Maigret only lasted two seasons at ITV. Maybe it was too expensive to produce even though it was shot in Hungary to save costs rather than Paris.
Even the BBC managed to get to Paris to shoot some outdoor scenes back in the 1960s.
It might just have been that Michael Gambon was just a busy actor with theatre and Hollywood wanting him for movies.
One thing fo sure, the viewers did not take this series to heart like they did with the black and white BBC version.
The maid in question is Felice (Susie Lindeman) feisty, independently minded and not telling Maigret anything. He has arrived at a small country village to investigate the murder of a well to do bachelor who has been murdered.
Felice was his maid but rumours abound that she was the older man's lover or maybe even his daughter. Maigret has her followed and she behaves suspiciously.
The dead man's will leaves everything to her, that could had been a motive for murder. His extended family are not happy.
There is a jazzy vibe to this story, the dead man's nephew plays at a jazz club. Unfortunately a well known young one in a small part was not enough to disguise the actual culprit.