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#1 - Picking it Up
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/1981
Jersey detective Jim Bergerac returns from a recuperation leave to find his job in jeopardy and a colleague killed during an investigation into international gun sales to South Africa.
Director: Martyn Friend
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
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#2 - Nice People Die in Bed
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/1981
Jim ruffles many feathers as he investigates the suspicious death of the prominent local leader of an international charity committee.
Director: Martin Campbell
Writer: John Kershaw
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#3 - Unlucky Dip
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/1981
Jim faces brutality charges when he investigates a drug courier who had his package lifted by a pickpocket, who's now trying to sell the stuff himself.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Bob Baker
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#4 - Campaign For Silence
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/1981
A retired Army major and former POW receives death threats, and sees his ghostwriter killed, when he tries to publish his memoirs of the Korean War.
Director: Martyn Friend
Writer: Alistair Bell
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#5 - See You in Moscow
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1981
A civil servant exposed as a spy tries to flee to Moscow via Jersey.
Director: Don Leaver
Writer: Gerry O'Hara
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#6 - Portrait of Yesterday
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1981
The prominent society wedding of her stepdaughter brings back a dark secret from a woman's past.
Director: Laurence Moody
Writer: Dennis Spooner
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#7 - Last Chance For a Loser
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1981
Charlie is one of the victims of a series of well-planned burglaries focused on the wealthiest island homes.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Philip Broadley
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#8 - Late For a Funeral
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1981
Jim investigates the murder of a diver that is tied to the discovery of a downed Nazi pilot and his plane off the Jersey shore.
Director: Henry Herbert
Writer: Dennis Spooner
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#9 - Relative Values
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1981
The son of an eccentric millionaire suspects that his father's housekeeper plans to kill her employer for his fortune.
Director: Martin Campbell
Writer: Peter Miller
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#10 - The Hood and the Harlequin
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/1981
Jim and Francine quarrel over her relationship with a charming Canadian photographer while Jim tries to keep track of a French gangster's girl friend, hoping she will lead him to the crook.
Director: Roger Tucker
Writer: Terence Feely
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#11 - A Message for the Rich
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1983
Two disgruntled ex-employees of Charlie Hungerford kidnap Jim's daughter.
Director: Alan Grint
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
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#12 - Always Leave Them Laughing
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1983
A disappointed beauty pageant contestant accuses a popular comic of raping her after voting against her in the beauty contest.
Director: Peter Smith
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart, Peter Miller
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#13 - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1983
Lil's ex-husband, a journalist, returns to Jersey on the trail of a big story he believes will embarrass Charlie Hungerford, who's running for a position in the House of Deputies.
Director: Michael Rolfe
Writer: Dennis Spooner
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#14 - Prime Target
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/1983
Bergerac travels to France to investigate the death of a Jersey resident and prematurely reveals the marriage plans of the eccentric heir to an old Jersey family fortune.
Director: Henry Herbert
Writer: Robert Holmes, Robert Banks Stewart
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#15 - Almost Like a Holiday
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1983
The publicity surrounding the mugging of a lovable old liar endangers a plan to burgle a safe containing a fortune in diamonds.
Director: Laurence Moody
Writer: Alistair Bell
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#16 - Fall of a Birdman
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1983
A Portuguese hang glider pilot hired by Charlie for a TV commercial sails around a deserted cliff face and is later found dead, apparently murdered.
Director: Ben Bolt
Writer: Paul Wheeler
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#17 - Miracle Every Week
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/1983
Jim must protect an Indian faith healer from con men out to exploit his abilities.
Director: Colin Bucksey
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart, Leslie Darbon
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#18 - A Perfect Recapture
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/27/1983
A wheel dropped from a flying plane and a trail of marked francs lead Jim and a dogged mainland detective to a computer embezzler who stole 2 million pounds from the police ten years earlier.
Director: Paul Ciappessoni
Writer: Paul Wheeler
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#19 - The Moonlight Girls
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/6/1983
Jim's investigation into the death of a young woman supposed to be working at a local stable reveals a profitable call girl operation.
Director: Michael Rolfe
Writer: Bob Baker
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#20 - Ninety Per Cent Proof
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 12/3/1983
When he goes on a drunken bender after failing to have an arsonist he arrested convicted, no one believes Jim's claims of having been forced to drink and having witnessed a murder.
Director: Robert Young
Writer: Brian Clemens
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#21 - A Hole in the Bucket
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/1983
Jim jeopardizes his career to help a couple of women who have come to Jersey.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Bill Craig
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#22 - Holiday Snaps
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/1983
A French Inspector asks Jim for help in proving a tourist from Jersey killed his wife while on holiday in France.
Director: Ben Bolt
Writer: Nick McCarty
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#23 - Ice Maiden
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 12/24/1983
Jim decides to beef up security at an auction where a famous diamond is to be sold when a notorious jewel thief, Philippa Vale, who has never been caught decides to visit Jersey.
Director: Robert Tronson
Writer: Rod Beacham
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#24 - Come Out Fighting
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/31/1983
One of the boxers in an European championship match being held on Jersey is plagued by a series of mishaps.
Director: Robert Young
Writer: Alistair Bell
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#25 - A Touch of Eastern Promise
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/7/1984
Charlie and a group of Jersey businessmen invite an Arab entrepreneur to the island hoping to get him to invest in a fancy leisure complex they are hoping to build.
Director: Christopher King
Writer: Brian Finch
The Best Episodes of Bergerac
Every episode of Bergerac ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bergerac!
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it...
Genre:Drama
Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"Picking it Up" is the best rated episode of "Bergerac". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Martyn Friend and written by Robert Banks Stewart, it aired on 10/18/1981. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Nice People Die in Bed".