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Broadcast date

22-10-1973 • 28 episodes

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Episodes of this season

1. Inspector Lynch

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

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2. Nuisance

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?

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3. Escape

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.

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4. Break Up

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.

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5. Stray Girl

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

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6. Pieces

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

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7. The Cinder Path

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

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8. Cadet

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.

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9. Pressure Of Work

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.

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10. Absence

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

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11. In Police Hands

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

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12. Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears

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

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13. Joanna

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

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14. Pressure

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

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15. Waste

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

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16. Two Wise Monkeys

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.

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17. Dinner Break

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

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18. Allegiance

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

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19. Rota

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

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20. Priority

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

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21. Background

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22. Losers

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

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23. Turnabout

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

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24. Intruder

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25. Mugs?

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

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26. Pastime

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

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27. Certain Parties

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.

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28. Family

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.

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This season's cast

James Ellis
Bert Lynch

John Slater
DS Tom Stone

Douglas Fielding
Sgt. Alec Quilley

Derek Waring
DI Neil Goss

Ian Cullen
DC Joe Skinner

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