The WORST episodes of Bergerac

Every episode of Bergerac ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 2/21/2024Network: BBC OneStatus: Ended
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The Dig
star
6.60
5 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: John Collee
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Offshore Trades
star
6.90
10 votes

#2 - Offshore Trades

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/1985

Bergerac investigates the death of a scuba diver who washes up on the beach and discovers the disappearance of a French film star's wife.

Directors: Robert Tronson
Writer: Nick McCarty
A Man of Sorrows
star
7.00
7 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Geoffrey Sax
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Prime Target
star
7.00
13 votes

#4 - Prime Target

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/1983

Bergerac travels to France to investigate the death of a Jersey resident and prematurely reveals the marriage plans of the eccentric heir to an old Jersey family fortune.

Directors: Henry Herbert
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Campaign For Silence
star
7.00
16 votes

#5 - Campaign For Silence

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/1981

A retired Army major and former POW receives death threats, and sees his ghostwriter killed, when he tries to publish his memoirs of the Korean War.

Directors: Martyn Friend
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Unlucky Dip
star
7.09
23 votes

#6 - Unlucky Dip

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/1981

Jim faces brutality charges when he investigates a drug courier who had his package lifted by a pickpocket, who's now trying to sell the stuff himself.

Directors: Ian Toynton
Writer: Bob Baker
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Always Leave Them Laughing
star
7.14
14 votes

#7 - Always Leave Them Laughing

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1983

A disappointed beauty pageant contestant accuses a popular comic of raping her after voting against her in the beauty contest.

Directors: Peter Smith
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Portrait of Yesterday
star
7.18
17 votes

#8 - Portrait of Yesterday

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1981

The prominent society wedding of her stepdaughter brings back a dark secret from a woman's past.

Directors: Laurence Moody
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Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
star
7.18
11 votes

#9 - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1983

Lil's ex-husband, a journalist, returns to Jersey on the trail of a big story he believes will embarrass Charlie Hungerford, who's running for a position in the House of Deputies.

Directors: Michael Rolfe
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A Hole in the Bucket
star
7.18
11 votes

#10 - A Hole in the Bucket

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/1983

Jim jeopardizes his career to help a couple of women who have come to Jersey.

Directors: Ian Toynton
Writer: Bill Craig
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Ice Maiden
star
7.26
38 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Robert Tronson
Writer: Rod Beacham
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Ninety Per Cent Proof
star
7.26
38 votes

#12 - 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

Directors: Robert Young
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What Dreams May Come True
star
7.29
7 votes

#13 - What Dreams May Come True

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1985

Anonymous phone calls prompt Jim to re-examine a road accident that had been dismissed as routine.

Directors: Ben Bolt
Writer: Brian Finch
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Nice People Die in Bed
star
7.31
26 votes

#14 - Nice People Die in Bed

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/1981

Jim ruffles many feathers as he investigates the suspicious death of the prominent local leader of an international charity committee.

Directors: Martin Campbell
Writer: John Kershaw
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Tug of War
star
7.33
6 votes

#15 - Tug of War

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/28/1984

A convict who has just been let out on parole brings his son on holiday to Jersey without telling the boy's mother or his probation officer.

Directors: Laurence Moody
Writer: Paul Wheeler
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Almost Like a Holiday
star
7.33
15 votes

#16 - Almost Like a Holiday

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1983

The publicity surrounding the mugging of a lovable old liar endangers a plan to burgle a safe containing a fortune in diamonds.

Directors: Laurence Moody
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Picking it Up
star
7.33
33 votes

#17 - Picking it Up

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/1981

Jersey detective Jim Bergerac returns from a recuperation leave to find his job in jeopardy and a colleague killed during an investigation into international gun sales to South Africa.

Directors: Martyn Friend
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Last Chance For a Loser
star
7.36
14 votes

#18 - Last Chance For a Loser

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1981

Charlie is one of the victims of a series of well-planned burglaries focused on the wealthiest island homes.

Directors: Ian Toynton
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See You in Moscow
star
7.38
16 votes

#19 - See You in Moscow

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1981

A civil servant exposed as a spy tries to flee to Moscow via Jersey.

Directors: Don Leaver
Writer: Gerry O'Hara
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My Friend Charlie
star
7.40
5 votes

#20 - My Friend Charlie

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1991

When Hungerford is offered the deal of a lifetime by an American, he starts to get suspicious and asks Jim to look into it. Meanwhile, the American's daughter wants her father to be abducted so he can be sent back to the US to stand trial for her mother's murder.

Directors: Michael Rolfe
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Something to Hide
star
7.40
10 votes

#21 - Something to Hide

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1991

When Jim and Danielle are at a party in France, they witness a shooting, shortly before seeing somebody running off. Jim decides to put his detective skills to use and investigates, desperate to find the missing link.

Directors: Tony Dow
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The Last Interview
star
7.45
11 votes

#22 - The Last Interview

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/11/1985

An American telejournalist comes to Jersey to interview a retired gangster who has gone into hiding because of a contract on his life.

Directors: Brian Farnham
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A Message For the Rich
star
7.47
15 votes

#23 - A Message For the Rich

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1983

Two disgruntled ex-employees of Charlie Hungerford kidnap Jim's daughter.

Directors: Alan Grint
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In Love and War
star
7.50
4 votes

#24 - In Love and War

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/1990

When a fugitive from South Africa appeals to Karen Markham for help, she finds herself caught up in something she cannot control.

Directors: Jeremy Ancock
Writer: John Collee
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Sea Changes
star
7.50
10 votes

#25 - 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.

Writer: Edwin Pearce
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