Episodes List

Ep.1 Inspector Lynch

Air Date: 1973-10-22

Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?

Ep.2 Nuisance

Air Date: 1973-10-29

Alexandra is always complaining to an already overworked police force about her next door neighbour Percy. But is she just a nuisance? Or should Inspector Lynch take her complaints seriously?

Ep.3 Escape

Air Date: 1973-11-05

Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.

Ep.4 Break Up

Air Date: 1973-11-19

A woman is arrested for shoplifting and a thief has his alibi checked. On the face of it two routine cases. But even the most routine cases can have repercussions.

Ep.5 Stray Girl

Air Date: 1973-11-26

Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.

Ep.6 Pieces

Air Date: 1973-12-03

A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.

Ep.7 The Cinder Path

Air Date: 1973-12-10

Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!

Ep.8 Cadet

Air Date: 1973-12-11

Cadet Peter Preston wants nothing more than to be a policeman, and even though he's a bit of a joke at Newtown his future seems assured. Then his father takes someone for a ride.

Ep.9 Pressure Of Work

Air Date: 1973-12-17

Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.

Ep.10 Absence

Air Date: 1974-01-07

A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.

Ep.11 In Police Hands

Air Date: 1974-01-21

Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.

Ep.12 Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears

Air Date: 1974-02-04

Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.

Ep.13 Joanna

Air Date: 1974-02-11

When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.

Ep.14 Pressure

Air Date: 1974-02-18

A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.

Ep.15 Waste

Air Date: 1974-02-25

Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.

Ep.16 Two Wise Monkeys

Air Date: 1974-03-04

When villains like Burford and Tyndale fall out they will go to any lengths to settle a score. And somewhere along the line the police have to take drastic measures.

Ep.17 Dinner Break

Air Date: 1974-03-11

Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.

Ep.18 Allegiance

Air Date: 1974-03-18

Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.

Ep.19 Rota

Air Date: 1974-03-25

The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.

Ep.20 Priority

Air Date: 1974-04-01

Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.

Ep.21 Background

Air Date: 1974-04-08

Ep.22 Losers

Air Date: 1974-04-10

DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!

Ep.23 Turnabout

Air Date: 1974-04-22

Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?

Ep.24 Intruder

Air Date: 1974-04-29

Ep.25 Mugs?

Air Date: 1974-05-06

Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?

Ep.26 Pastime

Air Date: 1974-05-13

A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.

Ep.27 Certain Parties

Air Date: 1974-05-20

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.

Ep.28 Family

Air Date: 1974-06-30

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.