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The Best Episodes of Taggart

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The Best Episodes of Taggart

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...
  1. Background image for Death Comes Softly - Part Three
    8.5/10(54 votes)

    #1 - Death Comes Softly - Part Three

    S6:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Nest of Vipers
    8.5/10(113 votes)

    #2 - Nest of Vipers

    S7:E2

    The discovery of two skulls at the site for a new by-pass road leads the team to a pharmaceutical company. Someone doesn't want the skulls identified and will go to any length including murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Death Comes Softly - Part Two
    8.4/10(48 votes)

    #3 - Death Comes Softly - Part Two

    S6:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Double Exposure
    8.4/10(48 votes)

    #4 - Double Exposure

    S7:E3

    Racial violence or something more sinister? The Taggart team are baffled by murders with no connection other than a possible racial link. Or is it something not so obvious to the all seeing eye?

    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Dead Mans Chest
    8.4/10(106 votes)

    #5 - Dead Mans Chest

    S13:E1

    A 15 year-old gold bullion robbery leads the Maryhill team on a race against time as one by one the robbers are murdered. With pirates, treasure chests and secret maps to buried treasure muddying the waters will the team solve the murders and find the lost treasure before the last robber is killed?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Evil Eye - Part 1
    8.2/10(102 votes)

    #6 - Evil Eye - Part 1

    S6:E1

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Evil Eye - Part 2
    8.2/10(49 votes)

    #7 - Evil Eye - Part 2

    S6:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Evil Eye - Part 3
    8.2/10(51 votes)

    #8 - Evil Eye - Part 3

    S6:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Death Comes Softly - Part One
    8.2/10(115 votes)

    #9 - Death Comes Softly - Part One

    S6:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for The Hit Man
    8.2/10(88 votes)

    #10 - The Hit Man

    S8:E1

    n old friend from Taggart's past gets out of prison and the bodies start piling up. But is there some fishy business going on that muddies the waters for the Taggart Team.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Murder In Season
    8.1/10(45 votes)

    #11 - Murder In Season

    S1:E3

    Glamorous opera singer, Eleanor Samson, returns to Glasgow, her home town, to sing with Scottish Opera. She hopes to bring about a reconciliation with her estranged husband, John, but she is furious to discover that there is a new woman in John's life - blonde, attractive Kirsty King. When Kirsty's body is found in the burnt out shell of John's boat, Eleanor Samson is the prime suspect. Jim Taggart, tough Glasgow detective and his smooth assistant, Peter Livingstone, fall out over the case. Livingstone believes that Eleanor is guilty; Taggart cannot believe that a woman like Eleanor could be a murderess. Is Taggart allowing his judgement to be clouded by Eleanor's fame and beauty?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Death Call
    8.1/10(60 votes)

    #12 - Death Call

    S2:E2

    Taggart and his partner Peter Livingstone are called in to investigate the macabre killing of the wife of a wealthy landowner whose body is found strangled and weighed down with luggage in a reservoir. The husband was last seen preparing to go to Switzerland with a large sum of money in a holdall.

    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Flesh and Blood
    8.1/10(87 votes)

    #13 - Flesh and Blood

    S5:E1

    Jim Taggart attends the wedding of social worker Jane Ross and jailbird Charlie Forbes. Janie Ross is later found murdered and a chain of seemingly unrelated events begins.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Instrument of Justice - Part 1
    8.1/10(79 votes)

    #14 - Instrument of Justice - Part 1

    S10:E1

    Taggart has a new boss and he must take orders from her even though he has doubts about the guilt of a gang member. People are later found murdered and Taggart, Jardine, Reid and McVitie must work hard and fast to catch the killer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Compensation
    8.1/10(71 votes)

    #15 - Compensation

    S20:E3

    DCI Burke's personal life comes to the fore as the team are called to the countryside of Fenmore after a farmer is killed in a suspicious fire. With few clues and no villager prepared to offer information, Burke feels they have stepped into a private war.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Lifeline
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    #16 - Lifeline

    S24:E11

    When the body of a man is discovered in a garage with the engine of his car still running, it appears at first to be a simple case of suicide. The victim worked as a volunteer at a helpline centre dealing with potential suicide victims, and his wife is adamant her husband would never take his own life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Cold Blood
    8.0/10(57 votes)

    #17 - Cold Blood

    S3:E3

    When a woman shoots her husband after discovering that he was having an affair, it appears to be a clear-cut case - until the police realise the man was already dead when he was shot.

    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Double Jeopardy
    8.0/10(55 votes)

    #18 - Double Jeopardy

    S4:E3

    The body of Rowena Bain is discovered in a wood. The forensic evidence suggests suicide, but Taggart is suspicious. The victim's sister thinks that Rowena's husband, Maurice, killed her. The case against Maurice grows when it is discovered that his first wife also disappeared in mysterious circumstances.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Death Without Dishonour
    8.0/10(26 votes)

    #19 - Death Without Dishonour

    S9:E3

    The Taggart team are responsible for protecting witnesses involved in a "cab war" trial. It seems there may be a hidden agenda when the prosecuting barrister is found murdered.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Instrument of Justice - Part 3
    8.0/10(40 votes)

    #20 - Instrument of Justice - Part 3

    S10:E3

    The trial against John McLintock collapses, but his victory is short lived. The killer makes a direct threat to DCS Ellen Gordon, leaving a message inside her home. The team find a clue in a video.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Legends
    8.0/10(60 votes)

    #21 - Legends

    S12:E1

    Jardine and Reid investigate a killing in a country house swimming pool. One of the victims is Rick Mulvey, former lead guitar of the 60s pop group, the Adders. Their vocalist died while on tour 25 years ago. Ian Garvey, Kate McCready's boyfriend is savagely beaten by two bouncers, and the following day, he is knocked down by DC Reid in her car.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Babushka
    8.0/10(27 votes)

    #22 - Babushka

    S13:E3

    Mail order brides or women to order? Glasgow takes on a Russian flavour when the trail from the murder of wealthy local business man hots up and Jardine's team try to unravel the mystery around the Anastasia Agency.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Bloodlines
    8.0/10(71 votes)

    #23 - Bloodlines

    S16:E1

    After serving a life sentence for the murder of a family of five when she was just sixteen, Susan Keller is released from prison. However, shortly after her release, members of her own family begin to die mysteriously. Suspecting that a revenge attack may be on the cards, DCI Jardine attempts to discover who would want to carry out such attacks.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Death Trap
    8.0/10(82 votes)

    #24 - Death Trap

    S18:E1

    The police are dealing with a bizarre case and as Michael Jardine seems to be one step ahead of his friends, it results in a tragedy that will affect everyone at the police department after they discover the truth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Puppet on a String
    8.0/10(49 votes)

    #25 - Puppet on a String

    S21:E1

    Hospital Dr. Mellor is attacked by a masked assailant carrying a syringe full of lethal drugs, but manages to survive the attack. He points the finger at rival doctor Thomas Finn, but Finn has an alibi. The next day, Mellor is found dead, but again Finn has a cast-iron alibi. Was Mellor correct in his suspicions? Or is Finn in fact entirely innocent?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Death Comes Softly - Part Three" is the best rated episode of "Taggart". It scored 8.5/10 based on 54 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/17/1990. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Nest of Vipers".