The choice of Davies to play Maigret was enthusiastically approved by Simenon himself. Īlthough staying largely true to the storyline of the books, the series featured only three of Maigret's team of detectives (the "faithful four" ), omitting any casting for Janvier, although the character is mentioned in several episodes.
Įpisodes included such well-known faces as Stratford Johns, Leon Cortez, Terence Alexander, Roger Delgado, William Franklyn, Michael Goodliffe, and Barry Foster, among others. The series starred Rupert Davies as the Police Judiciaire detective Commissaire Jules Maigret, who took up the role in 1960 after Basil Sydney, who had played Maigret in the pilot episode, was unable to continue. In 2022 the series was broadcast by UK television channel Talking Pictures TV. Unlike most BBC series produced in the 1960s, all episodes (bar the pilot) have survived intact, and are available as a complete set on DVD and Blu-ray. īased on the Maigret stories of Georges Simenon, the series starred Rupert Davies in the title role.
Maigret is a British television series made by the BBC and which – following a pilot episode broadcast in 1959 – ran for 52 episodes from 1960 to 1963.
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