Episodes List
Ep.1 Bits An' Bats
Air Date: 1974-09-09
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.
Ep.2 Old Bones
Air Date: 1974-09-16
Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
Ep.3 Mysteries
Air Date: 1974-09-30
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.
Ep.4 Night Train
Air Date: 1974-10-07
Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
Ep.5 Friends
Air Date: 1974-10-14
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.
Ep.6 Gardens
Air Date: 1974-10-28
A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
Ep.7 Quiet As The Grave
Air Date: 1974-11-04
Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
Ep.8 Pursuit
Air Date: 1974-11-11
A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
Ep.9 Have You Seen This Child
Air Date: 1974-11-18
Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
Ep.10 Occupation
Air Date: 1974-11-25
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.
Ep.11 Unnecessary Force
Air Date: 1974-12-02
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.
Ep.12 The Bouncer
Air Date: 1974-12-09
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.
Ep.13 House To House
Air Date: 1974-12-16
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.
Ep.14 Boy In Blue
Air Date: 1975-01-06
The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
Ep.15 Local Knowledge
Air Date: 1975-01-13
Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.
Ep.16 Innocent And Vulnerable
Air Date: 1975-01-20
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.
Ep.17 Intervention
Air Date: 1975-01-27
Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
Ep.18 Tonight And Every Night
Air Date: 1975-02-03
Ep.19 Transit
Air Date: 1975-02-10
When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
Ep.20 Snouts
Air Date: 1975-02-17
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...
Ep.21 Squatters
Air Date: 1975-02-24
Ep.22 Eviction
Air Date: 1975-03-03
Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
Ep.23 Incitement
Air Date: 1975-03-10
Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
Ep.24 Thanks But...No Thanks
Air Date: 1975-03-17
Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?
Ep.25 Kronur
Air Date: 1975-03-24
A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.
Ep.26 Scapegoat
Air Date: 1975-04-07
As an act of kindness Bert Lynch gives a deadbeat tramp a cell for the night - and finds himself up to his neck in trouble.
Ep.27 Bit Of Business
Air Date: 1975-04-14
A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.
Ep.28 Distance
Air Date: 1975-04-21
Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?
Ep.29 Ritual
Air Date: 1975-04-28
Continuation of the previous episode 'Distance'. Skinner has been shot dead and the Murder Squad have taken over the case. So why is Haggar meeting a mate halfway down the M6?
Ep.30 Legacy
Air Date: 1975-05-05
Continuation of the two previous episodes 'Distance' and 'Ritual'. The hunt for Skinner's murderer has moved away from Newtown. So why is a London detective on his way there, in secret?
Ep.31 A New Broom
Air Date: 1975-05-12
The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?
