Series 8

1. Inspector Lynch

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

1973-10-22 • 50 min

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?

1973-10-29 • 50 min

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.

1973-11-05 • 50 min

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.

1973-11-19 • 50 min

5. Stray Girl

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

1973-11-26 • 50 min

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.

1973-12-03 • 50 min

7. The Cinder Path

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

1973-12-10 • 50 min

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.

1973-12-11 • 50 min

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.

1973-12-17 • 50 min

10. Absence

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

1974-01-07 • 50 min

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.

1974-01-21 • 50 min

12. Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears

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

1974-02-04 • 50 min

13. Joanna

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

1974-02-11 • 50 min

14. Pressure

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

1974-02-18 • 50 min

15. Waste

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

1974-02-25 • 50 min

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.

1974-03-04 • 50 min

17. Dinner Break

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

1974-03-11 • 50 min

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.

1974-03-18 • 50 min

19. Rota

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

1974-03-25 • 50 min

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.

1974-04-01 • 50 min

21. Background

1974-04-08 • 50 min

22. Losers

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

1974-04-10 • 50 min

23. Turnabout

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

1974-04-22 • 50 min

24. Intruder

1974-04-29 • 50 min

25. Mugs?

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

1974-05-06 • 50 min

26. Pastime

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

1974-05-13 • 50 min

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.

1974-05-20 • 50 min

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.

1974-06-30 • 50 min