigret and Lock no.1
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E13

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

    Director:Olivier Schatzky
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Maigret Season 1 Episode 14 - Maigret and the Spinster
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E14

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

    Director:Denys de La Patellière
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Maigret Season 1 Episode 16 - Maigret and the Old Lady
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    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.

    Director:David Delrieux
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Maigret Season 1 Episode 9 - Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    S1:E9

    Murder occurs in a family that has fallen from Grace. Maigret is on the case.

    Director:Michel Sibra
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Maigret Season 1 Episode 18 - Maigret's Holiday
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    S1:E18

    Even on holiday, Maigret must investigate crime.

    Director:Pierre Joassin
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Maigret Season 1 Episode 21 - Maigret's War of Nerves
    9.0/10(4 votes)

    S1:E21

    When Joseph Heurtin escapes from prison, it's because Maigret has arranged it. And if Heurtin didn't kill that old woman, who did?

    Director:Juraj Herz
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Maigret Season 1 Episode 34 - Maigret and the Diamond Cruncher
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    S1:E34

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

    Director:André Chandelle
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Maigret Season 1 Episode 41 - Maigret goes to School
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    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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  16. Maigret Season 1 Episode 43 - Maigret’s Failure
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    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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  17. Maigret Season 1 Episode 5 - Maigret and the Headless Corpse
    9.2/10(5 votes)

    S1:E5

    Maigret is called to the canal St Martin; a headless body has been found. He finds a café nearby with an uncommunicative owner.

    Director:Serge Leroy
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Maigret Season 1 Episode 8 - Maigret on Trial
    9.2/10(5 votes)

    S1:E8

    Someone is out to get Maigret into trouble, and he must defend himself vigorously.

    Director:Andrzej Kostenko
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Maigret Season 1 Episode 10 - Maigret and the Man on the Bench
    9.2/10(5 votes)

    S1:E10

    Louis Thouret is knifed to death in Paris, and Maigret must find out who did it.

    Director:Étienne Périer
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Maigret Season 1 Episode 15 - Maigret Is Mistaken
    9.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E15

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

    Director:Joyce Buñuel
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Maigret Season 1 Episode 24 - Maigret Is Afraid
    9.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E24

    Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.

    Directors:Christian Karcher, Claude Goretta
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Maigret Season 1 Episode 26 - Maigret and the Liberty Bar
    9.2/10(4 votes)

    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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  23. Maigret Season 1 Episode 27 - Maigret and the Vanishing Mr. Owen
    9.2/10(4 votes)

    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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  24. Maigret Season 1 Episode 46 - Maigret Has Scruples
    9.2/10(4 votes)

    S1:E46

    While in Brussels where he is being rewarded with the Order of Leopold, Maigret is asked for by a man named Xavier Marton who tells him that he suspects his wife Gisèle to want to murder him. Then the man disappears. The following evening a woman by the name of Gisèle Marton is waiting for him in the lounge when Maigret arrives in this hotel. She warns the French commissaire that he must not believe what her husband has told him as the man is paranoiac. Puzzled by this unusual situation, Maigret decides to investigate. At the Martons'luxurious house (another oddity considering what modest jobs the couple have) he meets Jany, Gisèle's sister, who lets him know that he shouldn't believe all her sister says...

    Director:Pierre Joassin
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Maigret Season 1 Episode 6 - Night at the Crossroads
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Alain Tasma, Bertrand Van Effenterre
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Maigret and the Flemish Shop" is the worst rated episode of "Maigret". It scored 7.2/10 based on 179 votes. Directed by Serge Leroy and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/5/1992. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Maigret and the Judge".