Bergerac (1981)
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Mela White as Diamante Lil
Episodes 40
Picking it Up
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.
Read MoreNice People Die in Bed
Jim ruffles many feathers as he investigates the suspicious death of the prominent local leader of an international charity committee.
Read MoreUnlucky Dip
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.
Read MoreCampaign For Silence
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.
Read MoreSee You in Moscow
A civil servant exposed as a spy tries to flee to Moscow via Jersey.
Read MorePortrait of Yesterday
The prominent society wedding of her stepdaughter brings back a dark secret from a woman's past.
Read MoreLast Chance For a Loser
Charlie is one of the victims of a series of well-planned burglaries focused on the wealthiest island homes.
Read MoreLate For a Funeral
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.
Read MoreRelative Values
The son of an eccentric millionaire suspects that his father's housekeeper plans to kill her employer for his fortune.
Read MoreThe Hood and the Harlequin
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.
Read MoreA Message for the Rich
Two disgruntled ex-employees of Charlie Hungerford kidnap Jim's daughter.
Read MoreAlways Leave Them Laughing
A disappointed beauty pageant contestant accuses a popular comic of raping her after voting against her in the beauty contest.
Read MoreClap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
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.
Read MorePrime Target
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.
Read MoreAlmost Like a Holiday
The publicity surrounding the mugging of a lovable old liar endangers a plan to burgle a safe containing a fortune in diamonds.
Read MoreFall of a Birdman
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.
Read MoreMiracle Every Week
Jim must protect an Indian faith healer from con men out to exploit his abilities.
Read MoreA Perfect Recapture
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.
Read MoreThe Moonlight Girls
Jim's investigation into the death of a young woman supposed to be working at a local stable reveals a profitable call girl operation.
Read MoreNinety Per Cent Proof
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
Read MoreA Hole in the Bucket
Jim jeopardizes his career to help a couple of women who have come to Jersey.
Read MoreHoliday Snaps
A French Inspector asks Jim for help in proving a tourist from Jersey killed his wife while on holiday in France.
Read MoreIce Maiden
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.
Read MoreCome Out Fighting
One of the boxers in an European championship match being held on Jersey is plagued by a series of mishaps.
Read MoreA Touch of Eastern Promise
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.
Read MoreA Cry in the Night
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.
Read MoreThe Company You Keep
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.
Read MoreTug of War
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.
Read MoreHouse Guests
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.
Read MoreThe Last Interview
An American telejournalist comes to Jersey to interview a retired gangster who has gone into hiding because of a contract on his life.
Read MoreOffshore Trades
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.
Read MoreWhat Dreams May Come True
Anonymous phone calls prompt Jim to re-examine a road accident that had been dismissed as routine.
Read MoreLow Profile
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.
Read MoreReturn of the Ice Maiden
Philippa Vale returns to Jersey planning to recover the jewels she was forced to abandon in a previous encounter with Jim.
Read MoreThe Tennis Racket
Jim is assigned to protect a spoiled tennis star who has received several death threats.
Read MoreSins of the Fathers
One of the stars of a film being made about the German occupation of Jersey finds his life being threatened.
Read MoreAvenge, O Lord
Jim is assigned to guard a mainland MP who has come to Jersey to study the island's police force.
Read MoreFires in the Fall
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.
Full recap: Charlie asks Jim to investigate Raoul Barnaby, a medium who has gained the favour of Roberta Jardine. Charlie and Roberta's niece, the scheming Pauline, believe that Barnaby is a conman. Barnaby claims to have been contacted by the ghost of a 12 girl who was killed in an arson attack 20 years previously. Soon the child's grave is desecrated and a similar series of arson attacks occur.
Jim is charged with a new investigation into the arson attacks and uncovers a link between Roberta Jardine and Jack Plimont, the detective in charge of the case. It appears that Jardine's son was the arsonist and commited suicide by immolation over the unintended death of the girl. Plemont helped to cover up the truth. Meanwhile Susan has sold the former home of the arsonist to Lil and finds ritual fire symbo
Read MoreWinner Takes All
A millionaire computer expert receives several death threats.
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