Season 1
6.4/1020 votesFour of a Kind
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1962
The search is on for four young men to ""crew"" the new cars in the tough and troubled district of Newtown, a North of England overspill estate. A mixed community, displaced from the larger towns by slum clearance, has been brought together and housed on an estate without amenities.
Director: John McGrath
Writer: Troy Kennedy Martin
- 6.5/108 votes
The Limping Rabbit
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1962
A girl disappears, and Steele and Lynch are faced by a conspiracy of silence in her broken family.
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Troy Kennedy Martin
- 7.3/109 votes
Handle With Care
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1962
An explosion in a quarry disturbs two lovers. It also disturbs Detective Sergeant John Watt when he finds out what caused it.
Director: Shaun Sutton
Writer: Allan Prior
- 6.8/107 votes
Big Catch
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1962
When the whalers hit Seaport after a good season Smith and Weir have their work cut out to keep trouble to a minimum.
Director: Morris Barry, John McGrath
Writer: Allan Prior
- 7.0/108 votes
Friday Night
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1962
""It's going to be one of those nights"", pronounced Sgt. Percy Twentyman, and he wasn't far wrong. Steele and Lynch have to cope with the aftermath of a traffic accident in which a drunken driver has killed a motor cyclist and his pillion passenger. Small time felon Grandpa Maddigan blows up the safe in the Gas Company office, Watt and DCS Robins are hot on the trail of the notorious Comber gang, and Twentyman himself gets more than he bargained for when he tries to break up a free-for-all in the Tabernacle pub.
Director: John McGrath
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/107 votes
Suspended
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1962
The crew of Z-Victor One waste no time in arriving at the scene of a burglary. Their reward is to be suspected of theft themselves.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Allan Prior
- N/A/100 votes
Fire!
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/1962
The report of a burning barn takes Smith and Weir into the country, searching for a fire-raiser.
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Allan Prior
- N/A/100 votes
Threats And Menaces
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1962
In Victor Division the police often live next door to unruly members of the community. Bob and Janey Steele find that this can have unpleasant, even dangerous, consequences.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Allan Prior
- N/A/100 votes
Jail Break
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/1962
What is a mysterious stranger from Soho doing in Victor Division? John Watt would like to know, and keeps a close watch on him. Smith and Weir are heavily involved in the tracking down of money previously stolen in a mailbag robbery. Both events are triggered by a successful jail break.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
What Kind Of Hero?
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/1962
A young man risks his life to save that of an accident victim trapped under an overturned road tanker, then disappears quietly. One of the bystanders, a retired army officer, pesters Barlow to trace the man and see that he gets the recognition he deserves. Barlow eventually finds the reluctant hero, only to discover that he is an army deserter wanted by the Military Police!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Sudden Death
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/1962
When a case of murder is reported Lynch and Steele are the first policemen on the scene. But the main responsibility for organising the hunt for the killer falls on Barlow, whose toughness is backed by vast experience and an intuitive mind.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Found Abandoned
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/3/1962
Smith and Weir answer a call and find an abandoned baby. They bring it along to the station, where Inspector Dunn is in charge in Barlow's absence.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: John Hopkins
- N/A/100 votes
The Best Days
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/10/1962
Lynch and Steele have their hands full when a gang of boys break into a school and smash up the headmaster's study. But the hooliganism doesn't stop there. When they are disturbed by the caretaker the oldest member of the gang attacks him and leaves him seriously injured.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Hopkins
- 6.6/107 votes
Invisible Enemy
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/17/1962
When a gas meter is broken into in a big block of flats Weir and Smith think their hunt is only for a petty thief. What they encounter, though, is someone much more dangerous.
Director: John McGrath
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Further Enquiries
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/1/1962
Weir stops a car driving without lights, the first event in a night which brings 'important' people in the county to Newtown police station.
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: John Hopkins
- N/A/100 votes
Winner Takes All
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/8/1962
A race track tout forgets to pay his alimony, and Steele and Lynch discover an ingenious fraud to beat the bookies.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Allan Prior
- 7.4/106 votes
People's Property
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/15/1962
It's a busy night for Smith, Weir and Sergeant Watt when burglary is rife.
Director: John McGrath
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Hi-Jack!
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/22/1962
At Pete's Caff Steele and Lynch report ""off watch for refreshments"". While they are eating and talking to Steele's friend Les Fielding his lorry is hi-jacked.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Allan Prior
- N/A/100 votes
Incident Reported
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/29/1962
Fancy Smith first meets Stan Carron in the Tabernacle pub where Carron is causing a disturbance. They have an argument. The second time they meet Carron is in no state to argue and Smith starts a long night's work.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Hopkins
- N/A/100 votes
Day Trip
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/12/1962
A charabanc outing, a halt at a pub and an exponent of the three-card trick: this is how a day at the seaside begins. It ends in violence.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Allan Prior
- N/A/100 votes
Affray
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/19/1962
Two men claim the same prize and trouble begins. When Lynch and Steele are called there is an unexpected development and a policeman dies.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Hopkins
- N/A/100 votes
Contraband
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 6/26/1962
The prospect of a 'finder's reward' in a dockland smuggling case makes Smith and Weir eager volunteers for extra duty.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Allan Prior
- N/A/100 votes
Teamwork
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 7/3/1962
Just when the crime figures are levelling out one man pushes them up and up with a series of aimless break-ins. When Steele and Lynch lay hands on him but let him escape Barlow, Watt and Dunn are ready to lay hands on them!
Director: John McGrath
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Appearance In Court
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 7/10/1962
Catching a thief is only the beginning as far as the police are concerned. When Smith and Weir have to justify their action in court the truth is made to look slightly less than the whole truth.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Hopkins
- N/A/100 votes
Sunday Morning
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 7/24/1962
No description available
Director: Unknown
Writer: Allan Prior