The Best Episodes Written By Alan Plater

Every TV Episode Written by Alan Plater Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

    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:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Patience of Maigret
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #2 - The Patience of Maigret

    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:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 4 Episode 3 - Your Sudden Death Question
    5.8/10(6 votes)

    #3 - Your Sudden Death Question

    S4:E3

    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.

    Director:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 6 Episode 4 - A Tale of Two Hamlets
    5.8/10(9 votes)

    #4 - A Tale of Two Hamlets

    S6:E4

    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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Alan Plater Ratings Summary

"Maigret and the Burglar's Wife" is the best rated episode written by Alan Plater. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 2/16/1992 and is rated 1.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Patience of Maigret".