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The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
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The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
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Episode 1
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.
Directed by Claude GorettaGuest stars Renée Faure, Michael Lonsdale, Élizabeth Macocco, Serge Beauvois, Jean-Claude Frissung, Philippe Fretun, Pierre Baillot, Marie Collins
Episode 2
Maigret is sent at the Border with Belgium to investigate on a shady affair.
Directed by Serge LeroyGuest stars Alexandra Vandernoot, Sabrina Leurquin, Gérard Darier, Pierre Dherte, Hilde Uitterlinden, Olivier Darimont, Gérald Marti, Raymond Avenière
Episode 3
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.
Directed by Bertrand Van EffenterreGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Michel Bouquet, Elric Thomas, Bruno Wolkowitch, Karin Viard, Julien Maurel, Josiane Lévêque, Marcel Champel
Episode 4
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.
Directed by José PinheiroGuest stars Serge Beauvois, Bruno Cremer, Jacqueline Danno, Jean-Louis Foulquier, Philippe Polet, Marina Golovine, Virginie Robert, Valérie Vogt
Episode 5
Maigret is called to the canal St Martin; a headless body has been found. He finds a café nearby with an uncommunicative owner.
Directed by Serge LeroyGuest stars Pierre Baillot, Gérard Darier, Bruno Cremer, Philippe Polet, Aurore Clément, Patrick Floersheim, Nicolas Tronc, Pierre-Octave Arrighi
Episode 6
Maigret investigates a murder at a crossroads in rural France. Everybody has something to hide, and he's got to find the guilty one.
Directed by Alain Tasma, Bertrand Van EffenterreGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Sunnyi Melles, Roland Blanche, Johan Leysen, Myriam Boyer, Philippe Dormoy, Henri Courseaux, Hubert Deschamps
Episode 7
A death at a luxury hotel gives Maigret plenty of additional headaches when one of the wealthy suspects proves to have a lot of local influence.
Directed by Claude GorettaGuest stars Jean-Claude Frissung, Bruno Cremer, Jérôme Deschamps, Michel Caccia, Maryvonne Schiltz, Marilú Marini, Erick Desmarestz, Jean-Pierre Gos
Episode 8
Someone is out to get Maigret into trouble, and he must defend himself vigorously.
Directed by Andrzej KostenkoGuest stars Eric Prat, Bruno Cremer, Agnès Soral, Claude Faraldo, Raoul Delfosse, Philippe du Janerand, Vincent Martin, Ewan McLaren
Episode 9
Murder occurs in a family that has fallen from Grace. Maigret is on the case.
Directed by Michel SibraGuest stars Jean-Claude Frissung, Pierre Baillot, Eric Prat, Bruno Cremer, Marc Duret, Denise Chalem, Olivier Pajot, Gisèle Casadesus
Episode 10
Louis Thouret is knifed to death in Paris, and Maigret must find out who did it.
Directed by Étienne PérierGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Marie Dubois, Andréa Ferréol, Julie Jézéquel, Fred Personne, Samuel Le Bihan, Jean-Marie Juan, Jean-Pierre Germain
Episode 11
Maigret must play a long waiting game to catch a big-time crook.
Directed by Andrzej KostenkoGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Agnès Soral, Claude Faraldo, Ewan McLaren, Josef Šebek, Vincent Martin, Fernand Berset, Erick Deshors
Episode 12
When Maigret's fellow police officer Lognon is shot in Helsinki, he's forced to travel to Finland in order to investigate Lognon's shooting with the help of a local police officer Ari Vaara. But how are a Swedish art dealer, his French wife and a mysterious Brit involved in the shooting?
Directed by Hannu KahakorpiGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Heinz Bennent, Élisabeth Bourgine, Timo Torikka, Nadine Spinoza, Annie Bertin, Paavo Pentikäinen, Jonathan Hutchings
Episode 13
A rich entrepreneur is assaulted and Maigret must find out who did it and why.
Directed by Olivier SchatzkyGuest stars Jean-Claude Frissung, Éric Berger, Bruno Cremer, Jean Yanne, Georges Staquet, Françoise Bertin, Rémy Darcy, Edwige Navarro
Episode 14
Young Cécile and her aunt are killed. Maigret must find out who did it.
Directed by Denys de La PatellièreGuest stars Jean-Claude Frissung, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Pierre Gos, Claude Piéplu, Annick Alane, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Sophie Caffarel, François Clavier
Episode 15
A young prostitute is killed in a posh Paris apartment, and Maigret is on the case. Who did it?
Directed by Joyce BuñuelGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Danièle Lebrun, Bernadette Lafont, Brigitte Catillon, Anny Romand, François Perrot, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Rebecca Potok
Episode 16
The maid to a wealthy elderly woman is murdered. The latter tells the authorities that she believes it was a case of mistaken identity by the killer and that she herself was their target.
Directed by David DelrieuxGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Odette Laure, Béatrice Agenin, Bernard Freyd, Olivier Cruveiller, Philippe Morier-Genoud, André Chaumeau, Pierre Cassignard
Episode 17
What began as a short trip to question an innkeeper in the Vendee turns into days as Inspector Maigret gets confined to the inn with the flu. Then, a guest is found murdered. The police cordon off the inn and begin a careful reconstruction of events, while Maigret conducts his own investigation.
Directed by Pierre Granier-DeferreGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Etienne Chicot, Daniel Gélin, Michèle Moretti, Pierre Forest, Frédéric Pierrot, Gilles Treton, Margot Abascal
Episode 18
Even on holiday, Maigret must investigate crime.
Directed by Pierre JoassinGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Alain Doutey, Ronny Coutteure, Catherine Aymerie, Étienne Draber, Dominique MacAvoy, Jeannine Godinas, Yolande Moreau
Episode 19
Maigret returns to the small village where he was raised, after receiving an anonymous letter telling him that a crime would take place in the town church on All Saints' Day.
Directed by Denys de La PatellièreGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Jacques Spiesser, Claude Winter, Jacques Sereys, Pierre Gérard, Arno Chevrier, Nicolas Moreau, Jacques Giraud
Episode 20
Maigret tries to find the person responsible for the death of a harbor master who, after disappearing for six weeks, could no longer speak and had no physical reactions to anything.
Guest stars Jean-Claude Dauphin, Frédéric van den Driessche, Jeanne Marine, Luc Thuillier, Delphine Rich, Albert Delpy, Rod Goodall, Patrick Bordier
Episode 21
When Joseph Heurtin escapes from prison, it's because Maigret has arranged it. And if Heurtin didn't kill that old woman, who did?
Directed by Juraj HerzGuest stars Emmanuel Salinger, Zora Jandová, Jean-Claude Frissung, Marisa Berenson, Eric Prat, Jay Benedict, Erick Desmarestz, Olivier Achard
Episode 22
When a French man is accused of murder in Finland and he refuses to talk unless to a French police, Inspector Maigret is once again forced to travel to Finland to investigate the case.
Directed by Pekka ParikkaGuest stars Robin Renucci, Bruno Cremer, Timo Torikka, Irina Björklund, Sara Paavolainen, Jonna Järnefelt, Jukka-Pekka Palo, Peter Franzén
Episode 23
Four serial murders in the Marais district of Paris. Maigret sets a trap. Pretending to have arrested the assassin, he sends trained plainclothes policewomen out at night as bait. Maigret hopes that the killer's pride will force him to act.
Directed by Juraj HerzGuest stars Jean-Claude Frissung, Bruno Todeschini, Hélène Surgère, Laurence Masliah, Pascale Vignal, Élie Semoun, Hubert Saint-Macary, Jean-Paul Muel
Episode 24
Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.
Directed by Christian Karcher, Claude Goretta
Episode 25
A child while is going to church to make an altar boy sees a corpse in the street. No one else sees that corpse, and two minutes later, that corpse is disappeared. Later the child claims to have invented the story. Maigret must find out, first of all, if the corpse is really existed or if it is a lie of the child.
Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Episode 26
Maigret is dispatched on a special murder case to the South of France with instructions from a very high source not to make waves while solving the crime. The homicide victim, an Australian ex-pat, was a hero in the French Resistance.
Directed by Michel Favart
Episode 27
Maigret is spending a few days between assignments avoiding a long trip back to Paris and then on again to his next assignment. The seaside resort is run by an acquaintance from earlier days in Paris, Monsieur Louis. Staying at the resort is a art dealer, Monsieur Owen, who is wheelchair bound from MS and accompanied by a nurse. Also staying is a flamboyant actress with her newly acquired second husband and a dog. There is also a gentleman whom Monsieur Louis describes as a "fixer" who "helps" people not favored by Lady Luck at the Casino. A unknown dead man is found in Monsieur Owen's bath with the actress's dead dog. Both the second husband and Monsieur Owen have disappeared. The actress faints; the nurse demures. Maigret who is on vacation and "not involved" even after Monsieur Louis's request for help get interested in the strange actions of the characters.
Directed by Pierre KoralnikGuest stars João Lagarto, Isabel Ruth, François d'Artemare, Luísa Barbosa, Ricardo Carriço, João Didelet
Episode 28
Maigret travels ex officio to help the brother-in-law of commisionaire who is a friend of his. The brother-in-law is being anonymously accused of the murder of a man who died having been run over by a train just outside his property. At the same time an ex-inspector that Maigret had had dismissed also appears and seems to be following the same clues and talking to the same witnesses.
Directed by Pierre Joassin
Episode 29
Maigret goes undercover at a boarding house where a woman with two boys is occupying room number 4, hence Mrs. Quatre/Four. She has fled her home and husband with the boys and is in hiding after seeing a dead woman's body in the conservatory with her husband at night. Her reports to the police have no backing as the body is gone and her husband has also disappeared. Maigret takes on the investigation under the name Mr. Fountaine because a detail referring to a fountain, he believes, gives veracity to her story.
Directed by Philippe BérengerGuest stars Tomáš Hanák, Bruno Cremer, Marianne Basler, Christian Morin, Claude Duparfait, Sacha Briquet, Hélène Babu, Delphine Zentout
Episode 30
Maigret travels to Dole after a gun found with a murdered "vagrant" matched one used to kill another "vagrant" under a Paris bridge. There he encounters a pair of feuding sisters, one of whom owns the shed the victim was found in. The feud has been going on for 30 years, the source of which is both clear and muddied at the same time, just like the weather.
Directed by Edwin BailyGuest stars Pavel Kříž, Jiří Ployhar, Geneviève Fontanel, Michèle Simonnet, Daniel Červinka, Jana Vychodilová, Zdeněk Kozák, Gustav Vondráček
Episode 31
Maigret is called for by his nephew, a new inspector in the north after a man was found dead in a first class carriage. The 106 train to Paris which started outside France was stopped at the Jeumont station for 50 minutes during which the murder took place. His nephew had the carriage and dining car detached and isolated but ran foul of politics as a French Consol and his family, secretary, and nanny were on board. The victim's identity papers were stolen and the train is filled with a mixture of the guilty and the innocent and dentists. But of the murder? And who is and what happened to Max?
Directed by Christian de ChalongeGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Hélène de Saint-Père, Veronika Varga, François-Régis Marchasson, François Caron, Laurent Schilling, Philippe Lamendin
Episode 32
Maigret investigates the death of a seemingly boring accountant killed while standing at the bedroom window of his fourth floor flat. The victim had no strong feelings for his wife or his children, and a boring position at a bathroom fixture supplier, and has no friends, therefore, no enemies. His only love was a canary. Maigret calls his young nephew inspector to help find out just who the victim really was. He finds, literally, more of the same. But within that sameness, one difference.
Directed by François LucianiGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Laure Duthilleul, Aladin Reibel, Julien Cafaro, Éléonore Bernheim, Consuelo De Haviland, Jean-Paul Muel
Episode 33
Maigret investigates a threatening letter at the Parendon mansion.
Directed by Denys Granier-Deferre, Pierre JoassinGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Fabien Béhar, Caroline Silhol, Michel Duchaussoy, Cécile Bois, Célia Granier-Deferre, Jocelyn Quivrin
Episode 34
A wealthy Englishman emotionlessly identifies a picture of his dead wife.
Directed by André ChandelleGuest stars Ivan Franěk, Alexandre Brasseur, Michael Lonsdale, Renaud Danner, Jean-Claude Adelin, Maaike Jansen, Frédéric Bodson, Alexia Portal
Episode 35
Maigret, accompanied by an inspector from Scotland Yard, visits a small island where a man, who carried an old letter coming from Maigret, was murdered.
Directed by Bruno GantillonGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Michael Morris, Annie Sinigalia, Anna Korwin, Marc Chapiteau, François Lalande, Jean-Michel Portal
Episode 36
A shot is heard at 3pm from the waiting room of a shady financier. Minutes later he is found shot dead. Among the witnesses are two inspectors waiting to issue a summons. A suicide? Maigret sees it as a classic Agathe Christie mystery: enclosed scene and limited suspects, all of whom have motive. He keeps everyone there and lets them simmer until someone comes to a boil.
Directed by Pierre Granier-DeferreGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Fabien Béhar, Florence Darel, Jacques Boudet, Jacques Dacqmine, Clément Harari, Évelyne Grandjean
Episode 37
A wealthy wine dealer's death doesn't bother his wife or "secretary."
Directed by Christian de ChalongeGuest stars Michal Roneš, Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Thierry Frémont, Nicole Croisille, Carole Brenner, Bénédicte Loyen, Laurent Schilling
Episode 38
A government minister asks Maigret to investigate when he becomes the victim of "dirty tricks".
Directed by Christian de ChalongeGuest stars Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Laurent Schilling, Bruno Abraham-Kremer, Bernard Freyd, Gisèle Casadesus, Laure Marsac, Christophe Reymond
Episode 39
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.
Directed by Claudio Tonetti
Episode 40
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.
Directed by Christian de ChalongeGuest stars Christelle Cornil
Episode 41
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.
Directed by Yves de Chalonge, Yven de Chalonge
Episode 42
A count who is also a diplomat is murdered.
Directed by Laurent Heynemann
Episode 43
After receiving some threatening anonymous letters, an old classmate of Maigret wants him to investigate. Then, the classmate is killed.
Directed by Jacques FanstenWritten by Claire Level, Steve Hawes
Episode 44
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.
Directed by Jacques Fansten
Episode 45
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.
Directed by Laurent Heynemann
Episode 46
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...
Directed by Pierre Joassin
Episode 47
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.
Directed by Charles Nemes
Episode 48
A tramp is found, unconscious and wounded, in the Seine.
Directed by Laurent Heynemann
Episode 49
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.
Directed by Charles Nemes
Episode 50
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.
Directed by Claudio TonettiWritten by Claire Level, Steve HawesGuest stars Petr Lněnička, Kateřina Janečková, Adéla Středová, Guillaume Delorme
Episode 51
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...
Directed by Laurent HeynemannGuest stars Pavel Vondruška
Episode 52
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.
Directed by Franck ApprederisGuest stars Vanessa Larré, Jana Altmannová
Episode 53
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.
Directed by Jérôme Boivin
Episode 54
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.
Directed by Charles NemesGuest stars Stanislav Hybler, Hana Czivišová, Zdeněk Sedláček, Monika Hladová
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