Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.
A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.
Guest Stars:
Jack Carr
Two grocers, one across the road from the other. Both ordinary, everyday characters. But then one of them has a fire in his shop. Goss and Stone end up with one villain and two very frightened men.
To get stolen goods to the public a villain has to be an organising genius, and that's not all. The police are keeping an eye on Reg Thurley, who seems to be leading a double life.
Guest Stars:
Derek Benfield, Jack Carr
Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.
Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.
Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.
Guest Stars:
Jack Carr
Night, a deserted park and a young woman on her way home. Skinner is interviewed by Goss and Stone. Then they take the keys to his quarters.
The Bannion family is in trouble, but at first not with the police. Bannion can possibly help Goss catch a villain. But is Goss willing to help Bannion in return?
Guest Stars:
Jack Carr
Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.
There's a V.I.P. visit in the offing and everyone is making plans: Newtown police, Special Branch, Headquarters. And they're not the only ones. It's a straight line from the airport to the Remand Home. And the roads should be fairly quiet.
Guest Stars:
Jack Carr
Three villains are under lock and key. But where is the missing eight thousand pounds? With business problems and an expensive wife Mr. Owen has lots of reasons to be worried, but there's another reason too.
Guest Stars:
Diana Dors, Ann Davies, Jack Carr
Nicked cars are normally just a routine job. So what makes Annette Minto's so different? At first she just wants her car back, but then something makes her change her mind.
Guest Stars:
Jack Carr
A hairdresser's shop is wrecked. In the middle is a frightened girl. She's alone and vulnerable and it's night time. She's no money and nowhere to go. It's not surprising that she's scared.
Guest Stars:
Anna Karina, Jack Carr, Elisabeth Sladen
Guest Stars:
John Alkin, Frederick Hall, Peter Welch, Jack Carr
Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.
Guest Stars:
John Alkin, Frederick Hall, Peter Welch, Jack Carr
With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.
Promotion is in the air and Goss is in with an outside chance. A sighting, plus a report from a beat man, might just add up to a feather in Goss's cap at just the right time.
Guest Stars:
Jack Carr
Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.
Guest Stars:
Gerard Murphy
Change. New people. Different methods. Some people call it progress. Bert Lynch, out on his own, is starting to feel left behind. Not the best time for his surprise visitor to call.
Guest Stars:
Jack Carr
Whether it's a family trying to adjust to change or the police force mounting a big crime prevention operation a team is only as strong as its weakest member.
Guest Stars:
Tenniel Evans, John Ringham
Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.
It's the age of fast getaways, but Frank and George are exceptions. They're villains all the same and Sgt. Miller thinks they're worth watching.
Lynch tries to get away from it all...
Guest Stars:
David Daker, Michael Angelis
Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.
Guest Stars:
John Harvey
Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.
Guest Stars:
Natalie Kent
Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.
Guest Stars:
Richard Davies
Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?
Guest Stars:
Jerome Willis
DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.
Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.
Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?
Guest Stars:
Anna Wing
Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.
A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?
Guest Stars:
Derek Newark, Garfield Morgan
There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.
Guest Stars:
Carol Haddon
Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.
OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.
Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.
Guest Stars:
Reg Lye
A man with a parcel - George T. Wood - who's looking for someone; who's been kept waiting most of his life. And a derelict building, all glass and wind - and someone up on the roof. Quilley takes a big risk.
Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.
Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.
Guest Stars:
Harry Fowler, John Ringham, Jo Rowbottom
Terence Nichols is in custody at Newtown police station after a wages snatch. There are three days to the trial and Stone thinks it's an open and shut case. He has a reliable witness in Sydney Adams. But one of the villains is still on the run.
Guest Stars:
Nicholas Smith
A new Inspector arrives at Newtown, Ralph Edward Pratt by name, spruce as a pocket hanky and dripping self-confidence. He is fussy and believes in doing everything by the book. He also wants to get involved in everything that's going on, however trivial. It doesn't take long for Bert Lynch to take a violent dislike to the newcomer and to make every effort to avoid him!
Guest Stars:
Nicholas Smith
Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.
Guest Stars:
Michael Bilton, Godfrey James
Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.
Guest Stars:
Nicholas Smith
Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.
Guest Stars:
Elisabeth Sladen
DS Haggar doesn't like Ken Knowles. ""Journalists,"" he says, ""grow fat on misrepresenting police information"". He doesn't like old Bertha either. She doesn't give information. So what chance does he stand against both of them?
Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.
Guest Stars:
James Copeland, Jay Neill, Jonathan Adams
There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.
Guest Stars:
Jeffrey Segal, John Scott Martin
A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.
Sgt. Stone goes to the funeral of an old and respected thief in the hope of unearthing a few skeletons. But dead men don't talk and neither will this one's grandson.
While Austin Nuttall dreams of owning his own business Connor dreams of nailing a fence. And with two crimes unsolved, Connor demonstrates how to kill two men and two birds with one stone.
A gullible old man, a con man, and a do-gooder. And Tom Stone is right in the middle and in need of somewhere to live.
Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.
A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.
All Tom Stone wants is a quiet weekend's fishing, but then he meets Sergeant Rust. Together they catch a very queer fish, but have different ideas about landing it.
Guest Stars:
Peter Forbes-Robertson, Philip Ray, Peter Welch
Who gets to Big Jake first, Billy Fielden or DC Skinner? One of them wants to help him, the other just wants him. And who, or what, is Big Jake anyway?
Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.
Guest Stars:
Rosalyn Landor
There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.
A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.
Guest Stars:
Claire Davenport, Jerome Willis, Sally Faulkner
Two girls with their husbands away. Maureen is the social type and likes a drink; Jill is the lonely type, but she finds something for the police to do.
Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother
A member of a visiting Trade Delegation takes a positive step concerning th future. But Sgt. Stone's future is left for Connor and Richards to fight over.
Guest Stars:
Sydney Tafler, Jerome Willis
Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.
Guest Stars:
Trevor Martin
Clifford Roscoe is the local hard man. He's fresh out of jail and ready and anxious to cause trouble. But Stone and Connor are ready for him.
A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.
Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?
Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.
There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.
Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.
Jupp has a large family and needs to keep his job. But events pile up against him - his boss and a robbery - and he needs to keep his cool.
Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.
A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?
Guest Stars:
Gerard Murphy
A stolen lorry load of meat parked on a busy road. A piece of cake for the police, unless the lorry driver's name is Houdini!
Guest Stars:
Alan Lake, Nicholas Smith
Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.
Guest Stars:
John Bennett, Nicholas Smith
Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?
Guest Stars:
Nicholas Smith
Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.
Guest Stars:
Sean Flanagan
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