Georges Simenon said himself about Rupert Davies as Maigret that he was the one who came closest to the real character. There were many episodes in this series, but they were all excellent, capturing the right Paris atmosphere and always doing the weirdest characters justice, and they would probably all be worth watching still today. Georges Simenon was one of the most qualified writer ever of detective stories, he worked himself as a police inspector in Paris, which activity replenished him with excellent stuff for the innumerable books he wrote, his detective Maigret actually sometimes transcending Sherlock Holmes in above all human psychology, which was not Conan Doyle's most prominent qualification. Maigret has the quality of getting inside people's minds, while Conan Doyle found a greater interest in practical details. Like all his books, all films of Maigret have been of major interest, and fortunately there is no end to them.