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S1 · E1The Best of Both Worlds 1994-03-13 · 49 min＋

Henry lets Hooperman escape, and Fisher takes the opportunity to suspend his retirement.

S1 · E2The Truth Will Out 1994-03-20 · 49 min＋

A delusional cop seeks to bring Fisher's ally down, and Henry recruits a new waiter.

S1 · E3An Innocent Man 1994-03-27 · 49 min＋

Pie in the Sky becomes the scene of a corruption sting, but Henry acts in favour of his customer.

S1 · E4Once a Copper 1994-04-03 · 48 min＋

Henry cooks a banquet for a visiting Japanese delegation, and tracks down a criminal from his past, who was presumed dead.

S1 · E5A Shot in the Dark 1994-04-10 · 50 min＋

A narcotics investigation ends in a bitten hand for Fisher, and Henry finds a new source of escargots.

S1 · E6Undesirable Elements 1994-04-17 · 50 min＋

Steve investigates the burglary of Pie in the Sky, while Henry does battle with murderous private sector cops.

S1 · E7Passion Fruit Fool 1994-04-24 · 50 min＋

The girlfriend of Henry's dry cleaner is kidnapped by a psychotic ex-lover.

S1 · E8A Matter of Taste 1994-05-01 · 50 min＋

Henry uncovers two separate wine scams in Middleton.

S1 · E9Who Only Stand and Wait 1994-05-08 · 50 min＋

Henderson's neighbour finds a dismembered corpse, which may prove the innocence of an imprisoned man.

S1 · E10Endangered Species 1994-05-15 · 50 min＋

Margaret and Henderson side with Reynard the Fox in opposing a new bypass, while Henry must question his loyalties.

Henry investigates a prowler fond of older ladies, and begins to suspect the celibate supplier of his cheese.

A diner collapses and dies in the restaurant's toilet. But when the police arrive the body has disappeared. Soon on the scene are two detectives from the Crime Squad, who have a long standing interest in the dead man, and in his missing car. Crabbe tracks down the car before they do and finds a huge sum of money in the boot.

Fisher's younger daughter has left home after a row and thrown in her lot with a group of squatters. He asks Crabbe to find the girl and try and persuade her to return home. Henderson has bought a new field to add to his market garden, but is horrified to find that it has been invaded by travellers. He appeals to Henry for help, whereupon Henry finds that the two cases have a common thread.

Bill Pritchard, an old friend of Henry's and the supplier of fish to the restaurant, is accused of murder when his girl friend's car is found abandoned and the ashes in his smokehouse show traces of human remains. Henry investigates and uncovers an amazing plot to frame Bill and steal the profits from the subsequent sale of his business.

Medium Faith Revelle has received a number of threatening letters and seeks police help. Freddy Fisher, having once sought advice from her in solving a case, wants the whole matter dealt with quietly. But someone has alerted the press. Henry Crabbe and Sgt. Cambridge are assigned to guard Miss Revelle.

In a moment of weakness famous cookery writer Hilary Smallwood has given her unscrupulous nephew Colin a Power of Attorney. He has sold her house and put her into a retirement home; now he is trying to steal her recently written memoirs. Hilary calls on Henry Crabbe and her lifelong friend Seymour to help. Meantime there is friction behind the scenes in the restaurant between Steve and John.

Fisher drags Crabbe down to the West Country to investigate the apparent murder of an undercover woman police officer. While Henry is away a burst pipe causes havoc in the restaurant's kitchen.

The man who shot PC Ian Lefebvre is due for release so Fisher wants to keep Lefebvre busy. What better than sending him off with Crabbe in search of two OAP con-women and the perfect bread and butter pudding?

There's a spate of burglaries, the local police station's closed down and the great and good of Middleton, headed by Mr. Chukky Chicken' Barry Wilkes, want Crabbe to catch the thief, popularly believed to be teenager Karl Elves or 'Pikey'. To their dismay, Crabbe is much more interested in pike than 'Pikey'.

Crabbe has to join ACC Fisher and DS Cambridge on a management development seminar, but Fisher is having a crisis of confidence in 'The Job' and after a rave review, 'Pie' has customers queuing at the door - could this be Crabbe's chance to leave the Force and concentrate on cooking?

The restaurant is heavily in debt, and the Crabbe's new bank manager is unsympathetic. Steve and John have left for pastures new, and an agency chef is unsatisfactory. Crabbe learns that Dudley Hooperman is dead, and resurrects his hopes of early retirement. Meantime there is a surveillance operation to be run on a dodgy pizza delivery business.

Henry supplies the catering at his friend Alistair's pheasant shoot, where Fisher is among the guests. Another member of the party is shot and killed and it looks as if Fisher accidentally shot him but Henry's investigation reveals a crime of passion involving a love triangle, a jealous husband - and a cover-up.

The large family of much-married Irishwoman Kit Kelly book the restaurant for a wedding banquet for her and her new husband, American television writer Byron De Goris. Byron's briefcase is stolen from his hotel and Henry is suspicious of his reaction and even more so when Margaret tells him that the groom is not Byron De Goris but his friend James Jackson. Margaret had known them both thirty years earlier and discovers that Byron killed himself and James assumed his identity. Henry has to find out why.