Alex Glass wrote:Mark McManus was the ideal Taggart (incidentally, he was a stolen charcter too; Jack Laidlaw from the William McIlvanney books
I have a vague memory of Mark McManus (Taggart) being in a cop series from England before Taggart started. I also recall from the first programme that there was mention of him returning to Glasgow after a period in England and not being happy about his return to Glasgow.
Taggart was filmed in Priesthill about 18 months ago. They relocated the area to somewhere in the East End and used a building site where new houses were being built. I also remember seeing a programme once can't remember what it was but they filmed in the basement of the old church the former location of Trash. The interesting thing was the basement led to the necropolis. A bit of a stretch of the imagination.
They use the old St. Andrews College in Bearsden as the polis station in the new ones.