The Worst Episodes of Maigret

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: N/A

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: N/A

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.

Director: Yven de Chalonge, Yves de Chalonge

Writer: N/A

A count who is also a diplomat is murdered.

Director: Laurent Heynemann

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Jacques Fansten

Writer: Steve Hawes, Claire Level

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: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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

Director: Laurent Heynemann

Writer: N/A

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: N/A

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

Writer: Steve Hawes, Claire Level

While staking out a boarding-house where is staying Emile Paulus, a suspect, Detective Archambaud is wounded by a bullet shot from an undetermined place. To further the investigation, Maigret, his superior, decides to put up at the boarding-house posing as an ordinary guest. He is welcomed by Mademoiselle Clément, the dignified owner, and soon discovers the various people living in the place. He also takes a special interest in a woman who dwells in a neighboring block of flats, Françoise Boursicault, the lonely crippled wife of a purser most of the time at sea... A common thread through all of them is that... they seem to have something to hide...

Director: Laurent Heynemann

Writer: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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

Director: Serge Leroy

Writer: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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: N/A

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

Director: Andrzej Kostenko

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Michel Sibra

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Étienne Périer

Writer: N/A