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Year: 1983 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Killer

Original Air Date—6 September 1983
A murderer is loose in Glasgow and a major police investigation is mounted to find the killer. But one by one the bodies of young women are found strangled in the city. The enquiry is headed by top detective Jim Taggart, a tough local cop who has risen through the ranks and one of the new breed of graduate policemen, Peter Livingstone. But despite their differences they work together breaking all the rules to hunt the killer before he strikes again.

Season 1, Episode 2: Dead Ringer

Original Air Date—2 July 1985
The skeletal remains of a dismembered body are discovered beneath the floorboards of a house in Glasgow. The drama takes an unexpected twist when a nine-month-old toddler is kidnapped from a multi-storey car park, followed by a ransom demand of £50,000.

Season 1, Episode 3: Murder in Season

Original Air Date—23 July 1985
Glamorous opera singer, Eleanor Samson, returns to Glasgow, her home town, to sing with Scottish Opera. She hopes to bring about a reconciliation with her estranged husband, John, but she is furious to discover that there is a new woman in John's life - blonde, attractive Kirsty King. When Kirsty's body is found in the burnt out shell of John's boat, Eleanor Samson is the prime suspect. Jim Taggart, tough Glasgow detective and his smooth assistant, Peter Livingstone, fall out over the case. Livingstone believes that Eleanor is guilty; Taggart cannot believe that a woman like Eleanor could be a murderess. Is Taggart allowing his judgement to be clouded by Eleanor's fame and beauty?

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Knife Edge

Original Air Date—24 February 1986
Taggart and Livingston investigate after the discovery of a woman's severed leg.

Season 2, Episode 2: Death Call

Original Air Date—2 September 1986
Taggart and his partner Peter Livingstone are called in to investigate the macabre killing of the wife of a wealthy landowner whose body is found strangled and weighed down with luggage in a reservoir. The husband was last seen preparing to go to Switzerland with a large sum of money in a holdall.

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: The Killing Philosophy

Original Air Date—15 April 1987
Taggart investigates a failed rape attempt by a masked attacker. However, his job is complicated when the victim commits suicide and the criminal strikes again, and his attacks soon turn to murder.

Season 3, Episode 2: Funeral Rites

Original Air Date—9 September 1987
The discovery of a charred corpse in a disused railway tunnel sets Taggart on the gruesome hunt for a ruthless killer in an investigation with sinister undertones of black magic and voodoo. The wife of an arthritic dentist narrowly escapes a series of murder attempts, adding to a complex case for Taggart and his team.

Season 3, Episode 3: Cold Blood

Original Air Date—31 December 1987
When a woman shoots her husband after discovering that he was having an affair, it appears to be a clear-cut case - until the police realise the man was already dead when he was shot.

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Dead Giveaway

Original Air Date—7 September 1988
Taggart uncovers a sordid case of extortion, forgery and murder when he investigates the suspicious death of a member of a church youth club.

Season 4, Episode 2: Root of Evil

Original Air Date—28 September 1988
During the Glasgow Garden Festival the severed head of loan shark Willie Lomax is found in a blocked drain. He is but the first victim in what appears to be a serial killer taking out murderous revenge on loan sharks. Lomax's brother, his unhappy son and the boy's stepfather, however, may provide clues to take the investigation in a different direction.

Season 4, Episode 3: Double Jeopardy

Original Air Date—30 December 1988
The body of Rowena Bain is discovered in a wood. The forensic evidence suggests suicide, but Taggart is suspicious. The victim's sister thinks that Rowena's husband, Maurice, killed her. The case against Maurice grows when it is discovered that his first wife also disappeared in mysterious circumstances.

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: Flesh and Blood

Original Air Date—5 September 1989
Jim Taggart attends the wedding of social worker Jane Ross and jailbird Charlie Forbes. Janie Ross is later found murdered and a chain of seemingly unrelated events begins.

Season 5, Episode 2: Love Knot

Original Air Date—1 January 1990
A body is dredged up from the bottom of the Clyde, setting Taggart and Jardine off on an investigation which takes them beyond Glasgow into the Scottish Highlands.

Season 5, Episode 3: Hostile Witness

Original Air Date—22 February 1990
A by-election is taking place in Glasgow and one of the candidates represents the Referendum for the Return of Capital Punishment party. When the candidate and her agent are murdered, Taggart is pressed for a quick solution to the crime.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: Evil Eye

Original Air Date—4 September 1990
Taggart and Jardine investigate after a gypsy is found murdered in her caravan.

Season 6, Episode 2: Death Comes Softly

Original Air Date—3 December 1990
Taggart and Jardine are called to investigate the murders of elderly residents.

Season 6, Episode 3: Rogues' Gallery

Original Air Date—31 December 1990
Taggart and Jardine investigate a case linking the world of drug pushers with the world of art and artists.

Season 7

Season 7, Episode 1: Violent Delights

Original Air Date—1 January 1992
Sixth former, Philip Dempster, has a crush on his French teacher and sees what looks like a murder when he spies on her through a telescope.

Season 7, Episode 2: Nest of Vipers

Original Air Date—9 January 1992
The discovery of two skulls at the site for a new by-pass road leads the team to a pharmaceutical company. Someone doesn't want the skulls identified and will go to any length including murder.

Season 7, Episode 3: Double Exposure

Original Air Date—30 January 1992
Racial violence or something more sinister? The Taggart team are baffled by murders with no connection other than a possible racial link. Or is it something not so obvious to the all seeing eye?

Season 8

Season 8, Episode 1: The Hit Man

Original Air Date—17 September 1992
An old friend from Taggart's past gets out of prison and the bodies start piling up. But is there some fishy business going on that muddies the waters for the Taggart Team.

Season 8, Episode 2: Ring of Deceit

Original Air Date—8 October 1992
A research scientist is murdered by an unknown assailant but it soon becomes clear that she is another victim of a serial rapist - 'The Mechanic'.

Season 8, Episode 3: Fatal Inheritance

Original Air Date—1 January 1993
When Dr Janet Napier walks free from court on a "Not Proven" verdict, Taggart begins a more personal investigation. However as more murders are commited Taggart must admit that even he might have been wrong about the good doctors guilt.

Season 9

Season 9, Episode 1: Death Benefits

Original Air Date—16 February 1993
Julia Fraser, wife of a police sergeant, is brutally murdered whilst he is on duty. During a search of the house a list of names is found. It appears that the names on the list are rapidly meeting with a series of accidents - and yet the only connection between them is the list.

Season 9, Episode 2: Gingerbread

Original Air Date—20 April 1993
The murder of his father sets young Simon Barrow on a nightmare journey, and his dying words on Simon's answer-phone throw the police on a trail of confusion.

Season 9, Episode 3: Death Without Dishonour

Original Air Date—11 May 1993
The Taggart team are responsible for protecting witnesses involved in a "cab war" trial. It seems there may be a hidden agenda when the prosecuting barrister is found murdered.

Season 10

Season 10, Episode 1: Instrument of Justice

Original Air Date—30 September 1993
Taggart has a new boss and he must take his orders from her even though he has his doubts about the guilt of a gang member.

Season 10, Episode 2: Forbidden Fruit

Original Air Date—1 January 1994
Taggart and Jardine are confronted by a bizarre case which revolves around a fertility clinic.

Season 10, Episode 3: Secrets

Original Air Date—6 October 1994
The Scottish literary world is abuzz with speculation as a major prize is due to be awarded. The Taggart Team are called in when one writer, recently returned to Glasgow, is threatened. When a university lecturer in creative writing is found murdered and the manufacture and transport of illegal drugs is thrown into the mix things become very interesting for Jim Taggart and the team.

Season 11

Season 11, Episode 1: Hellfire

Original Air Date—27 October 1994
On Walpurgis Night, April 30th in German folklore, James Martin is murdered after selling his whisky distillery for five million pounds.

Season 11, Episode 2: Prayer for the Dead

Original Air Date—11 January 1995
Taggart is promoted to Acting Superintendent so when two young girls are murdered and the wife of a leading suspect also, he starts to wonder if Jardine and Reid are up to the job.

Season 11, Episode 3: Black Orchid

Original Air Date—25 February 1995
Tony Sabina is in town again, "The Great Sabina" to his fans. His hypnotic show relies on volunteers, among who is a young man called Stuart Fraser, and a girl called Frances Shaw. Frances who is hypnotized to believe that she could swim the channel is found drowned after the show. The resulting publicity leaves Sabins career in tatters and he decides to get even with all those who contribute to his downfall. Jardine and Reid investigate a series of killings that may have been carried out "to order".

Season 12

Season 12, Episode 1: Legends

Original Air Date—2 November 1995
The re-release of a track by sixties rock group The Adders sees the murder of the lead guitarist in bizarre circumstances that sends Jardine's team into the seedy world of rock and roll and drugs.

Season 12, Episode 2: Devil's Advocate

Original Air Date—4 January 1996
When a clever lawyer gains an acquittal for his client on an apparently straightforward murder charge, the Taggart team are compelled to restart the investigation from scratch - and then the killing starts again.

Season 12, Episode 3: Angel Eyes

Original Air Date—21 March 1996
The murder of a musician sees Jardine's team mixing with the gay community. When a second murder with the same MO is committed Jardine is forced to face his deep seated prejudice's to get to the truth behind the murders. DC Stuart Fraser realises his secret is no longer safe and is 'outed' by a former boyfriend.

Season 13

Season 13, Episode 1: Dead Mans Chest

Original Air Date—19 September 1996
A 15 year-old gold bullion robbery leads the Maryhill team on a race against time as one by one the robbers are murdered. With pirates, treasure chests and secret maps to buried treasure muddying the waters will the team solve the murders and find the lost treasure before the last robber is killed?

Season 13, Episode 2: Apocalypse

Original Air Date—9 January 1997
The bizarre murders of opponents and ex-members of a religious cult have the team baffled. Each murder follows the Biblical plagues of Egypt which according the Book of Revelation will proceed Armageddon. There are more than fifty members of the cult, most of whom would kill if asked to do so by the cult leader, David Burns. Who is responsible and who will be next?

Season 13, Episode 3: Babushka

Original Air Date—4 September 1997
Mail order brides or women to order? Glasgow takes on a Russian flavour when the trail from the murder of wealthy local business man hots up and Jardine's team try to unravel the mystery around the Anastasia Agency.

Season 14

Season 14, Episode 1: Berserker

Original Air Date—1 January 1998
Illegal body building drugs combined with mind bending additives cause a series of deaths around the muscle scene in Glasgow. In a race against time to find the source of the deadly drug the Maryhill team call on the help of a famous chemistry professor at the University. But is he helping or is he the source of the drug?

Season 14, Episode 2: Out of Bounds

Original Air Date—1 March 1998
Taggart investigates a triple murder at an exclusive boys' boarding school. In each case the victim is a disciplinarian schoolmaster. Eventually he discovers a further link in that several years earlier they had all been prefects who bullied a boy called John Chisholm. John Chisholm has now come back to get revenge, though not in the form that his victims would have recognized.

Season 14, Episode 3: Dead Reckoning

Original Air Date—15 July 1998
Two women who work for an apparently respectable escort agency are separately murdered. At the same time Peter Letham, who runs an outward bound activity course for executives in the Highlands, reports the disappearance of his wife on a shopping trip to Glasgow. Peter's employer is a principal suspect, causing Jackie to go undercover as a course member.

Season 15

Season 15, Episode 1: A Few Bad Men

Original Air Date—8 October 1998
Mike Jardine investigates the death of a soldier at his barracks, in the company of gruff Sergeant Renshaw. New arrival Robbie Ross, a man with a chequered past, teams up with Jackie to look into the theft of a race horse and a murder at the race track. The different crimes eventually prove to be linked by another theft and murder from thirteen years earlier.

Season 15, Episode 2: Long Time Dead

Original Air Date—11 January 1999
In this feature length investigation, Jardine (James Macpherson) and Reid (Blythe Duff) find themselves embroiled in a disturbing case that leads them to the dark underbelly of human nature. It is the annual Strathclyde CID Dinner at the Crawford Hotel, and the last place you'd think a murder would be committed. However, as the part is in full swing with The Sweet Muffins (The Oddballs) performing on stage, the body of the hotel owner is discovered strangled and dumped in the rubbish. When the main suspect is found murdered before the police can question him it is the start of a complex case that will effect Jardine in a way he cannot yet expect.

Season 16

Season 16, Episode 1: Bloodlines

Original Air Date—16 January 1999
After serving a life sentence for murder, Susan Keller is released from prison. Not long after that members of her family begin to die mysteriously.

Season 16, Episode 2: A Fistful of Chips

Original Air Date—7 October 1999
The apparently motiveless murder of a woman leads the team to a microchip factory.

Season 16, Episode 3: Fearful Lightning

Original Air Date—21 October 1999
Karen Lennox is found electrocuted in what appears to be a lightning strike, but then another body turns up and the team begin looking for a murderer.

Season 16, Episode 4: For Their Sins

Original Air Date—21 November 1999
The team investigate the murders of drug dealers.

Season 17

Season 17, Episode 1: Ghost Rider

Original Air Date—15 February 2000
A charred body is found in a car, leading the team into a web of police corruption and cover-ups.

Season 17, Episode 2: Skin Deep

Original Air Date—14 September 2000
When a man is found bleeding to death in a health club and two of the female members claim to have had intimate relationships with him, Reid and Ross uncover a world of health-obsessed women with dark and dangerous secrets. Meanwhile, Ross becomes the subject of a corruption inquiry, and Jardine is forced to face up to his own mortality.

Season 17, Episode 3: Wavelength

Original Air Date—21 September 2000
A therapist returns home after his late-night radio phone-in show to find his wife murdered.

Season 17, Episode 4: Football Crazy

Original Air Date—1 December 2000
Jardine and the team investigate a series of murky goings-on at a football club whose lack of success on the pitch is matched by an unaccountably high death rate among its employees.

Season 17, Episode 5: Falling in Love

Original Air Date—1 January 2001
Chief Inspector Jardine and the team investigate a series of mysterious deaths among members of a tango club after a pre-wedding parachute jump ends with the bridegroom plunging to his death. And as Jackie Reid's wedding day approaches, Ross tries to persuade her that she is rushing into marriage too quickly.

Season 18

Season 18, Episode 1: Death Trap

Original Air Date—4 January 2002
Johnny Innes, son of local politician Malcolm, is shot dead after interrupting one of his father's council meetings. Mike Jardine clashes with Malcolm Innes and is taken off the case but pursues his own line of enquiry. Embittered Liam Kennedy is a qualified sniper and therefore becomes a major suspect, especially as he has a grudge against both Innes and Jardine, one of whom, at least, will find their days are numbered.

Season 18, Episode 2: Fire, Burn

Original Air Date—11 January 2002
A charred corpse is found in the burnt out remains of a clothing factory. Scott Dewar, owner of a rival factory, is the immediate suspect but Maureen Wishart reports her husband Derek missing and he not only worked for Dewar but had a knowledge of explosives. Meanwhile Jackie, still mourning Mike and watching her marriage crumble, finds her new boss Matt Burke difficult to get on with.

Season 18, Episode 3: Watertight

Original Air Date—8 July 2002
When teenaged prostitute Dee is found murdered Robbie goes gunning for Willie Strachan, a man whom he has long suspected of being involved in sex trafficking. However, he is not the only suspect as law student Craig Colhoune, son of a widowed sheriff who dotes on him, also finds himself in the vicinity with unexplained blood on his sleeve. And there is Mo, violent husband of reformed prostitute Sadie.

Season 18, Episode 4: The Friday Event

Original Air Date—15 July 2002
The apparent suicide of a sixth former at an elite boys' school turns into a murder enquiry and a journalist, much to the headmaster's displeasure, publishes an article linking the boy to drug-dealing before he too is murdered. A third body indicates a serial killer and the manner of the slaying leads to a famous painter.

Season 19

Season 19, Episode 1: Hard Man

Original Air Date—2 December 2002
Investigating the discovery of a mangled body at a Clyde shipyard, DCI Burke and the team soon find themselves dealing with a case of murder.

Season 19, Episode 2: Fade to Black

Original Air Date—21 December 2002
A young nurse is found strangled in her home, with no sign of forced entry and two glasses of wine on the table. On finding a large quantity of cash hidden in her flat and signs of an affluent lifestyle, Burke and the team begin to suspect that the murder victim had a secret double life. Meanwhile, a mysterious and sinister person is following and filming Burke with a camcorder.

Season 19, Episode 3: Blood Money

Original Air Date—28 December 2002
When a boxing promoter is found strangled with wads of bank notes stuffed in his mouth, the team investigate. Successful fighter Andy Corbett was having an affair with Elaine, the victim's widow and the ringside doctor, Dr. Heron, has also been behaving suspiciously in trying to get rid of the boxers' medical record. Following another death, however, the motive appears to stem from fight fixing.

Season 19, Episode 4: New Life

Original Air Date—4 January 2003
A top research scientist is blown up in his car having arrived in Glasgow to address a medical conference. There has been opposition to his research and initially, this is where the investigation heads. However, it soon comes to light that there are others within the scientific community who could benefit from the murder.

Season 19, Episode 5: Bad Blood

Original Air Date—11 January 2003
A Kurdish taxi driver is murdered and the team is joined by D.S. Fairchild, who is experienced in the matter of racially-motivated crimes. Whilst the rest of the team get on well with her, Burke is peeved as he believes that political correctness is hampering the course of the enquiry, particularly in view of the fact that noone seems any closer to establishing a motive for the killing.

Season 19, Episode 6: Halfway House

Original Air Date—18 January 2003
When an anonymous victim is shot dead in a local park the only clue on him as to his identity is a library card for a city college. This in turn leads to a half-way house for recently released criminals, some of whom are known to the team. Unfortunately the hostel warden is not keen to cooperate.

Season 19, Episode 7: An Eye for an Eye

Original Air Date—25 January 2003
When a doctor at a clinic for women which advocates birth control is murdered the immediate suspects are a militant fundamentalist group who oppose abortions. However, drug links between the clinic and a local crime boss extend the scope of the investigation further, though Stuart believes the murderer may have had a more personal reason.

Season 20

Season 20, Episode 1: Penthouse and Pavement

Original Air Date—7 October 2003
A famous novelist is found murdered in an alley the morning after a prestigious book launch and the police team's only lead is a drugged and confused prostitute.

Season 20, Episode 2: Atonement

Original Air Date—3 December 2003
Billy McCree is murdered in his work-shop and his severed hand is found next to him.the obvious suspect is Jim Naysmith, just out of jail after a twenty year stretch, thanks to Billy's evidence. Burke investigates the Naysmith gang whilst Robbie is flattered when Mary, a young law student, asks to shadow him. Forensics office Gemma, however, believes that Mary may have an ulterior motive for her interest in Robbie.

Season 20, Episode 3: Compensation

Original Air Date—30 April 2004
The team travel to rural Fenmore after a farmer is suspiciously killed in a house fire, but find few clues and the villagers unwilling to offer any information.

Season 20, Episode 4: Saints and Sinners

Original Air Date—30 December 2004
When lawyer Richard Fleet is shot dead suspicion initially falls on his widow Adele and his partner Charlie Muir who were having an affair. However, when Muir is also murdered, Burke uncovers a wholly different motive. A group of residents were taking a company called Arcadia to court on the grounds that they had caused pollution, leading to illnesses such as leukaemia. Both lawyers represented the residents and therefore may have attracted powerful enemies.

Season 21

Season 21, Episode 1: Puppet on a String

Original Air Date—6 January 2005
Dr. Mellor is attacked by a masked assailant carrying a syringe full of lethal drugs. Dr Mellor points the finger at rival doctor Thomas Finn, but Finn has an alibi. Dr Mellor is found dead the next day. Finn again has a cast-iron alibi.

Season 21, Episode 2: The Wages of Sin

Original Air Date—13 January 2005
A taxi driver is found dead outside a Jewler's shop and the team discover links to the underworld.

Season 21, Episode 3: The Ties That Bind

Original Air Date—20 January 2005
DCI Matt Burke's professional life is left hanging in the balance when the body of a librarian is found behind the wheel of his car in the Clyde after an apparent hit and run. The detectives are baffled - it appears that the victim had been tied up and was already dead before the car hit the water.

Season 21, Episode 4: In Camera

Original Air Date—27 January 2005
Robbie is all set to spend a romantic weekend with his new lady love Eve Hamilton. Unfortunately the mood is soured when the corpse of a young man, a photographic assistant, is discovered at the romantic hideaway. In investigating the boy's death and subsequent others, Robbie begins to discover to his cost that Eve is perhaps not as innocent as she would at first appear to be and their meeting may not be coincidental.

Season 21, Episode 5: Mind Over Matter

Original Air Date—3 February 2005
The team are called to investigate when members of a therapy group are murdered.

Season 22

Season 22, Episode 1: Cause and Effect

Original Air Date—16 September 2005
When an attractive young trophy wife is found dead in her home, it sparks intrigue around an affluent marina - her husband initially seems to be the prime suspect.

Season 22, Episode 2: A Taste of Money

Original Air Date—23 September 2005
When a caustic restaurant critic is found murdered, suspicion falls on the thief who fled the scene. But could a chef with a score to settle be the culprit?

Season 22, Episode 3: A Death Foretold

Original Air Date—30 September 2005
When the body of a student is discovered in an alley, a bloodstained leaflet at the scene is traced back to a church. Could the parish priest be involved?

Season 22, Episode 4: Running Out of Time

Original Air Date—4 November 2005
Burke is shot whilst taking a break from work, and on the same day, another fraud squad detective's body is found by a colleague. When both victims' properties are searched, large amounts of cash are found, leading to fears of bribery. With Burke's reputation and life on the line, the race is on to find the perpetrator.

Season 22, Episode 5: Cause to Kill

Original Air Date—11 November 2005
Burke investigates a copycat killing inspired by a murder committed 20 years ago. With the help of celebrated pathologist Irene Russell, he attempts to solve the case before the killer claims more victims. As the case continues, it appears that the ultimate target may be someone at the heart of the investigation

Season 22, Episode 6: Do or Die

Original Air Date—9 December 2005
Following a poor career appraisal Robbie aims to redeem himself by going undercover at an army base where a young private died in suspicious circumstances. It is a brutal regime, exemplified by the sadistic Sergeant Kent, but there are two further deaths, both of instructors known for their harsh treatment of recruits. The investigation leads to the female Private Lombard, who was the apparent victim of a gang rape by soldiers at the base.

Season 22, Episode 7: Dead Man Walking

Original Air Date—16 December 2005
The team investigate the seemingly motiveless murder of a mechanic. Suspicion soon falls on his business partner, Tony Benton, but it turns out that Benton was in fact the intended victim.

Season 22, Episode 8: Law

Original Air Date—22 March 2006
The murder of a teenage girl leads the team to travelers working at a nearby fairground.

Season 22, Episode 9: The Best and the Brightest

Original Air Date—29 March 2006
A killer is at work within a university.

Season 23

Season 23, Episode 1: Users and Losers

Original Air Date—3 January 2007
gambler is found dead, and it is discovered that he had thousands of pounds stashed in his flat, leading the team to suspect that he was part of an illegal betting scam. The wife of the owner then gets killed out riding and the investigation heats up further. Meanwhile, Burke is convinced that a former heroin addict and petty criminal has changed, until he is left with a decision to either arrest a killer or do a deal to catch a more major criminal.

Season 23, Episode 2: The Thirteenth Step

Original Air Date—17 January 2007
Ex-con Eddie Monroe is found stabbed in a Govan alleyway. Burke meets Angus Ford - a retired police officer who was responsible for Monroe's arrest and subsequent convictions - who remains adamant that Monroe was a bad man who deserved to die. But who was his killer? All roads keep leading back to old acquaintance Daniel Tulloch and his family. In the course of uncovering the truth Burke is forced to face some demons of his own.

Season 23, Episode 3: Tenement

Original Air Date—30 April 2007
When a local activist is found murdered in her flat, the team discover that her protesting had incurred the wrath of many people and anyone could be the culprit.

Season 23, Episode 4: Pinnacle

Original Air Date—4 July 2007
Tina Brogan, leader of the Pinnacle pyramid finance group, is found murdered with wads of bank notes stuffed in her mouth. Her estranged husband Terry, an alcoholic cancer victim, is the main suspect though the recently-widowed Jackie feels sorry for him, especially as Tina was carrying another man's child. However,Tina was under surveillance by the Fraud Squad because her enterprise was a scam and she was hoping to escape to Australia with cash conned from investors.Was she killed by a client she had cheated perhaps?

Season 24

Season 24, Episode 1: Genesis

Original Air Date—8 January 2008
A woman dies on her way to a fertility clinic, then one of the nurses there is attacked - are these linked with the crowd of "peaceful protesters" who are demonstrating outside the clinic?

Season 24, Episode 2: Judgement Day

Original Air Date—15 January 2008
Burke's father Andrew dies, supposedly of liver failure though the actual cause turns out to be more sinister. When another member of Andrew's pensioners' club also dies, coincidence seems unlikely, particularly as a twenty thousand pound savings plan is involved. Burke has to keep in check his less than fraternal relationship with his brother John whilst having to consider various helpers at the club as being likely murderers and discern the motive.

Season 24, Episode 3: Island

Original Air Date—27 February 2008
A young lad is murdered and mutilated on a Scottish tourist island and the local vicar, who knows all the inhabitants, tells Robbie and Jackie, who are investigating,that he is a stranger. At first a ritual killing is suspected until a South American connection is established and it becomes clear that the island is being used for drug smuggling. A stranger claiming to be a reporter arrives just as a fisherman goes missing and is later found dead. The problem for the visitors is to establish who are the good guys and who are the bad.

Season 24, Episode 4: Trust

Original Air Date—21 April 2008
Burke meets up with Kathy, the woman who jilted him years earlier, now seeing ambitious politician Frank Morgan, whom she believes is being threatened by shady businessman Robert Shearer. Burke discovers that Shearer runs a brothel which he visits, undercover, but when it gets raided he is seen on CCTV, the excuse his pushy female superior wants to have him put out to grass as a dinosaur. Three murders are also linked to Shearer but the team find out that Morgan is less innocent than he appears. Could Kathy be using Burke to help him settle an old score with Shearer?

Season 24, Episode 5: A Study in Murder

Original Air Date—1 May 2008
College principal Simon Nimmo is crushed to death in a lift shaft by a lift whose mechanism had been tampered with. Suspicion falls on his wife and on his daughter's boyfriend Brian Meehan until Robbie discovers that Ross's deputy had experience of building maintenance and could have rigged the lift. Stuart, following the death of his adoptive mother, tracks down his birth mother via the adoption agency. The meeting is not a happy one, any more than his confrontation with the killer - by the lift.

Season 24, Episode 6: Point of Light

Original Air Date—5 June 2008
Private eye Andrew McHendry is murdered having phoned Alex Sternwood to say he has found his wayward daughter Stella, who has disappeared from home. Not long afterwards Stella's corpse is also found. Chief suspect is her brother-in-law, whose child she was carrying and Eddie the stable boy, who carried a torch for her ,is another likely candidate. Meanwhile Jackie sticks her neck out on behalf of the dead man's girlfriend and her rights to his baby son.

Season 24, Episode 7: Safer

Original Air Date—3 November 2008
Emily Patrick, founder of the Safer campaign against domestic violence is murdered, having threatened to name and shame several wife-beaters. One of them, Kevin Nash, brings charges against Robbie for beating him up after he has assaulted his wife. Another visits Emily's meeting under an assumed name and his failure to recognise her throws suspicion on her co-worker.

Season 24, Episode 8: The Caring Game

Original Air Date—14 November 2008
A young woman is found dead in a bath full of water. She's been dead a week. A sister she's fallen out with, a neighbour who's had enough of her and many lies disguising her actual lifestyle. Who killed her?

Season 24, Episode 9: Homesick

Original Air Date—8 December 2008
A building site security guard and a hotel housekeeper are both shot within a period of twenty-four hours. Both were Polish. When Anglo-Polish lawyer Paula Socacz, who runs the Kaczynski social club, is on a local radio phone-in show, a sinister caller owns to being the killer, with a racial motive. However, the discovery that the victims were cousins points towards a more personal reason for their deaths.

Season 24, Episode 10: Crossing the Line

Original Air Date—15 December 2008
When a disused coal pit is excavated to re-open as a mining museum, two corpses are found, belonging to a young married couple who disappeared twenty-four years earlier, seemingly to escape rent arrears, though none of the neighbours are forthcoming and Jackie, who grew up in the area, is angry with them. More deaths occur before a secret stretching back to the days of the miners' strikes is exposed.

Season 24, Episode 11: Lifeline

Original Air Date—30 December 2008
Bookshop owner Derek McGrath is found dead in his car, an apparent suicide, which is ironic because he was a volunteer counsellor at Lifeline Central, a Samaritans-type organization. Evidence suggests that he was having an affair with Rachel, another counsellor at Lifeline, behind his wife's back. Jackie, meanwhile, discovers to her horror that somebody has been using her credit card in her name, jeopardising her standing at the bank - and ultimately her life as her situation and the murder case seem to connect.

Season 25

Season 25, Episode 1: Cold Reader

Original Air Date—20 February 2009
When student Elaine Donohoe goes missing, Clare Vorland, a professed psychic, comes forward to help the police, though Burke is cynical. She claims to have had a vision involving a white van and indeed one is traced, belonging to another girl on Elaine's hockey team, whose brother has a dodgy past. Still not wholly convinced that Clare is genuine, Burke attends one of her meetings where he is shocked to find her disclosing facts from past that she could not logically know. This makes it all the more disturbing when she predicts where Elaine's corpse may be found.

Season 25, Episode 2: Grass

Original Air Date—30 April 2009
Robbie meets a one-night stand called Manda but she steals his book containing the names and details of his informants. One of them, Duffy, is found murdered with the word 'Grass' spray-painted next to him. When a second informant is shot dead, Robbie has to enlist Jackie's help to recover his book before there are any more deaths.

Season 25, Episode 3: The Knife Trick

Original Air Date—7 May 2009
During a reconstruction of a knife crime for trainee police officers, one lecturer, Michael Shearer, accidentally kills another, Alistair Matheson. Matheson had beaten Shearer to promotion and he is certainly suspect, particularly after his daughter Katie attempts suicide and he attempts to get rid of her encoded diary. But then another witness comes forward that she saw a suspicious looking student loitering around Matheson's office before the demonstration. When it is revealed that the knife has been tampered with, it is clear that the charge is murder.

Season 25, Episode 4: So Long Baby

Original Air Date—19 July 2009
Robbie finds an abandoned baby on the doorstep of wealthy Jack Revie, who is lying murdered indoors. Jack was something of a philanderer and his wife Joan claims that she had been to see his mistress whilst a girl called Lisa turns up to say that the baby is hers, fathered by Jack. Jack's son Jamie seems to have been indoors at the time of the murder but he was stoned out of his head and his dodgy friend Davy is on the run, whilst half a million pounds has gone from Jack's account.This is a puzzler indeed for Burke and his team.

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