Taggart

The Best Episodes of Taggart

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Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines...
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  1. 8.4/10(105 votes)

    #1 - Nest of Vipers

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    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.

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  2. 8.4/10(101 votes)

    #2 - Dead Mans Chest

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    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?

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  3. 8.2/10(94 votes)

    #3 - Evil Eye

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    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.

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  4. 8.2/10(41 votes)

    #4 - Death Comes Softly

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    S6:E2

    When an elderly man is found brutally murdered in his home, DCI Taggart and DS Jardine suspect the daughter and her husband. Then another elderly person is murdered and the detectives struggle to find a connection. Eventually, a Post Office worker who also moonlights in a retirement home comes to their attention. WPC Jackie Reid joins the team.

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  5. 8.2/10(43 votes)

    #5 - Rogue's Gallery

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    S6:E3

    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.

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  6. 8.2/10(41 votes)

    #6 - Double Exposure

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    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?

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  8. 8.1/10(81 votes)

    #7 - The Hit Man

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    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.

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  9. 8.1/10(19 votes)

    #8 - Death Without Dishonour

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    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.

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  10. 8.0/10(32 votes)

    #9 - Murder In Season

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    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?

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  11. 8.0/10(104 votes)

    #10 - The Killing Philosophy

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    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.

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  12. 8.0/10(72 votes)

    #11 - Instrument of Justice

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    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.

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  13. 8.0/10(55 votes)

    #12 - Legends

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    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.

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  14. 8.0/10(68 votes)

    #13 - Compensation

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    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.

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  15. 7.9/10(119 votes)

    #14 - Knife Edge

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    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.

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  16. 7.9/10(53 votes)

    #15 - Death Call

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    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.

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  17. 7.9/10(81 votes)

    #16 - Flesh and Blood

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    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.

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  18. 7.9/10(71 votes)

    #17 - Death Benefits

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    S9:E1

    Julia Fraser, wife of a police sergeant, is brutally murdered whilst he is on duty. During a search of the house a list of names is found. It appears that the names on the list are rapidly meeting with a series of accidents - and yet the only connection between them is the list.

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  19. 7.9/10(35 votes)

    #18 - Secrets

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    S10:E3

    The Scottish literature world is abuzz with speculation as a major prize is to be awarded. The team are called in when a writer is threatened. When a university lecturer in creative writing is found murdered and the manufacture and transport of illegal drugs is thrown into the mix of things, Taggart, Jardine and Reid are there to investigate.

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  20. 7.9/10(41 votes)

    #19 - The Ties that Bind

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    S21:E3

    Burke's professional life is left hanging in the balance after the body of a librarian is found behind the wheel of a car in the Clyde after an apparent hit and run. The detectives are baffled, it appears that the victim had been tied up and was already dead before the car hit the water. But certain allegations are made about Burke which hinder the investigation?

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  21. 7.8/10(44 votes)

    #20 - Pilot: Killer

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    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.

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  22. 7.8/10(50 votes)

    #21 - Cold Blood

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    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.

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  23. 7.8/10(101 votes)

    #22 - Dead Giveaway

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    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

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  24. 7.8/10(49 votes)

    #23 - Double Jeopardy

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    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.

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  25. 7.8/10(87 votes)

    #24 - Violent Delights

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    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.

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  26. 7.8/10(33 votes)

    #25 - Forbidden Fruit

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    S10:E2

    Taggart, Jardine and Reid are left to investigate murders surrounding a fertility clinic. Meanwhile Taggart's former partner Peter Livingstone to Glasgow and gives Jardine the shock of his life. He joins a gang beating up Dr Colin Millar because he fathered over 60 women and had children to them. Angry husbands confront him and give him a beating and Livingstone joins in, but will he be caught?

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Best Episodes Summary

"Nest of Vipers" is the best rated episode of "Taggart". It scored 8.4/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/9/1992. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dead Mans Chest".