Taggart was a Scottish detective fiction television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network.
DCI Jim Taggart is asked to head up the investigation, alongside newly graduated sergeant Peter Livingstone.
A famous opera singer is accused of murder when the body of her ex-husband's new girlfriend is found on the burnt out shell of his boat.
DCI Taggart and DS Livingstone are called in to investigate the macabre killing of the wife of a wealthy landowner who is found strangled and weighed down with luggage in a reservoir.
The discovery of a charred corpse in a disused railway tunnel sets DCI Taggart on the gruesome hunt for a ruthless killer in an investigation with sinister undertones of black magic and voodoo.
The arthritic wife of a dentist narrowly escapes a series of murder attempts, adding to a complex case for Taggart and Jardine, now a DS.
DCI Taggart thinks he has the easiest case of his career, however it soon becomes the complete opposite when the post mortem reveals that he was already dead before he was shot, and that his wife could not be responsible.
DCI Taggart is suspicious, and he soon discovers that the victim's sister thinks that Rowena's husband, Maurice, is responsible for her murder.
A far-right political party seeking the return of capital punishment is embroiled in a series of murders during a by-election campaign, in which both the candidate and her agent become victims of the killer.
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 an elderly man is found brutally murdered in his home, DCI Taggart and DS Jardine suspect the daughter and her husband.
When a sixth year 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.
Two skulls are found on the site of a by-pass road near Glasgow, and DCI Taggart believes it could be that of Janet Gilmour, a 19-year-old girl who disappeared without trace four years previously.
DCI Taggart checks himself into a health farm to keep tabs on Dr. Janet Napier after a "not proven" verdict in the court case relating to the murder of her husband's lover.
While private detective Tom Barrow searches for missing businessman Philip Chalmers, he is savagely murdered in front of his son by an unknown assailant.
Simon copes with his grief by playing detective, but his suspicions are ignored by both his foster parents and Jardine in this tale of storybook witchery.
DCI Taggart and the team are made responsible for protecting witnesses involved in a "cab war" trial by Supt.
Meanwhile, Jake Koslewski returns from a charity mission to Romania to discover his wife, an alcohol counsellor, has left him for George Proctor, a previous client.
When a clever lawyer gains an acquittal for his client on an apparently straightforward murder charge, the team are compelled to restart the investigation from scratch – but then the killing starts again.
While Jardine and Reid are investigating, Fraser assists a distraught Peter Letham to find his missing wife who has not been seen for three days.
First episode with Michael Jardine as Detective Chief Inspector After serving a life sentence for the murder of a family of five when she was just sixteen, Susan Keller is released from prison.
When lawyer Richard Flett is shot dead, suspicion initially falls on his widow Adele and his partner Charlie Muir, who were having an affair.
A group of residents was taking a company called Arcadia to court on the grounds that they had caused pollution, leading to illness.
When a caustic restaurant critic is found murdered, suspicion falls on the thief who fled the scene at the time of his death.
As the team finds themselves investigating a very shady side of religion, a link to the past could prove to be the key to identify the person responsible.
His mobile phone was sold on eBay and at one time had been in the company of Mark Joffe, a part-time English lecturer and crime writer, whose new novel 'Chaos' describes a murder identical to Melville's.
Edward Muir and his son Luke, members of the austere Triune Family religious group, are brutally murdered with open bibles by the corpses, referring to the Rapture or promise of eternal life.
Two London detectives, Moretti and Casey, the latter an old friend of Burke, arrive in Glasgow whilst investigating a similar case though Jackie and Robbie do not warm to them.
It soon becomes clear to DCI Burke and the rest of the team that there is another motive and when a drug dealer enters the frame, the case is set to be extremely complex for all concerned.