Bergerac (1981)
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Episode 1 - Ninety Per Cent Proof
Release Date: 1983-12-03When 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.
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Episode 2 - A Hole in the Bucket
Release Date: 1983-12-10Jim jeopardizes his career to help a couple of women who have come to Jersey.
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Episode 3 - Holiday Snaps
Release Date: 1983-12-17A French Inspector asks Jim for help in proving a tourist from Jersey killed his wife while on holiday in France.
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Episode 4 - Ice Maiden
Release Date: 1983-12-24Jim 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.
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Episode 5 - Come Out Fighting
Release Date: 1983-12-31One of the boxers in an European championship match being held on Jersey is plagued by a series of mishaps.
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Episode 6 - A Touch of Eastern Promise
Release Date: 1984-01-07Charlie and a group of Jersey businessmen invite an Arab entrepreneur to the island hoping to get him to invest in a fancy leisure complex they are hoping to build.
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Episode 7 - A Cry in the Night
Release Date: 1984-01-14When a couple falls overboard from an international rock star's yacht- leaving the man dead and the woman in serious condition - Jim suspects murder.
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Episode 8 - The Company You Keep
Release Date: 1984-01-21One 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.
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Episode 9 - Tug of War
Release Date: 1984-01-28A 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.
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Episode 10 - House Guests
Release Date: 1984-02-04An international financier sets up a meeting of top European moneymen at his Jersey mansion; one of whom is attending the meeting for reasons other than financial gain.