Taggart

"There's been a murder."

A long-runnin] [[British Series|British detective series, running from 1983 to 2010 (at which point ITV withdrew their funding, forcing the show's cancellation).

Set in Glasgow, Scotland, it has a very bad case of death of Mark McManus, who portrayed him. Rather surprisingly, the show has carried on longer without him than it did when he was alive.

According to The Other Wik], the show is frequently summed up by saying "murder" in a very strong Glaswegian accent (e.g. a parody in [[The Fast Show consisted entirely of policemen standing around a corpse and saying "He's deeed, he's bin mudded!").

Not to be confused with [[Atlas Shrugged|Dagny or James Taggar].


 * [[Artifact Titl]: Jim Taggart no longer appears in the show, due to actor Mark McManus's death.
 * [[Ascended Extr]: James McPherson had a brief appearance as a young DC in 'The Killing Philosophy', before becoming Taggart's assistant for the rest of the Mark McManus episodes. After Mark McManus died, Mike Jardine got promoted to DCI and became the main character for the next few years.
 * [[Autopsy Snack Tim]: One of the coroners tends to do this.
 * [[Beam Me Up, Scott]: There's been a murder., funnily enough.
 * [[Beneath Suspicio]
 * Bonnie Scotland
 * Buses that are twice as long as normal shows, mind. A single 'episode' was normally 2-4 hours in the days before it was serialised down to an hour.
 * [[The Character Died with Hi]: Mark McManus, as noted above.
 * [[Detective Dram]
 * [[Exposition Victi]: in "Forbidden Fruit"
 * [[Fable Remak]: The episode 'Gingerbread' was a modern retelling of 'Hansel and Gretel'
 * [[Thematic Theme Tun]: "No Mean City".
 * [[Never One Murde]
 * [[Suspiciously Similar Substitut]
 * [[Violent Glaswegia]: Only often more calculating than usual.

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