Seasons & episodes
S8 · E20Priority 1974-04-01 · 50 min
Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.
S8 · E21Background 1974-04-08 · 50 min
No episode summary available yet.
S8 · E22Losers 1974-04-10 · 50 min
DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!
S8 · E23Turnabout 1974-04-22 · 50 min
Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?
S8 · E24Intruder 1974-04-29 · 50 min
No episode summary available yet.
S8 · E25Mugs? 1974-05-06 · 50 min
Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?
S8 · E26Pastime 1974-05-13 · 50 min
A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.
S8 · E27Certain Parties 1974-05-20 · 50 min
Back in Newtown after seven years in Parkhurst, Pikey Nimmo wants to settle up with the men who put him away. Stone was one of them.
S8 · E28Family 1974-06-30 · 50 min
Susan Giles wants her father back inside and uses two men to help her. One of them is Quilley, and he unwittingly ruins Skinner's work.
S9 · E1Bits An' Bats 1974-09-09 · 50 min
There's a new Cash'n'Carry being built in Newtown and some odd characters work on it. One of them is on the fiddle - bits and bats to begin with.
S9 · E2Old Bones 1974-09-16 · 50 min
Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
S9 · E3Mysteries 1974-09-30 · 50 min
Ossie Davies is a security guard. He's a pushover. You just knock off his specs, threaten him a bit and help yourself. But Miller reckons there's more to Ossie than that.
S9 · E4Night Train 1974-10-07 · 50 min
Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
S9 · E5Friends 1974-10-14 · 50 min
Quilley is a good copper, but as an amateur footballer he has his limitations. Jesse Alty is a good footballer but has ambitions to be a better car thief. He and Quilley play for the same team and Gordon Glossop is a friend of both of them.
S9 · E6Gardens 1974-10-28 · 50 min
A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
S9 · E7Quiet As The Grave 1974-11-04 · 50 min
Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
S9 · E8Pursuit 1974-11-11 · 50 min
A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
S9 · E9Have You Seen This Child 1974-11-18 · 50 min
Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
S9 · E10Occupation 1974-11-25 · 50 min
A factory work-in is on its last legs with the police outside the gates, keeping the peace but waiting for someone to break it.
S9 · E11Unnecessary Force 1974-12-02 · 50 min
How did a man like Derek Murphy get beaten up by his best friend, a man half his size? A puzzle for Miller, Yates and Skinner.
S9 · E12The Bouncer 1974-12-09 · 50 min
Eddy Howarth is the over-enthusiastic bouncer at the local dance hall, but his devotion to duty and jealousy over a woman land him in trouble, and he finds himself facing a serious charge.
S9 · E13House To House 1974-12-16 · 50 min
A full-scale house to house enquiry fails to produce a witness until a mysterious night prowler and two criminals lay their own freedom on the line.
S9 · E14Boy In Blue 1975-01-06 · 50 min
The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
S9 · E15Local Knowledge 1975-01-13 · 50 min
Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.