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The Best Episodes of Taggart

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Taggart Season 2 Episode 2 - Death Call
    1.0/10(62 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Haldane Duncan
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Taggart Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot: Killer
    0.0/10(68 votes)

    #2 - Pilot: Killer

    S1:E1

    A murderer is loose in Glasgow and a major police investigation is mounted to find the killer. But one by one the bodies of young women are found strangled in the city. The enquiry is headed by top detective Jim Taggart, a tough local cop who has risen through the ranks and one of the new breed of graduate policemen, Peter Livingstone. But despite their differences they work together breaking all the rules to hunt the killer before he strikes again.

    Director:Laurence Moody
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Taggart Season 1 Episode 2 - Dead Ringer
    0.0/10(54 votes)

    #3 - Dead Ringer

    S1:E2

    The skeletal remains of a dismembered body are discovered beneath the floorboards of a house in Glasgow. The drama takes an unexpected twist when a nine-month-old toddler is kidnapped from a multi-storey car park, followed by a ransom demand of £50,000.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Taggart Season 1 Episode 3 - Murder In Season
    0.0/10(54 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Taggart Season 2 Episode 1 - Knife Edge
    0.0/10(128 votes)

    #5 - Knife Edge

    S2:E1

    Taggart and Livingston investigate after the discovery of a woman's severed leg. However as the body parts build up Taggart finds himself no closer to the cases solution. The investigation leads them to a butcher George Bryce who Taggart and Livingston are convinced is the killer. When he turns up dead, killed with the same gun that the dismembered corpse it appears to be another dead end. However with a little further digging links start appearing and Taggart realises he's closer to cracking the case than he thought.

    Director:Haldane Duncan
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Taggart Season 3 Episode 1 - The Killing Philosophy
    0.0/10(114 votes)

    #6 - The Killing Philosophy

    S3:E1

    Taggart investigates a failed rape attempt by a masked attacker. However, his job is complicated when the victim commits suicide and the criminal strikes again, and his attacks soon turn to murder.

    Director:Haldane Duncan
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Taggart Season 3 Episode 2 - Funeral Rites
    0.0/10(60 votes)

    #7 - Funeral Rites

    S3:E2

    The discovery of a charred corpse in a disused railway tunnel sets Taggart on the gruesome hunt for a ruthless killer in an investigation with sinister undertones of black magic and voodoo. The wife of an arthritic dentist narrowly escapes a series of murder attempts, adding to a complex case for Taggart and his team.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Taggart Season 3 Episode 3 - Cold Blood
    0.0/10(62 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Haldane Duncan
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Taggart Season 4 Episode 1 - Dead Giveaway
    0.0/10(112 votes)

    #9 - Dead Giveaway

    S4:E1

    Taggart uncovers a sordid case of extortion, forgery and murder when he investigates the suspicious death of a member of a church youth club

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Taggart Season 4 Episode 2 - Root of Evil
    0.0/10(57 votes)

    #10 - Root of Evil

    S4:E2

    Taggart and Jardine investigate when someone starts bumping off Glasgow's loan sharks.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Taggart Season 4 Episode 3 - Double Jeopardy
    0.0/10(59 votes)

    #11 - 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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  12. Taggart Season 5 Episode 1 - Flesh and Blood
    0.0/10(90 votes)

    #12 - 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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  13. Taggart Season 5 Episode 2 - Love Knot
    0.0/10(51 votes)

    #13 - Love Knot

    S5:E2

    A body is dredged up from the bottom of the Clyde, setting Taggart and Jardine off on an investigation which takes them beyond Glasgow into the Scottish Highlands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Taggart Season 5 Episode 3 - Hostile Witness
    0.0/10(54 votes)

    #14 - Hostile Witness

    S5:E3

    A by-election is taking place in Glasgow and one of the candidates represents the Referendum for the Return of Capital Punishment party. When the candidate and her agent are murdered, Taggart is pressed for a quick solution to the crime.

    Director:Haldane Duncan
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Taggart Season 6 Episode 1 - Evil Eye - Part 1
    0.0/10(108 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Haldane Duncan
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Taggart Season 6 Episode 2 - Evil Eye - Part 2
    0.0/10(56 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. Taggart Season 6 Episode 3 - Evil Eye - Part 3
    0.0/10(57 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. Taggart Season 6 Episode 4 - Death Comes Softly - Part One
    0.0/10(121 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. Taggart Season 6 Episode 5 - Death Comes Softly - Part Two
    0.0/10(54 votes)

    #19 - 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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  20. Taggart Season 6 Episode 6 - Death Comes Softly - Part Three
    0.0/10(61 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Taggart Season 6 Episode 7 - Rogues' Gallery
    0.0/10(94 votes)

    #21 - Rogues' Gallery

    S6:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Taggart Season 7 Episode 1 - Violent Delights
    0.0/10(98 votes)

    #22 - Violent Delights

    S7:E1

    When a sixth form student who is spying on his French teacher becomes the prime witness to her husband's murder, DCI Taggart, newly promoted DC Jackie Reid and DS Jardine have no choice but to exhume an entire graveyard when the prime suspect - an undertaker - refuses to let on where he has buried the parts of his mutilated body. Unfortunately, one of the deceased includes Jean Taggart's Aunt Hettie (much despised by Jim) - who also passes away in the episode and inconveniently interred by the same undertaker.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Taggart Season 7 Episode 2 - Nest of Vipers
    0.0/10(116 votes)

    #23 - 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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  24. Taggart Season 7 Episode 3 - Double Exposure
    0.0/10(53 votes)

    #24 - 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?

    Director:Gordon Flemyng
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Taggart Season 8 Episode 1 - The Hit Man
    0.0/10(92 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Death Call" is the best rated episode of "Taggart". It scored 1/10 based on 62 votes. Directed by Haldane Duncan and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/2/1986. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pilot: Killer".