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

Set in [[Bonnie Scotland|Glasgow, Scotland]], it has a very bad case of [[Never One MurderMurde[[Category:TV Series]]]. The series was named after its main character, Jim Taggart, who is no longer in the series due to the [[The Character Died with Him|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 WikiWik[[Category:TV Series]]], 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 TaggartTaggar[[Category:TV Series]]].

* [[Artifact TitleTitl[[Category:TV Series]]]: Jim Taggart no longer appears in the show, due to actor Mark McManus's death.

* [[Ascended ExtraExtr[[Category:TV Series]]]: 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 TimeTim[[Category:TV Series]]]: One of the coroners tends to do this.

* [[Beam Me Up, ScottyScott[[Category:TV Series]]]: ''There's been a murder.'', funnily enough.

* [[Beneath SuspicionSuspicio[[Category:TV Series]]]

* [[British BrevityBrevit[[Category:TV Series]]]: 100 episodes in 25 years. ''[[TaggartTaggar[[Category:TV Series]]]'' episodes are kind of like buses. [[Metaphorgotten|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 HimHi[[Category:TV Series]]]: Mark McManus, as noted above.

* [[Detective DramaDram[[Category:TV Series]]]

* [[Exposition VictimVicti[[Category:TV Series]]]: in "Forbidden Fruit"

* [[Fable RemakeRemak[[Category:TV Series]]]: The episode 'Gingerbread' was a modern retelling of 'Hansel and Gretel'

* [[Thematic Theme TuneTun[[Category:TV Series]]]: "No Mean City".

* [[Never One MurderMurde[[Category:TV Series]]]

* [[Suspiciously Similar SubstituteSubstitut[[Category:TV Series]]]

* [[Violent GlaswegianGlaswegia[[Category:TV Series]]]: Only often more calculating than usual.

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