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The Best Episodes of Dempsey and Makepeace

Every episode of Dempsey and Makepeace ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dempsey and Makepeace!

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Guardian Angel" is the best rated episode of "Dempsey and Makepeace". It scored 8.1/10 based on 64 votes. Directed by Michael Brandon and written by Ranald Graham, it aired on 11/1/1986. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Bogeyman".

  • Guardian Angel
    8.1/1064 votes
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    #1 - Guardian Angel

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/1/1986

    When Dempsey is nearly killed during an investigation, Makepeace resigns for good from the police force.

    Director: Michael Brandon

    Writer: Ranald Graham

  • The Bogeyman
    8.0/1062 votes
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    #2 - The Bogeyman

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/2/1985

    A boxer turned murderer who escapes a police stakeout has Dempsey on his trail trying to catch him.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Ranald Graham

  • Cry God for Harry
    7.9/1063 votes
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    #3 - Cry God for Harry

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/1985

    A priceless collection of jade artifacts has been stolen from Makepeace's ancestral home, Winfield Hall. When she and Dempsey join her father's other guest for a weekend pheasant hunt, the search soon turns into an old-fashioned murder mystery.

    Director: William Brayne

    Writer: William Marlowe

  • Love You to Death
    7.9/1068 votes
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    #4 - Love You to Death

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1985

    Dempsey is stalked by a homicidal woman who obsesses over him, and who hates Makepeace for being with him.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Roger Marshall

  • The Burning (1)
    7.9/1054 votes
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    #5 - The Burning (1)

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/1986

    Dempsey goes undercover and infiltrates a gang after discovering a link between the London underworld and the New York police department.

    Director: Baz Taylor

    Writer: Ranald Graham

  • The Burning (2)
    7.9/1048 votes
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    #6 - The Burning (2)

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/1986

    While working undercover, Dempsey comes across a former nemesis from New York City.

    Director: Baz Taylor

    Writer: Ranald Graham

  • Tequila Sunrise
    7.8/1055 votes
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    #7 - Tequila Sunrise

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1985

    Dempsey and Makepeace investigate a jewel thief who has masterminded a series of robberies but his life is also under threat by his underworld rivals.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Ranald Graham

  • Bird of Prey
    7.8/1047 votes
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    #8 - Bird of Prey

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/4/1986

    When the main witness of a trail of a drug dealer threatens to withdraw her statement when her daughter is kidnapped, Dempsey goes to the Bogeyman for help.

    Director: Francis Megahy, Roger Tucker

    Writer: David Wilks

  • Armed and Extremely Dangerous
    7.6/10109 votes
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    #9 - Armed and Extremely Dangerous

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/1985

    This feature-length episode starts with a gun being held by Leiutenant James Dempsey of the New York Police Department. He is sitting in his apartment waiting for his partner, Joey, to call. Dempsey's phones rings. It is Joey calling to tell Dempsey of their latest stakeout. They go to the docks where they suspect a drugs drop-off will take place. All of a sudden, Dempsey's CO (Commanding Officer), Coltrane, turns up at the docks in his car. Another man at the docks stands up with a bag. The man at first heads towards Coltrane's car, but then walks towards Dempsey and Joey. Dempsey realises that he is going to be set up. Joey and Coltrane were going to set Dempsey up, but Dempsey reached for his gun and shot the man approaching him. joey grabbed Dempsey from behind, while Coltrane made his getaway. Dempsey pushed Joey to the floor, turned round and shot Joey, who died. Back at the station, Dempsey and his associate, O'Grady, are having an argument about Dempsey's situation. Dempsey wa

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Ranald Graham

  • Lucky Streak
    7.6/1070 votes
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    #10 - Lucky Streak

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/1985

    Dempsey happens to be present at a casino when it is robbed and a security guard murdered. Spikings tells him to wake up Makepeace in the middle of the night and start their investigation.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Dave Humphries

  • Judgement
    7.6/1059 votes
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    #11 - Judgement

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/15/1985

    Makepeace has been asked by her best friend, Sarah Hackett, to be the matron of honour at Sarah's wedding. Makepeace accepts. Makepeace is giving Sarah a lift to the railway station. Sarah is off to Harrod's with her father, Sir Lionel Hackett, who turns out to be a judge. Sarah is murdered while she is on the train. Makepeace is devestated when she is informed. Sir Lionel, however, takes the law into his own hands. Makepeace gives Sir Lionel a photo-fit of a man who was seen at the railway station where Makepeace had taken Sarah. Sir Lionel assumed that he was the killer and goes in search of him. But, what Sir Lionel doesn't know is that he is looking for the wrong man.

    Director: William Brayne

    Writer: Jesse Carr Martindale

  • Wheelman
    7.6/1050 votes
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    #12 - Wheelman

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1985

    Makepeace poses as reporter Debby Smith to get close to hoodlum 'Marocco' Jack and ends up saving his life from a rival gang. Dempsey joins Marocco's gang by posing as an American driver called Andy Sallapuccio, whom they need to pull off two simultaneous jewel heists. Meanwhile Spikings is facing complaints from upstairs that might lead to SI 10 being shut down.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Murray Smith

  • No Surrender
    7.6/1048 votes
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    #13 - No Surrender

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/1985

    Makepeace gets injured while pursuing jewelry thieves with Dempsey. On her first day out of hospital, they run straight into a bank robbery and hijacking - and Dempsey is reluctant to put Makepeace in any kind of danger.

    Director: Viktors Ritelis

    Writer: Paul Wheeler

  • Mantrap
    7.6/1048 votes
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    #14 - Mantrap

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/25/1986

    Dempsey and Makepeace are targeted into a deadly trap which involves both jewels and bank robbers who set the trap, to even the sides Dempsey get help from a boxer who Dempsey sent to jail to help him out.

    Director: Roger Tucker

    Writer: Murray Smith

  • The Squeeze
    7.5/1074 votes
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    #15 - The Squeeze

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/1985

    A heavy duty transit van carrying half a million pounds in used notes is high jacked, drivers and all, and SI 10 is tasked with finding it. Meanwhile, Spikings has his hands full trying to get Dempsey to part with his gun, as it is illegal for police officers in England to carry one.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Jesse Carr Martindale

  • Given to Acts of Violence
    7.5/1063 votes
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    #16 - Given to Acts of Violence

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/1985

    Dempsey and Makepeace are shadowing Frank Egan, who has just got off Scott free on a murder charge. His next big job seems to involve 'a bird man' and 'haggis'. It leads to Makepeace posing as a floozy and Dempsey as a pilot.

    Director: William Brayne

    Writer: Jonathan Hales

  • Out of Darkness
    7.5/1048 votes
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    #17 - Out of Darkness

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/11/1986

    A murderer who is obsessed with Makepeace threatens to kill his hostage within 24 hours if Makepeace will not meet with him.

    Director: Christopher King

    Writer: John Field

  • The Cortez Connection
    7.5/1046 votes
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    #18 - The Cortez Connection

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/18/1986

    When an old girlfriend of Dempsey's shows up it causes problems as Dempsey is in pursuit of a cocaine dealer.

    Director: Baz Taylor

    Writer: Guy Meredith

  • Make Peace, Not War
    7.4/1057 votes
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    #19 - Make Peace, Not War

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/22/1985

    Dempsey takes the place of American hit-man Schwartz to infiltrate a gang of drug dealers who are lacing T-shirts with heroin. Little does he suspect that their main contact, Lei Shan carries a grudge against the real Schwartz. When Makepeace gets her hands on one of the T-shirts via one of her contacts, the undercover Dempsey finds himself forced to bump her off.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Jesse Carr Martindale

  • Silver Dollar
    7.4/1052 votes
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    #20 - Silver Dollar

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/1985

    While trying to stop a extremist group who are trying to overthrow the British government by flooding the country with counterfeit money, Dempsey and Makepeace try everything in there power to stop them.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Ranald Graham

  • Blood Money
    7.4/1049 votes
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    #21 - Blood Money

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/1985

    An antique dealer is murdered and priceless Egyptian artefacts are stolen. While the crooks try to find a buyer, Dempsey and Makepeace go undercover and find several parties looking to get their hands on the artefacts.

    Director: Graham Theakston

    Writer: Dave Humphries

  • Set a Thief
    7.4/1050 votes
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    #22 - Set a Thief

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/12/1985

    Dempsey and Makepeace witness a young woman being run down on the street. She turns out to have been a model with connections to drug trafficking and members of parliament.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Dave Humphries

  • The Hit
    7.4/1051 votes
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    #23 - The Hit

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/19/1985

    A police informant suffers a near-fatal beating and due to this Dempsey and Makepeace go on the trail of a vicious gang leader.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Murray Smith

  • The Prizefighter
    7.4/1052 votes
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    #24 - The Prizefighter

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/20/1986

    While investigating a death of a boxers, Dempsey and Makepeace discover a counterfeit money laundering scheme.

    Director: Baz Taylor

    Writer: Murray Smith

  • Extreme Prejudice
    7.4/1048 votes
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    #25 - Extreme Prejudice

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/27/1986

    Dempsey and Makepeace go undercover as Middle East terrorists to find an arms dealer supplying several terrorist groups in Britain, Can they find the dealer and stop him.

    Director: John Hough

    Writer: Jeffrey Caine