Bergerac (TV series) Bergerac (TV series) Bergerac is a British television series set in Jersey, which ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Jim Bergerac, who initially is a detective sergeant in Le Bureau des Étrangers ("The Foreigners' Office", a fictional department dealing with non-Jersey residents), within the States of Jersey Police, but later left the force and became a private investigator. The series ran from 1981 to 1991. It was created by producer Robert Banks Stewart after
Battle of Bergerac Battle of Bergerac The Battle of Bergerac was fought in August 1345. An Anglo-Gascon army commanded by Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, defeated a French force under Henri de Montigny, Seneschal of Périgord, outside the walls of Bergerac. The French suffered heavy casualties and the loss of the town. In the ninth year of the Hundred Years' War, Edward III of England decided to launch a major attack on the French from the north, while sending smaller forces to Brittany and Gascony. The French focused on the threat to northern France, leaving comparatively small forces in the south west.