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The Worst Episodes of Maigret

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Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Maigret Season 2 Episode 2 - Maigret and the Hotel Majestic
    7.4/10(155 votes)

    S2:E2

    Maigret investigates when the wife of an American industrialist is found strangled in the kitchen of the Hotel Majestic.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Maigret Season 1 Episode 3 - Maigret Goes to School
    7.5/10(160 votes)

    S1:E3

    A schoolmaster from a small fishing village arrives at Maigret's office claiming he's about to be wrongly arrested for murdering the town's disliked postmistress. Maigret travels to the village and discovers a conspiracy of vast proportions amid surly, distrusting villagers.

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Maigret Season 1 Episode 4 - Maigret and the Mad Woman
    7.5/10(161 votes)

    S1:E4

    An old lady believes that there has been an intruder in her apartment, but before Maigret has a chance to investigate, he learns that she has been murdered in her apartment.

    Director:John Glenister
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Maigret Season 1 Episode 5 - Maigret on Home Ground
    7.6/10(146 votes)

    S1:E5

    Maigret responds to a warning that a crime is to be committed in the church in his home town during the first mass on All Soul's Day.

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Maigret Season 2 Episode 1 - Maigret and the Nightclub Dancer
    7.6/10(183 votes)

    S2:E1

    A stripper reports a conspiracy to murder a countess and is found strangled.

    Director:John Strickland
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Maigret Season 2 Episode 3 - Maigret on the Defensive
    7.7/10(145 votes)

    S2:E3

    Maigret is accused of trying to seduce a 17-year-old niece of a high-ranking public official.

    Director:Stuart Burge
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Maigret Season 2 Episode 4 - Maigret's Boyhood Friend
    7.7/10(138 votes)

    S2:E4

    Maigret is asked by an old schoolfriend to investigate the murder of his lover.

    Director:John Strickland
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Maigret Season 1 Episode 1 - The Patience of Maigret
    7.8/10(256 votes)

    S1:E1

    Maigret's patience is tested when the crime boss he has investigated for years, Manuel Palmari, commits another jewellery heist. But when Palmari himself is murdered, Maigret works with the criminal's shady mistress, Aline, to find the killer.

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Alan Plater

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  9. Maigret Season 1 Episode 2 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
    7.8/10(188 votes)

    S1:E2

    Alfred Jussiaum is a safecracker. While he's on the job he finds the dead body of a woman in the house he's robbing. Afraid, he leaves town and asks his wife Ernestine to go to inspector Maigret and report the murder. Maigret goes to the house and the owner a dentist who lives with his mother denies there ever was a robbery much less a murder. Maigret is not convinced and he soon finds out that the doctor's wife who supposedly travelled to Holland the day of the murder hasn’t reached her destination and is nowhere to be found. Someone is lying!

    Director:John Glenister
    Writer:Alan Plater

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  10. Maigret Season 2 Episode 5 - Maigret and the Minister
    7.8/10(137 votes)

    S2:E5

    The Minister of Public Works asks Maigret to investigate the theft of a government report.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Maigret Season 2 Episode 6 - Maigret and the Maid
    7.8/10(132 votes)

    S2:E6

    Maigret investigates the murder of Peg Leg, who has been shot in his room. He appears to have been entertaining a guest, but the housekeeper denies that anyone else was there.

    Director:Stuart Burge
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Maigret Season 1 Episode 6 - Maigret Sets a Trap
    7.9/10(171 votes)

    S1:E6

    Maigret sets out to catch a serial killer.

    Director:John Glenister
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Maigret and the Hotel Majestic" is the worst rated episode of "Maigret". It scored 7.4/10 based on 155 votes. Directed by Nicholas Renton and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/21/1993. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Maigret Goes to School".