Series 8

1. Inspector Lynch

1973-10-22 · 50m

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

2. Nuisance

1973-10-29 · 50m

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?

3. Escape

1973-11-05 · 50m

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.

4. Break Up

1973-11-19 · 50m

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.

5. Stray Girl

1973-11-26 · 50m

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

6. Pieces

1973-12-03 · 50m

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

7. The Cinder Path

1973-12-10 · 50m

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

8. Cadet

1973-12-11 · 50m

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.

9. Pressure Of Work

1973-12-17 · 50m

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.

10. Absence

1974-01-07 · 50m

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

11. In Police Hands

1974-01-21 · 50m

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

12. Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears

1974-02-04 · 50m

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

13. Joanna

1974-02-11 · 50m

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

14. Pressure

1974-02-18 · 50m

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

15. Waste

1974-02-25 · 50m

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

16. Two Wise Monkeys

1974-03-04 · 50m

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.

17. Dinner Break

1974-03-11 · 50m

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

18. Allegiance

1974-03-18 · 50m

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

19. Rota

1974-03-25 · 50m

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

20. Priority

1974-04-01 · 50m

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

21. Background

1974-04-08 · 50m

22. Losers

1974-04-10 · 50m

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

23. Turnabout

1974-04-22 · 50m

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

24. Intruder

1974-04-29 · 50m

25. Mugs?

1974-05-06 · 50m

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

26. Pastime

1974-05-13 · 50m

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

27. Certain Parties

1974-05-20 · 50m

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.

28. Family

1974-06-30 · 50m

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.