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Season 1

  • S01E01 Picking it Up

    • October 18, 1981
    • BBC One

    Jersey detective Jim Bergerac returns from a recuperation leave to find his job in jeopardy and a colleague killed during an investigation into international gun sales to South Africa.

  • S01E02 Nice People Die in Bed

    • October 25, 1981
    • BBC One

    Jim ruffles many feathers as he investigates the suspicious death of the prominent local leader of an international charity committee.

  • S01E03 Unlucky Dip

    • November 1, 1981
    • BBC One

    Jim faces brutality charges when he investigates a drug courier who had his package lifted by a pickpocket, who's now trying to sell the stuff himself.

  • S01E04 Campaign For Silence

    • November 8, 1981
    • BBC One

    A retired Army major and former POW receives death threats, and sees his ghostwriter killed, when he tries to publish his memoirs of the Korean War.

  • S01E05 See You in Moscow

    • November 15, 1981
    • BBC One

    A civil servant exposed as a spy tries to flee to Moscow via Jersey.

  • S01E06 Portrait of Yesterday

    • November 22, 1981
    • BBC One

    The prominent society wedding of her stepdaughter brings back a dark secret from a woman's past.

  • S01E07 Last Chance For a Loser

    • November 29, 1981
    • BBC One

    Charlie is one of the victims of a series of well-planned burglaries focused on the wealthiest island homes.

  • S01E08 Late For a Funeral

    • December 6, 1981
    • BBC One

    Jim investigates the murder of a diver that is tied to the discovery of a downed Nazi pilot and his plane off the Jersey shore.

  • S01E09 Relative Values

    • December 13, 1981
    • BBC One

    The son of an eccentric millionaire suspects that his father's housekeeper plans to kill her employer for his fortune.

  • S01E10 The Hood and the Harlequin

    • December 20, 1981
    • BBC One

    Jim and Francine quarrel over her relationship with a charming Canadian photographer while Jim tries to keep track of a French gangster's girl friend, hoping she will lead him to the crook.

Season 2

  • S02E01 A Message For the Rich

    • January 9, 1983
    • BBC One

    Two disgruntled ex-employees of Charlie Hungerford kidnap Jim's daughter.

  • S02E02 Always Leave Them Laughing

    • January 16, 1983
    • BBC One

    A disappointed beauty pageant contestant accuses a popular comic of raping her after voting against her in the beauty contest.

  • S02E03 Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

    • January 23, 1983
    • BBC One

    Lil's ex-husband, a journalist, returns to Jersey on the trail of a big story he believes will embarrass Charlie Hungerford, who's running for a position in the House of Deputies.

  • S02E04 Prime Target

    • January 30, 1983
    • BBC One

    Bergerac travels to France to investigate the death of a Jersey resident and prematurely reveals the marriage plans of the eccentric heir to an old Jersey family fortune.

  • S02E05 Almost Like a Holiday

    • February 6, 1983
    • BBC One

    The publicity surrounding the mugging of a lovable old liar endangers a plan to burgle a safe containing a fortune in diamonds.

  • S02E06 Fall of a Birdman

    • February 13, 1983
    • BBC One

    A Portuguese hang glider pilot hired by Charlie for a TV commercial sails around a deserted cliff face and is later found dead, apparently murdered.

  • S02E07 Miracle Every Week

    • February 20, 1983
    • BBC One

    Jim must protect an Indian faith healer from con men out to exploit his abilities.

  • S02E08 A Perfect Recapture

    • February 27, 1983
    • BBC One

    A wheel dropped from a flying plane and a trail of marked francs lead Jim and a dogged mainland detective to a computer embezzler who stole 2 million pounds from the police ten years earlier.

  • S02E09 The Moonlight Girls

    • March 6, 1983
    • BBC One

    Jim's investigation into the death of a young woman supposed to be working at a local stable reveals a profitable call girl operation.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Ninety Per Cent Proof

    • December 3, 1983
    • BBC One

    When he goes on a drunken bender after failing to have an arsonist he arrested convicted, no one believes Jim's claims of having been forced to drink and having witnessed a murder. Full recap: After trying to get an arsonist he knows is guilty convicted on court, and failing, Jim returns to his car to find an Irish woman named Irene Maybank waiting for him, claiming she is an alcoholic and that her husband is trying to kill her. So Bergerac goes along to the woman's flat to help her out. When he gets there, Irene says she can see her husband outside, so Bergerac goes down to check it out only to hear screams coming from her flat above. When he gets back to the flat, he finds her dead and looks around the flat only to be knocked out by the intruder. Later Charlie Hungerford sees Jim staggering around drunk in the hotel bar, and phones to get get somebody to come down and get him. When Barry Goddard arrives he finds that Jim has somehow managed to drive back home. Meanwhile Crozi

  • S03E02 A Hole in the Bucket

    • December 10, 1983
    • BBC One

    Jim jeopardizes his career to help a couple of women who have come to Jersey.

  • S03E03 Holiday Snaps

    • December 17, 1983
    • BBC One

    A French Inspector asks Jim for help in proving a tourist from Jersey killed his wife while on holiday in France.

  • S03E04 Ice Maiden

    • December 24, 1983
    • BBC One

    Jim decides to beef up security at an auction where a famous diamond is to be sold when a notorious jewel thief, Philippa Vale, who has never been caught decides to visit Jersey.

  • S03E05 Come Out Fighting

    • December 31, 1983
    • BBC One

    One of the boxers in an European championship match being held on Jersey is plagued by a series of mishaps.

  • S03E06 A Touch of Eastern Promise

    • January 7, 1984
    • BBC One

    Charlie and a group of Jersey businessmen invite an Arab entrepreneur to the island hoping to get him to invest in a fancy leisure complex they are hoping to build.

  • S03E07 A Cry in the Night

    • January 14, 1984
    • BBC One

    When a couple falls overboard from an international rock star's yacht- leaving the man dead and the woman in serious condition - Jim suspects murder.

  • S03E08 The Company You Keep

    • January 21, 1984
    • BBC One

    One of Charlie's friends is suspected of tipping off a pair of London thieves who've started a crime spree in Jersey, as to which houses have valuables in them and when the owners will be gone.

  • S03E09 Tug of War

    • January 28, 1984
    • BBC One

    A convict who has just been let out on parole brings his son on holiday to Jersey without telling the boy's mother or his probation officer.

  • S03E10 House Guests

    • February 4, 1984
    • BBC One

    An international financier sets up a meeting of top European moneymen at his Jersey mansion; one of whom is attending the meeting for reasons other than financial gain.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Last Interview

    • October 11, 1985
    • BBC One

    An American telejournalist comes to Jersey to interview a retired gangster who has gone into hiding because of a contract on his life.

  • S04E02 Offshore Trades

    • October 18, 1985
    • BBC One

    Bergerac investigates the death of a scuba diver who washes up on the beach and discovers the disappearance of a French film star's wife.

  • S04E03 What Dreams May Come True

    • October 25, 1985
    • BBC One

    Anonymous phone calls prompt Jim to re-examine a road accident that had been dismissed as routine.

  • S04E04 Low Profile

    • November 1, 1985
    • BBC One

    An eccentric old lady's mysterious past is somehow tied to a sunken ship that has attracted many divers, including a world-renowned underwater archaeologist and a notorious gangster.

  • S04E05 Return of the Ice Maiden

    • November 8, 1985
    • BBC One

    Philippa Vale returns to Jersey planning to recover the jewels she was forced to abandon in a previous encounter with Jim.

  • S04E06 Chrissie

    • November 15, 1985
    • BBC One

    Jim is under pressure to find a briefcase containing fashion designs and a baby who disappeared with her nurse.

  • S04E07 The Tennis Racket

    • November 29, 1985
    • BBC One

    Jim is assigned to protect a spoiled tennis star who has received several death threats.

  • S04E08 Sins of the Fathers

    • December 13, 1985
    • BBC One

    One of the stars of a film being made about the German occupation of Jersey finds his life being threatened.

  • S04E09 Avenge, O Lord

    • December 20, 1985
    • BBC One

    Jim is assigned to guard a mainland MP who has come to Jersey to study the island's police force.

  • S04E10 Fires in the Fall (Christmas Special)

    • December 26, 1986
    • BBC One

    When an elderly millionairess puts her trust in a psychic who claims to speak to the dead, Jim is asked to debunk some supernatural myths..

Season 5

  • S05E01 The Memory Man

    • January 3, 1987
    • BBC One

    Jim must discover the identity of a man with amnesia who was found wandering around naked and who is haunted by a nightmare.

  • S05E02 Winner Takes All

    • January 10, 1987
    • BBC One

    A millionaire computer expert receives several death threats.

  • S05E03 Root and Branch

    • January 17, 1987
    • BBC One

    A criminal that Jim arrested in the past is seeking revenge. He starts by trying to drive Debbie insane and eventually holds Debbie, Charlie and Kim hostage in Charlie's mansion in Brittany. Can Jim save the day?

  • S05E04 A Desirable Little Residence

    • January 24, 1987
    • BBC One

    Susan is asked to put a small unremarkable bungalow called ""Ocean View"" on the market. Quickly several parties put down offers and as the price escalates Jim tries to work out why...

  • S05E05 The Deadly Virus

    • January 31, 1987
    • BBC One

    Animal rights protesters free four monkeys from a research laboratory one of which is infected with the deadly marbury virus.

  • S05E06 S.P.A.R.T.A.

    • February 7, 1987
    • BBC One

    Philippa comes to Jim for help when her life is threatened by a right wing organization demanding the return of a notebook that she knows nothings about.

  • S05E07 Thanks for Everything

    • February 14, 1987
    • BBC One

    Jim is assigned to find a financier who has disappeared.

  • S05E08 Poison

    • February 21, 1987
    • BBC One

    Jim investigates when a mason drops dead in the middle of his initiation ceremony.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Whatever Lola Wants

    • January 2, 1988
    • BBC One

    Jim is assigned to look after an important gang informant's mother, who is in danger of being kidnapped by a vengeful gang leader.

  • S06E02 Crossed Swords

    • January 9, 1988
    • BBC One

    When members of two feuding families decide to settle their differences with an old-fashioned duel, Jim ends up with a murder to investigate.

  • S06E03 A Horse of a Different Colour

    • January 16, 1988
    • BBC One

    Phillipa, out on parole, decides to give Jim some unwanted help in finding a stolen horse.

  • S06E04 Burnt

    • January 23, 1988
    • BBC One

    A business acquaintance of Charlie's is suspected of insider trading.

  • S06E05 The Sin of Forgiveness

    • January 30, 1988
    • BBC One

    A former Nazi who had been living underground since the end of the war surfaces in Jersey.

  • S06E06 A Man of Sorrows

    • February 6, 1988
    • BBC One

    The discovery of a dead body in an empty cottage sparks off a nightmarish case for Jim and his partner, an unorthodox London detective.

  • S06E07 Private Fight

    • February 13, 1988
    • BBC One

    Jim places his career in jeopardy while trying to help Charlie Hungerford.

  • S06E08 Retirement Plan (Christmas Special)

    • December 27, 1988
    • BBC One

    Jim is taken from Jersey to spend Christmas on the Costa Del Sol, where two petty British thugs have been trying to get involved in Charlie's latest business venture. When Jim gets involved, he finds himself in the middle of a local gang war while in Jersey, a group of French thieves wreak havoc and Susan's life is in danger.

Season 7

  • S07E01 Sea Changes

    • January 28, 1989
    • BBC One

    Jim investigates a dead sailor and drums of an illegal toxic pesticide, both of which were found, washed up on the beach.

  • S07E02 Natural Enemies

    • February 4, 1989
    • BBC One

    Jim enlists the aid of a lady psychologist in tracking down someone who has been anonymously calling Charlie and blaming him for a former business associates death.

  • S07E03 Tangos in the Night

    • February 11, 1989
    • BBC One

    Jim suspects the dancing instructor of a leading Jersey socialite of stealing her diamonds.

  • S07E04 The Other Woman

    • February 18, 1989
    • BBC One

    Whilst playing golf, Charlie (who else?) finds the body of Graham Hawkesworth buries in a bunker. Investigations show that he was apparently having an affair with an unknown woman. This ‘other woman' is the prime suspect in Hawkesworth's murder and it appears that she is none other than Susan. It transpires that Graham invented the story that he was having an affair and chose Susan as the ‘other woman' in order to make his wife jealous. His wife is the real killer and plans to make Susan the next victim.

  • S07E05 Weekend Off

    • February 25, 1989
    • BBC One

    Jim must delay his weekend off in order to take over escorting a French electronics expert from a special branch officer who has become ill.

  • S07E06 When Did You Last See Your Father?

    • March 4, 1989
    • BBC One

    Jim is put under pressure to arrest a scrap dealer who he believes is innocent of assaulting a young girl.

  • S07E07 Old Acquaintance

    • March 11, 1989
    • BBC One

    Philippa Vale gives sanctuary to a Canadian Olympic track star whose life has been threatened when he refuses to boycott an international hearing concerning drug abuse by athletes. Jim and Susan break off their relationship.

  • S07E08 Trenchard's Last Case

    • March 18, 1989
    • BBC One

    An eccentric Scotland yard detective arrives in Jersey for a holiday and to harass an island resident whom he considers a villain responsible for crippling his former partner.

  • S07E09 Second Time Around

    • December 23, 1989
    • BBC One

    David Mason murders Ted Grob by throwing him into a swimming pool, handcuffed to a patio recliner. Jim returns to duty to solve the murder and is asked by an ex-con who believes he was framed to go back over the details of the robbery of a courier company some years earlier which has a connection with the recent death.

Season 8

  • S08E01 A True Detective

    • January 14, 1990
    • BBC One

    Jim faces his toughest test to date when Susan's dead body is washed up on shore. Jim is convinced that she was murdered, but is he right?

  • S08E02 My Name's Sergeant Bergerac

    • January 21, 1990
    • BBC One

    Who is the scruffy little man and why are so many people chasing him? And why is he claiming to be Detective Sergeant Bergerac?

  • S08E03 The Dig

    • January 28, 1990
    • BBC One

    A team of archaeology students are carrying out an excavation on a piece of land reputed to be cursed. Soon one student is attacked by an unseen force and one later turns up dead. Charlie owns the land and suddenly falls ill when the students start to excavate the land. Bergerac refuses to believe that a Viking's curse is at work and works with the expedition leader to find the truth. However in a rather confusing climax as she and Bergerac finally complete the excavation only to be attacked by the same unseen force. Bergerac later awakes where a rational explanation is given for what occurred by a recovered Charlie.

  • S08E04 Roots of Evil

    • February 4, 1990
    • BBC One

    Nigel Carter is being terrorised but he refuses to help the police find the men concerned. Only when his daughter becomes their target does Bergerace begin to unravel the truth.

  • S08E05 Entende Cordiale

    • February 11, 1990
    • BBC One

    A French private detective is murdered in Charlie's study and Bergerac is sent to Provence to discover why.

  • S08E06 In Love and War

    • February 18, 1990
    • BBC One

    When a fugitive from South Africa appeals to Karen Markham for help, she finds herself caught up in something she cannot control.

  • S08E07 Under Wraps

    • February 25, 1990
    • BBC One

    When a retired scientist gets a demand for a million pounds, Bergerac has a race against time to find the extortioner before his threat of destruction is carried out.

  • S08E08 All the Sad Songs

    • March 4, 1990
    • BBC One

    After a chance meeting at the races Bergerac becomes involved in the dubious world of the cabaret circuit.

  • S08E09 The Messenger Boy

    • March 11, 1990
    • BBC One

    Bergerac is caught up in a violent underworld as, single-handed; he tries to solve a case of kidnapping in London.

  • S08E10 Diplomatic Incident

    • March 18, 1990
    • BBC One

    After quitting the force, Jim is called back to Jersey by the Bureau to protect a VIP. However, the problem is that the VIP does not wish to have any protection.

  • S08E11 There for the Picking

    • December 26, 1990
    • BBC One

    Jim is now at the vineyard and it is grape-picking time. One of the young casual workers is English boy Roderick. However, he is also a computer hacking genius who is able to transfer 90% of the previous day's takings on the Tokyo stock exchange into his own account. The son of the wealthy Hargreaves, he also targets Charlie and other Jersey residents. In addition to Roderick's activities Jim is recalled to the island when a consignment of hand grenades is discovered in a cargo of whiskey and a French connection is suspected.

Season 9

  • S09E01 Something to Hide

    • January 5, 1991
    • BBC One

    When Jim and Danielle are at a party in France, they witness a shooting, shortly before seeing somebody running off. Jim decides to put his detective skills to use and investigates, desperate to find the missing link.

  • S09E02 The Dark Horse

    • January 12, 1991
    • BBC One

    Bergerac is summonsed back to Jersey, where Charlie persuades him to help a friend find his missing wife. But there is another player in the game that Jim hasn't counted on.

  • S09E03 Snow in Provence

    • January 19, 1991
    • BBC One

    Bergerac is conned by Charlie into looking after a house in Provence and baby-sitting for two willful young girls while their parents are in Milan. He then finds himself caught up in a drug operation.

  • S09E04 The Evil That Men Do

    • January 26, 1991
    • BBC One

    Bergerac Private Investigation-- discretion guaranteed. An ad in the local Jersey paper gets Jim a client he would rather not handle and a murder he does not expect. Meanwhile, Charlie gets involved in a charity appeal for a war hero.

  • S09E05 My Friend Charlie

    • February 2, 1991
    • BBC One

    When Hungerford is offered the deal of a lifetime by an American, he starts to get suspicious and asks Jim to look into it. Meanwhile, the American's daughter wants her father to be abducted so he can be sent back to the US to stand trial for her mother's murder.

  • S09E06 On the Rocks

    • February 9, 1991
    • BBC One

    Business is not too good for Bergerac, so when Charlie is invited to France to attend the 80th birthday party of an old friend, he accepts the job of chauffeur. When a necklace goes missing, and unwelcome family secrets are uncovered, the party turns out to be more eventful than he imagined.

  • S09E07 The Waiting Game

    • February 16, 1991
    • BBC One

    Employed to look into companies seeking trade licences in Jersey, Bergerac finds more than he expects. Danielle is convinced that his life is in danger but nobody will believe her.

  • S09E08 Warriors

    • February 23, 1991
    • BBC One

    When Jim is asked by one of Charlie's friends to find his wife, he tracks her down at a strange sect in England who believe in the existence of Atlantis.

  • S09E09 The Assassin

    • March 2, 1991
    • BBC One

    The mysterious Hapgood invites Bergerac to a lonely castle in Brittany. He wishes to hire Bergerac as a bodyguard and also to investigate threats on his life. Full recap: When someone fires a volley of shots at them whilst Hapgood is out painting, the result is the termination of Bergerac's services. Undaunted Jim continues his own investigation and via some gossip from Charlie, he forces Hapgood to admit the truth. He is a former assassin who has ""turned his back on the game."" He is being targeted by his replacement, who wishes to remove him from the game permanently. Hapgood hopes to persuade the assassin to follow his lead and see the light. Late at night the assassin attacks but Hapgood inadvertently kills him during a struggle. When the police arrive the next morning, Hapgood is haunted by Bergerac's earlier words, that he will never know who the next assassin will be.

  • S09E10 The Lohans

    • March 9, 1991
    • BBC One

    Charlie recommends that Jim be hired to protect a priceless set of sixteen Chinese figures called Lohans. Despite Jim's vigilance they are stolen and as he investigates their true ownership is brought into question.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Fires in the Fall (Christmas Special)

    • December 26, 1986
    • BBC One

    A spiritualist contacts the ghost of a dead arsonist responsible for the death of a young girl at the same time that a new series of fires breaks out resembling his earlier handiwork. Full recap: Charlie asks Jim to investigate Raoul Barnaby, a medium who has gained the favour of Roberta Jardine. Charlie and Roberta's niece, the scheming Pauline, believe that Barnaby is a conman. Barnaby claims to have been contacted by the ghost of a 12 girl who was killed in an arson attack 20 years previously. Soon the child's grave is desecrated and a similar series of arson attacks occur. Jim is charged with a new investigation into the arson attacks and uncovers a link between Roberta Jardine and Jack Plimont, the detective in charge of the case. It appears that Jardine's son was the arsonist and commited suicide by immolation over the unintended death of the girl. Plemont helped to cover up the truth. Meanwhile Susan has sold the former home of the arsonist to Lil and finds ritual fire symbo

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Treasure Hunt (Christmas Special)

    • December 26, 1987
    • BBC One

    Jim gets involved in a murder while matching wits with Phillipa Vale.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Retirement Plan (Christmas Special)

    • December 27, 1988
    • BBC One

    Jim travels to Spain when Charlie calls seeking help in dealing with a small time crook who is trying to get Charlie to sell him part of his business.

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Second Time Around (Christmas Special)

    • December 26, 1989
    • BBC One

    David Mason murders Ted Grob by throwing him into a swimming pool, handcuffed to a patio recliner. Jim returns to duty to solve the murder and is asked by an ex-con who believes he was framed to go back over the details of the robbery of a courier company some years earlier which has a connection with the recent death.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 There For the Picking (Christmas Special)

    • December 26, 1990
    • BBC One

    It is time for the grape picking, and Jim helps Albert. However, the son of a wealthy businessman turns up to help out, and unknown to Jim, he is a computer hacker stealing large amount of money during business transactions.

  • SPECIAL 0x6 All for Love (Christmas Special)

    • December 26, 1991
    • BBC One

    Broken-hearted by a letter from his French girlfriend, Jim is back on the bottle but Charlie persuades Jim to accompany him to Bath as minder of a priceless painting. There he falls victim to the wiles of a woman who frames him for murder.