Maigret

1960

Maigret

7.9 | TV-PG | en | Drama

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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Seasons & Episodes

EP13 Maigret's Little Joke

Dec. 24,1963

A crime of passion which attracts a lot of anonymous letters. The naked body of a doctor's wife is discovered.

EP12 Peter the Lett

Dec. 17,1963

Peter the Lett arrives in Paris with a reputation as the most successful confidence trickster in Europe. Inspector Maigret is waiting.

EP11 The Crime at Lock 14

Dec. 10,1963

A yacht and a barge meet in the traffic of the canals, with their passing resulting in murder.

EP10 Another World

Dec. 03,1963

When investigating the murder of millionaire David Ward, Maigret enters another world, where money is lord of all.

EP9 The Judge's House

Nov. 26,1963

The peculiar logic of madness, that haunts the Judge's house, helps Maigret to solve the puzzling murder of a doctor.

EP8 The Log of the Cap Fagnet

Nov. 19,1963

A conspiracy of silence protects the murderer of Captain Fallut. Can Maigret find any significant clues?

EP7 A Taste of Power

Nov. 12,1963

Maigret takes on a mystery surrounding a gunshot in a silent, sleeping house; exposing a ruthless battle for power.

EP6 The Flemish Shop

Nov. 05,1963

Maigret discovers similarities between himself and a killer, finding there is only one way to gain a confession.

EP5 A Man Condemned

Sep. 29,1963

Tomorrow a man must die on the guillotine, unless Maigret can demolish the case he himself built up against him.

EP4 The Cellars of the Majestic

Oct. 22,1963

The French wife of a visiting American millionaire is found murdered in the luxurious Majestic Hotel.

EP3 The Lost Life

Oct. 15,1963

To Inspector Lognon the life lost was just another murder to be solved, but it meant more than that for Maigret.

EP2 The Fontenay Murders

Oct. 08,1963

Maigret discovers local prejudices run deep when investigating a series of murders in the town of Fontenay.

EP1 Poor Cecile

Oct. 01,1963

A spinster with a special fondness for Inspector Maigret is murdered.

7.9 | TV-PG | en | Drama , Crime , Mystery | More Info

Released: 1960-10-31 | Released Producted By: BBC , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cm3p9

Synopsis

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Cast

Rupert Davies , Ewen Solon , Henry Oscar

Director

Bill Luckwell

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Cast

Rupert Davies

as Chief Inspector Maigret

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Ewen Solon

as Lucas

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Henry Oscar

as Inspector Lognon

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Reviews

millennium-4 Watching Maigret played by Rupert Davies when I should have been doing my homework is one of the reasons I did not so well at school. Others are, The Saint, Danger Man, Quatermass and the Pit, The Avengers, and so on. All the products of UK TV. But perhaps they were in fact produced by the Soviets to undermine the education of British kids like me. I have recovered but would really like the BBC to release the surviving Maigret episodes. They cant be doing any good stuck where they are. Maigret showed me a France that excited my imagination and caused me to read every book that George Simenon ever wrote. I was not disappointed by Simenon. And Rupert Davies would have had a hard time convincing me that he was not genuinely French if we ever met. As for Ewen Solon, I could never see him as anything but Lucas in any subsequent appearances.

ben-lenthall When I was at the BBC in the 1990's I asked the library in Windmill Road to send up the episodes they had for viewing prior to a possible Video release. They said they had very few surviving episodes but sent what they had including a Christmas special. As I watched all the quality of this series was relived. Now that The Age of Kings has been retrieved and released on DVD this series would have been next on my wish list. It was superb, captured the atmosphere of Simenon's Paris perfectly with its Citroen Tractions, cobbled streets and bistros. The title sequence with Rupert Davies striking a match on a wall to light his pipe to the music of Ron Grainer was superb. Half the UK population flocked home to see it each week.

richard-hull Well, that's according to my memories, anyway. I was an avid Simenon reader at the time - I think I've read nearly every Maigret story - and I totally loved this series. Simenon's Maigret stories are very difficult for directors and actors to adequately capture because he builds up an atmosphere using all the senses, not just the visual and aural. He also develops the atmosphere gradually - Maigret's or someone else' health, the drinks and food he consumes, Maigret's ponderings on the crime or the criminal, the weather. That atmosphere is also tied in with the specific psychological aspects of each case - Simenon was fairly obsessed with exploring the psychodynamics of pathological behaviour, and very much in the style of psychoanalytic descriptions and explanations. I don't recall seeing any other adaptation of the Maigret novels that came as close as this series. I wish it were available.