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Artist, feminist, poet, personal hero - and occasional actor - Pauline Boty makes a characteristically brief appearance in Maigret: Peter the Lett (4.12, BBC, 1963) as Josie, a nightclub hostess

#fave spotting #pauline boty #bbc maigret #maigret #peter the lett #modern artists #pop art #Pauline acted off and on fairly regularly throughout her all too brief life and career‚ both on stage and screen #but on tv she was repeatedly ill served with small roles that required little more than looking pretty #alas a recurring element of her career; she battled sexism from the art college days through to her untimely death #and was frequently overshadowed by the men she considered friends and colleagues (and who did little to prevent her overshadowing)#there is a bitter irony to the fact that whilst her painting and collage work was challenging ideas about patriarchy and traditional gender #roles‚ the british press was presenting her as 'the beautiful actress who can also paint!'#I've admired Boty and her work for a long time now and I'm happy that she's undergoing a (slow) reappraisal but she's still #criminally under recognised considering the important position she has in the history of pop art and the 60s beat scene #her character here is‚ like so many she played‚ rather shallow and two dimensional (a comment on the script and not performance)#and it's notable that Maigret is uncharacteristically rude and dismissive in dealing with her #but then there's quite a lot going on in this episode and he has other things on his mind

Jacqueline Hill as Helen Moncin, wife of the prime suspect in a spree killing case, in Maigret: The Trap (3.12, BBC, 1962)

#fave spotting #maigret #bbc maigret #jacqueline hill #bbc #classic tv #barbara wright #doctor who #Maigret tend un piège #maigret sets a trap #one of the better known and most consistently adapted Maigret novels #most recently in 2016 as the first episode of Rowan Atkinson's short lived Maigret tenure #(Atkinson is a fine straight actor when he goes for it‚ but the writing and characterisation was all wrong in his series; a quiet‚ moody #Maigret who never smiles and seems more like an academic than a peasant boy made good; it was ok tv detective stuff but bad Maigret)#anyway. as i was saying‚ one of the better known books (the production team seem to have saved a few gems for series 3; two episodes prior #they'd adapted La Tête d'un homme‚ most commonly translated as A Battle of Nerves‚ one of the earliest and most famous novels)#(adapted by the beeb as Death in Mind‚ I should have said)#anyway. Mme. Moncin is a gem of a part‚ tho im sorry to say that in adapting a novel to fit 50 mins‚ the part is somewhat reduced #Jac is great of course‚ all cigarettes and powder‚ airs of superiority and condescending smiles #and that's a young Aubrey Woods‚ the candyman himself (Wonka not DW) as her husband #i will say that the novel is tricky to adapt without falling from a specific inquiry into the relationships one man has with women into #something more generic and thus tinged with misogyny... this adaptation is... only partially successful. just something to bear in mind for #any prospective viewers

Patrick Troughton guest stars as Gaston Meurant, defendant in a case of double murder, in Maigret: Raise Your Right Hand (2.8, BBC, 1961)

#fave spotting #bbc maigret #maigret #patrick troughton #rupert davies #1961 #georges simenon #classic tv #raise your right hand #bbc #i shan't spoil the ending #particularly as Maigret is now being shown on TPTV in the uk so in month or so british viewers can watch this one #but suffice it to say Maigret doubts his guilt #and really look at that poor little meow meow face

A young Paul Eddington gets out of his depth as Australian abroad Harry Brown in Maigret: Liberty Bar (1.6, BBC, 1960)

#fave spotting #paul eddington #maigret #bbc maigret #rupert davies maigret #1960 #classic tv #liberty bar #georges simenon #Paul got around a lot in 1960 #this was the same year in which he thrilled an audience (me) as the Canadian logger and drunk but actually not a Canadian or a logger or a #drunk and actually a Swede and a fugitive from justice Rustie in The Four Just Men (it is a Hell of an episode and a Hell of a beard; to #see it follow the fave spotting tag or paul Eddington tag). and he was a villainous international racing car driver in Interpol Calling #and now an Australian in France in Maigret (tho not attempting either accent‚ perhaps wisely) (actually the accent thing is very #interesting in Maigret; most of the regulars stick to good old bbc rp except when using place names or french proper nouns #but the odd guest clearly didn’t get the memo and throws an Outrageous Accent into the mix throughout)#where was i #oh yea a bumper year for Paul (who was also a rotating regular on The Adventures of Robin Hood) but his real success and sitcom #immortality still some years away at this point #still he's very good here: a slightly pompous business type who has an amusingly dim view of the french and of frenchness #not something maigret takes personally

Two for the price of one! Alfred Burke and James Maxwell as the Lecoeur brothers - one a police officer, the other a suspect in a serial killer case - in Maigret: Seven Little Crosses (3.11, BBC, 1962)