The Worst Episodes of The Sweeney

Regan and Carter get caught up in a plot to prevent a foreign head of state from getting his hands on an experimental drug to treat his heart condition.

Director: Mike Vardy

Writer: Ted Childs, Donald Churchill

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

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Ranald Graham

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

Regan and Carter are confronted by a newsman with information on an unsolved robbery. And why are the pair being photographed ?

Director: Jim Goddard

Writer: Ray Jenkins

The Sweeney get incorrect information from informants, allowing a gang of villains to make off with some contraband alcohol.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Ted Childs

A rich gynaecologist is attacked by a gang of villains who rob him of his suitcase.

Director: Peter Smith

Writer: Ted Childs

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 tries to help out the son of a friend when the lad is implicated in an assault.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Trevor Preston

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

An informant of Regan’s tells him about a hijack involving a lorryload of cigarettes where he will be the look-out man. But can Regan trust his snout?

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Ranald Graham

Regan gets involved in a secret government deal, thanks to Shebbeq, a Turkish cop.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Troy Kennedy Martin

Regan is asked to help a criminal from his past, whose son has been kidnapped.

Director: Chris Burt

Writer: Roger Marshall

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

After a criminal dies during a robbery, Regan and Carter can find no leads.

Director: Douglas Camfield

Writer: Richard Harris

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

While in prison, inmates Titus Oates and Colly Kibber plan a robbery.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Troy Kennedy Martin

Regan knows the identity of a robber, but has a difficult time proving his guilt.

Director: Mike Vardy

Writer: Ranald Graham

Regan loses his patience with a thug he is questioning about a wages snatch, and soon the press are sniffing round for a police brutality story.

Director: Tom Clegg

Writer: Trevor Preston

Regan is fitted up by an ex-con to get his daughter's dodgy boyfriend out of the picture.

Director: Christopher Menaul

Writer: Richard Harris

Regan's girlfriend has a nightmare that has similarities to a deadly incident.

Director: David Wickes

Writer: Ranald Graham

Regan discovers that successful people will stop at nothing to keep skeletons buried.

Director: Mike Vardy

Writer: Tony Hoare

Carter discovers that an informant was involved in the shooting of a colleague.

Director: Ben Bolt

Writer: Roger Marshall

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