"Taggart" Dead Mans Chest (1996)

User Rating:

9.3/10   

Director:

Alan Macmillan

Writers:

Glenn Chandler (creator) and
Richard Maher (writer)

TV Series:

"Taggart" (1983)

Original Air Date:

19 September 1996 (Season 13, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

A 15 year-old gold bullion robbery leads the Maryhill team on a race against time as one by one the robbers are murdered...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Sergeant | Investigation | Detective Sergeant | Scottish

Cast

Blythe Duff	...	DS Jackie Reid
Colin McCredie	...	DC Stuart Fraser
Robert Robertson	...	Dr. Andrews
Iain Anders	...	Supt. Jack McVitie
Robert Carr	...	Tony Sullivan
Jon Morrison	...	Thomas McKenna
Eileen Nicholas	...	Jocelyn Holmes
Billy Boyd	...	Jamie Holmes
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carter Ferguson	...	Coastguard Officer Fitzgerald
Sally Kinghorn	...	Tracy Scott
James MacPherson	...	DCI Mike Jardine

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Certification:

Australia:M

Its a good thriller, with supberb acting

This Scottish crime show has a huge following in Australia, and it upped UKTV's ratings when they decided to play the one episode starring Billy Boyd (Pippin from Lord Of The Rings) Boyd plays Jamie, a young man with Aspergers Syndrome, and his portrayal is very good, showing how diverse an actor he is. DI Stuart Fraser is good as the comic relief, and Jardine is a great hulking scottish detecive, the only problem being where did he get the tan and blond streaks from living in scotland??? The storyline is a clever, captivating one, about pirates and buried treasure, using the musical THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE and Jamie's current pirate obsession to link it all together.

Its a really clever cop show, WATCH IT NOW!!!