Talk:Maigret (1960 TV series)

"Georges Simenon wrote 12 episodes of the series during 1960-1961"

This is a mistake. According to IMDB, 12 Episodes of the 1993-Maigret-Series were based on Simenon-novels, which earned him a writing credit. As for this series here, he wrote none of the episodes, but has gotten a credit as a creator for all 51 episodes. It is more than doubtfull, that the french writer Simenon wrote english-language screenplays for the BBC. As far s a I know, he didn't wrote any screenplay at all. All his IMDb credits are either vor novel or as creator.

95.91.186.16 (talk) 14:29, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Murder in Montmarte

The Paris neighborhood is spelled Montmartre, but the Maigret episode is spelled both ways when I Google it. Art LaPella (talk) 16:14, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

That is because some people can't spell! I think it highly unlikely that the BBC would have mis-spelled Montmartre (and it is spelled correctly in the Radio Times listings for the date of transmission). I've therefore amended the article accordingly. -- Picapica (talk) 10:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Episode length

> Each episode [...] lasted 50 minutes, and (as it was made for the BBC) was intended to be screened without commercial breaks. <

Well, sort of. Although the BBC did not (and does not) air commercial advertising, many of its programmes (especially those "suitable for export") were routinely made in 50-minute-long episodes at that time because 50 minutes or so was the usual runtime (commercials excluded) of US-made "hour-long" shows. Similarly with BBC programmes lasting 25 and 75 minutes (= 0h30, 1h30 in the US, after the addition of advertisements). -- Picapica (talk) 10:59, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Blu-ray

The article does not mention the number of discs in the Blu-ray version. Doug butler (talk) 21:40, 25 January 2024 (UTC)