Dosser-fae-the-shire Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Got the full box set for Christmas. Probably my favourite TV show ever. Currently working my way through the early episodes. Any fans? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locheedfcno1 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Watch taggart now and againOn some sky channel. Love it. Especially early series 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Dosser-fae-the-shire said: Got the full box set for Christmas. Probably my favourite TV show ever. Currently working my way through the early episodes. Any fans? Hopefully you haven't got the version produced by SBL (an alternative name for John Williams Productions). SMG got them to do Taggart box sets some time back & the DVD quality was rank because the discs they were cut to were like something from the Barras - after a few plays completely unusable. They began turning up in the bargain books type shops when HMV etc got wise & refused to stock them after all the complaints they got. For the Mark McManus era, one drinking game is taking a shot every time you see someone that was in a previous story reappearing in a different role. Don't do it on a night where you're back in work the next morning though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) John Williams DVDs are/were invariably shite (no idea if they're still going). You'd get the bare feature with no extras, or even subtitles, and it was always a dreadful VHS rip if it was a show from before the DVD age. Their quality control was non-existent too - I'm sure I mind bitching on here about a Taggart episode where the sound quality gradually decreased until you couldn't make out what was being said by the end. Obviously just converted a VHS to digital and shipped it out for mastering without even giving it a watch Edit: almost forgot the OP: Taggart's the business, although I've never enjoyed an episode without McManus. What a daft idea; imagine Columbo without Peter Falk Edited January 3, 2017 by BigFatTabbyDave 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 I like it, but only the ones with actual Taggart in them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Taggart was at its best when thy did the 3 parters, though by the end having stories only 45 mins long was a poor decision IMO. And sacking wee Stuart. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Thought the whole programme was....Murrrderrr. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Pub League Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 In lockdown so scouring the web for content and stumbled across real Taggart (3 parters with Mark McManus) on STVPlayer but had to give up after 15 minutes as the picture quality is awful - looks like STV have stuck online a VHS recording of the original transmission that's been sitting on your Grannies sideboard since 1990. Bizarrely a google found the same episode on the UKTV website (alongside a complete run of Taskmaster, Christ Alice Levine is the worst person they ever had on that show) where the picture quality was far better. ...and even though I hadn't seen it for 30 years I could still remember whodunnit! Lovely to see how grotty Weegieland was back in the mid to late 80s and who doesn't love an axe murder chopping folk up to the background of the Glasgow Garden Festival. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 The Garden Festival episode was one of my favourites, brought back some good memories of not being allowed in the Coca-Cola Rollercoaster. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickydevlin Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Love taggart. I prefer the new episodes with Burke and co .wish they would start making it again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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