Bits An' Bats

S09 E01 • Monday, Sep 9, 1974 • Sep 9 • 50m

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.

Old Bones

S09 E02 • Monday, Sep 16, 1974 • Sep 16 • 50m

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

Mysteries

S09 E03 • Monday, Sep 30, 1974 • Sep 30 • 50m

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.

Night Train

S09 E04 • Monday, Oct 7, 1974 • Oct 7 • 50m

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

Friends

S09 E05 • Monday, Oct 14, 1974 • Oct 14 • 50m

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.

Gardens

S09 E06 • Monday, Oct 28, 1974 • Oct 28 • 50m

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

Quiet As The Grave

S09 E07 • Monday, Nov 4, 1974 • Nov 4 • 50m

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

Pursuit

S09 E08 • Monday, Nov 11, 1974 • Nov 11 • 50m

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

Have You Seen This Child

S09 E09 • Monday, Nov 18, 1974 • Nov 18 • 50m

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

Occupation

S09 E10 • Monday, Nov 25, 1974 • Nov 25 • 50m

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.

Unnecessary Force

S09 E11 • Monday, Dec 2, 1974 • Dec 2 • 50m

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.

The Bouncer

S09 E12 • Monday, Dec 9, 1974 • Dec 9 • 50m

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.

House To House

S09 E13 • Monday, Dec 16, 1974 • Dec 16 • 50m

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.

Boy In Blue

S09 E14 • Monday, Jan 6, 1975 • Jan 6 • 50m

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

Local Knowledge

S09 E15 • Monday, Jan 13, 1975 • Jan 13 • 50m

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

Innocent And Vulnerable

S09 E16 • Monday, Jan 20, 1975 • Jan 20 • 50m

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.

Intervention

S09 E17 • Monday, Jan 27, 1975 • Jan 27 • 50m

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

Tonight And Every Night

S09 E18 • Monday, Feb 3, 1975 • Feb 3 • 50m

Transit

S09 E19 • Monday, Feb 10, 1975 • Feb 10 • 50m

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

Snouts

S09 E20 • Monday, Feb 17, 1975 • Feb 17 • 50m

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...

Squatters

S09 E21 • Monday, Feb 24, 1975 • Feb 24 • 50m

Eviction

S09 E22 • Monday, Mar 3, 1975 • Mar 3 • 50m

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

Incitement

S09 E23 • Monday, Mar 10, 1975 • Mar 10 • 50m

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

Thanks But...No Thanks

S09 E24 • Monday, Mar 17, 1975 • Mar 17 • 50m

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

Kronur

S09 E25 • Monday, Mar 24, 1975 • Mar 24 • 50m

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

Scapegoat

S09 E26 • Monday, Apr 7, 1975 • Apr 7 • 50m

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.

Bit Of Business

S09 E27 • Monday, Apr 14, 1975 • Apr 14 • 50m

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

Distance

S09 E28 • Monday, Apr 21, 1975 • Apr 21 • 50m

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

Ritual

S09 E29 • Monday, Apr 28, 1975 • Apr 28 • 50m

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?

Legacy

S09 E30 • Monday, May 5, 1975 • May 5 • 50m

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?

A New Broom

S09 E31 • Monday, May 12, 1975 • May 12 • 50m

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