Fans of Commissaire Maigret, rejoice! The long-sought-after Maigret TV series starring Rupert Davis is now available for streaming!
Based on the “Inspector Maigret” mystery novels by Belgian author Georges Simenon, this classic 1960-1963 Maigret TV series stars Rupert Davies (War & Peace) as French police inspector Commissaire Jules Maigret of the Paris Brigade Criminelle. For his performance, Davies won the 1962 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.
Of Simenon’s “Maigret” works, which include 75 novels and 28 short stories, 52 were adapted for this series of hour-long episodes (excluding the pilot, which featured a different actor in the role of Maigret).
Maigret is now available for streaming and digital download on Amazon US and Amazon UK. The series has four seasons of 13 episodes each, including:
Season 1- “Murder in Montmartre” (based on the novel Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper)
- “Unscheduled Departure” (based on the novel Maigret Has Scruples)
- “The Burglar’s Wife” (based on the novel Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife)
- “The Revolver” (based on the novel Maigret’s Revolver)
- “The Old Lady” (based on the novel Maigret and the Old Lady)
- “Liberty Bar” (based on the novel Liberty Bar)
- “A Man of Quality” (based on the novel The Death of Monsieur Gallet)
- “My Friend the Inspector” (based on the novel My Friend Maigret)
- “The Mistake” (based on the novel Maigret’s Mistake)
- “On Holiday” (based on the novel A Summer Holiday)
- “The Experts” (based on the novel Inspector Maigret and the Killers)
- “The Cactus” (based on the novel Maigret Takes a Room)
- “The Children’s Party” (based on the novel The Crime of Inspector Maigret)
Season 2- “Shadow Play” (based on the novel The Shadow in the Courtyard)
- “The Simple Case” (based on the novel Maigret and the Headless Corpse)
- “Death of a Butcher” (based on the novel Maigret’s Failure)
- “The Winning Ticket” (based on the novel Maigret’s Dead Man)
- “Inspector Lognon’s Triumph” (based on the short story “Maigret and the Surly Inspector” in the 9-story collection Maigret’s Christmas)
- “The Lost Sailor” (based on the novel Death of a Harbour Master)
- “The Golden Fleece” (based on the novel The Lock at Charenton)
- “Raise Your Right Hand” (based on the novel Maigret in Court)
- “The Liars” (based on the novel Maigret Goes to School)
- “A Crime for Christmas” (based on the short story “Maigret’s Christmas” in the 9-story collection Maigret’s Christmas)
- “The Reluctant Witnesses” (based on the novel Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses)
- “The White Hat” (based on the novel Madame Maigret’s Own Case)
- “Murder on Monday” (based on the novel Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard)
Season 3- “Voices from the Past” (based on the novel Maigret in Society)
- “The Madman of Vervac” (based on the novel The Madman of Bergerac)
- “The Countess” (based on the novel Maigret and the Countess)”
- The Wedding Guest” (based on the novel Guinguette by the Seine)
- “High Politics” (based on the novel Maigret and the Minister)
- “Love from Felicie” (based on the novel Maigret and the Toy Village)
- “The Dirty House” (based on the novel Maigret in Retirement)
- “The Crystal Ball” (based on the novel To Any Lengths)
- “The Crooked Castle” (based on the novel Maigret at the Crossroads)
- “Death in Mind” (based on the novel A Battle of Nerves)
- “Seven Little Crosses” (based on the short story “Seven Little Crosses in a Notebook” in the 9-story collection Maigret’s Christmas)
- “The Trap” (based on the novel Maigret Sets a Trap)
- “The Amateurs” (based on the novel Maigret and the Lazy Burglar)
Season 4- “Poor Cecile!” (based on the novel Maigret and the Spinster)
- “The Fontonay Murders” (based on the novel Maigret Afraid)
- “The Lost Life” (a remake of 1959 pilot, based on the novel Maigret and the Dead Girl)
- “The Cellars of the Majestic” (based on the novel Maigret and the Hotel Majestic)
- “A Man Condemned” (based on the novel Maigret has Doubts)
- “The Flemish Shop” (based on the novel The Flemish Shop)
- “A Taste of Power” (based on the novel Maigret’s First Case)
- “The Log of the Cap Fagnet” (based on the novel The Sailors’ Rendezvous)
- “The Judge’s House” (based on the novel Maigret in Exile)
- “Another World” (based on the novel Maigret and the Millionaires)
- “The Crime at Lock 14” (based on the novel The Crime at Lock 14)
- “Peter the Lett” (based on the novel The Strange Case of Peter the Lett)
- “Maigret’s Little Joke” (based on the novel Maigret’s Little Joke)
Bonus 14th episode:
“Maigret at Bay” is a feature-length movie that was was not a part of the Maigret series, but a title in the series BBC Play of the Month. It is based on the novel Maigret Defends Himself, and features Rupert Davies, Helen Shingler, and Neville Jason reprising their series roles of Commissaire Maigret, Madame Maigret, and Lapointe, respectively.
For folks in the UK, as well as those in the US with a multi-region/region-free DVD or Blu-ray player, the complete Maigret series is now available on DVD as well as Blu-ray.
Never released before and unseen anywhere for decades — until now — this collection is hailed as the “definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon’s world famous novels.”
According to the product description, “Though Simenon’s books have been adapted many times for film and television, Davies’s celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon himself, who stated: ‘At last, I have found the perfect Maigret!'”
The 14-disc set, remastered from original film elements and produced in its original full-screen format, includes all 52 episodes in the series and the “Maigret at Bay” TV movie.
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