6.6/1025 votesLoading...#1 - The Medium Is the Message
Season 16 Episode 20 - Aired 7/8/2007
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Director: Adrian Bean
Writer: Mark Holloway
6.8/1029 votesLoading...#2 - 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
6.8/1033 votesLoading...#3 - The Middle of Somewhere
Season 18 Episode 12 - Aired 5/24/2009
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Director: Roger Bamford
Writer: Michael Eaton
6.8/1025 votesLoading...#4 - Deadlier Than the Male
Season 18 Episode 19 - Aired 8/8/2010
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Director: Dominic Leclerc
Writer: Peter Gibbs
6.9/1027 votesLoading...#5 - Blind Justice
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/2001
Craddock dates his dance teacher at the 'North Riding Police Dance' but her son is a ruthless fast speed driver. Bernie is off to Northallerton to comfort a widow, so Vernon and David takes the job to repair Lord Ashfordly's Bentley.
Director: Paul Walker
Writer: Neil McKay
6.9/1024 votesLoading...#6 - Unchained Melody
Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/2001
Jackie gets a visit from her old friend Caroline. She is surprised to learn that Caroline has a baby. Caroline needs a day off from motherhood and leaves the baby with Jackie and Mike while she goes to York to see some friends. Mike leaves the baby in a pram outside the police house, but when Jackie comes home from an errand the baby is gone. Jackie is not the only one who has a visitor. Lady Patricia visits her brother at Ashfordly Hall together with an old family friend Lord Hal Tadcaster. Well "together" may not be the proper word, because she would rather see him leave than stay. And with good reason since the CID suspects Tadcaster of being a drug dealer and asks the police in Ashfordly to keep an eye on him. The post office in Whitby goes on strike. Vernon Scripps gets the idea to start a courier service. And for once he does the dirty work himself.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Susan Wilkins
6.9/1036 votesLoading...#7 - Home to Roost
Season 11 Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2001
Mr. Lawson, the owner of some disused houses, is furious when a commune arrives and takes them over. Lawson is suspected of breaking into the houses. One of the girls in the commune is pregnant, but Oscar persuades Lawson to allow her to stay there with the baby. An undercover journalist was responsible for the break in.
Director: Diana Patrick
Writer: Jayne Hollinson
6.9/1024 votesLoading...#8 - Where There's Smoke
Season 16 Episode 23 - Aired 7/29/2007
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Director: Adrian Bean
Writer: Peter Gibbs
7.0/1027 votesLoading...#9 - Second Chances
Season 11 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/2002
Helen Jones returns home walking her dog and surprises a young intruder who strikingly resembles her run-away husband decades ago. Later David finds him in Vernon's barn, and soon Vernon is involved in the wine processing business.
Director: Diana Patrick
Writer: Douglas Watkinson
7.0/1026 votesLoading...#10 - Bin Man
Season 14 Episode 26 - Aired 6/5/2005
Gina discovers a severed hand in her dustbin.
Director: Judith Dine
Writer: Jane Hollowood
7.0/1028 votesLoading...#11 - Pretty Woman
Season 16 Episode 6 - Aired 12/3/2006
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Director: Jonas Grimås
Writer: Mark Holloway
7.0/1021 votesLoading...#12 - No Laughing Matter
Season 16 Episode 16 - Aired 5/27/2007
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Director: Adrian Bean
Writer: John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch
7.0/1021 votesLoading...#13 - The Heart of a Man
Season 17 Episode 12 - Aired 4/5/2008
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Director: Mark McKillop
Writer: Colin MacDonald
- 7.1/1044 votesLoading...
#14 - A Chilly Reception
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1993
A local woman is getting prepared for her wedding, but someone it seems is trying to sabotage the event. An old boyfriend of the woman's then turns up still expressing feelings for her. The church is then sabotaged and Nick and Kate find that the culprit for the recent acts of sabotage is the bride to be's old boyfriend. A old friend of Greengrass' turns up and passes on to him a load of stolen sea food, which Claude then sells to the bride's family for the reception, which gives the her father food poisoning. Meanwhile, Kate's aunt Eileen pays her a visit telling her that she has some money that her Uncle Henry had left to her in his will. Kate initially refuses it, which puzzles Nick. Kate later explains that when she was young she found her uncle in bed with another woman, and he then tried to bribe Kate into not telling her auntie. However Eileen tells Kate that she was aware of her husbands affairs and lived to accept it. Kate then accepts the money and donates it to charity in me
Director: Catherine Morshead
Writer: Eric Wendell
- 7.1/1036 votesLoading...
#15 - Red Herring
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 10/30/1994
A Russian defector is on the run. A Russian ship docks in Whitby and a fight amongst the crew breaks out in a local pub. One sailor thinks he's killed his skipper and asks Nick for Political asylum. When Nick and Alf take him to the immigration office he makes a run for it and they lose him. Blaketon is not impressed but when the sailor finds out that he didn't kill the Skipper he says he needs to get back on the ship. Nick and Claude arrange a plan to sneak the sailor back onto the ship and it works. During all of this Greengrass has been trout poaching with a priest! Dr Radcliff's daughter goes missing on a cliff side and a search is mounted for her - she is found unharmed.
Director: Ken Horn
Writer: Michael Russell
7.1/1029 votesLoading...#16 - The Angry Brigade
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1999
Barry Dixon is released from prison but is followed closely by an insurance detective. Lord Ashfordly has closed a pathway to a waterfall, but that decision meets strong opposition when a couple of tourists, Mr and Mrs Tidy, is stopped somewhat brutally. Bradley and Jackie Lambert, an attractive lawyer, develop common ground.
Director: Gerry Poulson
Writer: Peter Gibbs
7.1/1032 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.1/1027 votesLoading...#18 - Mountains and Molehills
Season 13 Episode 11 - Aired 2/29/2004
Steve finds himself in trouble when a maid at Ashfordly Hall takes more than a shine to him. David invents a novel way to rid the estate of moles, and makes a new friend in the process.
Director: Adrian Bean
Writer: Susan Wilkins
7.1/1024 votesLoading...#19 - Rustlers and Hustlers
Season 14 Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/2005
A young girl is injured in a horse riding accident, leading the police to stumble upon a sinister series of animal thefts. Helen tries to tell Rob she doesn't want a relationship with him, but worries about hurting his feelings. Meanwhile, Oscar catches Peggy and David hosting a poker tournament in the Aidensfield Arms and bars them from the pub.
Director: Anne Rose
Writer: Brian Finch
7.1/1026 votesLoading...#20 - Shadows from the Past
Season 14 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/2005
Peggy sets aside her pitchfork for glamour in the hope of charming a wealthy widower. The local community is up in arms when a famous homicide case is reopened for investigation - but Sergeant Miller ends up with more murder than he bargained for.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Peter Gibbs
- 7.2/1037 votesLoading...
#21 - Witch Hunt
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1994
Insp. Crossley suspects an old woman of being responsible for an attack of food poisoning, but Kate soon discovers it was due to something entirely different - arsenic poisoning from old wall paper. Nick points out to Blaketon that the Insp. hasn't been keeping CID fully informed which soon puts an end to his presence in Ashfordly. The police are also surprised to discover that their new Inspector is a woman - Insp. Merchison!
Director: Catherine Morshead
Writer: Brian Finch
- 7.2/1033 votesLoading...
#22 - Trouble in Mind
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/1994
Mr Parker comes to Aidensfield unable to recall the last 7 years of his life. It is suggested that when he left the village back then, he left his family and disappeared after collecting his employers payroll. Kate contacts his wife Helen who agrees to see him. Complications occur when another woman turns up claiming to be his wife. Claude goes to see 'strangers on a train' at the cinema, he then receives a strange proposal from a man who took the plot of the film a bit too seriously. It involved strangers carrying out each others crimes. Greengrass isn't interested in getting involved in such a scheme but the stranger keeps pestering him. Claude still refuses but soon finds out his barn had been burnt down shortly after he admitted the insurance was worth more than the barn itself. The stranger kidnaps Alfred, Nick and Greengrass go to investigate, and Alfred is found much to Claude's relief.
Director: Tim Dowd
Writer: Johnny Byrne
7.2/1028 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.2/1027 votesLoading...#24 - The Great Ming Mystery
Season 11 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/2002
The owner of a large house has recently acquired a ming varse. While he is on holiday, David looks after the house, however he leaves after he learns some other people have moved in. It turns out they are responsible for the missing vase.
Director: Paul Walker
Writer: Jane Hollowood
7.2/1025 votesLoading...#25 - The Dear Departed
Season 13 Episode 12 - Aired 3/7/2004
A recently widowed woman arrives in Aidensfield wanting to bury her late husband in the family grave, but the dead man's brother refuses to co-operate because of an old feud. Vernon and David pay a visit, hoping to persuade him otherwise - only to find themselves held at gunpoint - and when it emerges the coffin is full of money and the deceased is alive and well, a shocking case of fraud is uncovered. Meanwhile, Oscar is among the locals under suspicion when a widely disliked, hardened criminal returns to the village - and soon ends up murdered.
Director: Andrew Morgan
Writer: Brian Finch
The Worst Episodes of Heartbeat
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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Medium Is the Message" is the worst rated episode of "Heartbeat". It scored 6.6/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Adrian Bean and written by Mark Holloway, it aired on 7/8/2007. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Desperate Measures".