The Worst Episodes of Maigret

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1. #1 Worst Episode
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   7.1/10(159 votes)

   #1 - Maigret and the Flemish Shop

   S1:E21/5/1992

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

   Director:Serge Leroy

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Serge Leroy

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   7.1/10(139 votes)

   #2 - Maigret and the Judge

   S1:E33/15/1992

   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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   Director:Bertrand Van Effenterre

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   7.1/10(167 votes)

   #3 - Maigret in Montmartre

   S1:E46/7/1992

   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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   Director:José Pinheiro

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   7.5/10(187 votes)

   #4 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

   S1:E112/1/1991

   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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   Director:Claude Goretta

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   9.0/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Maigret's War of Nerves

   S1:E212/23/1996

   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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   Director:Juraj Herz

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #6 - Maigret and the Headless Corpse

   S1:E59/11/1992

   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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   Director:Serge Leroy

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Maigret on Trial

   S1:E85/7/1993

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

   Director:Andrzej Kostenko

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Andrzej Kostenko

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses

   S1:E911/5/1993

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

   Director:Michel Sibra

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Michel Sibra

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #9 - Maigret and the Man on the Bench

   S1:E1012/17/1993

   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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   Director:Étienne Périer

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    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - 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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    Director:Unknown

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    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - 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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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Night at the Crossroads

    S1:E611/27/1992

    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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    Directors:Alain Tasma, Bertrand Van Effenterre

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - 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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    10.0/10(2 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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    10.0/10(1 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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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Maigret and Lock no.1

    S1:E1310/21/1994

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

    Director:Olivier Schatzky

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Olivier Schatzky

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17. 

    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Maigret and the Spinster

    S1:E1410/28/1994

    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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    Director:Denys de La Patellière

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    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Maigret Is Mistaken

    S1:E1511/11/1994

    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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    Director:Joyce Buñuel

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Maigret and the Old Lady

    S1:E163/17/1995

    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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    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - 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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21. 

    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Maigret's Holiday

    S1:E189/8/1995

    Even on holiday, Maigret must investigate crime.

    Director:Pierre Joassin

    Writer:Unknown

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    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - 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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    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - 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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    10.0/10(2 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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    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Maigret Is Afraid

    S1:E2411/1/1996

    Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.

    Directors:Christian Karcher, Claude Goretta

    Writer:Unknown

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    Directors:Christian Karcher, Claude Goretta

    Writer:Unknown