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Broadcast date

09-09-1974 • 32 episodes

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Episodes of this season

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.

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2. Old Bones

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

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3. Mysteries

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.

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4. Night Train

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

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5. Friends

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.

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6. Mugs

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7. Gardens

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

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8. Quiet As The Grave

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

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9. Pursuit

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

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10. Have You Seen This Child

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

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11. Occupation

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.

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12. Unnecessary Force

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.

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13. The Bouncer

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.

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14. House To House

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.

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15. Boy In Blue

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

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16. Local Knowledge

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

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17. Innocent And Vulnerable

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.

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18. Intervention

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

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19. Tonight And Every Night

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20. Transit

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

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21. Snouts

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...

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22. Squatters

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23. Eviction

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

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24. Incitement

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

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25. Thanks But...No Thanks

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

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26. Kronur

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

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27. Scapegoat

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.

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28. Bit Of Business

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

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29. Distance

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

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30. Ritual

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?

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31. Legacy

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?

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32. A New Broom

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

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This season's cast

James Ellis
Bert Lynch

John Slater
DS Tom Stone

Douglas Fielding
Sgt. Alec Quilley

Ian Cullen
DC Joe Skinner

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