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- A gypsy is released from prison, reawakening a long-standing family feud.
- Inspector Darbley deals with an elderly couple who refuse to comply with an eviction order.
- An anonymous telephone call leads Inspector Longton to a hopeless domestic situation and possible child abuse.
- Inspector Darbley is determined to identify the practical joker behind a series of petty thefts.
- Inspector Darbley investigates when the site of a new office development is vandalised.
- Inspector Darbley tries to help a vulnerable young woman.
- DCI Perrin asks Inspector Longton to help bring an important witness back on side.
- A store detective's life starts to fall apart when she is compulsorily retired.
- Inspector Longton clashes with DCI Mark Perrin over an armed robbery.
- Inspector Longton is struck by the resemblance between a missing husband and an artist's impression of a wanted man.
- Tom Darbley tends to an illness in the family while P.C. Gallagher has his own family crisis.
- A soldier, home on leave from service in Northern Ireland, becomes involved in a serious incident.
- Police make a bizarre discovery in the yard of Szabo's fish and chip shop.
- A man who was presumed dead after disappearing ten years earlier turns up to see Sgt. Beck.
- PC Martin Helmshore faces a serious accusation.
- Inspector Longton informs a woman of the death of her daughter from a drug overdose but the mother seems to be hiding something.
- The police investigate the disappearance of a teenage boy who walked out of school just before taking his O-Level examinations.
- PC Bentley tells Jean that he thinks a woman is involved in a burglary at Major Adams' fallout shelter. He is almost right.
- Mick Grainger is apprehensive about leaving prison after six years and returning to his wife Judy.
- Inspector Longton becomes involved in the case of a young foster mother accused of shoplifting.
- Inspector Longton needs the advice of Sgt. Beck in dealing with a troublesome freelance journalist but he is on leave and cannot be found.
- Inspector Darbley goes to the rescue of an inexperienced young W.P.C.
- PC Ted Palmer challenges Inspector Darbley's authority, with unhappy consequences.
- A widower and father of four who is fond of a drink or two comes between Inspector Darbley and her husband.
- Inspector Longton suspects the involvement of animal rights activists when a butcher and a pathologist are subjected to harassment.
- An elderly tea-lady is arrested, accused of stealing large sums of money from her employer.
- Inspector Longton finds that the demands of the job take their toll on her personal life when responding to a report that an intruder has entered her friend's house.
- Inspector Longton investigates a road accident and tries to prove that a drunk driver was responsible.
- A well-known and respected councillor faces scandal and ruin over the love of the wrong woman.
- D.S. Bernie Duckworth faces a family tragedy when his daughter is knocked down by a lorry.
- A girl complains that a young man told her she will die on Halloween.
- The police deal with a conflict between neighbouring farmers.
- Police investigate a rash of unexplained fires.
- Violence erupts in Hartley when a newcomer tries to open a country club.
- A group of ruthless criminals attempt a bank robbery. They gain access to the bank manager's house by posing as a milk delivery man. Holding the wife hostage, the chief criminal goes to the bank with the manager to conduct the crime. Back at the house, PC Danny Sparks is taken hostage because he spots the car being driven by the criminals. PC Sparks and the true milkman are taken to the bank manager's house as additional hostages. When the police are alerted, the criminal at the bank is overpowered. The criminals at the house negotiate their surrender, but one of them decides to try to make a run for it, but is shot dead by PC Brian Kelleher, who later requests to be relieved from firearms duties.
- Inspector Longton is held up on her way to an interview for the post of Chief Inspector of the Juvenile Board as she has to deal with a deranged woman threatening to harm her own children.
- Hartley Police Station prepares for a visit from the Chief Constable.
- Inspector Longton inquires after John Morton, a dangerous young man who has returned to Hartley.
- Sgt. Parrish is surprised by the revelations of a minor criminal, while Inspector Darbley tries to solve the mystery of an old woman's amazing journey.
- Inspector Longton discovers that one of her colleagues is a thief.
- Police investigate a pet shop owner accused of inappropriate relations with a young child.
- Inspector Longton is in court and finds her motives under attack by an aggressive defence barrister.
- P.C. Danny Sparks thinks about quitting the force, but Inspector Longton has decided to buy a house locally.
- Two women struggle to cope with loneliness with tragic consequences for one of them.
- Inspector Darbley clashes with her new boss, Chief Superintendent Albert Hallam.
- A local newspaper encourages hostility towards a travelling community.
- The police have to deal with a rowdy night at the Warmsleigh Road Social Club.
- Inspector Longton attends a report of assault, and examines her relationship with John Holden.
- An eleven-year-old girl named Janice claims that she has been told to steal washing from a launderette by a mystery man named Oscar.
- Inspector Darblay is left holding the baby when a prisoner is released from HM Prison Parkhurst.
- Inspector Darblay deals with a face from the past, in a week in which the police have to cope with a robbery at the local co-op and some missing pigs.
- Inspector Darbley tries to save a disturbed young mother and her baby.
- In the run up to the festive season, a gang steal Christmas trees leading to tragedy.
- Inspector Darbley takes a week's leave to carry out some home decorating.
- Sgt. Beck resigns when a prisoner is found dead in his cell.
- As a sergeant, Inspector Longton arrested a man in another area for inappropriate behaviour with young girls. In this episode, the man spots Inspector Longton in the street, and goes to the police station, where he holds Inspector Longton hostage in her office, with PC Danny Sparks.
- Two brothers-in-law, on opposite sides during the miners' strike, are at loggerheads.
- When a man takes his daughter from home at gunpoint, Inspector Jean Darblay has to deal with the situation and contend with the opposition to her new post.
- Inspector Longton tries to unravel the secret behind the strange behaviour of a seventeen-year-old boy named Simon Bailey.
- A police officer's son is arrested.
- Sgt. Beck and PC Sparks respond to a call to a break-in but the suspect makes good his escape. Beck suspects that a couple near the crime scene were involved.
- It's Inspector Longton's first day, and three men are committing racially motivated attacks, while a person leaving lots of graffiti around the area doesn't fit the usual profile of wayward youths.
- Special Branch asks Inspector Darbley to investigate a possible threat in advance of a planned royal visit to Hartley.
- A series of video thefts leads to an investigation of a rather more serious crime.
- A fourteen-year-old girl has gone missing along with two hundred pounds from her mother's desk.
- A body is found in Hartley, and Inspector Darbley helps a detective from the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad with the murder investigation.
- Inspector Darblay is anxious to find out what Frankie Miller is doing in Hartley and why Dick Graydon is covering up for him.
- Officers from the crime squad mount an undercover operation against a gang of international counterfeiters.
- Inspector Darbley deals with nine-year-old tearaway Jonny Duffield.
- Inspector Darbley doubts a man who swears he is innocent of any involvement in a robbery.
- Inspector Longton warns local pensioners about confidence tricksters who have been posing as council officials.
- Inspector Darbley finds herself caught up in a dispute over an old steam engine.
- An army major asks Inspector Longton to help him find a deserting corporal.
- The police have to contend with a hymn singing religious fanatic and a sleepless lay preacher. Inspector Longton has a heart-to-heart with DCI Perrin.
- Inspector Darbley arranges safe accommodation for the sole witness in an attempted murder case.
- A man detained overnight for being drunk and disorderly reports seeing a young girl in chains.
- Sgt. Beck has difficulty trying to sell tickets for the annual police dance.
- Information from an informant has sent a man to jail, with serious consequences for Inspector Darbley's private life.
- An elderly man reports hearing a threatening voice calling from outside his isolated house - in German.
- Sgt. Parrish demands to know why Inspector Longton has taken Sgt. Beck's name off the duty sheets.
- The manager of a dry cleaning establishment confesses to a prior conviction for fraud and finds himself out of a job.
- The police have to deal with the logistics of the annual pop festival. Meanwhile, a celebrated former resident returns to Hartley to visit his daughter.
- P.C. Sparks provides someone with an alibi against accusations of involvement in a series of robberies.
- A man confesses murder to the new vicar of Hartley and then threatens to kill himself.
- Inspector Longton investigates an alleged affair between a teacher and one of his pupils.
- Local residents complain about a gang of teenage boys asking for work.
- An overzealous shop manager tries to have a local respected elderly lady prosecuted for shoplifting of a minor item. The police decide not to pursue the matter.The disgruntled shop manager then refuses to co-operate with an anti-glue sniffing campaign organized by the same police and allows a local youth to purchase a large amount of solvent. A few hours later, PC Danny Sparks discovers the dead body of the boy in a derelict house. A furious Inspector Longton then goes to confront the manager and inform him of the tragic consequences of his actions.
- Inspector Kate Longton leads an urgent search to save a life after receiving an anonymous telephone call.