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"Taggart" Funeral Rites (1987)
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Glenn Chandler (creator)
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Original Air Date:
9 September 1987
(Season 3, Episode 2)
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The discovery of a charred corpse in a disused railway tunnel sets Taggart on the gruesome hunt for...
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Taggart does voodoo.
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Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Mark McManus | ... | DCI Jim Taggart |
| James MacPherson | ... | DC Mike Jardine |
| Annette Crosbie | ... | Maggie Davidson |
| Paul Young | ... | Colin Davidson |
| Vincent Friell | ... | Tommy Campbell |
| Jimmy Chisholm | ... | Malcolm McWhinnie |
| Ron Donachie | ... | Pat Connolly |
| Colin Gourley | ... | Father Martin |
| Isabella Jarrett | ... | Linda Abernathy (as Isabella Jarret) |
| Gavin Brown | ... | Derek Abernathy |
| Iain Anders | ... | Supt. Jack McVitie |
| Robert Robertson | ... | Dr. Stephen Andrews |
| Stuart Hepburn | ... | Kenny Forfar |
| Harriet Buchan | ... | Jean Taggart |
 | Nic D'Avirro | ... | Roger Freedman |
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Supt. Jack McVitie:
Jim, something interesting. Pat Connolly's record. Two years in Berlinnie for grievous wounding, same time as Abernathy.
DCI Jim Taggart: Huh, so that's where they met.
[sees funeral party]
DCI Jim Taggart: Sir, would you do me a favor? Ask that funeral party to go home. Bottle of whisky.
Supt. Jack McVitie: Bribery, Jim? Is it true what I hear about young Jardine being a teetotaler and a churchgoer?
DCI Jim Taggart: Aye, it's true.
Supt. Jack McVitie: [smiles] Refreshing change.
DCI Jim Taggart: What's that supposed to mean?
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DCI Jim Taggart: Huh, so that's where they met.
[sees funeral party]
DCI Jim Taggart: Sir, would you do me a favor? Ask that funeral party to go home. Bottle of whisky.
Supt. Jack McVitie: Bribery, Jim? Is it true what I hear about young Jardine being a teetotaler and a churchgoer?
DCI Jim Taggart: Aye, it's true.
Supt. Jack McVitie: [smiles] Refreshing change.
DCI Jim Taggart: What's that supposed to mean?
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The episode opens with an attempted murder by an arthritic dentist on his disabled wife. Consumed with guilt the husband seeks absolution from a priest who then attempts to interfere without breaking his vows. Watch out for the wobbly heater over the bathtub which is genuinely suspenseful.
Meanwhile a photographer is murdered in his dark room and his body set on fire in an old railway tunnel. Taggart and Jardine must investigate a case that involves them in black magic and voodoo. Meanwhile the dentist continues to device plots to murder his wife and eventually comes to the attention of Taggart's wife.
The supporting cast is a whose who of British television. Annette Crosbie plays Maggie Davidson. She has been seen on everything from "One foot in the grave," to "Dr Finlay." Her murderous husband is played by Paul Young who made his name on Australian Television before returning to Scotland.
This episode sees Taggart and Jardine settling into a comfortable relationship that will last for some years to come. Watch out for Jardine telling his boss that he is a Christian. Priceless! All in all a reasonable episode. Not brilliant. But one fans will find deeply satisfying.