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Taggart

  • TV-14
  • 1983–2011
  • 27 seasons
  • Crime, Drama
  • 6.4

Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.

Episodes

7 episodes
  1. 1Evil Eye - Part 1

    Sep 4, 1990

    The death of a policeman during an armed raid in London in which a number of diamond thieves managed to get away with a large haul, is traced back to Scotland as DCI Taggart and the team have to contend with a gypsy's curse. When the matriarch of a gypsy family is found murdered in her caravan, the case takes an unexpr caravan.

  2. 2Evil Eye - Part 2

    Dec 11, 1990

    As the robbers begin dying one by one, seemingly victims of the dead woman's curse, Danny, the person who actually stabbed the traveller fortune teller, takes up with Jane Antrobus, a gangster's moll.

  3. 3Evil Eye - Part 3

    Dec 18, 1990

    Jean Taggart falls into a coma after a car accident just as Danny, the only surviving member of the trio, plans to escape to Spain with Jane Antrobus.

  4. 4Death Comes Softly - Part One

    Dec 3, 1990

    Taggart and Jardine are called to investigate the murders of elderly residents.

  5. 5Death Comes Softly - Part Two

    Dec 10, 1990

    Having persuaded his Aunt Sophie to move into a care home, he's keen to handle the sale of her house. The killer strikes again, and Lena is killed.

  6. 6Death Comes Softly - Part Three

    Dec 17, 1990

    After a body is found in Sophie's attic, she's plunged into a great depression, she asks her young teenage helpers for assistance. The killer strikes again.

  7. 7Rogues' Gallery

    78 minDec 31, 1990

    When a body is found in the boot of a car being crushed in a scrap metal yard, DCI Taggart and DS Jardine are called to investigate. The grisly details are repeated shortly after when a second body is found in the same scrapyard. Taggart and Jardine investigate a link between drugs and the art world.

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Series cast

Mark McManusDCI Jim Taggart114 episodes
Harriet BuchanJean Taggart114 episodes
Tom WatsonSuperintendent Murray114 episodes
John MichieDI Robbie Ross103 episodes
Blythe DuffDS Jackie Reid90 episodes
Colin McCredieDC Stuart Fraser81 episodes
James MacPhersonDCI Mike Jardine61 episodes
Alex NortonDCI Matt Burke58 episodes
Robert RobertsonDr. Stephen Andrews56 episodes
Iain AndersSupt. Jack McVitie45 episodes
Alec WestwoodPete McCulloch7 episodes
Barbara HorneMargot Hamilton7 episodes
Louise LudgateMartha Ramsay5 episodes
Nick SmithPC Gibbs (uncredited)4 episodes
Alastair DuncanDS Peter Livingstone4 episodes
Moyo AkandéKerrie Macdonald4 episodes
David Robb3 episodes
Ron Donachie3 episodes

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