Seasons & episodes
S1 · E25Maigret and the Elusive Witness 1997-10-03 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E26Maigret and the Liberty Bar 1997-10-17 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E27Maigret and the Vanishing Mr. Owen 1997-12-12 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E28Maigret Versus Mister Cadavre 1998-01-09 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E29Mrs. Four and Her Children 1999-01-15 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E30Murder in a Vegetable Garden 1999-02-05 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E31A First Class Murder 1999-11-26 · 90 min
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?
S1 · E32Maigret Sees Double 2000-03-03 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E33Maigret Among the Rich 2000-05-26 · 90 min
Maigret investigates a threatening letter at the Parendon mansion.
S1 · E34Maigret and the Diamond Cruncher 2001-02-16 · 90 min
A wealthy Englishman emotionlessly identifies a picture of his dead wife.
S1 · E35My Friend Maigret 2001-05-25 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E36Maigret and the Open Window 2001-06-22 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E37Maigret and the Wine Merchant 2002-01-18 · 90 min
A wealthy wine dealer's death doesn't bother his wife or "secretary."
S1 · E38Maigret and the Minister 2002-02-01 · 90 min
A government minister asks Maigret to investigate when he becomes the victim of "dirty tricks".
S1 · E39Maigret and the Madman of Saint Clothilde 2002-05-10 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E40Felicia's house 2002-06-03 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E41Maigret goes to School 2002-11-11 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E42Maigret and the Princess 2003-02-21 · 90 min
A count who is also a diplomat is murdered.
S1 · E43Maigret’s Failure 2003-03-31 · 90 min
After receiving some threatening anonymous letters, an old classmate of Maigret wants him to investigate. Then, the classmate is killed.
S1 · E44Signed Picus 2003-06-30 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E45Maigret’s Boyhood Friend 2003-09-29 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E46Maigret Has Scruples 2004-02-13 · 90 min
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...
S1 · E47Maigret and the Little Pigs without Tails 2004-03-29 · 90 min
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.
S1 · E48Maigret and the Tramp 2004-05-03 · 90 min
A tramp is found, unconscious and wounded, in the Seine.