Glenn Chandler (including its series "Crown Court") before creating and writing his own series "Taggart" for STV Productions (ITV Network). Chandler created "Taggart" for STV's Controller of Drama, Robert Love, who wanted to set a police series in Glasgow. Chandler was inspired by true crime and real life, and even lifted the names of characters for the series from gravestones in Maryhill Cemetery in Glasgow. The series continued even after the death of the actor Mark McManus, who played the lead role of Jim Taggart, and became the longest-running police drama on British television. Chandler has continued to write for his first
Millee Taggart on "Loving" from 1988–1991 and a recent stint for "Guiding Light" from 2002 - 2003. Taggart was also Co-Executive Producer of the reality TV series, "Starting Over". She is also sometimes credited as Millee Taggart-Radcliffe. Taggart and novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford wrote a "bible" for a new daytime serial which was titled, "Saints And Sinners". Ms Taggart-Ratcliffe is currently Co-Ep of Emmy Award winning series, Born This Way, on AE. "All My Children" "As the World Turns" "The City" "Guiding Light" "Loving" "Ryan's Hope" "Santa Barbara" "Search for Tomorrow" "Starting Over" Daytime Emmy Awards WINS NOMINATIONS Writers Guild of America