The Best Episodes of The Sweeney

Regan finds himself in deep trouble when an allegation of corruption is made by the Police Complaints Department. A security van is robbed, and a guard identifies one of the robbers.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Ted Childs

Regan is determined to nail a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde.

Director: Sid Roberson

Writer: Trevor Preston

After Regan gets a tip about an upcoming robbery from a trusted informant, the gang kidnaps his daughter to blackmail him into inaction.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Trevor Preston

Violent criminal Vic Labbett returns to England to recover the proceeds of an earlier robbery, and Regan and Carter must stop him before he can get his hands on the loot.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Trevor Preston

Regan and Carter have a suspect in mind for the theft of a consignment of mercury, but he has an alibi.

Director: Terry Green

Writer: Trevor Preston

Giles Nunn and Carrie Selhurst are an upper crust couple who, partly for kicks and for the profits, commit highway robbery in lonely country lanes, along with the lower class boy Tommy Garret, whose dad is a friend of George Carter. Regan is on to them and Carrie gets arrested, but her unwillingness to cooperate leads to the death of the next victim.

Director: Terry Green

Writer: Trevor Preston

A case of mistaken identity provides tragic circumstances when a hit goes wrong; Regan and Carter manage to break the hit-and-run ring, and then try to stop another accident.

Director: Mike Vardy

Writer: Roger Marshall

Regan and Carter are on the case when a pair of robbers are themselves robbed at gunpoint.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Trevor Preston

Regan and Carter are called to a siege at a bank, where two armed robbers are holding hostages.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Ranald Graham

How will new recruit Bob Hargreaves cope with an investigation into a violent burglary?

Director: David Wickes

Writer: Roger Marshall

Chief Inspector Haskins is framed for corruption while Regan and Carter investigate a spate of break-ins. Is there a connection ?

Director: David Wickes

Writer: Roger Marshall

Regan and Carter are called in when alarm bells start ringing all over their patch. Who is setting them off - and why?

Director: Jim Goddard

Writer: Andrew Wilson

An armed robber is sprung from jail and comes looking for Regan.

Director: David Wickes

Writer: Roger Marshall

Regan and Carter try to catch a man trying to blackmail a pools winner about the part he played in a robbery.

Director: Sid Roberson

Writer: Trevor Preston

When the Superintendent finds out that there is a bank robbery in progress on a Saturday afternoon, he assigns Regan to visit an old girlfriend whose apartment is adjacent.

Director: David Wickes

Writer: Troy Kennedy Martin

Regan adopts a new identity as an ex-con and goes undercover as a truck driver to expose a hijacking ring.

Director: Ted Childs

Writer: Trevor Preston

After Danny Keever, a convict on weekend release and due for parole, is framed in a bank robbery, Regan works to clear him.

Director: William Brayne

Writer: Robert Banks Stewart

Regan and Carter investigate an art deal that is more than it seems, and ends up in a wasteground shoot out.

Director: Ted Childs

Writer: Roger Marshall

Regan is assigned to ensure the safe shipment of a gold bullion consignment.

Director: David Wickes

Writer: Andrew Wilson

After Regan’s car is stolen with invaluable surveillance photos from a stakeout, the thief gives a heads-up to Sweeney’s target.

Director: Terry Green

Writer: Trevor Preston

After their own getaway driver is killed fleeing police, a gang blackmails a young policeman into being their driver by kidnapping his bride.

Director: Terry Green

Writer: Allan Prior

When a gang hijack an armoured security truck, Regan, Carter and the Flying Squad set up an ambush to catch the crooks. But who's the informer ?

Director: William Brayne

Writer: Murray Smith

Regan's snout is abducted after passing on information about a switch of some stolen diamonds. Regan and Carter must catch the villains while protecting their source.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Ray Jenkins

Regan and Carter go after Billy Medhurst, implicated in a robbery that resulted in a policeman being shot and crippled. But is the past clouding Regan's judgement?

Director: Terry Green

Writer: Tony Hoare

Regan and Carter go undercover to assess corruption charges made against CID officers.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Roger Marshall