Bergerac - Season 1 (1981)

Hard-up former military man Furneaux is working on a book about his experiences as a prisoner in the Korean war, when his young ghost writer is killed and the manuscript stolen, after which Furneaux gets a threatening call not to publish the book. After he has been framed for a hit-and-run it becomes clear that his book exposes a recently-deceased supposed war hero who was, in fact, a murderer, and that the man's son and his regiment will stop at nothing to prevent publication, including drafting in an assassin.

Civil servant Margaret Semple, in fact a Soviet spy, gets a call telling her that MI6 are onto her and she must leave London for Jersey, where a boat will take her to France on her way to Russia. Arriving on the island she attracts attention when she goes on the run after accidentally killing her boat-man as she refuses to go on without her lover Grigori. By the time Grigori arrives he has orders to dispose of Margaret, who has become a liability and Jim must get to her first.

On the eve of Sarah and Laurence Mitchell's daughter Felicity's wedding the church is broken into and a register stolen by the driver of a white Mercedes. He is in fact the man whom Sarah, years earlier as a Czech refugee, married to obtain a British passport and from whom she was never divorced. When he sets out to blackmail her she tells Laurence, who takes the law into his own hands.

Several wealthy residents including Charlie are the victims of some extremely well-informed burglars. All are members of the golf club and the burglars' informant is Eddie St. Pierre, a former golf professional, now reduced to giving lessons. When Eddie meets up with an old flame whose millionaire husband is away on business, Jim sets a trap for the burglars, but nobody shows up. Has Eddie outwitted him?

Diver Terry Castleford is murdered after finding the skeleton of Luftwaffe pilot Karl Scheringer in his aircraft, which crashed into the sea in World War Two. Karl's parents arrive to collect his remains, followed by two German men whom the mother recognizes and who are extremely keen for Charlie's salvage firm to raise the plane. Club owner Ronnie Bishop and ex-Battle of Britain pilot Tuchel are also interested in it, leading Jim to believe that there was something of great value in the crashed aircraft along with the pilot's corpse.

When wealthy recluse Henry Bernard is taken ill with food poisoning, his estranged son Philip flies in from London, voicing concern that Lisa, the faithful housekeeper, tried to kill him, though Jim is not convinced. Henry later dies, due to a supposedly accidental gas leak, leaving everything to Lisa, strengthening Philip's accusations. Lisa is duly arrested but she has been keeping a secret for many years, which changes everything and leads to the apprehension of the real killer.

When Annie Escale, fiancée of notorious French gangster Jacques Tabouis, turns up on Jersey, Jim determines to follow her in the hopes that she will lead him to Tabouis, but the man whom she meets in the night club and is found dead after giving Jim the slip is somebody completely different. At the same time Jim is not happy that Francine, for some time his live-in girlfriend, is spending so much time with a charming Canadian photographer whom she met on the ferry - and he has every right, for this man is not who he claims to be.