{"id":71,"date":"2007-06-16T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T21:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/george-simenons-maigret-may-not-be-french-but-hes-tres-magnifique.html"},"modified":"2014-09-10T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:39:09","slug":"george-simenons-maigret-may-not-be-french-but-hes-tres-magnifique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/george-simenons-maigret-may-not-be-french-but-hes-tres-magnifique\/","title":{"rendered":"Maigret Collection Television Series : Michael Gambon’s Maigret May Not Be French, but He’s Tr\u00e8s Magnifique…"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can get over the obviously British accents coming out of the French characters, then you will surely enjoy the Maigret Collection<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a 1990s\u00a0mystery series that (again) comes to us from the British (Granada Television). Michael Gambon is excellent as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret. He seems to never be in a hurry. He carefully thinks out his cases, and does not rush to judgement. Inspector Maigret\u00a0has a very psychological approach when it comes to solving crimes, which his underlings (and superiors!) may not fully appreciate… until he solves his crimes.<\/p>\n

I did not see this series when it aired on the PBS or A&E networks. Until I\u00a0did a little research for this blog, I didn’t\u00a0know that\u00a0the series had ever aired\u00a0outside of Great Britain.\u00a0If you plan\u00a0to watch all twelve episodes back to back, without the seasons’\u00a0division that television\u00a0networks provide, here is\u00a0one more thing you will have to overlook………..\u00a0It’s a little\u00a0unfortunate that with only twelve episodes, they were not able to have just one actress to play the Inspector’s wife. At first I wondered if perhaps the second actress was playing a second wife…. not the case. But, if the great Rumpole of the Bailey could have two actresses playing the one and only wife, then so can Maigret!<\/p>\n

The one disappointment for me is that Georges Simenon<\/a> wrote many Maigret novels, so why are there only twelve episodes to this series?!? I sure would have enjoyed more!<\/p>\n

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If you can get over the obviously British accents coming out of the French characters, then you will surely enjoy the Maigret Collection, a 1990s\u00a0mystery series that (again) comes to us from the British (Granada Television). Michael Gambon is excellent as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret. He seems to never be in a hurry. He carefully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bbc","7":"category-movies","8":"category-tv","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-19","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25759,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/25759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}