5.8/1039 votesLoading...#1 - Silent Truth
Season 27 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2011
When Iranian refugee Farid Mamood is burned to death, it initially appears that a racially motivated murder has occurred. But Burke is not so sure.
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- 6.1/10117 votesLoading...
#2 - Ghost Rider
Season 17 Episode 1 - Aired 2/15/2000
A charred body is found in a car, leading the team into a web of police corruption and cover-ups. Jardine, Reid, Fraser and Ross investigate.
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6.1/1046 votesLoading...#3 - Hard Man
Season 19 Episode 1 - Aired 12/4/2002
DCI Burke and the team are called in to investigate the discovery of a mangled body in what appears to be an industrial accident at a Clyde shipyard. But when it is revealed that the victim was already dead before the accident, Burke finds himself dealing with a murder.
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- 6.3/10110 votesLoading...
#4 - A Fistful of Chips
Season 16 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1999
A string of people are murdered by electrocution. All of these people are in some way connected to with a local (and popular) spiritualist, who claims he can speak with the dead. When the Taggart team disbelieve the man's powers, the clairvoyant gives them frighteningly accurate messages from a man very dear to their hearts--Jim Taggart! Meanwhile, the murders begin to pile up, and Taggart team race to find the murderer, this time aided by Jim Taggart himself.
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- 6.4/1016 votesLoading...
#5 - Dead Reckoning
Season 14 Episode 3 - Aired 7/15/1998
An 'escort agency' woman is found brutally murdered in a hotel carpark. At the same time the daughter of a well known ex-army colonel goes missing. Are the two linked or is it just coincidence? While Jardine and Fraser try to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder and the disappearance, Jackie goes undercover at 'Executive Adventures' to keep tabs on the main suspect. But has Jackie's cover been blown and is her life in danger from the real murderer?
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- 6.5/1016 votesLoading...
#6 - Out of Bounds
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 3/1/1998
A school master is beaten to death with a cricket bat by an unknown assailant. 60 years later, the body is found by students on a cross country run. Douglas Flemming identifies the bones as Friedrich Zwanziger, a strict disciplinarian who disappeared while collecting beetles. As the investigation proceeds, McVitie discloses that he is on the board of governors.
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- 6.6/1036 votesLoading...
#7 - The Best and the Brightest
Season 22 Episode 9 - Aired 3/29/2006
When a research student is found dead in a university science lab following a severe anaphylactic shock, the evidence suggests that her food has been deliberately contaminated. Traces of highly concentrated nut oil are found at the scene, but there seems to be no clear motive for her murder. Then another student dies in a suspicious accident the following day and Burke and the team realise that a calculating killer is at work within the university.
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- 6.7/1041 votesLoading...
#8 - Law
Season 22 Episode 8 - Aired 3/22/2006
The murder of a teenage girl leads the team to travelers working at a nearby fairground.
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- 6.7/1040 votesLoading...
#9 - Tenement
Season 23 Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/2007
When an activist is found murdered in her tenement flat suspicion falls on a local property developer, who planned to demolish the building and was met with strong criticism by the campaigner. Meanwhile, DI Ross is focusing his attention on a hit and run case, which angers his superiors.
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- 6.7/1045 votesLoading...
#10 - Bad Medicine
Season 27 Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2011
When a newly-qualified doctor is found tortured and mutilated in a vacant warehouse, the team discover connections with a drug-trafficking case.
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- 6.8/1028 votesLoading...
#11 - Prayer for the Dead
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/1995
Taggart is promoted to Acting Superintendent after Jack McVitie takes a heart attack. When two young girls are murdered Taggart starts to wonder whether Jardine and Reid are up to the job. A Polish woman is later found murdered.
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- 6.8/1048 votesLoading...
#12 - Falling in Love
Season 17 Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/2001
DCI Jardine and the team investigate a series of mysterious deaths among members of a tango club after a pre-wedding parachute jump ends in the bridegroom plunging to his death. And as Jackie Reid's wedding day approaches, Ross tries to convince her that she is rushing into marriage too quickly.
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6.8/1045 votesLoading...#13 - Fade to Black
Season 19 Episode 2 - Aired 12/11/2002
A young nurse is found strangled in her home, with no sign of forced entry and two glasses of wine on the table. On finding a large quantity of cash hidden in her flat and signs of an affluent lifestyle, Burke and the team begin to suspect that the murder victim had a secret double life. Meanwhile, a mysterious and sinister person is following and filming Burke with a camcorder.
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6.8/1041 votesLoading...#14 - The Thirteenth Step
Season 23 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2007
Ex-con Eddie Monroe is found stabbed in a Govan alleyway. Burke meets Angus Ford - a retired police officer who was responsible for Monroe's arrest and subsequent convictions - who remains adamant that Monroe was a bad man who deserved to die. But who was his killer? All roads keep leading back to old acquaintance Daniel Tulloch and his family. In the course of uncovering the truth Burke is forced to face some demons of his own.
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- 6.8/1041 votesLoading...
#15 - Genesis
Season 24 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2008
A woman is killed on her way to a fertility clinic which religious protesters are targeting. Reid finds herself leading the team to find her killer.
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- 6.9/10112 votesLoading...
#16 - Fearful Lightning
Season 16 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1999
A delivery van is hijacked and its contents stolen. But there's more going on than meets the eye, and meanwhile, someone's knocking off anyone who knows about the hijack, which doesn't include the police! Once again Robbie's past catches up with him and he comes close to crossing the line.
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- 6.9/10109 votesLoading...
#17 - For Their Sins
Season 16 Episode 4 - Aired 11/21/1999
Jardine and the team investigate the murders of drug dealers in the Glasgow community.
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- 6.9/1041 votesLoading...
#18 - Dead Man Walking
Season 22 Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/2005
The team investigate the seemingly motiveless murder of a mechanic. Suspicion soon falls on his business partner, Tony Benton, but it turns out that Benton was in fact the intended victim.
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6.9/1043 votesLoading...#19 - Users and Losers
Season 23 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/2007
A gambler is found dead, and it is discovered that he had thousands of pounds stashed in his flat, leading the team to suspect that he was part of an illegal betting scam. The wife of the owner then gets killed out riding and the investigation heats up further. Meanwhile, Burke is convinced that a former heroin addict and petty criminal has changed, until he is left with a decision to either arrest a killer or do a deal to catch a more major criminal.
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- 6.9/1045 votesLoading...
#20 - A Study in Murder
Season 24 Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/2008
When a college principal is crushed to death in a lift, the preliminary investigation into his death discovers that the lift mechanism was deliberately sabotaged, and the finger of suspicion points to the dead man's wife, who may have avenged herself over his adultery. But DI Ross believes that the deputy principal has a hand in the murder, and sets out to prove the man's guilt.
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- 7.0/1016 votesLoading...
#21 - Long Time Dead
Season 15 Episode 2 - Aired 11/1/1998
DCI Jardine is hosting the Strathclyde CID Dinner at the Crawford Hotel when the body of the owner is found strangled and dumped in the back lane. A kitchen hand who was behaving strangely immediately becomes the prime suspect. However, he too is murdered before he can be interviewed, and so too is the head chef.
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- 7.0/1056 votesLoading...
#22 - Football Crazy
Season 17 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/2000
Jardine and the team investigate a series of murky going-ons at a football club whose lack of success on the pitch is matched by an unaccountably high death rate among its employees. Jardine and the team investigate.
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7.0/1044 votesLoading...#23 - Do or Die
Season 22 Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/2005
The team investigate the suspicious death of an army recruit at a training camp. D.I. Robbie Ross goes undercover in an attempt to understand the mentality of the regime that teaches young men to kill or be killed - before other deaths occur.
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- 7.0/1038 votesLoading...
#24 - Trust
Season 24 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2008
A man is discovered tortured and executed on remote wasteland, and the team investigate, discovering that the victim was a hit-man. Soon their enquiries lead them to a local entrepreneur who they believe may have criminal connections. But they also have other concerns as Burke is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, and Chief Superintendent Henson has marked him as a troublemaker, and she is determined to make sure his days in the police are numbered.
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- 7.0/1040 votesLoading...
#25 - The Caring Game
Season 24 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2008
When the decomposing body of a young woman is discovered in her bath, initial enquiries at her workplace uncover very little. Reid does not warm to her estate agent boss, while Fraser discovers that she was gifting a significant amount of her less-than-generous salary to charity, but why would that make her a murder target? Meanwhile, Ross learns that his estranged wife is planning to emigrate to Canada with his son, and realises he has a tough choice to make between his family and the job he loves.
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The Worst Episodes of Taggart
Every episode of Taggart ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:ITV1
Worst Episodes Summary
"Silent Truth" is the worst rated episode of "Taggart". It scored 5.8/10 based on 39 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/25/2011. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Ghost Rider".