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The Best Episodes of The Gold Robbers

Every episode of The Gold Robbers ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Gold Robbers!

Tough cop Detective Chief Superintendent Cradock is assigned to track down & bring to justice the criminals behind the daring theft of five and half...
Genres:DramaCrime
Network:ITV1

Best Episodes Summary

"The Kill" is the best rated episode of "The Gold Robbers". It scored 8.1/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by Bill Bain and written by Martin Hall, it aired on 8/29/1969. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Great Bullion Robbery".

  • The Kill
    8.1/1023 votes
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    #1 - The Kill

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/29/1969

    In spite of many warnings from above, Cradock advances into deadly territory in his pursuit of the bullion bigwig.

    Director: Bill Bain

    Writer: Martin Hall

  • The Great Bullion Robbery
    8.0/1026 votes
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    #2 - The Great Bullion Robbery

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/6/1969

    An aircraft carrying five and a half million pounds in gold bullion approaches a small airfield in the South of England. It is soon to become the scene of one of the biggest, most audacious robberies ever planned...

    Director: Don Leaver

    Writer: John Hawkesworth, Glyn Jones

  • Dog Eat Dog
    8.0/1025 votes
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    #3 - Dog Eat Dog

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/4/1969

    Thirty thousand pounds seems a lot to pay for a prison escape - even for a gold robber - and the criminal fraternity aren't always as nice to each other as people think. The jackals, always waiting in the shadows, are useful enough while they stick to scavenging; it's when they get greedy that they become troublesome... then they have to be dealt with.

    Director: Cyril Coke

    Writer: Leslie Sands

  • The Cover Plan
    8.0/1023 votes
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    #4 - The Cover Plan

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/8/1969

    An ex-paratrooper turned mercenary attempts to smuggle a girl and her baby out of the country. But what really interests Cradock is the man's connection with the bullion robbery.

    Director: Cyril Coke

    Writer: John Hawkesworth, Berkely Mather

  • The Midas Touch
    8.0/1023 votes
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    #5 - The Midas Touch

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/15/1969

    Cradock finds gold - and the man who the world believes is the brains behind the heist. 'Cradock solves gold robbery'; 'Mr. Big arrested in Paris?' blare the headlines, and Cradock returns in a blaze of glory. But he knows all too well that there's someone bigger at liberty - much bigger.

    Director: Lionel Harris

    Writer: Donald Jonson

  • Grounded
    7.9/1028 votes
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    #6 - Grounded

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/13/1969

    From his temporary headquarters on Westmarsh Airfield, DCS Cradock begins the huge task of working out how the great gold bullion robbery was executed. Who should be better placed to help him than the flight controller on duty at the time?

    Director: Peter Sasdy

    Writer: David Whitaker

  • Crack Shot
    7.9/1030 votes
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    #7 - Crack Shot

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/20/1969

    Has the pursuit of the gold bullion thieves really put Cradock in blinkers? One thing is certain: the shot that blew up the police car will go on to destroy the mind and the body that fired it.

    Director: Don Leaver

    Writer: Scott Forbes

  • The Oddly Honest Man
    7.8/1023 votes
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    #8 - The Oddly Honest Man

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/18/1969

    Thommy Thomas is on the trail of the getaway pilot who flew the gold out of Britain in a Bristol Moth. After several months, his investigations are beginning to pay off...

    Director: Bill Bain

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Spender
    7.7/1028 votes
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    #9 - The Big Spender

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/26/1969

    Barry Porter is a second-rate conman - but even he has his dreams. The money he gets for mimicking the police wireless operator in the great bullion robbery almost turns those dreams into reality. But not quite... never quite. His own nature and Cradock see to that.

    Director: Don Leaver

    Writer: Allan Prior

  • Account Rendered
    7.7/1025 votes
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    #10 - Account Rendered

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/1/1969

    Harold Oscroft is a brilliant accountant, and a paymaster to the robbers. He wants nothing to do with their violence, and is frightened when it enters his own safe, suburban family life. Cradock believes that, through Oscroft, he may have got sight of his real quarry.

    Director: Bill Bain

    Writer: Jeremy Paul

  • The Man With Two Faces
    7.6/1023 votes
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    #11 - The Man With Two Faces

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/22/1969

    As Cradock gets closer to the heart of the robbery, he is leaned on by powerful men far above him. The message is clear; but he has come too far to give up now. Gang leader Nechros swallows Cradock's bait, but not the hook, as the hunter heads for the countryside and more trouble.

    Director: Cyril Coke

    Writer: George Lansbury

  • Rough Trade
    7.4/1023 votes
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    #12 - Rough Trade

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/11/1969

    Peter Conroy, the bent security driver in the robbery, flees to Austria where the police can't touch him, leaving his beautiful wife behind to be torn apart by the police, press and her own doubts and disillusions. She faces the terrible decision that must be taken at some time or other by every criminal's wife: shall she give her husband away or cover him up?

    Director: Lionel Harris

    Writer: Pixie Weir

  • The Arrangement
    7.3/1022 votes
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    #13 - The Arrangement

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/25/1969

    Cradock wades deeper and deeper into the slimy, devious depths of the underworld in search of the gold robbers, driven on only by his frustration and sense of failure. He is reminded in more ways than one that he is on his own, and that no-one is indispensable...

    Director: Alan Clarke

    Writer: Eric Colthart