8.4/10104 votesLoading...#1 - Nest of Vipers
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1099 votesLoading...
#2 - Dead Mans Chest
Season 13 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1996
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1093 votesLoading...
#3 - Evil Eye
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1990
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: N/A
- 8.1/1039 votesLoading...
#4 - Death Comes Softly
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 12/3/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1041 votesLoading...
#5 - Rogue's Gallery
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 12/31/1990
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1039 votesLoading...
#6 - Double Exposure
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/1992
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: N/A
- 8.1/1079 votesLoading...
#7 - The Hit Man
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1066 votesLoading...#8 - Compensation
Season 20 Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/2004
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1027 votesLoading...
#9 - Murder In Season
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/23/1985
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: N/A
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- 8.0/1069 votesLoading...
#10 - Instrument of Justice
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1993
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10117 votesLoading...#11 - Knife Edge
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/24/1986
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: N/A
7.9/1050 votesLoading...#12 - Death Call
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/2/1986
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: N/A
7.9/10100 votesLoading...#13 - The Killing Philosophy
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/15/1987
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: N/A
7.9/1080 votesLoading...#14 - Flesh and Blood
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1989
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1068 votesLoading...
#15 - Death Benefits
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 2/16/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1016 votesLoading...
#16 - Death Without Dishonour
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 5/11/1993
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1053 votesLoading...
#17 - Legends
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/1995
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1041 votesLoading...#18 - The Ties that Bind
Season 21 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2005
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?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1039 votesLoading...#19 - Pilot: Killer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1983
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: N/A
7.8/1099 votesLoading...#20 - Dead Giveaway
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1988
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1085 votesLoading...
#21 - Violent Delights
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1064 votesLoading...
#22 - Bloodlines
Season 16 Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/1999
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1074 votesLoading...#23 - Death Trap
Season 18 Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/2002
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1045 votesLoading...#24 - Puppet on a String
Season 21 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2005
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1036 votesLoading...
#25 - Lifeline
Season 24 Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/2008
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: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Taggart
Every episode of Taggart ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
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Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"Nest of Vipers" is the best rated episode of "Taggart". It scored 8.4/10 based on 104 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".