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.

[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.