Taggart: Evil Eye Set [3 Discs]

"The enormously popular detective series Taggart originally aired in Scotland, on that country's STV network (a franchise of Britain's ITV) during the early 1980s. The program follows the ongoing saga of Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart (Mark McManus), a mordant, acid-mouthed cop with a bulldoggish exterior, willing to use virtually any techniques at his disposal to solve crimes in the Glaswegian streets. Its combination of grisly violence and byzantine narratives made it an instant favorite of viewers and kept it on the air for decades - in fact, long after the 1994 death of McManus. This set contains episodes 2-3 of Series Five, Love Knot and Hostile Witness (both 1990), and Episode 1 of Series Six, Evil Eye (1990). Love Knot takes Taggart to the picturesque Scottish Highlands, where a disfigured body is dragged from the River Clyde, and Jim must ascertain its origins; Hostile Witness concerns the mass murder of several members of the Referendum for the Return of Capital Punishment; and Evil Eye finds Taggart investigating the connection between a gypsy fortune teller's murder and a London jewel store heist."