The BEST episodes of Bergerac
Every episode of Bergerac ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Bergerac!
Jim Bergerac is a recovering alcoholic, divorcee and father of a young daughter. He is a detective sergeant with the Bureau des Étrangers, a department for non-residents in Jersey, Channel Islands. Jim likes doing things his own way, a true maverick, and consequently doesn't always carry out his investigations in the traditional manner, the way his boss, Barney Crozier, would have preferred. But Jim's winsome grin and chirpy optimism always win through, and in a way he still manages to remain on fairly good terms with Crozier despite their differences. Jim gets his fair share of women during the series, but more than anything else he is married to his job, which becomes increasingly difficult for some of them. In the later series Bergerac leaves the police to become a private investigator.
#1 - Ice Maiden
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/24/1983
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.
#2 - Ninety Per Cent Proof
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/3/1983
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
#3 - The Dig
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/1990
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.
#4 - Thanks for Everything
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1987
Jim is assigned to find a financier who has disappeared.
#5 - My Name's Sergeant Bergerac
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/1990
Who is the scruffy little man and why are so many people chasing him? And why is he claiming to be Detective Sergeant Bergerac?
#6 - A True Detective
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/1990
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?
#7 - Trenchard's Last Case
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/18/1989
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.
#8 - Old Acquaintance
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/1989
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.
#9 - When Did You Last See Your Father?
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/4/1989
Jim is put under pressure to arrest a scrap dealer who he believes is innocent of assaulting a young girl.
#10 - Weekend Off
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/1989
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.
#11 - The Other Woman
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/18/1989
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.
#12 - Tangos in the Night
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/1989
Jim suspects the dancing instructor of a leading Jersey socialite of stealing her diamonds.
#13 - Natural Enemies
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/1989
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.
#14 - Sea Changes
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/28/1989
Jim investigates a dead sailor and drums of an illegal toxic pesticide, both of which were found, washed up on the beach.
#15 - Private Fight
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1988
Jim places his career in jeopardy while trying to help Charlie Hungerford.
#16 - A Man of Sorrows
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1988
The discovery of a dead body in an empty cottage sparks off a nightmarish case for Jim and his partner, an unorthodox London detective.
#17 - The Sin of Forgiveness
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1988
A former Nazi who had been living underground since the end of the war surfaces in Jersey.
#18 - Burnt
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1988
A business acquaintance of Charlie's is suspected of insider trading.
#19 - A Horse of a Different Colour
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1988
Phillipa, out on parole, decides to give Jim some unwanted help in finding a stolen horse.
#20 - Crossed Swords
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1988
When members of two feuding families decide to settle their differences with an old-fashioned duel, Jim ends up with a murder to investigate.
#21 - Whatever Lola Wants
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1988
Jim is assigned to look after an important gang informant's mother, who is in danger of being kidnapped by a vengeful gang leader.
#22 - Poison
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/1987
Jim investigates when a mason drops dead in the middle of his initiation ceremony.
#23 - There for the Picking
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/26/1990
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, able to transfer 90% of the previous day's takings on the Tokyo stock exchange to 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 whisky, and a French connection is suspected.
#24 - The Evil That Men Do
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1991
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.
#25 - Second Time Around
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/23/1989
David Mason murders Ted Grob by throwing him into a swimming pool, handcuffed to a patio bench seat. 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.