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When the Earl of Lisson is murdered, Briggs and Louis try to discover ""who dunnit"".

What The Butler Saw

A fanatical murderer has escaped from prison and Superintendent Cottam orders Briggs and Louis to catch him but the two detectives would rather be watching the F.A. Cup Final.

Hostage

Johnny McKenna is an arms dealer and a keen golfer. Briggs and Louis have to get evidence of his illegal activities.

Teed Off

Briggs and Louis are assigned to act as advisors for a TV police drama.

Acting Constables

Briggs and Louis find themselves on an assignment in Jersey. It isn't long before they get on the wrong side of Jim Bergerac.

Studs

Gangster Tony Mazola has been murdered. Superintendent Cottam thinks that gang warfare may be about to start. He sends Briggs and Louis on an undercover assignment to the Paradise Club in the East End of London.

Strangers In Paradise

Suspended after an unfortunate incident involving a suspected bomb in a briefcase, Briggs and Louis decide to gain favour by nicking some serious East End villains.

Collared

Two tough detectives are required to go undercover at a monastery.  Unable to find any, the Super employs Briggs and Louis.

Witness

A Duchess keeps appearing in the tabloids canoodling withher police bodyguards.  What the Super needs are two completely unappealing detectives...

Never Without Protection

On Customs and Excise duty, Briggs and Louis find themselves trapped in the back of a pilchard lorry - with a large quantity of diamonds.

Dutch Cops

Briggs and Louis masquerade as the manager and trainer of a boxer as they investigate a steroid that promotes raw aggression - and enhances sexual prowess.

Sparring Partners

Louis witnesses a brutal crime of passion while confined to a wheelchair, but has trouble convincing Briggs that it wasn't all in his mind.

Rear Window

As a lonely and meaningless retirement beckons after 25 years on the force, the boys are given the task of finding 'The Black Widow' after a series of gruesome lonely hearts murders.

D.C. Of Love

After mixing their drinks at the policemen's ball, Louis and Briggs confront a new horror involving a flasher, a Marquess and the commissioner's wife.

Flash

When forced to transfer into the Fine Arts Squad, our heroes are despatched to recover the latest artistic creation of 'enfant terrible' Hadyn Smailes - a pair of maracas, a tin of peaches and a fish tank of the artist's own urine.

Art Attack

When Briggs and Louis investigate an attack on a top figure skater, the pair wind up on ice but fail to gain marks for artistic interpretation.

On Thin Ice

After 30 years of watching and waiting, Superintendent Cottam ropes the boys into helping him catch notorious bullion thief, Ronnie Richardson.

Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Briggs and Louis are assigned a case protecting the eggs of a newly-discovered breeding pair of red kites.  Teir lack of enthusiasm soon turns to panic as the eggs are stolen.

Twitchers

Louis and Briggs are cuffed to a notoriously slippery customer as they escort him to his latest prison by train.  So how do they end up crossing the Yorkshire moors carrying a toilet door?

The Great Escaper

Louis and Briggs are called in to investigate a murder that has taken place during the re-creation of a medieval battle scene.  However they are more concerned with the police football quiz.

Fur Coat, No Knickers

After Briggs and Louis manage to murder the last female white-flippered turtle on the planet, they are only too pleased to investigate a drug scandal at an exclusive girls school.

Back To Class

Briggs and Louis mistake the new Superintendent for a stripper at Cattams farewell party.

Sacked

Although Louis and Briggs have been assigned to a security operation at Wembley Stadium, they have their minds on winning the police table football tournament.

The Wembley Stadium Mystery

The Superintendent selects the duo for a particularly sensitive assignment.  His granddaughter has become involved in an anti-road protest and he needs Louis and Briggs to 'rescue' her.

Special Branch

When a gang member is shot during a getaway, Briggs and Louis are dispatched to the hospital.  But with so many sick people, doctors and nurses around, Louis' hypochondria knows no bounds...

Cardiac Arrest

A night patrolling the marshes, on the lookout for an escaped bear, is really not what our heroes had in mind - particularly when their umbrella act for the Super's variety show is really coming together.

The Beast Of Hackney Marshes

When Briggs and Louis, helped by a mysterious Commanch Chief, go on the hunt for a sacred Indian carving, they soon find themselves on the trail of tragedy, death and disaster...

The Curse Of The Comanches

Much to his and everybody else's astonishment, Briggs is chosen to be best man at a colleague's wedding.  When he discovers just who the bride's father is, Briggs isn't exactly keen either...

Best Man

Briggs and Louis have found their true vocation - the river police.  With peace, quiet and the total absence of any type of crime, it seems like paradise.  Then the boat runs into an unexploded WWII river mine...

Mine's A Large One

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.

The Best Seasons of The Detectives

The Best Seasons of The Detectives

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