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The Worst Episodes of Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
  1. Background image for The Medium Is the Message
    6.5/10(29 votes)

    #1 - The Medium Is the Message

    S16:E20

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    Director:Adrian Bean
  2. Background image for Desperate Measures
    6.7/10(31 votes)

    #2 - Desperate Measures

    S9:E21

    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.

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    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Neil McKay
  3. Background image for The Middle of Somewhere
    6.8/10(34 votes)

    #3 - The Middle of Somewhere

    S18:E12

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    6.8/10(26 votes)

    #4 - Deadlier Than the Male

    S18:E19

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    6.9/10(39 votes)

    #5 - Red Herring

    S4:E9

    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.

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    Director:Ken Horn
  6. Background image for Unchained Melody
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #6 - Unchained Melody

    S10:E20

    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.

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    Director:Gerry Mill
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  8. Background image for Home to Roost
    6.9/10(39 votes)

    #7 - Home to Roost

    S11:E8

    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.

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  9. Background image for Shadows from the Past
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #8 - Shadows from the Past

    S14:E23

    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.

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    Director:Gerry Mill
  10. Background image for Blind Justice
    7.0/10(28 votes)

    #9 - Blind Justice

    S10:E13

    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.

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    Director:Paul Walker
    Writer:Neil McKay
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    7.0/10(28 votes)

    #10 - Second Chances

    S11:E16

    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.

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    7.0/10(30 votes)

    #11 - Pretty Woman

    S16:E6

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    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #12 - Where There's Smoke

    S16:E23

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    Director:Adrian Bean
  14. Background image for The Heart of a Man
    7.0/10(24 votes)

    #13 - The Heart of a Man

    S17:E12

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  15. Background image for Kindness of Strangers
    7.1/10(33 votes)

    #14 - Kindness of Strangers

    S9:E9

    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.

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    7.1/10(28 votes)

    #15 - Mountains and Molehills

    S13:E11

    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.

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    Director:Adrian Bean
  17. Background image for Rustlers and Hustlers
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    #16 - Rustlers and Hustlers

    S14:E21

    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.

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    Director:Anne Rose
  18. Background image for Every Dog His Day
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #17 - Every Dog His Day

    S14:E24

    A group of young offenders come to stay at Ashfordly Hall, but soon find themselves under suspicion after a spate of disturbances in the village. Meanwhile, Blaketon and Ventress go on the hunt for a spinster's missing dog, and a £50 reward gives Peggy an idea.

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  19. Background image for No Laughing Matter
    7.1/10(26 votes)

    #18 - No Laughing Matter

    S16:E16

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  20. Background image for A Chilly Reception
    7.2/10(49 votes)

    #19 - A Chilly Reception

    S3:E5

    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

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  21. Background image for Trouble in Mind
    7.2/10(35 votes)

    #20 - Trouble in Mind

    S4:E7

    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.

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    Director:Tim Dowd
  22. Background image for The Angry Brigade
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #21 - The Angry Brigade

    S8:E18

    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.

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    Director:Gerry Poulson
  23. Background image for Old Ties
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #22 - Old Ties

    S8:E22

    An old friend visits Gina, and Aunt Mary fears trouble. Two brothers open a restaurant, and they are surprised by more than a brick through the window. An archaeologist inspires Greengrass to dig for a treasure.

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  24. Background image for Always a Copper
    7.2/10(30 votes)

    #23 - Always a Copper

    S9:E7

    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.

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    7.2/10(26 votes)

    #24 - Against the Odds

    S9:E20

    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.

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    7.2/10(30 votes)

    #25 - Consequences

    S10:E22

    PC Bradley has been sent to investigate a break-in when he witnesses an explosion. It is the car of ambulance driver Frank Metcalfe which exploded when he turned on the ignition, and it looks like attempted murder because he has received anonymous phone calls and a threatening letter a couple of days earlier. The grocer Mr. Dale is attacked under similar circumstances. But they have nothing in common. The only lead is a blue Ford Transit van seen on both occasions and that the attacker has military training and access to the local arsenal. Pete Atkins fits these requirements, but he claims his innocence. Oscar Blaketon also receives anonymous phone calls. Is he the next victim? Rev. Meeks represents a foundation which offers Lord Ashfordly to finance the renovation St. Judes Church on his lands, and his lordship hires Vernon Scripps and David to do work for him. Meeks especially asks them to be on the lookout for a particular baptismal font from the church.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Medium Is the Message" is the worst rated episode of "Heartbeat". It scored 6.5/10 based on 29 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".