Original title
Maigret
Released
2/9/1992
Origin country
GB
Genre
Crime, Drama
Production companies
Granada Television
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
12
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 by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Maigret sets out to catch a serial killer.
A stripper reports a conspiracy to murder a countess and is found strangled.
Maigret investigates when the wife of an American industrialist is found strangled in the kitchen of the Hotel Majestic.
Maigret is accused of trying to seduce a 17-year-old niece of a high-ranking public official.
Maigret is asked by an old schoolfriend to investigate the murder of his lover.
The Minister of Public Works asks Maigret to investigate the theft of a government report.
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.
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