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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - The Company You Keep
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/21/1984
One of Charlie's friends is suspected of tipping off a pair of London thieves who've started a crime spree in Jersey, as to which houses have valuables in them and when the owners will be gone.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - A Perfect Recapture
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/27/1983
A wheel dropped from a flying plane and a trail of marked francs lead Jim and a dogged mainland detective to a computer embezzler who stole 2 million pounds from the police ten years earlier.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Fall of a Birdman
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1983
A Portuguese hang glider pilot hired by Charlie for a TV commercial sails around a deserted cliff face and is later found dead, apparently murdered.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.