Bits An' Bats

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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.

9/9/1974

Old Bones

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02

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

9/16/1974

Mysteries

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03

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.

9/30/1974

Night Train

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04

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

10/7/1974

Friends

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05

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.

10/14/1974

Gardens

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06

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

10/28/1974

Quiet As The Grave

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07

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

11/4/1974

Pursuit

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08

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

11/11/1974

Have You Seen This Child

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09

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

11/18/1974

Occupation

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10

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.

11/25/1974

Unnecessary Force

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11

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.

12/2/1974

The Bouncer

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12

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.

12/9/1974

House To House

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13

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.

12/16/1974

Boy In Blue

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14

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

1/6/1975

Local Knowledge

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15

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

1/13/1975

Innocent And Vulnerable

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16

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.

1/20/1975

Intervention

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17

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

1/27/1975

Tonight And Every Night

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18

2/3/1975

Transit

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19

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

2/10/1975

Snouts

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20

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...

2/17/1975

Squatters

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21

2/24/1975

Eviction

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22

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

3/3/1975

Incitement

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23

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

3/10/1975

Thanks But...No Thanks

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24

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

3/17/1975

Kronur

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25

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

3/24/1975

Scapegoat

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26

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.

4/7/1975

Bit Of Business

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27

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

4/14/1975

Distance

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28

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

4/21/1975

Ritual

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29

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?

4/28/1975

Legacy

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30

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?

5/5/1975

A New Broom

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

5/12/1975