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BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Episode 1
Based on his 1960 Novel Maigret et les Vieillards. Maigret is thrown into a world where he must tread delicately when investigating the violent death of Count St Hilaire.
Directed by Gerard GlaisterGuest stars Richard Vernon, Charles Gray, Catherine Lacey, Fay Compton, Terence Alexander
Episode 2
Based on his 1932 novel Le Fou de Bergerac. Maigret must fall on unconventional methods to catch a madman after being wounded and confined to a hotel bed.
Guest stars Pauline Yates, Laurence Payne, Roger Delgado, Lockwood West, Rita Davies
Episode 3
Based on his 1932 novel L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre. Maigret returns to the village where he was born and becomes convinced he witnessed the Countess of Fiacre's murder.
Directed by Andrew OsbornGuest stars Clive Morton, Philip Stone, William Franklyn, Colin Jeavons, William Mervyn, Meredith Edwards, Patrick Boxill, Dorothy Black
Episode 4
While visiting a condemned man in prison, he comments to Maigret that he knows someone at a "guinguette a deux sous" (a "tuppenny bar") who is equally deserving of the death penalty.
Guest stars Frank Williams, Philip Latham, Peter Madden, John Slater
Episode 5
Maigret was called for help by the Minister of Public Works, Auguste Point. This is a political and annoying affair: a month earlier, a sanatorium in Haute-Savoie collapsed, and 128 children died in the disaster.
Guest stars Leonard Sachs, Noel Johnson, William Devlin
Episode 6
Why was Jules Lapie, known as Jambe-de-Bois, murdered in his home, who was spending a peaceful old age in his new home near Poissy? Maigret felt that Félicie, Lapie's maid, who had gone out to shop at the time of the assassination, knew something, but she remained silent; her behaviour irritated and intrigued the Commissioner, who hardly left her during her investigation.
Guest stars Alan Browning, Olaf Pooley, Hugh Cecil
Episode 7
An arrogant old lady pays Maigret a visit and tells him about the death of her granddaughter.
Guest stars Rosalie Crutchley, Beatrix Lehmann, Ernest Clark, Dermot Kelly
Episode 8
Maigret investigates the murder of a fortune teller after the prediction of their own death comes true.
Guest stars Gerald James, Peter Brett
Episode 9
Maigret descends upon a small town north of Paris after a diamond dealer is found murdered in the garage of a house.
Written by Donald BullGuest stars Gerard Heinz, Roland Curram, Charles Farrell, Lisa Daniely
Episode 10
When a rich old woman is murdered with no apparent motive, all fingers point to the delivery man. Maigret isn't so sure and sets out to find the real murderer
Written by Giles CooperGuest stars Anton Rodgers, Bruno Barnabe, John Ronane, Gabriella Licudi
Episode 11
The young son of a murder suspect leads the police on a clever trail. Is he purposely hindering or helping the case?
Directed by Gerard GlaisterGuest stars James Maxwell, George Roderick, George Roubicek, Arthur Lowe, Michael Mellinger, Alfred Burke
Episode 12
Maigret creates a trap to capture a serial killer who is targeting women in the streets of Montmartre.
Guest stars Aubrey Woods, Jacqueline Hill, Sonia Dresdel
Episode 13
Maigret holds the suspicion that a recently released criminal is responsible for a number of daring holdups in Paris.
Guest stars Edwin Richfield, Alan Howard, George Pastell, Mervyn Johns, John Tate
Episode information updated Sep 3, 2026
Rupert DaviesChief Inspector Maigret
Ewen SolonLucas
Henry OscarInspector Lognon
Helen ShinglerMadame Maigret
Neville JasonLapointe
Aubrey WoodsPhilippe Mortemartre
Edwin Richfield
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