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There's been a murder – and this time it's terminal | Tracy McVeigh

14 May 2011 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Taggart is being taken off the air after 28 years. Who is behind this dastardly deed?

So farewell then, Taggart. With its 1980s rock anthem theme tune, and the fact that its main character died in 1994, leaving the series Taggart-less, the writing may have been on the wall for some time.

After 27 series and 110 episodes over 28 years, just about every Scot with an Equity card has passed before the Taggart cameras, sometimes appearing several times – one week as a corpse, the next as a key suspect. The record would seem to be five times as five characters, achieved by actor Bill Murdoch. While, sadly, Sir Sean Connery's uncharacteristic tan ruled him out of a part in the gritty Glaswegian drama, Dougray Scott, James McAvoy, John Hannah, Robert Carlyle, Ken Stott and Ashley Jensen all cut an acting tooth on the show.

Even the main characters started as someone else: Alex Norton, »

- Tracy McVeigh

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