Series 9

1. Bits An' Bats

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.

1974-09-09 • 50 min

2. Old Bones

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

1974-09-16 • 50 min

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.

1974-09-30 • 50 min

4. Night Train

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

1974-10-07 • 50 min

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.

1974-10-14 • 50 min

33. Mugs

1974-10-21 • 50 min

6. Gardens

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

1974-10-28 • 50 min

7. Quiet As The Grave

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

1974-11-04 • 50 min

8. Pursuit

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

1974-11-11 • 50 min

9. Have You Seen This Child

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

1974-11-18 • 50 min

10. 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.

1974-11-25 • 50 min

11. 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.

1974-12-02 • 50 min

12. 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.

1974-12-09 • 50 min

13. 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.

1974-12-16 • 50 min

14. Boy In Blue

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

1975-01-06 • 50 min

15. Local Knowledge

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

1975-01-13 • 50 min

16. 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.

1975-01-20 • 50 min

17. Intervention

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

1975-01-27 • 50 min

18. Tonight And Every Night

1975-02-03 • 50 min

19. Transit

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

1975-02-10 • 50 min

20. 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...

1975-02-17 • 50 min

21. Squatters

1975-02-24 • 50 min

22. Eviction

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

1975-03-03 • 50 min

23. Incitement

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

1975-03-10 • 50 min

24. 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?

1975-03-17 • 50 min

25. Kronur

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

1975-03-24 • 50 min

26. 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.

1975-04-07 • 50 min

27. Bit Of Business

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

1975-04-14 • 50 min

28. Distance

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

1975-04-21 • 50 min

29. 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?

1975-04-28 • 50 min

30. 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?

1975-05-05 • 50 min

31. A New Broom

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

1975-05-12 • 50 min