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The Best Episodes of Dempsey and Makepeace

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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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  1. Background image for Guardian Angel
    8.1/10(67 votes)

    #1 - Guardian Angel

    S3:E10

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

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    8.0/10(66 votes)

    #2 - The Bogeyman

    S2:E10

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

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    8.0/10(53 votes)

    #3 - The Burning (2)

    S3:E2

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

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    Director:Baz Taylor
  4. Background image for Cry God for Harry
    7.9/10(67 votes)

    #4 - Cry God for Harry

    S1:E9

    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.

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  5. Background image for Love You to Death
    7.9/10(72 votes)

    #5 - Love You to Death

    S2:E3

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

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    7.9/10(60 votes)

    #6 - The Burning (1)

    S3:E1

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

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    Director:Baz Taylor
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  8. Background image for Tequila Sunrise
    7.8/10(58 votes)

    #7 - Tequila Sunrise

    S2:E5

    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.

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    7.8/10(51 votes)

    #8 - Bird of Prey

    S3:E6

    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.

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    7.7/10(63 votes)

    #9 - Judgement

    S1:E10

    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.

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  11. Background image for Wheelman
    7.7/10(54 votes)

    #10 - Wheelman

    S2:E2

    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.

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    Director:Tony Wharmby
  12. Background image for No Surrender
    7.7/10(51 votes)

    #11 - No Surrender

    S2:E4

    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.

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    7.7/10(51 votes)

    #12 - Mantrap

    S3:E9

    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.

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    Director:Roger Tucker
  14. Background image for Armed and Extremely Dangerous
    7.6/10(118 votes)

    #13 - Armed and Extremely Dangerous

    S1:E1

    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

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  15. Background image for Lucky Streak
    7.6/10(76 votes)

    #14 - Lucky Streak

    S1:E3

    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.

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  16. Background image for Given to Acts of Violence
    7.6/10(68 votes)

    #15 - Given to Acts of Violence

    S1:E4

    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.

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  17. Background image for The Squeeze
    7.5/10(80 votes)

    #16 - The Squeeze

    S1:E2

    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.

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  18. Background image for Make Peace, Not War
    7.5/10(61 votes)

    #17 - Make Peace, Not War

    S1:E7

    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.

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    7.5/10(56 votes)

    #18 - Silver Dollar

    S2:E1

    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.

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    7.5/10(53 votes)

    #19 - Blood Money

    S2:E6

    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.

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    7.5/10(54 votes)

    #20 - Set a Thief

    S2:E7

    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.

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    7.5/10(55 votes)

    #21 - The Hit

    S2:E8

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

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    Director:Tony Wharmby
  23. Background image for The Prizefighter
    7.5/10(57 votes)

    #22 - The Prizefighter

    S3:E4

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

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    Director:Baz Taylor
  24. Background image for Extreme Prejudice
    7.5/10(52 votes)

    #23 - Extreme Prejudice

    S3:E5

    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.

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    Director:John Hough
  25. Background image for Out of Darkness
    7.5/10(52 votes)

    #24 - Out of Darkness

    S3:E7

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

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    7.5/10(49 votes)

    #25 - The Cortez Connection

    S3:E8

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

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    Director:Baz Taylor

Best Episodes Summary

"Guardian Angel" is the best rated episode of "Dempsey and Makepeace". It scored 8.1/10 based on 67 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".