7.2/1048 votesLoading...#1 - Jericho Scam
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/1986
When Dempsey is framed by another cop for something he didn't do, Makepeace risks her career to prove his innocence.
Director: Robert Tronson
Writer: Jeffrey Caine
- 7.3/1063 votesLoading...
#2 - Hors De Combat
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/1985
Frank Price is sprung out of jail, only to be killed by his accomplices. Spikings suspects Price's boss Jack Lang, but when Lang's granddaughter Debbie is kidnapped it seems like someone else is trying to instigate a gang war. Meanwhile, Dempsey is more interested in wooing fellow American Angie Hughes.
Director: Christian Marnham
Writer: Jonathan Hales
- 7.3/1054 votesLoading...
#3 - Nowhere to Run
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/1985
A truck carrying studio equipment is hijacked. Then it turns out the contents were actually automatic guns meant for a group of Arab terrorists.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Dave Humphries
- 7.3/1053 votesLoading...
#4 - Blind Eye
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/1/1985
Jailbird Charlie Wilson wants to speak to Gordon Spikings alone concerning an urgent matter. But he shuts up tight after his little boy is kidnapped in the park. Meanwhile Spikings finds himself subject to a bombed briefcase while traveling by tube.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Jesse Carr Martindale
- 7.3/1042 votesLoading...
#5 - In the Dark
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/26/1985
Once again, Dempsey and Makepeace are witness to a fellow policeman being shot. In this case it's one of Makepeace's former partners, Tom Bishop, who's dying words involve millions in cash and 'the man in the red coat'.
Director: Graham Theakston
Writer: David Crane
- 7.4/1056 votesLoading...
#6 - 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
- 7.4/1051 votesLoading...
#7 - 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
- 7.4/1049 votesLoading...
#8 - 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
- 7.4/1050 votesLoading...
#9 - 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
- 7.4/1051 votesLoading...
#10 - 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
- 7.4/1052 votesLoading...
#11 - 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
- 7.4/1048 votesLoading...
#12 - 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
- 7.5/1072 votesLoading...
#13 - 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
- 7.5/1062 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 7.5/1048 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 7.5/1046 votesLoading...
#16 - 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
- 7.6/10106 votesLoading...
#17 - 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
- 7.6/1068 votesLoading...
#18 - 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
- 7.6/1058 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 7.6/1049 votesLoading...
#20 - 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
- 7.6/1048 votesLoading...
#21 - 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
- 7.6/1048 votesLoading...
#22 - 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
- 7.8/1055 votesLoading...
#23 - 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
- 7.8/1047 votesLoading...
#24 - 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
- 7.9/1062 votesLoading...
#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Dempsey and Makepeace
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Jericho Scam" is the worst rated episode of "Dempsey and Makepeace". It scored 7.2/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Robert Tronson and written by Jeffrey Caine, it aired on 9/13/1986. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hors De Combat".