Series 8

22.10.1973 · 50 Min.

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

29.10.1973 · 50 Min.

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?

05.11.1973 · 50 Min.

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.

19.11.1973 · 50 Min.

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.

26.11.1973 · 50 Min.

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

03.12.1973 · 50 Min.

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

10.12.1973 · 50 Min.

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

11.12.1973 · 50 Min.

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.

17.12.1973 · 50 Min.

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.

07.01.1974 · 50 Min.

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

21.01.1974 · 50 Min.

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

04.02.1974 · 50 Min.

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

11.02.1974 · 50 Min.

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

18.02.1974 · 50 Min.

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

25.02.1974 · 50 Min.

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

04.03.1974 · 50 Min.

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.

11.03.1974 · 50 Min.

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

18.03.1974 · 50 Min.

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

25.03.1974 · 50 Min.

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

01.04.1974 · 50 Min.

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

08.04.1974 · 50 Min.

10.04.1974 · 50 Min.

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

22.04.1974 · 50 Min.

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

29.04.1974 · 50 Min.

06.05.1974 · 50 Min.

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

13.05.1974 · 50 Min.

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

20.05.1974 · 50 Min.

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.

30.06.1974 · 50 Min.

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.