Televisations of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon.Televisations of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon.Televisations of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe series finale aired under the title Maigret at Bay (1969). Furthermore, Rupert Davies in character as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, acted as the host of the anthology series Detective (1964).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shades of Grey (2009)
- SoundtracksThe Maigret Theme
Composed by Ron Grainer
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TV drama from a golden age
Nowadays TV drama is mostly the same as cinema drama, just with a smaller budget, and apart from news and current affairs, TV stations just play pre-recorded items. How different it was when this series was made. I'm not sure if the programmes went out live, but even if they didn't, they were made "as if" live, since editing early video tape was extremely difficult and expensive. So what you get with these shows is similar to what you get when you go to a live theatre performance: a company of actors working together in real time to present a story. Fabulous! And, yes, there are going to be the odd little errors, just as in the theatre. The only difference from live theatre is that, in this series, we have the addition of wonderfully evocative filmed sequences made in Paris in an era when it looked extremely Parisian. It's exciting. I don't mind at all about the small and rather cheap sets.
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- Runtime50 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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