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- The Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.
- An ambitious Scottish journalist is torn between a high-profile career and caring for his younger sister who has Downs Syndrome.
- A young homeless girl is suspected of being a gruesome serial killer
- A police search for a serial rapist.
- Jack Chambers and his wife move into their new house on the Hadleigh corner estate, only to become embroiled in a tangled web of sexual relationships and secrets involving their neighbors.
- A look at the Highland Clearances, the historical period which involved the forced displacements of the population of the Scottish Highlands in the 18th century, and the preceding religious and political events.
- 5 British Students Attending a Florida High School for the final 9 weeks go through the highs and lows of school life.
- A look back at 20 years of Taggart, Britain's longest running police drama series.
- Carol Smillie presents an interactive courtroom series where people argue their real-life small claim cases before solicitor Rhonda Anderson or Jerome Lynch QC. The outcome of the case is decided by the television audience by phone or text message.
- On the eve of the 1911 Revolution, a time of troubles, Nan Shan Zhuang owner Yang [should be Duan] Muhai is making preparations for the fire/flare festival. Muhai is very wealthy. With the help of the Qing government looted people's wealth, his family lives in extravagance. Muhai's favorite is the youngest daughter Ai Yue, bright and intelligent, very understanding towards others but she is very clear on the lines of love and hate, she is not like other family members always ordering people around, shouting at the servants. Enmity developed between Ai Yue and servant girl Ah-Ci due to a small matter. Ah-Ci is a silly girl, no matter the time of day she likes to dance with bamboo pole and smoke box, sings folk songs. Her singing infected/influenced Ai Yue, always being mischievous with Ah-Ci. At the fire/flare festival is a handsome bright young fellow named Liu Bo En and Long Chulai, four young people meeting each other, get along very quickly. Ai Yue gradually falls for Bo En, but she's too proud and unwilling to reveal her feelings. Instead this lets Ah-Ci to have the opportunity to be with him. Ah-Ci is passionately in love with Bo En. Long Chulai admires Ai Yue, but because of his ugly looks he keeps it to himself, can only secretly love Ai Yue. The 1911 Revolution erupts, Muhai's family meets hard times, Bo En is assigned to Beijing, Ai Yue is forced to fulfill a childhood marriage contract - but is sold by her heartless husband to a notorious opium lord. Intead the ruthless Wang Kun is moved by Ai Yue's Sandao tea, a friendship arises b/w the two people and he also finances Ai Yue's tea garden. Muhai suddenly dies, putting the heavy burden of the Duan family on Ai Yue's shoulders; on one hand she has to develop the tea garden, on the other she has to subside internal friction. For a while she is mentally and physically exhausted, fortunately Ah-Ci and Long Chulai comes out to help. As time wears on, Ai Yue develops a subtle feeling for Long Chulai, cannot say whether it's love or friendship.
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- Carol is Adam's fiance. When she discovers that he's not a chocolate salesman but runs an agency which helps people break up with their partners she's none too pleased.
- When a woman shoots her husband after discovering that he was having an affair, it appears to be a clear-cut case - until the police realise the man was already dead when he was shot.
- When Dr Janet Napier walks free from court on a "Not Proven" verdict, Taggart begins a more personal investigation. However as more murders are commited Taggart must admit that even he might have been wrong about the good doctors guilt.
- Illegal body building drugs combined with mind bending additives cause a series of deaths around the muscle scene in Glasgow. In a race against time to find the source of the deadly drug the Maryhill team call on the help of a famous chemistry professor at the University. But is he helping or is he the source of the drug?
- After serving a life sentence for murder, Susan Keller is released from prison. Not long after that members of her family begin to die mysteriously.
- Two women who work for an apparently respectable escort agency are separately murdered. At the same time Peter Letham, who runs an outward bound activity course for executives in the Highlands, reports the disappearance of his wife on a shopping trip to Glasgow. Peter's employer is a principal suspect, causing Jackie to go undercover as a course member.
- Karen Lennox is found electrocuted in what appears to be a lightning strike, but then another body turns up and the team begin looking for a murderer.
- Mike Jardine investigates the death of a soldier at his barracks, in the company of gruff Sergeant Renshaw. New arrival Robbie Ross, a man with a chequered past, teams up with Jackie to look into the theft of a race horse and a murder at the race track. The different crimes eventually prove to be linked by another theft and murder from thirteen years earlier.
- The team investigate the murders of drug dealers.
- A charred body is found in a car, leading the team into a web of police corruption and cover-ups.
- In this feature length investigation, Jardine and Reid find themselves embroiled in a disturbing case that leads them to the dark underbelly of human nature. It is the annual Strathclyde CID Dinner at the Crawford Hotel, and the last place you'd think a murder would be committed. However, as the part is in full swing with The Sweet Muffins (The Oddballs) performing on stage, the body of the hotel owner is discovered strangled and dumped in the rubbish. When the main suspect is found murdered before the police can question him it is the start of a complex case that will effect Jardine in a way he cannot yet expect.
- When a man is found bleeding to death in a health club and two of the female members claim to have had intimate relationships with him, Reid and Ross uncover a world of health-obsessed women with dark and dangerous secrets. Meanwhile, Ross becomes the subject of a corruption inquiry, and Jardine is forced to face up to his own mortality.
- Mail order brides or women to order? Glasgow takes on a Russian flavour when the trail from the murder of wealthy local business man hots up and Jardine's team try to unravel the mystery around the Anastasia Agency.
- The apparently motiveless murder of a woman leads the team to a microchip factory.
- A therapist returns home after his late-night radio phone-in show to find his wife murdered.
- When a clever lawyer gains an acquittal for his client on an apparently straightforward murder charge, the Taggart team are compelled to restart the investigation from scratch - and then the killing starts again.
- Rebus is devastated by the death of a close colleague, which appears to be suicide until he takes a closer look. But he's distracted by an unexpected visit from an ex-girlfriend with an offer he cannot refuse.
- The motto of the Scottish kings - Nemo mi impune lacessit ("Don't Mess With Me") sets the tone for this story. It's payback time for DI John Rebus in his pact with the crime under-lord Morris Gerald Cafferty for his finding the person who put Rebus' daughter in a life-threatening coma, the result of a hit-and-run accident. This time, it's Cafferty's illegitimate son who was "six-packed" and killed, and Cafferty is calling in his chips from Rebus. Rebus has to cope with a backdrop of gun running, jailbreaks, left- and right-wing extremists, nationalists and other splinter groups who are spouting racist philosophies, and imported white-power fanatics who are perpetrating hate crimes.
- 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.
- The King is dead, long live the King. And this is the new regime...
- The apparent suicide of a sixth former at an elite boys' school turns into a murder enquiry and a journalist, much to the headmaster's displeasure, publishes an article linking the boy to drug-dealing before he too is murdered. A third body indicates a serial killer and the manner of the slaying leads to a famous painter.
- When teenaged prostitute Dee is found murdered Robbie goes gunning for Willie Strachan, a man whom he has long suspected of being involved in sex trafficking. However, he is not the only suspect as law student Craig Colhoune, son of a widowed sheriff who dotes on him, also finds himself in the vicinity with unexplained blood on his sleeve. And there is Mo, violent husband of reformed prostitute Sadie.
- Chief Inspector Jardine and the team investigate a series of mysterious deaths among members of a tango club after a pre-wedding parachute jump ends with the bridegroom plunging to his death. And as Jackie Reid's wedding day approaches, Ross tries to persuade her that she is rushing into marriage too quickly.
- Jardine and the team investigate a series of murky goings-on at a football club whose lack of success on the pitch is matched by an unaccountably high death rate among its employees.
- When an anonymous victim is shot dead in a local park the only clue on him as to his identity is a library card for a city college. This in turn leads to a half-way house for recently released criminals, some of whom are known to the team. Unfortunately the hostel warden is not keen to cooperate.
- Investigating the discovery of a mangled body at a Clyde shipyard, DCI Burke and the team soon find themselves dealing with a case of murder.
- A 15 year-old gold bullion robbery leads the Maryhill team on a race against time as one by one the robbers are murdered. With pirates, treasure chests and secret maps to buried treasure muddying the waters will the team solve the murders and find the lost treasure before the last robber is killed?