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Taggart was a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network. The series revolved around a group of detectives, initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines were set in other parts of Greater Glasgow and in other areas of Scotland. The team operated out of the fictional John Street police station.
Taggart was one of the UK's longest-running television dramas and the longest-running police drama after the cancellation of The Bill.
Mark McManus, who played the title character Jim Taggart, died in 1994; however, the series continued under the same name.
The show's 100th story was aired on the ITV network on Christmas Eve 2009. In May 2011 the ITV network decided to axe Taggart from the network after 28 years.
The series theme music is "No Mean City" sung by Maggie Bell.
Willie Taggart (born August 27, 1976) is a head college football coach at the University of South Florida (USF) and a former college football player. He took the position at USF in December 2012. Taggart previously served as head coach at Western Kentucky University (WKU) from 2009 to 2012, compiling a record of 16–20. He is the first African American head football coach at both institutions.
Taggart was a prep standout at Bradenton Manatee High School in Florida, where he was a first team all-state and all-conference selection as a senior after guiding the Hurricanes to the state 5A Championship game. He led MHS to the state title his junior season and helped the school post a 26–4 record during that two-year span, while recording more than 3,000 yards passing and 975 yards on the ground.
Taggart then became a star quarterback for the WKU Hilltoppers from 1995 through 1998, being one of only three WKU players in the previous 50 years to be a four-year starter at the position and one of only four Hilltoppers players to have his jersey retired. In each of his last two collegiate seasons, he was a finalist for the prestigious Walter Payton Award, which is an honor given annually to the top offensive player in I-AA football. Taggart finished fourth in the balloting in 1997 and seventh as a senior the following year. An All-American as a senior, he was also the 1998 I-AA Independents’ Offensive Player of the Year. Taggart was recruited to WKU by Jim Harbaugh to play for his father, Jack Harbaugh.
STV Productions (previously SMG Productions or Scottish Media Group Productions and originally known as Scottish Television Productions) is the television production arm of the STV Group plc, and incorporates Ginger Productions. Headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, and with an office in London, England, the company's output includes drama, factual, entertainment and children's programming for broadcast on television stations worldwide. A key programming supplier to the television industry in the United Kingdom, STV Productions' output is aired on all UK terrestrial networks as well as major satellite and cable stations.
The company was rebranded as STV Productions on 1 October 2008, to coincide with its parent company renaming from SMG plc to STV Group plc on the same day.
STV Productions are the makers of Taggart, the longest running crime drama on British television, broadcast on the ITV network and sold overseas for transmission in over 40 territories. Other successful drama productions include television adaptions of Ian Rankin's Rebus, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips as well as Neil Buchanan's Art Attack.
The Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU) is an American public space-grant and sea-grant research university. Its primary campus is located on a 1,391.54-acre (5.631 km2) campus in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida.
The University is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university comprises 16 separate colleges and more than 110 centers, facilities, labs and institutes that offer more than 360 programs of study, including professional school programs. The university has an annual budget of over $1.7 billion. Florida State is home to Florida's only National Laboratory – the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and is the birthplace of the commercially viable anti-cancer drug Taxol. Florida State University also operates The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida and one of the largest museum/university complexes in the nation.
Taggart | S18E01 | 'Death Trap' | 2002
Taggart S01E03 Murder in Season (1983)
Taggart S17E01 Ghost Rider
Willie Taggart Independence Bowl Interview
Taggart | S01E02 | 'Dead Ringer' | 1985
Taggart | S19E07 | 'An Eye for an Eye' | 2003
Taggart | S22E04 | 'Running Out Of Time' | 2005
Taggart S03E03 Cold Blood Christmas Special (1987)
Taggart | S27E01 | 'Bad Medicine' | 2010
Live: Willie Taggart introductory FSU press conference | 12.6.17
Taggart | S20E03 | 'Compensation' | 2004
Taggart - S11E01 Prayer for the Dead (1995)
Taggart S17E04 Football Crazy
Taggart | S22E06 | 'Do or Die' | 2005
Taggart | S24E02 | 'Judgement Day' | 2008
Taggart S17E03 Wavelength
Taggart | S24E03 | 'Island' | 2008
Taggart S17E02 Skin Deep
Taggart S17E05 Falling in Love
Taggart S18E04 The Friday Event
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Actors: Danny Dimbort (producer), Trevor Short (producer), Tanya Thanadpojanamart (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Greenwood (actor), Lewin Webb (producer), Sara Holmes (miscellaneous crew), Mark Sanders (editor), Claude Forest (miscellaneous crew), Avi Lerner (producer), Kevin Rushton (actor), Lyudmila Genkova (miscellaneous crew), Tiffani Thiessen (actress), Jacqueline Kelly (producer), Kyra Harper (actress), Aaron Abrams (actor),
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi,Actors: Nick Everhart (miscellaneous crew), Leigh Scott (writer), Chris Ridenhour (composer), Leigh Scott (editor), David Rimawi (producer), Leigh Scott (director), Elissa Dowling (actress), Leigh Scott (actor), David Michael Latt (producer), Chris Ridenhour (actor), Griff Furst (actor), Paul Bales (producer), Rhett Giles (actor), Matthew Wolf (actor), Monique La Barr (actress),
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi,Actors: Nenji Kobayashi (actor), Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (editor), Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (director), Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (writer), Etsushi Takahashi (actor), Joe Hisaishi (composer), Kaho Minami (actress), Toshie Negishi (actress), Toshinori Omi (actor), Yoshiko Mita (actress), Troy Donahue (actor), Shinobu Tsuruta (actor), Yasufumi Hayashi (actor), Nobuo Ogawa (editor), Kazuo Umezu (actor),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: David S. Cass Sr. (actor), Michael Nouri (actor), Robert Davi (actor), Louis Guss (actor), Harve Bennett (producer), James D. Parriott (writer), James D. Parriott (producer), Jerrold Immel (composer), John Cunningham (actor), Katia Christine (actress), Bernard L. Kowalski (director), Judith Chapman (actress), Vivian Bonnell (actress), Charles Robinson (actor), Richard Chapman (writer),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Ted Adams (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Roy Butler (actor), Kermit Maynard (actor), Frank McCarroll (actor), Philip Morris (actor), Tex Palmer (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Colbert Clark (producer), Norman S. Hall (writer), Ray Nazarro (director), Paul Borofsky (editor),
Plot: Bandit Pop Ryland and his two sons, Clint and Dave, are planning their biggest job; the printing and distribution of territorial bonds. The elder Ryland contracts a hired gunman, McCall, to dispose of his stepson, Tommy, who knows what his step-family members are up to. The Durango Kid captures McCall, takes the letter and presents himself, Steve Lacey, as the hired killer. He stages a fake killing, and discovers the Ryland's scheme. Cling ambushes Durango and is killed in a gunfight, and Durango also shoots McCall who has made an escape. Cash-Register salesman Smiley Burnette aids Steve/Durango in rounding up the remaining villains.
Keywords: 1880s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, alias, ambush, archive-footage, assassin, b-movie, b-westernActors: Nolan Leary (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Tommy Coats (actor), Carol Henry (actor), Teddy Infuhr (actor), Jack Kirk (actor), Ted Mapes (actor),
Plot: When Sheriff Jeff Connor of Powder River cannot stop the crime wave, his young son, Larry, writes to the Durango Kid for aid. Taggart, the saloon owner, is the secret head of the outlaws, while Connor's brother Bill is in cahoots with him. Steve Randall, the Durango Kid, and his pal, Smiley Butterbean, arrive in time to stop a stagecoach holdup, and Steve is made a deputy sheriff. Taggart has one of his men, Slade, pose as the Durango Kid and while he is speaking to the townspeople, the rest of the outlaw gang pillages the town, and this somewhat damages the Durango Kid in the eyes of Larry and his sister Doris. Steve suggests that Sheriff Connor visit the government about a railroad project, and Taggart instructs Slade and the gang leader to kill Connor on his trip back.
Keywords: back-taxes, brother-vs-brother, crime-wave, durango-kid, impostor, land-grab, lawlessness, letter, outlaw-gang, paralysisActors: George Barbier (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Maurice Cass (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), André Cheron (actor), Clay Clement (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Leonard Carey (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Frank Elliott (actor), Paul Ellis (actor), Gilbert Emery (actor),
Plot: Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is is built on unconditional trust, friends caution her about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Even Van's mother warns Linda that Van's father philandered during their marriage, and Van, like all men, will eventually succumb to opportunity and temptation. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.
Keywords: advertising, art-deco, based-on-novel, business-competitor, business-convention, business-trip, butler, cleaning-woman, divorce, engagementActors: S. Roy Luby (editor), Budd Buster (actor), Robert N. Bradbury (director), Frank Ball (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Earl Dwire (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Charles K. French (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), Charles King (actor), Jack Kirk (actor), Clyde McClary (actor),
Plot: Jim "Sundown" Saunders (Bob Steele) wins $250 in a horse race with Lewis (Hal Price) and, instead of money, Lewis gives him a deed to a 640-acre ranch in the Panamint.Sundown and his pal Smokey (Milburn Morante) head for the ranch and encounter Dad Preston (Jack Rockwell) and his daughter Bess (Catherine Cotter), and discover that the Prestons have plans to buy the ranch from Taggart (Ed Cassidy), posing as a government land agent. Taggart hires Jack Mace (Charles King) to pick a saloon fight with Sundown and, when the fight is stopped, the two decide to finish it out on the trail.Taggart follows and after Sundown whups up on Mace and rides off, Taggart shoots Mace in the back. Mace is found by a passer-by and taken to town, where Sheriff Baker (Earl Dwire) concludes the unconsious man was shot by Sundown, and calls for his arrest. Taggart meets Preston and Bess at the ranch and Preston hands over the purchase money. Later, Taggart ambushes Preston and steals his wallet to get the fake deed back. Taggart,whose busy day has only begun, meets with bandit leader Burke (Edmund Cobb) and they go to his hotel room and plan a bank raid for the next day. Meanwhile, Mace, before dying, tells the Sheriff that Sundown wasn't the man who shot him, so Sundown and the Sheriff are outside the window and overhear the robbery plans. Preston, found by Smokey and Sundown, voices his suspicions of Taggart as being his assailant. After Sundown, the Sheriff and a town-raised posse stop Burke and his bandits from robbing the bank, the ever-busy and never-say-die Taggart kidnaps Bess and takes of with her in a wagon. Sundown is in pursuit.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, land-swindle, murder, ranchActors: E.R. Hickson (miscellaneous crew), Silver Tip Baker (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), William Dyer (actor), Henry Hall (actor), Lindsley Parsons (writer), Armand Schaefer (director), Carl Pierson (editor), Ted Adams (actor), Art Mix (actor), Tex Palmer (actor), Tex Phelps (actor),
Plot: Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw gang. Brant finds out that 'Jones', one of the outlaws he has become friends with, committed the murder that Brant was sent up for, but has no knowledge that anyone was ever put in jail for his crime. Willing to forgive and forget, Brant doesn't realize that 'Jones' has not only fallen for the same pretty shopgirl Brant has, but begins to suspect that Brant is not truly an outlaw.
Keywords: ambush, deception, fistfight, gunfight, informer, jealousy, murder-confession, outlaw, posse, prison-escapeActors: Ray Curtiss (editor), Donald Cook (actor), Horace McCoy (writer), Dore Schary (writer), Roy William Neill (director), Eddy Chandler (actor), Alan Dinehart (actor), Harold Huber (actor), Clarence Muse (actor), Edward Peil Sr. (actor), Hal Price (actor), Arthur Rankin (actor), Charles Stevens (actor), Frederick Vogeding (actor), Blackie Whiteford (actor),
Plot: Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
Keywords: jungleEverything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Friday, 4th January 2002. Johnny Innes, son of local politician Malcolm, is shot dead after interrupting one of his father's council meetings. Mike Jardine clashes with Malcolm Innes and is taken off the case but pursues his own line of enquiry. Embittered Liam Kennedy is a qualified sniper and therefore becomes a major suspect, especially as he has a grudge against both Innes and Jardine, one of whom, at least, will find their days are numbered.
Interview with new Florida State head coach Willie Taggart during the Independence Bowl against Southern Miss. Plus runs by Cam Akers & field goal by Ricky Aguayo.
Everything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Tuesday, 2nd July 1985. The skeletal remains of a dismembered body are discovered beneath the floorboards of a house in Glasgow. The drama takes an unexpected twist when a nine-month-old toddler is kidnapped from a multi-storey car park, followed by a ransom demand of £50,000.
Everything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Saturday, 25th January 2003. When a doctor at a clinic for women which advocates birth control is murdered the immediate suspects are a militant fundamentalist group who oppose abortions. However, drug links between the clinic and a local crime boss extend the scope of the investigation further, though Stuart believes the murderer may have had a more personal reason.
Everything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Friday, 4th November 2005. Burke is shot whilst taking a break from work, and on the same day, another detective's body is found by a colleague. When both victims' properties are searched, large amounts of cash are found, leading to fears of bribery. With Burke's reputation and life on the line, the race is on to find the perpetrator.
Everything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Sunday, 3rd October 2010. Newly qualified doctor Scott Clarkson is found tortured and murdered in an empty warehouse. Two London detectives, Moretti and Casey,the latter an old friend of Burke,arrive in Glasgow whilst investigating a similar case though Jackie and Robbie do not warm to them.
Wednesday, 6 December 2017 BREAKING: (AWAITING NEWS CONFERENCE)- Bradenton native and former USF coach Willie Taggart returns to Florida from Oregon to be new head coach at Florida State University. FSU is holding a press conference to introduce Willie Taggart as the new head football coach. Willie Taggart introductory press conference LIVE: Willie Taggart Introductory Press Conference Live: Watch new #FSU coach Willie Taggart’s introductory press conference Willie Taggart is being officially introduced as the Seminoles’ new head football coach. WATCH LIVE | Florida State University introduces new head football coach Willie Taggart. LIVE: Florida State holds a press conference to introduce newly hired head coach Willie Taggart. LIVE: Florida State introduces Oregon’s Willie Tagg...
Everything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Friday, 30th April 2004. In my opinion, 'Compensation' is one of the best Taggart episodes of the Burke era. The team travel to rural Fenmore after a farmer is suspiciously killed in a house fire, but find few clues and the villagers unwilling to offer any information.
Jim Taggart's last ever appearance
Everything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Friday, 9th December 2005. Following a poor career appraisal Robbie aims to redeem himself by going undercover at an army base where a young private died in suspicious circumstances.
Everything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Tuesday, 15th January 2008. DCI Burke's father Andrew dies, supposedly of liver failure. When another member of Andrew's pensioners' club also dies, coincidence seems unlikely, particularly as a twenty thousand pound savings plan is involved.
Everything belongs to STV, ITV, SMG Productions. First Broadcast Wednesday, 27th February 2008. A young lad is murdered and mutilated on a Scottish tourist island, and all is not what it seems.
It’s amazing how you turn your head away
Sit back - SIX PACK!
Enjoy the world’s decay
Human nature creates the situation
Now we’re all living in frustration
Create alternative ways of fighting - you’re not alone!
You’re not alone. Go!
If you try to avoid the problems, you’re part of them
You hide away in your prefab world
You close your eyes, let them brainwash you
You’re just another robot in this goddamn zoo!
Create alternative ways of fighting - you’re not alone!
You’re not alone. Alright!
If you can’t stand this planet
If you can’t stand injustice
If you can’t stand the pain
If you can’t stand the misery…
Just come and join us right away
This is your fight for freedom!
Create alternative ways of fighting
You’re not alone
Create alternative ways of fighting
You’re not alone
Set you free!
Open hearts and open minds