The Best Episodes Written By Alan Plater

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.5/10(4 votes)

   #1 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

   S1:E22/16/1992

   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!

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   8.6/10(5 votes)

   #2 - The Patience of Maigret

   S1:E12/9/1992

   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.

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   8.3/10(6 votes)

   #3 - Old School Ties

   S1:E22/25/2007

   Lewis comes face to face with his past in a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics.

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   7.9/10(10 votes)

   #4 - And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea

   S2:E12/24/2008

   When a man is found dead at the Bodleian Library, Lewis investigates a link between the death and an intruder on a local professor's property.

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   7.6/10(5 votes)

   #5 - The Quality of Mercy

   S3:E23/29/2009

   When Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the murder of a rising Oxford theatre star, they focus their suspicions on his acting colleagues.

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   6.6/10(12 votes)

   #6 - A Tale of Two Hamlets

   S6:E41/24/2003

   Someone is decimating the ancient Smythe-Webster family of Upper Walden, and the bad blood between the villages of Upper and Lower Walden is renewed with a vengeance. First, young heart-throb actor Larry Smith (alias Laurence Smythe-Webster) dies in an explosion at a publicity event for a new film. House of Satan is based on a book by a local writer, the late Ellis Bell of Lower Walden - a village whose inhabitants are referred to by its Vicar, the Reverend Simon Smythe-Webster, as ""the weasels of the wild wood"".The next to die is Larry's uncle, House of Satan producer Frank Webster (Francis Smythe-Webster), electrocuted to death on his exercise bike. Finally, Barnaby's principal suspect, Danny Pinchel, the family's cook, is drowned in a large bowl of tomato soup...Barnaby realizes he is dealing with an historic grudge, and he enquires into the family's antecedents.

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   6.4/10(7 votes)

   #7 - Your Sudden Death Question

   S4:E35/16/2010

   On a bank holiday weekend Lewis and Hathaway are called in when a top quiz competitor is found floating dead in the fountain of an Oxford college.

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