Bits An' Bats

Air Date:09/09/1974

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.

Old Bones

Air Date:16/09/1974

Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.

Mysteries

Air Date:30/09/1974

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.

Night Train

Air Date:07/10/1974

Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.

Friends

Air Date:14/10/1974

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.

Gardens

Air Date:28/10/1974

A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.

Quiet As The Grave

Air Date:04/11/1974

Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.

Pursuit

Air Date:11/11/1974

A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.

Have You Seen This Child

Air Date:18/11/1974

Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.

Occupation

Air Date:25/11/1974

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.

Unnecessary Force

Air Date:02/12/1974

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.

The Bouncer

Air Date:09/12/1974

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.

House To House

Air Date:16/12/1974

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.

Boy In Blue

Air Date:06/01/1975

The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.

Local Knowledge

Air Date:13/01/1975

Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.

Innocent And Vulnerable

Air Date:20/01/1975

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.

Intervention

Air Date:27/01/1975

Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.

Tonight And Every Night

Air Date:03/02/1975

Transit

Air Date:10/02/1975

When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.

Snouts

Air Date:17/02/1975

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...

Squatters

Air Date:24/02/1975

Eviction

Air Date:03/03/1975

Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.

Incitement

Air Date:10/03/1975

Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?

Thanks But...No Thanks

Air Date:17/03/1975

Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?

Kronur

Air Date:24/03/1975

A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.

Scapegoat

Air Date:07/04/1975

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.

Bit Of Business

Air Date:14/04/1975

A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.

Distance

Air Date:21/04/1975

Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?

Ritual

Air Date:28/04/1975

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?

Legacy

Air Date:05/05/1975

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?

A New Broom

Air Date:12/05/1975

The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?