Bergerac TV series, season 9 on DVD.

The final series of the best-selling BBC crime drama starring John Nettles

Handsome, blue-eyed and brooding, maverick cop Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac of Jersey’s Bureau des Étrangers is one of television’s most popular detectives.

In the final series, has Jim turned his back on detective work forever? It looks that way as we find him enjoying an idyllic life tending the vines at Danielle’s farm. Of’ course, it only takes a puzzling case and the familiar voice of Charlie Hungerford to bring him to his senses.

Not that he’s completely welcomed back to Jersey. Inspector Deffand, the new Bureau Chief, resents his interference and the island’s criminals seem to be lining up to take on the ex-cop. With adventures in Jersey, Brittany, Provence and England, Jim is soon up to his neck in intrigue and danger

Combining action with atmosphere, and spectacle with suspense, BERGERAC launched John Nettles to international stardom for 9 series, leading him to another long-running role as D.C.I. Barnaby in MIDSOMER MURDERS. For the first time, all 10 uncut episodes from the final series arrive on DVD, plus the 1991 feature-length Christmas Special, a documentary on the series featuring new interviews with the cast, and a bonus episode of the comedy series The Detectives with John Nettles playing his Bergerac role.

1. SOMETHING TO HIDE
After leaving the Bureau des Étrangers, Bergerac's police skills are soon in demand when a talented designer is accused of murdering a client.

2. THE DARK HORSE
Charlie Hungerford is heading up a syndicate which wants to buy out an ailing computer business, but when the owner's missing wife is needed as a signatory on the papers, Jim steps in to locate her.

3. SNOW IN PROVENCE
Jim is missing his regular wage packet from the police, so when Charlie Hungerford offers him a job house-sitting for the Calder family, he reluctantly accepts.

4. THE EVIL THAT MEN DO
Having advertised his services as a private eye, Jim is hired to track down a missing wife.

5. MY FRIEND CHARLIE
Jim gets his wires crossed with the Jersey police over a major drugs bust.

6. ON THE ROCKS
When a £90,000 diamond and sapphire necklace is stolen in transit to a French bank vault, Jim is called in by the insurance company to do some discreet digging.

7. THE WAITING GAME
Fed up that he has no work, no money and that Danielle is at the other end of France, Bergerac is pleased to receive a call from Lesgate, a solicitor.

8. WARRIORS
Bergerac ventures into unfamiliar territory when he joins a mysterious cult group for an Atlantean Experience Weekend.

9. THE ASSASSIN
When wealthy businessman Edward Hapgood’s life is threatened, Bergerac is called over to his lonely château in Brittany to provide some personal protection.

10. THE LOHANS
Rosa Zeenak is trying to sell her priceless collection of Chinese porcelain figures, known as the Lohans, and hires Bergerac to guard them.

11. 1990 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: ALL FOR LOVE
Charlie asks Jim to accompany him on a trip to Bath to look after a valuable painting, but before too long Jim falls victim to the wiles of the attractive wife of an antiques dealer.

BONUS MATERIAL

1. THE CULT OF BERGERAC
Featuring new interviews with John Nettles and the cast of Bergerac, this BBC documentary takes a fond look back at the creation and making of the hit crime drama.

2. THE DETECTIVES: STUDS
Investigating an international smuggling ring in Jersey, dim detective duo Louis and Briggs are snapped out of holiday mood and duty-free goods by local detective Jim Bergerac.

Special Features:

• The Cult of Bergerac documentary
• 1991 Christmas Special – All For Love
• The Detectives – Studs – an episode featuring John Nettles as Jim Bergerac
• Episode guide booklet and series image gallery