7.5/1026 votes#1 - Manoeuvres in the Dark
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1999
Terry Noble deserts the army and contacts Gina with hot kisses and cute words. Maggie Bolton is a proud mother, and an army veteran from World War II hits a boy in a car accident.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Peter Gibbs
7.6/1024 votes#2 - Tricks of the Trade
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1999
As the new owner of Aidensfield Arms Blaketon has moved in but his ideas of running the place do not fit with the experiences of Gina and Mary. A nasty burglary hits the home of one of Greengrass' mates who has died recently. An Asian flue starts to rage in the area.
Director: Gerry Poulson
Writer: Johnny Byrne
7.5/1025 votes#3 - Intuition
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1999
Bill offers Auntie Mary to become hotel manager in Sidmouth. Celia Gilmour wants to see her sister, but the front door is locked and suddenly a van rushes away.
Director: Frank W. Smith
Writer: Eric Deacon
7.4/1028 votes#4 - Puppet on a String
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1999
Alison keeps secrets away from her parents and burns a letter in the fire place. Ventress stops smoking to live up to his status as temporary leader of the local police while Craddock is away on teaching duties, and soon Bellamy and Bradley longs for Craddock!!
Director: Roger Bamford
Writer: Colin Shindler
7.6/1023 votes#5 - Honor Among Thieves
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1999
Blaketon runs in a local election against Tom Drabble, one of Grengrass' mates. A romantic author, Honor Gable, rents a house in the area for six months to write a book, but she finds Bradley more interesting. Young criminals cleans the local river as a part of their punishment.
Director: John Reardon
Writer: Peter Gibbs
7.7/1024 votes#6 - Shotgun Wedding
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1999
A dramatic train robbery threatens and interferes with Bradley's plan to marry Jackie Lambert. Greengrass has not seen his sister for 22 years, but now her husband has died she turns up to take command.
Director: Frank W. Smith
Writer: Peter Barwood
7.2/1028 votes#7 - Always a Copper
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1999
The Chief Constable makes Blaketon organize a crime prevention committee. A burglar spills some blood when leaving a site of his crime, and Greengrass is a tourist 'guide' for Norwegians looking for Viking items.
Director: Paul Walker
Writer: Michael Jenner
7.7/1027 votes#8 - Negative Vibes
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1999
A car driver smashes the front of a shop. Greengrass brings one of his mates to hospital but it's in vain, and to the widow's deep despair the body is given to the medical students in a last will. Bradley and his newly wed have negative vibes over late working hours and what's the secret at Strensford Tavern?
Director: Roger Bamford
Writer: John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch
7.1/1032 votes#9 - Kindness of Strangers
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1999
An old man is very obsessed with his son who fell in World War II near the German border, a real war hero. A young couple is caught shoplifting but she simulates yjat the borth of her baby has started. Greengrass seizes a sudden opportunity to be the arranger of a local rally.
Director: Gerry Poulson
Writer: James Stevenson
7.3/1030 votes#10 - Hollywood or Bust
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1999
Nathaniel Clegghorne brawls with David and Greengrass over two maran hens and with Lord Ashfordly who trains a dog close to Clegghorne's ground. A film producer seeks locations and Lord Ashfordly is very cooperative.
Director: Frank W. Smith
Writer: Brian Finch
7.7/1029 votes#11 - Flesh and Blood
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1999
After the funeral of a local butcher's wife various skeletons are found in the family's hidings. Bellamy experiences a revival of a romance of his very youth, and David and Greengrass try an alternative way of 'breeding' rabbits.
Director: Paul Walker
Writer: Gillian Richmond
7.3/1027 votes#12 - No Surrender
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1999
A fortune teller promises David a real change of luck on love and money, and in spite of Greengrass' warnings strange incidents make David believe it. Clegghorne is ruthless to a neighboring family, and a business man has his own agenda with that family.
Director: Gerry Poulson
Writer: Neil McKay
7.5/1028 votes#13 - Stag at Bay
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1999
A couple of poachers attacks Lord Ashfordly's stags with a brutality that's unheard of. A headmistress makes Jackie Bradley put pressure on the police to enforce an injunction. Greengrass rents Bernie Scripps' bearer to start up as driving instructor.
Director: Roger Bamford
Writer: Susan Wilkins
7.9/1029 votes#14 - Full Circle
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1999
Stella Redford arrives to talk to Mrs. Trotter but she only just reaches her funeral. Stella fears to have lost an important photo for good as her wallet is stolen at the hotel. Greengrass and an old acquaintance of Blaketon arranges illegal dog race gambling.
Director: Diana Patrick
Writer: Johnny Byrne
7.7/1029 votes#15 - The Seven Year Itch
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/2000
Ray Nixon visits his mother's grave before renting a room at the Aidensfield Arms. Blaketon feels a kind of guilt to Ray Nixon. Sergeants Nokes and Craddock temporarily change places for experiences. A man seems to steal some valuable maps from an old lady.
Director: Paul Walker
Writer: Peter Gibbs
7.5/1028 votes#16 - Weight of Evidence
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/2000
Greengrass buys a sheep to win some races, and of course money. Jackie has become halfway partner of the lawyers' firm, but to reach full partnership she needs £5000. A young girl is raped in her car.
Director: Gerry Poulson
Writer: Peter Barwood
7.3/1026 votes#17 - For Art's Sake
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/2000
The painting artist Joe Vaughan seeks peace in Aidensfield, bu he runs into brawls and controversies with members of the local rugby club and the police takes him into custody, until Jackie Bradley makes a judge release him. Then his house is burnt down.
Director: Roger Bamford
Writer: Andrew McCulloch
7.5/1027 votes#18 - A Shot in the Dark
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/2000
Lyn is a maid at Ashfordly Hall. She is secretly visited by her boyfriend Gary who has a suspended sentence. As he leaves the estate manager tries to stop him with shouts, and soon with gunshots, too.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Peter Gibbs
7.4/1040 votes#19 - The Good Doctor
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/2000
Jackie's friend Sue is wounded by a hit-and-run car driver but Dr. Peters claims it's not as bad and serious as it looks. Greengrass finds some old bicycles he wants to rent to participants in a local race.
Director: Paul Walker
Writer: Jane Hollowood
7.4/1024 votes#20 - Against the Odds
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/2000
Lottie finds Charlie Weller dead and to the ugly surprise and disgust of his nephew, Martin, her mother, Peggy Turner is the beneficent of a week old will. At the same time Blaketon is approached by a professional full time planner on the establishing an industrial quarter close to Aidensfield.
Director: Gerry Poulson
Writer: Johnny Byrne
6.8/1029 votes#21 - Desperate Measures
Season 9 Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/2000
Roy Brooks gets a suspended prison sentence for horse theft, but later in the evening a racing horse is stolen from Lord Ashfordly and his estate manager is seriously knocked down. Bernie Scripps happens to tell Greengrass that he once was psychic.
Director: Roger Bamford
Writer: Neil McKay
7.5/1024 votes#22 - With This Ring
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/2000
Frank is an addicted gambler always in serious and his actions to deal with his debt hits both his employer and his wife and daughter. Mike plans secretly a honeymoon to Majorca, but Jackie is more keen on her job. Greengrass makes David 'save' coal from a lorry due to maritime law.
Director: Paul Walker
Writer: Gillian Richmond
7.3/1025 votes#23 - Wise Guy's
Season 9 Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/2000
Franco Mazzetti has suddenly died, so Greengrass finds guts to buy one of his vans to sell fish and chips from. He's soon mixed into a brawl between the Mazzettis and another local business family. Ventress is put on a harsh crisp bread diet by his wife, so his heart, and especially his stomach fall victims to the charm of a lonely widow.
Director: Roger Bamford
Writer: Susan Wilkins
8.1/1034 votes#24 - The Son-In-Law
Season 9 Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/2000
Jackie Bradley's parents arrives from South Africa, She admits to Mike that she has not told them of their wedding. A car is found driven far into the river and at the same time a hitch hiker is picked up by Greengrass and David. Andy Ryan tries to win back Gina's love.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Peter Barwood
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Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Genres:CrimeDramaComedy
Network:ITV1
Season 9 Ratings Summary
"Manoeuvres in the Dark" is the best rated episode of "Heartbeat" season 9. It scored 7.5/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Gerry Mill and written by Peter Gibbs, it aired on 9/26/1999. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Tricks of the Trade".