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#1 - 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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#2 - S.P.A.R.T.A.
Season 5 Episode 6
Aired 2/7/1987
Philippa comes to Jim for help when her life is threatened by a right wing organization demanding the return of a notebook that she knows nothings about.
Director: Robert Young
Writer: Rod Beacham
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#3 - Old Acquaintance
Season 7 Episode 7
Aired 3/11/1989
Philippa Vale gives sanctuary to a Canadian Olympic track star whose life has been threatened when he refuses to boycott an international hearing concerning drug abuse by athletes. Jim and Susan break off their relationship.
Director: Richard Standeven
Writer: Rod Beacham
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#4 - Return of the Ice Maiden
Season 4 Episode 5
Aired 11/8/1985
Philippa Vale returns to Jersey planning to recover the jewels she was forced to abandon in a previous encounter with Jim.
Director: Michael Custance
Writer: Rod Beacham
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#5 - 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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#6 - The Sin of Forgiveness
Season 6 Episode 5
Aired 1/30/1988
A former Nazi who had been living underground since the end of the war surfaces in Jersey.
Director: Tristan de Vere Cole
Writer: John Collee
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#7 - A Horse of a Different Colour
Season 6 Episode 3
Aired 1/16/1988
Phillipa, out on parole, decides to give Jim some unwanted help in finding a stolen horse.
Director: Matthew Robinson
Writer: Rod Beacham
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#8 - Burnt
Season 6 Episode 4
Aired 1/23/1988
A business acquaintance of Charlie's is suspected of insider trading.
Director: Robert Tronson
Writer: John Fletcher
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#9 - Weekend Off
Season 7 Episode 5
Aired 2/25/1989
Jim must delay his weekend off in order to take over escorting a French electronics expert from a special branch officer who has become ill.
Director: Charlie Nairn
Writer: John Milne
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#10 - A True Detective
Season 8 Episode 1
Aired 1/14/1990
Jim faces his toughest test to date when Susan's dead body is washed up on shore. Jim is convinced that she was murdered, but is he right?
Director: Richard Bramall
Writer: John Milne
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#11 - Tug of War
Season 3 Episode 9
Aired 1/28/1984
A convict who has just been let out on parole brings his son on holiday to Jersey without telling the boy's mother or his probation officer.
Director: Laurence Moody
Writer: Paul Wheeler
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#12 - Whatever Lola Wants
Season 6 Episode 1
Aired 1/2/1988
Jim is assigned to look after an important gang informant's mother, who is in danger of being kidnapped by a vengeful gang leader.
Director: Nigel Finch
Writer: Brian Finch
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#13 - Tangos in the Night
Season 7 Episode 3
Aired 2/11/1989
Jim suspects the dancing instructor of a leading Jersey socialite of stealing her diamonds.
Director: Stuart Urban
Writer: John Fletcher
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#14 - When Did You Last See Your Father?
Season 7 Episode 6
Aired 3/4/1989
Jim is put under pressure to arrest a scrap dealer who he believes is innocent of assaulting a young girl.
Director: Alex Kirby
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
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#15 - All the Sad Songs
Season 8 Episode 8
Aired 3/4/1990
After a chance meeting at the races Bergerac becomes involved in the dubious world of the cabaret circuit.
Director: Tim Fywell
Writer: Rod Beacham
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#16 - 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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#17 - Winner Takes All
Season 5 Episode 2
Aired 1/10/1987
A millionaire computer expert receives several death threats.
Director: Robert Young
Writer: Robert Holmes
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#18 - Poison
Season 5 Episode 8
Aired 2/21/1987
Jim investigates when a mason drops dead in the middle of his initiation ceremony.
Director: Robert Tronson
Writer: John Fletcher
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#19 - Trenchard's Last Case
Season 7 Episode 8
Aired 3/18/1989
An eccentric Scotland yard detective arrives in Jersey for a holiday and to harass an island resident whom he considers a villain responsible for crippling his former partner.
Director: Mike Barnes
Writer: Brian Finch
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#20 - 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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#21 - 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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#22 - The Last Interview
Season 4 Episode 1
Aired 10/11/1985
An American telejournalist comes to Jersey to interview a retired gangster who has gone into hiding because of a contract on his life.
Director: Brian Farnham
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
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#23 - Chrissie
Season 4 Episode 6
Aired 11/15/1985
Jim is under pressure to find a briefcase containing fashion designs and a baby who disappeared with her nurse.
Director: David Reynolds
Writer: Edwin Pearce
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#24 - Avenge, O Lord
Season 4 Episode 9
Aired 12/20/1985
Jim is assigned to guard a mainland MP who has come to Jersey to study the island's police force.
Director: Robert Tronson
Writer: John Fletcher
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#25 - The Other Woman
Season 7 Episode 4
Aired 2/18/1989
Whilst playing golf, Charlie (who else?) finds the body of Graham Hawkesworth buries in a bunker. Investigations show that he was apparently having an affair with an unknown woman. This ‘other woman' is the prime suspect in Hawkesworth's murder and it appears that she is none other than Susan. It transpires that Graham invented the story that he was having an affair and chose Susan as the ‘other woman' in order to make his wife jealous. His wife is the real killer and plans to make Susan the next victim.
Director: Peter Ellis
Writer: John Collee
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
Episodes
81
Avg. Rating
7.3
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.4
7.6
8.1
7.5
6.8
7.4
7.3
7.0
7.1
7.1
7.3
7.1
Best Episodes Summary
"Ice Maiden" is the best rated episode of "Bergerac". It scored 8.3/10 based on 77 votes. Directed by Robert Tronson and written by Rod Beacham, it aired on 12/24/1983. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "S.P.A.R.T.A.".