Bergerac (1981)

A spiritualist contacts the ghost of a dead arsonist responsible for the death of a young girl at the same time that a new series of fires breaks out resembling his earlier handiwork.

Jim gets involved in a murder while matching wits with Phillipa Vale.

Jim travels to Spain when Charlie calls seeking help in dealing with a small time crook who is trying to get Charlie to sell him part of his business.

David Mason murders Ted Grob by throwing him into a swimming pool, handcuffed to a patio recliner. 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.

It is time for the grape picking, and Jim helps Albert. However, the son of a wealthy businessman turns up to help out, and unknown to Jim, he is a computer hacker stealing large amount of money during business transactions.

Broken-hearted by a letter from his French girlfriend, Jim is back on the bottle but Charlie persuades Jim to accompany him to Bath as minder of a priceless painting. There he falls victim to the wiles of a woman who frames him for murder.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Jim investigates the murder of a diver that is tied to the discovery of a downed Nazi pilot and his plane off the Jersey shore.

The son of an eccentric millionaire suspects that his father's housekeeper plans to kill her employer for his fortune.

Jim and Francine quarrel over her relationship with a charming Canadian photographer while Jim tries to keep track of a French gangster's girl friend, hoping she will lead him to the crook.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Jim must protect an Indian faith healer from con men out to exploit his abilities.

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.

Jim's investigation into the death of a young woman supposed to be working at a local stable reveals a profitable call girl operation.

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.

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

A French Inspector asks Jim for help in proving a tourist from Jersey killed his wife while on holiday in France.

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.

One of the boxers in an European championship match being held on Jersey is plagued by a series of mishaps.

Charlie 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.

When a couple falls overboard from an international rock star's yacht- leaving the man dead and the woman in serious condition - Jim suspects murder.

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.

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.

An 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.

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

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.

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

An eccentric old lady's mysterious past is somehow tied to a sunken ship that has attracted many divers, including a world-renowned underwater archaeologist and a notorious gangster.

Philippa Vale returns to Jersey planning to recover the jewels she was forced to abandon in a previous encounter with Jim.

Jim is under pressure to find a briefcase containing fashion designs and a baby who disappeared with her nurse.

Jim is assigned to protect a spoiled tennis star who has received several death threats.

One of the stars of a film being made about the German occupation of Jersey finds his life being threatened.

Jim is assigned to guard a mainland MP who has come to Jersey to study the island's police force.

Jim must discover the identity of a man with amnesia who was found wandering around naked and who is haunted by a nightmare.

A millionaire computer expert receives several death threats.

A criminal that Jim arrested in the past is seeking revenge. He starts by trying to drive Debbie insane and eventually holds Debbie, Charlie and Kim hostage in Charlie's mansion in Brittany. Can Jim save the day?

Susan is asked to put a small unremarkable bungalow called "Ocean View" on the market. Quickly several parties put down offers and as the price escalates Jim tries to work out why...

Animal rights protesters free four monkeys from a research laboratory one of which is infected with the deadly marbury virus.

Philippa comes to Jim for help when her life is threatened by a right wing organization demanding the return of a notebook that she knows nothings about.

Jim is assigned to find a financier who has disappeared.

Jim investigates when a mason drops dead in the middle of his initiation ceremony.

Jim is assigned to look after an important gang informant's mother, who is in danger of being kidnapped by a vengeful gang leader.

When members of two feuding families decide to settle their differences with an old-fashioned duel, Jim ends up with a murder to investigate.

Phillipa, out on parole, decides to give Jim some unwanted help in finding a stolen horse.

A business acquaintance of Charlie's is suspected of insider trading.

A former Nazi who had been living underground since the end of the war surfaces in Jersey.

The discovery of a dead body in an empty cottage sparks off a nightmarish case for Jim and his partner, an unorthodox London detective.

Jim places his career in jeopardy while trying to help Charlie Hungerford.

Jim investigates a dead sailor and drums of an illegal toxic pesticide, both of which were found, washed up on the beach.

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.

Jim suspects the dancing instructor of a leading Jersey socialite of stealing her diamonds.

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.

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.

Jim is put under pressure to arrest a scrap dealer who he believes is innocent of assaulting a young girl.

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.

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.

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?

Who is the scruffy little man and why are so many people chasing him? And why is he claiming to be Detective Sergeant Bergerac?

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.

Nigel Carter is being terrorised but he refuses to help the police find the men concerned. Only when his daughter becomes their target does Bergerace begin to unravel the truth.

A French private detective is murdered in Charlie's study and Bergerac is sent to Provence to discover why.

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

When a retired scientist gets a demand for a million pounds, Bergerac has a race against time to find the extortioner before his threat of destruction is carried out.

After a chance meeting at the races Bergerac becomes involved in the dubious world of the cabaret circuit.

Bergerac is caught up in a violent underworld as, single-handed; he tries to solve a case of kidnapping in London.

After quitting the force, Jim is called back to Jersey by the Bureau to protect a VIP. However, the problem is that the VIP does not wish to have any protection.

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.

Bergerac is summonsed back to Jersey, where Charlie persuades him to help a friend find his missing wife. But there is another player in the game that Jim hasn't counted on.

Bergerac is conned by Charlie into looking after a house in Provence and baby-sitting for two willful young girls while their parents are in Milan. He then finds himself caught up in a drug operation.

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.

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.

Business is not too good for Bergerac, so when Charlie is invited to France to attend the 80th birthday party of an old friend, he accepts the job of chauffeur. When a necklace goes missing, and unwelcome family secrets are uncovered, the party turns out to be more eventful than he imagined.

Employed to look into companies seeking trade licences in Jersey, Bergerac finds more than he expects. Danielle is convinced that his life is in danger but nobody will believe her.

When Jim is asked by one of Charlie's friends to find his wife, he tracks her down at a strange sect in England who believe in the existence of Atlantis.

The mysterious Hapgood invites Bergerac to a lonely castle in Brittany. He wishes to hire Bergerac as a bodyguard and also to investigate threats on his life. Full recap: When someone fires a volley of shots at them whilst Hapgood is out painting, the result is the termination of Bergerac's services. Undaunted Jim continues his own investigation and via some gossip from Charlie, he forces Hapgood to admit the truth. He is a former assassin who has ""turned his back on the game."" He is being targeted by his replacement, who wishes to remove him from the game permanently. Hapgood hopes to persuade the assassin to follow his lead and see the light. Late at night the assassin attacks but Hapgood inadvertently kills him during a struggle. When the police arrive the next morning, Hapgood is haunted by Bergerac's earlier words, that he will never know who the next assassin will be.

Charlie recommends that Jim be hired to protect a priceless set of sixteen Chinese figures called Lohans. Despite Jim's vigilance they are stolen and as he investigates their true ownership is brought into question.