Death Benefits, Puppet on a String & Trust) David Schofield Dougray Scott (Episode: Nest of Vipers) Morag Siller Jamie Sives Steve John Shepherd (Episode: Bad Medicine) Sharon Small (Episode: Forbidden Fruit) Hugo Speer Rob Spendlove Gerda Stevenson Ewan Stewart (Episode: Judgement Day) Sara Stewart (Episodes: Ring of Deceit & A Death Foretold) Ken Stott (Episode: Murder in Season) Donald Sumpter Garry Sweeney (Episodes: Watertight & Users and Losers) Meera Syal (Episode: Double Exposure) Andrew Tiernan (Episode: Black Orchid) Gareth Thomas Siân Thomas (Episode: Ring of Deceit) Kim Thomson (Episode: Fact and Fiction) Michael Troughton Deepak Verma (Episode: Double Exposure) Ronan Vibert (Episode: Users and Losers) Sara Vickers Julian Wadham (Episode: Running Out of Time) June Watson Gary Webster (Episode: Evil Eye) Tam White (Episodes: The Hit Man & Ghost Rider) Jan Wilson (Episode: Apocalypse) Greg Wise Paul Young (Episodes: Funeral Rites & Legends) Jimmy Yuill (Episodes: Killer & Fact and Fiction) Note: Where multiple episodes are listed here, a different character is portrayed in each episode. Recurring characters are listed in Cast sections above. Filming locations The show was primarily shot in and around Glasgow and its metropolitan area, but the show occasionally ventured further, for example to Loch Lomond, Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands. The original title card of the show used a panoramic shot of Glasgow taken from the summit of the Cathkin Braes to the south of the city. In the early years live infill shots of the city were also taken from this vantage point. In later years a shot of the city centre taken from The Lighthouse on Mitchell Lane was used. In later series the buildings of Strathclyde University were extensively used for exterior shots. The entrance level of the Colville Building was used as the police station, for example, and John Street, the name given to the police station in the series, is a real location within the campus. Episodes The series began with a miniseries pilot, titled "Killer", followed by 109 episodes of Taggart. Early episodes were split into multiple parts and aired over three weeks while later episodes were self-contained. International distribution In Australia the series aired on ABC1. In 2011 ABC1 aired episodes on Friday at 8:30pm. ABC1 actually broadcast episodes 101 "IOU", 102 "Local Hero", and 103 "The Rapture" before STV did because of scheduling conflicts. 7TWO airs repeat episodes right back to the first episode. In New Zealand