Maigret (1991 TV series)

Maigret is a 1991 French language television serial based on Georges Simenon's books. Detective Jules Maigret was played by Bruno Cremer.^[2] Only actor Jean Richard has portrayed Maigret more than Bruno Cremer.^[3]

Maigret
Genre	Mystery
Based on	Stories by Georges Simenon
Starring	Bruno Cremer
Composer	Laurent Petitgirard
Country of origin	Belgium France Czech Republic Switzerland
Original language	French
No. of seasons	14
No. of episodes	54[1] (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	90 minutes
Original release
Network	France 2
Release	December 1, 1991 (1991-12-01) – December 23, 2004 (2004-12-23)

Cast

Main

• Bruno Cremer as Detective Jules Maigret

Recurring

• Anne Bellec as Madame Maigret (seasons 1-5)
• Jean-Claude Frissung and Jean O'Cottrell as Detective Janvier (seasons 1-11)
• Philippe Pollet as Detective LaPointe (seasons 1-2)
• Claude Faraldo as Palmari (seasons 2-3)
• François-Régis Marchasson and Philippe Lejour as Judge Coméliau (seasons 2-3)
• Jean-Pierre Gos as Detective Lucas (seasons 2-4)
• Erick Desmarestz as Judge Benneau (seasons 2-5)
• Michel Dussin, Bernard Papineau and Jean-Claude Calon as Doctor Paul (seasons 2-13)
• Éric Prat as Detective Torrence (seasons 3-5)
• Alexandre Brasseur as Inspector Paul Lachenal (seasons 9-11)
• Fabien Béhar as Inspector Luciani (seasons 9-10)
• Laurent Schilling and Olivier Darimont as Inspector Lambert (seasons 11-13)
• Bruno Abraham-Kremer as Inspector Lorenzi (season 11)
• Pierre Diot as Inspector Christiani (seasons 11-14)
• Matthias Van Khache as Inspector Maury (season 12)
• Jean-Paul Bonnaire as Inspector Battisti (seasons 12-14)

Guest

• Karin Viard as Thérèse (season 1)
• Catherine Hosmalin as The prostitute (season 2)
• Myriam Boyer as Élyane Michonnet (season 2)
• Andréa Ferréol as Mariette (season 3)
• Françoise Bertin as Catherine (season 4)
• François Perrot as Professor Gouin (season 4)
• Frédéric Pierrot as Canut (season 4)
• Béatrice Agenin as Arlette (season 4)
• Marie-Christine Adam as Irène Salavin / Antoinette's assistant (season 4 & 14)
• Albert Delpy as The captain (season 5)
• Arielle Dombasle as Mylène Turner (season 7)
• Ginette Garcin as Denise (season 7)
• Laure Duthilleul as Evelyne Tremblet (season 9)
• Jeanne Herry as Félicie (season 11)
• Philippe Duquesne as Louis Paumelle (season 12)
• Pascale Arbillot as Gisèle Marton (season 13)
• Valérie Karsenti as Isabelle Fresco (season 14)

Episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	4		1 December 1991 (1991-12-01)	7 June 1992 (1992-06-07)
2	4		11 September 1992 (1992-09-11)	7 May 1993 (1993-05-07)
3	3		10 December 1993 (1993-12-10)	15 April 1994 (1994-04-15)
4	6		11 September 1994 (1994-09-11)	16 June 1995 (1995-06-16)
5	4		8 September 1995 (1995-09-08)	23 February 1996 (1996-02-23)
6	3		27 September 1996 (1996-09-27)	1 November 1996 (1996-11-01)
7	4		3 October 1997 (1997-10-03)	9 January 1998 (1998-01-09)
8	2		15 January 1999 (1999-01-15)	5 February 1999 (1999-02-05)
9	3		26 November 1999 (1999-11-26)	26 May 2000 (2000-05-26)
10	3		16 February 2001 (2001-02-16)	22 June 2001 (2001-06-22)
11	4		18 January 2002 (2002-01-18)	3 June 2002 (2002-06-03)
12	4		11 November 2002 (2002-11-11)	30 June 2003 (2003-06-30)
13	6		September 29, 2003 (2003-09-29)	May 28, 2004 (2004-05-28)
14	4		November 4, 2004 (2004-11-04)	December 23, 2004 (2004-12-23)

For exhaustive detail refer to fr:Épisodes de Maigret (1991-2005) (in French).

Satellite

From 2022, British television channel, Talking Pictures TV have been broadcasting the series on their satellite channel.

Home media

In 2018, MHz Choice announced they had digitally remastered and re-subtitled the entire series.^[4] The show was available for HD streaming or purchase on SD DVD.^[4]