After more than 30 years detective Jim Bergerac is back on the beat in Jersey.
UKTV is reviving the classic detective series, which was compulsory Sunday night viewing in many households during the 80s.
Detective Bergerac faced a new case each week, offering a window into the opulent but often troubled lives of the super-rich while set against the stunning scenery of the Channel Island.
His own life was as colourful as the characters he encountered with each crime; a troubled police officer battling his demons, never short of a romantic lead who sped across the island in his classic Triumph Roadster.
The show revived Jersey’s tourism industry and made stars of the cast.
We take a look at what they have done since the series came to an end in 1991.
John Nettles rose to fame playing Jim Bergerac, in the eponymous BBC series.
He became an unexpected heart-throb with his trademark leather jacket and burgundy Triumph Roadster.
After the show ended, he did five seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and then in 1997 he returned to crime-fighting as Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Barnaby in the long-running ITV series Midsomer Murders until 2011.
He had a recurring role in the BBC period drama Poldark before retiring.
The 81-year-old turned down the offer of a cameo role in the new series saying “I’m too old and I’d just get in the way”.
Bergerac was to make a household name of actor Terence Alexander as it did for John Nettles.
He played loveable rogue Charlie Hungerford, Bergerac’s former father-in-law.
Previously on television he had played Montague Dartie in The Forsyte Saga and Dr. Ian McLaren in Bless This House and appeared in films such as The Day of the Jackal and The Seven Dials Murder.
He played Sir Greville Macdonald in The New Statesman from 1989 to 1992 and made his final television appearance in 1999 on Casualty before retiring due to ill health.
He died in 2009, aged 86.
Sean Arnold played Barney Crozier, the officer in charge of the Bureau des Étrangers in Jersey where Jim Bergerac was employed.
He was already familiar to television audiences as Mr Llewelyn from the 70s and 80s children’s programme Grange Hill.
Arnold played the chief constable in the BBC drama Merseybeat and for his role as Harry Fisher in the soap opera Doctors, he was nominated for Villain of the Year at the 2005 British Soap Awards.
He had settled in Jersey after appearing in Bergerac and died there in April 2020, at the age of 79.
Deborah Grant starred as Deborah Bergerac, Jim’s former wife and Charlie Hungerford’s daughter in the series.
The actress, now 77, played Leonora in the BBC sitcom Bread and receptionist Carol Johnson in ITV medical drama Peak Practice.
From 2007, she has appeared in the long-running BBC sitcom Not Going Out as Wendy Adams, mother of Tim and Lucy.
Louise Jameson took on the role of Susan Young in Bergerac, an estate agent and girlfriend of Jim Bergerac.
Jameson played Doctor Who’s companion Leela in the late 70s and Blanche Simmons in the BBC historical drama Tenko in the early 80s.
She regularly appeared in Bergerac from 1985 to 1990.
Afterwards, she appeared as Rosa di Marco in Eastenders from 1998 to 2000 and then Eleanor Glasson in Doc Martin.
The actress, now aged 73, has been Mary Goskirk in Emmerdale since 2022.
Annette Badland played Charlotte in the first three series of Bergerac, the secretary in the Bureau des Étrangers.
She has gone on to star in a series of TV hits including Holding On, Cutting It, Coronation Street and Eastenders where she played Babe Smith.
The 74-year-old actress won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as Mae the Landlady in Ted Lasso and is currently starring as Nanny Bingo in Big Boys.
Celia Imrie appeared in series two of Bergerac as Marianne Bellshade, Jim’s girlfriend.
She has become one of the country’s best known actresses since her stint in Jersey.
The 72-year-old has starred in films such as Calendar Girls, the Bridget Jones franchise, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
On television, she has appeared in Acorn Antiques, Dinner Ladies, Kingdom, Cranford and Better Things.
She has also published a series of novels including Not Quite Nice and Orphans of the Storm.
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