Taggart (TV Series) Murder in Season, Part 3 (1985) User Reviews

A good, if slightly off the wall conclusion.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 28 June 2023]

Death seems to follow Eleanor Samson, everyone close to her seems to come to a sticky end, she seems set to inherit a fortune, but there's an unexpected claimant.

Perhaps this was the best of the three episodes, a good conclusion. The story goes a little zany, but the cast manage to keep it in check. Both threads are explained and concluded.

There is a really big, unexpected twist at the end of this one, it's a moment nobody could have expected, it's a little out of left field maybe, but it serves to tie the loose ends together.

Mark McManus was great once again, the standout for me was Isla Blair, what an actress, the scenes between Taggart and Eleanor were excellent. Surprisingly this was Danny Hignett's only acting credit, he played Graeme, he was pretty good.

7/10.

Murder in Season Parts 1-3

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 4 February 2020]

Taggart goes to the opera and promptly falls asleep listening to glamorous opera singer, Eleanor Samson (Isla Blair) who returns to her home city.

Eleanor Samson abandoned her husband and son to pursue her career. Even her wealthy father Frank Mulholland sides with her estranged husband.

Eleanor wants to reconcile with her husband John. However he wants a divorce and marry Kirsty King, an attractive young blonde.

When Kirsty's body is discovered in John's boat which was set on fire, Eleanor becomes a suspect.

Taggart is not sure. Later her husband commits what looks like suicide and then her father dies of an apparent heart attack.

In an unrelated matter. The publican Keith Brennan at the place where Taggart likes to drink is planning the perfect murder of his wife. Just as in the movie Strangers on the Train, he ropes in a patsy to do his dirty work and ensure he has an alibi for his perfect murder.

Yet fate conspires to connect all these people.

By the end of the third part, there has been quite a journey. Eleanor lost two people dearest to her. Someone else has also been conspiring to commit the perfect murder and Taggart still finds time to get a few jokes in.

Some of the coincidences in this story do look a little suspect. Brennan just happened to be at the dry cleaners to hear a name being spelt out. However there are several suspects thrown up, a couple of red herrings and it was an enjoyable if grim mystery. I thought it got better as it went along.