September 9, 1974
50m
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.
September 16, 1974
50m
Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
September 30, 1974
50m
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.
October 7, 1974
50m
Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
October 14, 1974
50m
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.
October 21, 1974
50m
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October 28, 1974
50m
A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
November 4, 1974
50m
Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
November 11, 1974
50m
A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
November 18, 1974
50m
Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
November 25, 1974
50m
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.
December 2, 1974
50m
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.
December 9, 1974
50m
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.
December 16, 1974
50m
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.
January 6, 1975
50m
The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
January 13, 1975
50m
Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.
January 20, 1975
50m
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.
January 27, 1975
50m
Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
February 3, 1975
50m
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February 10, 1975
50m
When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
February 17, 1975
50m
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...
February 24, 1975
50m
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March 3, 1975
50m
Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
March 10, 1975
50m
Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
March 17, 1975
50m
Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?
March 24, 1975
50m
A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.
April 7, 1975
50m
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.
April 14, 1975
50m
A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.
April 21, 1975
50m
Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?
April 28, 1975
50m
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?
May 5, 1975
50m
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?
May 12, 1975
50m
The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?
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