Seasons & episodes

Stamp and Ackland are keen to get a conviction against a woman for assault on a minicab driver, but she is acquitted.

Chief Inspector Cato arrests two youths, actions which cause a riot outside Sun Hill station.

A woman is keen to be get rid of her burglar boyfriend and his fence with whom she has been having an affair.

Two young brothers are suspected of burglary and Croft discovers that they were deserted by their mother and left to fend for themselves.

Ackland arrests a fifteen-year-old boy for shoplifting and finds herself investigating his relationship with a woman twenty years his senior.

The parents of a young man awaiting trial for the murder of a child are distressed when their home is broken into and they receive threatening phone call and Ackland discovers the connection.

A young postwoman is beaten up but the motive is unclear and she seems unwilling to talk to the police.

When Lines hits the jackpot during a raid, it makes an already difficult court case for Greig even harder.

A mysteriously unmotivated break-in at a garage leads Burnside to a web of sexual deception and a jealous husband's rampage.

Maitland enlists McCann's help in reassuring a young black applicant whose wife has serious misgivings about the job but McCann is discovering racism within the force for himself.

Cato allows a demonstration to go ahead despite being warned that it could be hijacked by racists. When things turn ugly, he is forced to reverse his previous orders.

Roach is disgusted when a judge halts the trial of a man accused of crippling a police officer and decides to take matters into his own hands.

Dave and Tony attend to an assault victim at the market while sergeant Kendall organises an outing and take some local kids to Chessington World of Adventures, with a reluctant Steve assigned as a last-minute replacement for an ill Ron.

Lines and Morgan arrest two members of a shoplifting team.

Called to attend to a pub brawl, PC Tony Stamp and PC Dave Quinnan are stunned to find one man unconscious and the other Sun Hill's own DS Ted Roach. Roach is taken back to the station, and while DI Frank Burnside manages to pursuade the victim to drop the charges against him, nothing can be done when Roach headbutts Insp. Andrew Monroe during a heated argument. Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in MS15 to investigate him, but Roach turns in his warrant card and walks out of the station.

With the departure of Roach one of his informants wants out Burnside and Monroe investigate threats against her.

An elderly ex copper is in London to search for his estranged daughter and claims that he has been robbed in his hotel which Lines investigates.

When a young woman's car is stolen with a baby on board CID fear an abduction and mount a search Garfield tries to mediate with a private clamping firm.

Carver and Woods are caught napping when a street robber escapes from under their noses but uncover a drugs operation at a takeaway restaurant. P.C. Loxton and Sgt. Maitland are in trouble when Loxton is accused of stealing money from a drunk in the cells.

Stamp's driving prowess is questioned when he fails to stop a runaway road-roller and Jarvis finds a revolver in a rubbish bin while Burnside investigates a murder confession.

When the body of a 14-year-old boy is washed up by the tide Cryer feels that he owes the parents an explanation.

Burnside disagrees with Conway's approach to a young offender.

Page and Monroe attend what appears to be a cot death, but it transpires that the baby has a head injury Meadows investigates.

Garfield introduces a boxer friend to a business manager but Pearce has the manager under investigation.