The Worst Episodes of Pie in the Sky

Henry lets Hooperman escape, and Fisher takes the opportunity to suspend his retirement.

Director: Colin Gregg

Writer: Andrew Payne

A delusional cop seeks to bring Fisher's ally down, and Henry recruits a new waiter.

Director: Colin Gregg

Writer: Andrew Payne

Pie in the Sky becomes the scene of a corruption sting, but Henry acts in favour of his customer.

Director: Martin Hutchings

Writer: Andrew Payne

Henry cooks a banquet for a visiting Japanese delegation, and tracks down a criminal from his past, who was presumed dead.

Director: George Case

Writer: John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch

A narcotics investigation ends in a bitten hand for Fisher, and Henry finds a new source of escargots.

Director: Colin Gregg

Writer: Richard Maher

Steve investigates the burglary of Pie in the Sky, while Henry does battle with murderous private sector cops.

Director: Colin Gregg

Writer: Andrew Payne

The girlfriend of Henry's dry cleaner is kidnapped by a psychotic ex-lover.

Director: George Case

Writer: Paul Hines

Henry uncovers two separate wine scams in Middleton.

Director: Martin Hutchings

Writer: Richard Maher

Henderson's neighbour finds a dismembered corpse, which may prove the innocence of an imprisoned man.

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark

Writer: John Milne

Margaret and Henderson side with Reynard the Fox in opposing a new bypass, while Henry must question his loyalties.

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark

Writer: Andrew Payne

Henry investigates a prowler fond of older ladies, and begins to suspect the celibate supplier of his cheese.

Director: Jim Hill

Writer: Andrew Payne

A diner collapses and dies in the restaurant's toilet. But when the police arrive the body has disappeared. Soon on the scene are two detectives from the Crime Squad, who have a long standing interest in the dead man, and in his missing car. Crabbe tracks down the car before they do and finds a huge sum of money in the boot.

Director: Martin Hutchings

Writer: Andrew Payne

Fisher's younger daughter has left home after a row and thrown in her lot with a group of squatters. He asks Crabbe to find the girl and try and persuade her to return home. Henderson has bought a new field to add to his market garden, but is horrified to find that it has been invaded by travellers. He appeals to Henry for help, whereupon Henry finds that the two cases have a common thread.

Director: Jim Hill

Writer: John Milne

Bill Pritchard, an old friend of Henry's and the supplier of fish to the restaurant, is accused of murder when his girl friend's car is found abandoned and the ashes in his smokehouse show traces of human remains. Henry investigates and uncovers an amazing plot to frame Bill and steal the profits from the subsequent sale of his business.

Director: Martin Hutchings

Writer: Richard Maher

Medium Faith Revelle has received a number of threatening letters and seeks police help. Freddy Fisher, having once sought advice from her in solving a case, wants the whole matter dealt with quietly. But someone has alerted the press. Henry Crabbe and Sgt. Cambridge are assigned to guard Miss Revelle.

Director: Jim Hill

Writer: Lizzie Mickery

In a moment of weakness famous cookery writer Hilary Smallwood has given her unscrupulous nephew Colin a Power of Attorney. He has sold her house and put her into a retirement home; now he is trying to steal her recently written memoirs. Hilary calls on Henry Crabbe and her lifelong friend Seymour to help. Meantime there is friction behind the scenes in the restaurant between Steve and John.

Director: Danny Hiller

Writer: Andrew Payne

Fisher drags Crabbe down to the West Country to investigate the apparent murder of an undercover woman police officer. While Henry is away a burst pipe causes havoc in the restaurant's kitchen.

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark

Writer: John Milne

The man who shot PC Ian Lefebvre is due for release so Fisher wants to keep Lefebvre busy. What better than sending him off with Crabbe in search of two OAP con-women and the perfect bread and butter pudding?

Director: Danny Hiller

Writer: John Milne

There's a spate of burglaries, the local police station's closed down and the great and good of Middleton, headed by Mr. Chukky Chicken' Barry Wilkes, want Crabbe to catch the thief, popularly believed to be teenager Karl Elves or 'Pikey'. To their dismay, Crabbe is much more interested in pike than 'Pikey'.

Director: Danny Hiller

Writer: John Milne

Crabbe has to join ACC Fisher and DS Cambridge on a management development seminar, but Fisher is having a crisis of confidence in 'The Job' and after a rave review, 'Pie' has customers queuing at the door - could this be Crabbe's chance to leave the Force and concentrate on cooking?

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark

Writer: Andrew Payne

The restaurant is heavily in debt, and the Crabbe's new bank manager is unsympathetic. Steve and John have left for pastures new, and an agency chef is unsatisfactory. Crabbe learns that Dudley Hooperman is dead, and resurrects his hopes of early retirement. Meantime there is a surveillance operation to be run on a dodgy pizza delivery business.

Director: Martin Hutchings

Writer: Andrew Payne

Henry supplies the catering at his friend Alistair's pheasant shoot, where Fisher is among the guests. Another member of the party is shot and killed and it looks as if Fisher accidentally shot him but Henry's investigation reveals a crime of passion involving a love triangle, a jealous husband - and a cover-up.

Director: Martin Hutchings

Writer: Richard Maher

The large family of much-married Irishwoman Kit Kelly book the restaurant for a wedding banquet for her and her new husband, American television writer Byron De Goris. Byron's briefcase is stolen from his hotel and Henry is suspicious of his reaction and even more so when Margaret tells him that the groom is not Byron De Goris but his friend James Jackson. Margaret had known them both thirty years earlier and discovers that Byron killed himself and James assumed his identity. Henry has to find out why.

Director: Keith Boak

Writer: Christina Reid

Charles Rider, a wine-loving regular at Pie in the Sky, is being threatened. It turns out he is really Joseph Webb, an ex-burglar turned supergrass, and now in witness protection. His collection includes many valuable bottles of wine, some of them stolen property and formerly owned by a bent policeman. His cronies have tracked Webb down and want the most priceless bottle back. So Rider comes to Henry Crabbe for help. Can Crabbe restore justice while keeping his friend safe?

Director: Danny Hiller

Writer: John Milne

Di Crabbe and DS Cambridge are assigned to investigate a spate of garden thefts carried out while the owners are away for a few days. It's not just a few plants that are being stolen - whole gardens are being stripped. The only person appearing to benefit is landscape designer Alan Wellbeloved, who becomes the prime suspect for the robberies. Returning home, Henry is horrified to discover that Margaret has hired Wellbeloved to redesign the restaurant's back garden to provide an outdoor dining area.

Director: David Innes Edwards

Writer: Matthew Leys, Jim Doyle