We start off the coast on Charlie's yacht filming a tv ad for his wine producing company. A handglider is being flmed but during a cut in the action the stuntman disappears over the edge of the cliff not to be found - until later, dead on the other side of the island.
Bergerac and the team investigate and concur that it is murder by strangulation. Combing the cliffs above where the body was found a footprint is found and a dentist appointment card crelessly left by the murderer.
The two items are traced to a Climbing supplies store run by a Frenchman played excellently by Richard Griffiths. We discover that Griffiths is involved with an Island dentist who is obsessed by rare birds and has paid the climber to get him a rare chick nesting off the cliffs. Griffiths is dangerous and is desperate need of money because of gambling debts. The episode finishes in dramatic circumstances as Bergerac and Griffiths tussle half way down the cliff. This episode shows Bergerac and Celia Imrie playing his girlfriend at the height of their one series relationship.moreless
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A Portuguese hang glider pilot hired by Charlie for a TV commercial sails around a deserted cliff face and is later found dead, apparently murdered.
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Richard GriffithsJean-Pierre
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Philip StoneVerrian
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Donald SumpterRoscoe
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Celia Imrie
Marianne
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Annette Badland
Charlotte
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Terence Alexander
Hungerford
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John Nettles
Jim Bergerac
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Sean Arnold
Crozier
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Mela White
Diamante Lil
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Richard Griffiths is an excellent actor who, after appearing in Bergerac went on to many stellar performances in other movies and TV series. He was cruely miscast as someone (for obvious reasons) capable of scaling cliffs. He could have been cast otherwise in so many other roles.
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Music: Bergerac Theme (Instrumental) by George Fenton Poison Arrow by ABC (1982).
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