Seasons & episodes
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.
S9 · E16Innocent And Vulnerable 1975-01-20 · 50 min
Tempers fray among men constructing a block of flats, but for one family who actually live in a high-rise, nerves reach breaking point and an everyday flare-up develops into a police enquiry.
S9 · E17Intervention 1975-01-27 · 50 min
Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
S9 · E18Tonight And Every Night 1975-02-03 · 50 min
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S9 · E19Transit 1975-02-10 · 50 min
When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
S9 · E20Snouts 1975-02-17 · 50 min
Jack Melish is walking down a deserted street near the docks to keep a secret appointment with Inspector Lynch. Suddenly a car pulls up alongside him and he is bundled into the back seat. The car races off...
S9 · E21Squatters 1975-02-24 · 50 min
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S9 · E22Eviction 1975-03-03 · 50 min
Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
S9 · E23Incitement 1975-03-10 · 50 min
Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
S9 · E24Thanks But...No Thanks 1975-03-17 · 50 min
Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?