Is season 1-3 from the 80's worth watching? It's a little old. I just finished Cracker and that was pretty good. Some of these new crime dramas I've seen lately are so predictable and a little soapy for example Black Work and Fortitude were very disappointing. I miss the goodies like Wire in the Blood, I'm hoping Taggert might be similar?????
I would give it a try. You do sense the age, but that really doesn't matter, does it? The first three are very carefully plotted and the humor is very, very dry. Murder in Season - the third episode - is one of my favorite Taggarts of all time.
shareI did end up watching the first three seasons and really enjoyed it. I don't like the newer Taggerts at all. I have a subscription with Acorn tv through Amazon and for some reason they only have three seasons of Taggert, total bummer.
shareMost definitely give the first three Taggarts a try. I saw them when they were first aired and they are literally legendary. Mark IS Taggart and always was. The latter casts did their best but Mark was the real deal, ha.
For those interested in such things, Watching Taggart from episode 1 through the final one 10 years ago, is a almost an historical time-lapse look at Glasgow the city for a time period of 30 years. From blackened crumble to a vista of modern architecture and scrubbed up stone Victorian beauties that have once again become beautiful gems.
Seeing Mark drive down the early '80s Glasgow streets with the old, run down Victorian buildings blackened from a centuries of coal fires with their boarded up windows and doors is a reminder of what it was like back then. Now (pre-virus anyway) those same buildings were rehabbed beautifully and filled with the most fashionable shops and eateries.
Even the Gorbals looks good now! ha
As Taggart used to call it........"Mah grrreeeeen cit-tay..." when only someone who loved his city could have said such a thing about that run down coal dust ground-in crumble it was when Taggart first aired.