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The Best Episodes of Taggart

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...
  1. Background image for Death Comes Softly - Part One
    8.4/10(109 votes)

    #1 - Death Comes Softly - Part One

    S6:E4

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Nest of Vipers
    8.4/10(107 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Dead Mans Chest
    8.4/10(104 votes)

    #3 - 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?

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    Director:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Death Comes Softly - Part Three
    8.3/10(48 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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  5. Background image for Death Comes Softly - Part Two
    8.2/10(43 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Double Exposure
    8.2/10(43 votes)

    #6 - 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?

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    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Murder In Season
    8.1/10(36 votes)

    #7 - 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?

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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Evil Eye - Part 1
    8.1/10(97 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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  10. Background image for Evil Eye - Part 2
    8.1/10(44 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Evil Eye - Part 3
    8.1/10(46 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Hit Man
    8.1/10(83 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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  13. Background image for Death Without Dishonour
    8.1/10(22 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Background image for The Killing Philosophy
    8.0/10(105 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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  15. Background image for Instrument of Justice - Part 1
    8.0/10(74 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Legends
    8.0/10(57 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Compensation
    8.0/10(70 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Knife Edge
    7.9/10(122 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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  19. Background image for Death Call
    7.9/10(55 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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  20. Background image for Flesh and Blood
    7.9/10(82 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Death Benefits
    7.9/10(75 votes)

    #20 - Death Benefits

    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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  22. Background image for Instrument of Justice - Part 3
    7.9/10(37 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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  23. Background image for Bloodlines
    7.9/10(68 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  24. Background image for The Ties that Bind
    7.9/10(43 votes)

    #23 - The Ties that Bind

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Lifeline
    7.9/10(38 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Pilot: Killer
    7.8/10(49 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Death Comes Softly - Part One" is the best rated episode of "Taggart". It scored 8.4/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/3/1990. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Nest of Vipers".