Seasons & episodes
S1 · E1Armed and Extremely Dangerous 1985-01-11 · 93 min
This feature-length episode starts with a gun being held by Leiutenant James Dempsey of the New York Police Department. He is sitting in his apartment waiting for his partner, Joey, to call. Dempsey's phones rings. It is Joey calling to tell Dempsey of their latest stakeout. They go to the docks where they suspect a drugs drop-off will take place. All of a sudden, Dempsey's CO (Commanding Officer), Coltrane, turns up at the docks in his car. Another man at the docks stands up with a bag. The man at first heads towards Coltrane's car, but then walks towards Dempsey and Joey. Dempsey realises that he is going to be set up. Joey and Coltrane were going to set Dempsey up, but Dempsey reached for his gun and shot the man approaching him. joey grabbed Dempsey from behind, while Coltrane made his getaway. Dempsey pushed Joey to the floor, turned round and shot Joey, who died. Back at the station, Dempsey and his associate, O'Grady, are having an argument about Dempsey's situation. Dempsey wa
S1 · E2The Squeeze 1985-01-18 · 48 min
A heavy duty transit van carrying half a million pounds in used notes is high jacked, drivers and all, and SI 10 is tasked with finding it. Meanwhile, Spikings has his hands full trying to get Dempsey to part with his gun, as it is illegal for police officers in England to carry one.
S1 · E3Lucky Streak 1985-01-25 · 48 min
Dempsey happens to be present at a casino when it is robbed and a security guard murdered. Spikings tells him to wake up Makepeace in the middle of the night and start their investigation.
S1 · E4Given to Acts of Violence 1985-02-01 · 48 min
Dempsey and Makepeace are shadowing Frank Egan, who has just got off Scott free on a murder charge. His next big job seems to involve 'a bird man' and 'haggis'. It leads to Makepeace posing as a floozy and Dempsey as a pilot.
S1 · E5Hors De Combat 1985-02-08 · 46 min
Frank Price is sprung out of jail, only to be killed by his accomplices. Spikings suspects Price's boss Jack Lang, but when Lang's granddaughter Debbie is kidnapped it seems like someone else is trying to instigate a gang war. Meanwhile, Dempsey is more interested in wooing fellow American Angie Hughes.
S1 · E6Nowhere to Run 1985-02-15 · 48 min
A truck carrying studio equipment is hijacked. Then it turns out the contents were actually automatic guns meant for a group of Arab terrorists.
S1 · E7Make Peace, Not War 1985-02-22 · 44 min
Dempsey takes the place of American hit-man Schwartz to infiltrate a gang of drug dealers who are lacing T-shirts with heroin. Little does he suspect that their main contact, Lei Shan carries a grudge against the real Schwartz. When Makepeace gets her hands on one of the T-shirts via one of her contacts, the undercover Dempsey finds himself forced to bump her off.
S1 · E8Blind Eye 1985-03-01 · 46 min
Jailbird Charlie Wilson wants to speak to Gordon Spikings alone concerning an urgent matter. But he shuts up tight after his little boy is kidnapped in the park. Meanwhile Spikings finds himself subject to a bombed briefcase while traveling by tube.
S1 · E9Cry God for Harry 1985-03-08 · 48 min
A priceless collection of jade artifacts has been stolen from Makepeace's ancestral home, Winfield Hall. When she and Dempsey join her father's other guest for a weekend pheasant hunt, the search soon turns into an old-fashioned murder mystery.
S1 · E10Judgement 1985-03-15 · 47 min
Makepeace has been asked by her best friend, Sarah Hackett, to be the matron of honour at Sarah's wedding. Makepeace accepts. Makepeace is giving Sarah a lift to the railway station. Sarah is off to Harrod's with her father, Sir Lionel Hackett, who turns out to be a judge. Sarah is murdered while she is on the train. Makepeace is devestated when she is informed. Sir Lionel, however, takes the law into his own hands. Makepeace gives Sir Lionel a photo-fit of a man who was seen at the railway station where Makepeace had taken Sarah. Sir Lionel assumed that he was the killer and goes in search of him. But, what Sir Lionel doesn't know is that he is looking for the wrong man.
S2 · E1Silver Dollar 1985-08-31 · 48 min
While trying to stop a extremist group who are trying to overthrow the British government by flooding the country with counterfeit money, Dempsey and Makepeace try everything in there power to stop them.
S2 · E2Wheelman 1985-09-07 · 49 min
Makepeace poses as reporter Debby Smith to get close to hoodlum 'Marocco' Jack and ends up saving his life from a rival gang. Dempsey joins Marocco's gang by posing as an American driver called Andy Sallapuccio, whom they need to pull off two simultaneous jewel heists. Meanwhile Spikings is facing complaints from upstairs that might lead to SI 10 being shut down.
S2 · E3Love You to Death 1985-09-14 · 51 min
Dempsey is stalked by a homicidal woman who obsesses over him, and who hates Makepeace for being with him.
S2 · E4No Surrender 1985-09-21 · 47 min
Makepeace gets injured while pursuing jewelry thieves with Dempsey. On her first day out of hospital, they run straight into a bank robbery and hijacking - and Dempsey is reluctant to put Makepeace in any kind of danger.
S2 · E5Tequila Sunrise 1985-09-28 · 47 min
Dempsey and Makepeace investigate a jewel thief who has masterminded a series of robberies but his life is also under threat by his underworld rivals.
S2 · E6Blood Money 1985-10-05 · 45 min
An antique dealer is murdered and priceless Egyptian artefacts are stolen. While the crooks try to find a buyer, Dempsey and Makepeace go undercover and find several parties looking to get their hands on the artefacts.
S2 · E7Set a Thief 1985-10-12 · 48 min
Dempsey and Makepeace witness a young woman being run down on the street. She turns out to have been a model with connections to drug trafficking and members of parliament.
S2 · E8The Hit 1985-10-19 · 45 min
A police informant suffers a near-fatal beating and due to this Dempsey and Makepeace go on the trail of a vicious gang leader.
S2 · E9In the Dark 1985-10-26 · 44 min
Once again, Dempsey and Makepeace are witness to a fellow policeman being shot. In this case it's one of Makepeace's former partners, Tom Bishop, who's dying words involve millions in cash and 'the man in the red coat'.
S2 · E10The Bogeyman 1985-11-02 · 48 min
A boxer turned murderer who escapes a police stakeout has Dempsey on his trail trying to catch him.
S3 · E1The Burning (1) 1986-08-30 · 50 min
Dempsey goes undercover and infiltrates a gang after discovering a link between the London underworld and the New York police department.
S3 · E2The Burning (2) 1986-09-06 · 49 min
While working undercover, Dempsey comes across a former nemesis from New York City.
S3 · E3Jericho Scam 1986-09-13 · 48 min
When Dempsey is framed by another cop for something he didn't do, Makepeace risks her career to prove his innocence.
S3 · E4The Prizefighter 1986-09-20 · 50 min
While investigating a death of a boxers, Dempsey and Makepeace discover a counterfeit money laundering scheme.