How did the show handle it?
I've just started to get into the show and was basically just wondering how the series covered and handled his death.
Thank you.
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The show basicly had Taggart die in an ambush and the episode then had Jardine & Reid track down his killer.
shareNo, that isn't correct. There was an episode that began with his funeral and we were just told that died of a heart attack.
shareFunny but I remember watching an episode where it mentions that Taggart was supposedly murdered and they were looking for the killer. Unfortunately I never got to see the outcome of this because the station that was showing it in my area (a PBS station) had one of it's monetary support drives and never showed the outcome.
I'm really hoping that someone can confirm this and also give me the title of that episode. I really want to see it.
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in real life as youve just posted he lost his - and also his sister died within 6 months of each other and he was really sick - he doesnt die on an episode - season 11 is his last season - he does hellfire and prayer for the dying .. and is buried in black orchid from dying in his sleep.. and yes i know that was just mentioned above.
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Season 11, Episode 1: Hellfire
Original Air Date: 27 October 1994
On Walpurgis Night, April 30th in German folklore, James Martin is murdered after selling his whisky distillery for five million pounds.
Season 11, Episode 2: Prayer for the Dying
Original Air Date: 11 January 1995
Taggart is promoted to Acting Superintendent so when two young girls are murdered and the wife of a leading suspect also, he starts to wonder if Jardine and Reid are up to the job.
Season 11, Episode 3: Black Orchid
Original Air Date: 25 February 1995
Tony Sabina is in town again, "The Great Sabina" to his fans. His hypnotic show relies on volunteers, among who is a young man called Stuart Fraser, and a girl called Frances Shaw. Frances who is hypnotized to believe that she could swim the channel is found drowned after the show. The resulting publicity leaves Sabins career in tatters and he decides to get even with all those who contribute to his downfall. Jardine and Reid investigate a series of killings that may have been carried out "to order".
It seems the last 2 years of his life were horrible.
He died in June 1994, 8 months after the death of his wife in 1993.
Also, in the last 2 years of his life, he lost his mother, brother and 2 sisters.
It's stated he drank heavily and his death was caused by his drinking - just seeing the heavy losses in his life makes me understand why.
It turns out his brother, Brian Connolly, was a very successful pop star and although they grew up together, they did not realize they were brothers until they were adults. His brother also died due to alcohol-related illness 3 years after McManus' death.
What a tragic life. Should have been an episode on Taggart - definitely has a high body count.
i think you are probably confusing taggart with his sergeant, Jardine, who WAS eventually murdered some years later. taggart died a natural,death, of heart failure. the episode in which Jardine dies is called Death Trap.
shareYes, Taggart dies off screen of a heart attack and they handled it that way, because he actually died suddenly of pneumonia right in the middle of filming the episode. So they had to finish it and deal with it in real life in the filming of it.
One of the saddest scenes for Jardine's death was when Jackie went to the location he was found....and had a moment when she had to see his body there and her emotions were very moving when she was with her friend.
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