| Genre: | Mystery crime |
| Based On: | Chéri-Bibi by Gaston Leroux |
| Director: | Jean Pignol |
| Starring: | Hervé Sand Jean Lefebvre Danièle Lebrun |
| Composer: | Francis Lemarque |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 46 |
| Runtime: | 13 minutes |
| Company: | Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française |
| Channel: | ORTF 1 |
Chéri-Bibi is a French mystery crime television series which premiered on the ORTF 1 channel between 20 December 1974 and 18 February 1975.[1] The programme was based on the series of four serial novels by Gaston Leroux. Previous adaptations of the stories include The Phantom of Paris (1931), Chéri-Bibi (1938) and Chéri-Bibi (1955).[2]
Chéri-Bibi is wrongly sentenced for a crime he did not commit and sent to serve in a penal colony in French Guiana. He leads a mutiny amongst his fellow prisoners and seizes the ship carrying there. He changes place with the dead Marquis du Touchais and travels back to France and assumes his identity. He lives a happy life with Cécily, the neglected with of the Marquis, until discovering that it was the Marquis who really committed the crime he was tried for and the police are now on his case.