8.3/1074 votesLoading...#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
- 8.3/1052 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/1039 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1048 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1070 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1044 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1053 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/1044 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/1044 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/1046 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.7/1055 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.7/1058 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.7/1043 votesLoading...
#13 - 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
- 7.7/1043 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 7.6/1087 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 7.6/1039 votesLoading...
#16 - 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
- 7.6/1056 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.6/1048 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.6/1046 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 7.6/1043 votesLoading...
#20 - 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
- 7.5/10101 votesLoading...
#21 - 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
- 7.5/1083 votesLoading...
#22 - 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
- 7.5/1087 votesLoading...
#23 - 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
- 7.5/1043 votesLoading...
#24 - 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
- 7.5/1046 votesLoading...
#25 - 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
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
"Ice Maiden" is the best rated episode of "Bergerac". It scored 8.3/10 based on 74 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.".