The Best Episodes of The Sweeney Season 1

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

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

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

After a high-powered lawyer gets three petty thugs off on a murder charge, Regan is authorized to use whatever means necessary to bring the hoodlums in.

Director: Viktors Ritelis

Writer: Ranald Graham

Regan’s flying squad falls under suspicion after they apprehend a gang of hijackers, but a bag with 35,000 pounds in it has somehow disappeared.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Troy Kennedy Martin

When seedy informant Harry Fuller is spotted by Regan in a pub flush with money, he knows something is up and interrogates Harry.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Martin Hall

The Smith Brothers, a vicious group of mobsters, abandon their usual strong-arm tactics to run a parking ticket scam at a car park.

Director: Viktors Ritelis

Writer: Allan Prior

Regan is convinced that Eddie Boyse, a recently released career criminal, is responsible for a robbery, but Boyse was with Regan when the crime occurred.

Director: William Brayne

Writer: Tudor Gates

Regan clashes with an arrogant police superintendent when a crime kingpin is allowed to leave the country and go to France.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Troy Kennedy Martin

It’s unclear whether a beautiful crime reporter is involved with a criminal gang or just a catspaw.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Ranald Graham