January 3, 1989
Episode 0 of Series 5 premiered on January 3, 1989
January 3, 1989 • 22m
D.I. Burnside leads a raid on a hotel room to catch a man suspected of armed abduction, but due to Ramsey's duff info, they raid t...Read more
January 5, 1989 • 22m
P.C. Ramsey is back in uniform and goes with P.C. Haynes to see about a shoplifter who claims she is innocent. While they are out ...Read more
January 10, 1989 • 22m
W.P.C. Ackland and P.C. Stamp arrive at a brothel, where they find Jo Whitney, the daughter of a prominent local councillor, soake...Read more
January 12, 1989 • 22m
W.P.C. Ackland and P.C. Smith attend a local gypsy campsite where residents are complaining. A social worker has a Place Of Safety...Read more
January 17, 1989 • 22m
Ch. Insp. Conway is late for a meeting with a Mr. Trevelyan from the Department of Trade and Industry, who wants police help in sh...Read more
January 19, 1989 • 22m
P.C. Stamp and W.P.C. Brind arrest a man who is so drunk he can barely stand. Back at the station, the man collapses after a drug ...Read more
January 24, 1989 • 22m
W.P.C. Brind and P.C. Melvin are on foot patrol, but are seperated. Brind ends up dealing with a workplace dispute by herself, but...Read more
January 26, 1989 • 22m
D.S. Roach goes to the hospital to talk to a young man who was slashed in the face with a knife - the fifth is a series of ""steam...Read more
January 31, 1989 • 22m
P.C. Haynes volunteers for ""duty elsewhere"", undercover as a driver for Neville Tubbs, leader of a Yardie gang in South London. ...Read more
February 2, 1989 • 22m
A young woman is taken to hospital in a coma after a drug overdose - she is D.I. Burnside's god-daughter, Tracey. Burnside orders ...Read more
February 7, 1989 • 22m
W.P.C. Brind chases two bag snatchers, but they get away. She later spots one of them crossing the road and nicks him. The victim,...Read more
February 9, 1989 • 22m
W.P.C. Martella visits a friend of hers, Alison Page, who has been badly beaten up. Alison is on the game, and her attacker was a ...Read more
February 14, 1989 • 22m
D.C. Dashwood investigates when a house which has recently been put on the market is burgled. He suspects that some prospective bu...Read more
February 16, 1989 • 22m
P.C. Hollis is referee for a five-a-side football match between two schools organised by the Met. One of the players is Sgt. Cryer...Read more
February 21, 1989 • 22m
Because of a screwup, Burnside has put back community relations 30 years. Conway yells at Burnside before burnside goes to see Br...Read more
February 23, 1989 • 22m
Taffy and June are talking to a lady when they are aware of shouts down the road. they find a man holding his dead baby. June ta...Read more
February 28, 1989 • 22m
Burnside is not only late for the weekly crime meeting with Brownlow, but is called out of it by an urgent phone call. Officers f...Read more
March 2, 1989 • 22m
Roache brings in a man suspected of handling stolen car radios. Yorkie and Reg are going to the soccer. Reg with the result of ...Read more
March 7, 1989 • 22m
Dashwood is moaning because Greig is playing his clarinet in the office. Roach is having a drink with a married woman and after s...Read more
March 9, 1989 • 22m
Taffy and Viv are in a Sunday market when they are attacked by a group of white supremists. Viv is then teamed up with Haynes and...Read more
March 14, 1989 • 22m
June has been seeing a married man. Bob is worried about having his tires slashed during the night. Sgt. Peters has his own tro...Read more
March 16, 1989 • 22m
Dashwood and Carver investigate a fight at a bail hostel. A man bailed for receiving has been beaten up and jumps off the roof an...Read more
March 21, 1989 • 22m
Sun Hill C.I.D. and the Vice Squad raid six flats to catch a pornography ring. All the flats are clean except one, and it is suspe...Read more
March 23, 1989 • 22m
D.S. Roach is interviewing a suspect, Barron, about a cash and gold bullion robbery. There's not enough evidence to charge him, an...Read more
March 28, 1989 • 22m
Ch. Insp. Conway wants to see P.C. Smith and W.P.C. Martella about a special assignment: going through the missing persons registe...Read more
March 30, 1989 • 22m
Cryer is filling up a car. Peters gives the relief a lecture about refilling area cars after using them. The fraud squad are vi...Read more
April 4, 1989 • 22m
Ted goes undercover to catch a gang running a lottery scam. If the workers don't join, they have an industrial accident. An old...Read more
April 6, 1989 • 22m
Roxanne is helping Roach and Viv catch bag snatchers at a disco. They get barracaded in the ladies loo with the suspects. Lines...Read more
April 11, 1989 • 22m
Carver, Yorkie and Ramsey bring in a suspect with a shooter. Suspect is tied in with Post Office jobs and cuts a deal with Burnsi...Read more
April 13, 1989 • 22m
Viv is visting a remand prisoner in prison and ends up being held hostage. After being released she is told all his grevious's ar...Read more
April 18, 1989 • 22m
Tosh and Grieg investigate a death in a hotel. The manager treats them like scum. Man was a Polish travelling tie salesman and d...Read more
April 20, 1989 • 22m
An Italian turns up at the front desk asking for directions to the Blackball tunnell. Viv comes across a burglar with a gun who ...Read more
April 25, 1989 • 22m
Ramsey picks up Burnside, Carver and Lines just as they are leaving a resturant but before they get going, a lady (Mrs Mancini) co...Read more
April 27, 1989 • 22m
CID are keeping an eye on a man who is suspected of illegal shipment of arms to 3rd world countries. No one has been able to make...Read more
May 2, 1989 • 22m
Roache talks to a lady about a burglary. Melvin goes back with him that night. Teenage burglars return and during a struggle one...Read more
May 4, 1989 • 22m
Conway visits the CAD room and others to try and encourage people to talk about their problems. June asks Conway what he thinks h...Read more
May 9, 1989 • 22m
Haynes is about to escort school childrenacross the road when a rolls roycecoming speeding down it. Haynes drives it back to the ...Read more
May 11, 1989 • 22m
June calls on a lady who claims her husband wants to kill her but the threat is 4 years old. Her husband smothered the baby with ...Read more
May 16, 1989 • 22m
Burnside goes to the funeral of an old villian, father of man suspected of the robbery. A dog digs up the loot. Melvin is talki...Read more
May 19, 1989 • 22m
Tony and Claire are waiting for the area car. While waiting, they have to ring around to find a missing prisoner. They are calle...Read more
May 23, 1989 • 22m
Tony is talking to s shopkeeper about graffiti when he notices a scruffle between a stallholder and some youths. The stallholder ...Read more
May 25, 1989 • 22m
Industrial dispute by prison officers put pressure on the holding cells. Roache is not happy that a murder suspect is mixing with...Read more
May 30, 1989 • 22m
A homeless lady's body is found on a building site. Haynes investigates. She died of chorine gas. The site is run by a man convic...Read more
June 1, 1989 • 22m
Jim is waiting in a car for the chemist to open and hungry. Meanwhile Mike is being fed breakfast and cups of tea. A man takes a...Read more
June 6, 1989 • 22m
Carver investigates a burglary and finds an unconsious girl at the bottom of the garden with the stolen property. Jim accuses hom...Read more
June 8, 1989 • 22m
Tosh and Carver are in a car waiting for a suspect who gets away after pinching a mailman's bike. Suspect's wife has been rumoured...Read more
June 13, 1989 • 22m
Yorkie is on hand at the scene of a fatal accident. Everyone is being held up and Yorkie is stressing out. Petrol is leaking fro...Read more
June 15, 1989 • 22m
Ramsey and Taffy investigate stolen credit cards in shopping precinct. While there a soldier says he has a bomb. The precinct is...Read more
June 20, 1989 • 22m
Jim is at the hospital talking to the wife of the victim of a robbery who had a heart attack. It is the latest in a string of rob...Read more
June 22, 1989 • 22m
Viv and June are on park patrol. A lady runs into a shed and locks herself in. A man is looking for his dog that went missing a ...Read more
June 27, 1989 • 22m
Uniform are looking for someone who is letting off distress flares inside letterboxes. Melvin arrives on the scene of an attack. ...Read more
June 29, 1989 • 22m
Mike Dashwood is investigating pilfering from a building site. Foreman is not cooperative. Roache gets him to interview a lad ab...Read more
July 4, 1989 • 22m
Taffy has come in for a shift before taking his holidays. He is worried he will miss his flight. He tries to saw a bed rail to r...Read more
July 6, 1989 • 22m
Dashwood and Roach investigate a break-in at an apartment on the Thames. The burglar is chased and caught by uniform. Claims chl...Read more
July 11, 1989 • 22m
An artist is painting in the middle of the road while a lorry is blocking the road. The girl won't talk but doesn't appear deaf. ...Read more
July 13, 1989 • 22m
An armed robbery is in progress. Jim follows suspect, picking up starting pistol but loses him outside a church. A priest is fou...Read more
July 18, 1989 • 22m
Stamp brings in a biker and leaves Brind to bring up the motorbike. CID doesn't want to know. Tosh is getting ready for his holi...Read more
July 20, 1989 • 22m
A plane has come down in a park. Pilot and passengers (1 injured) all took off. Dogs track injured man to a warehouse. The plan...Read more
July 25, 1989 • 22m
PC Edwards and PC Smith are called to a disturbance at a local bank, where they are surprised to find Tosh Lines' wife and childre...Read more
July 27, 1989 • 22m
Haynes and Martella follow a car which is being driven erratically. Viv is worried about Haynes because he is a friend of Ramsey....Read more
August 1, 1989 • 22m
Inspector Frazer is moaning about expenses. Viv is given domestic violence cases to follow up. She can't understand why beaten ...Read more
August 3, 1989 • 22m
Tosh visits a family with some clothes and meets a man who is teaching his son bad attitudes regarding the police. He puts Tosh's...Read more
August 8, 1989 • 22m
Roach is meeting the Inspectors Promotion Board who made up their mind before the interview that he wouldn't be promoted. Carver...Read more
August 10, 1989 • 22m
Burnside argues with a D.I. from robbery squad about using Greig and Lines on surveillance. They are sharing the house with a nos...Read more
August 15, 1989 • 22m
Yorkie's last day. Ho goes to a suspected break-in at a video shop. Hollis thought he was going to Lombardy house instead. York...Read more
August 17, 1989 • 22m
June and Tony walk through a black community. Roach had raided a house selling intoxicating liquor. June and Tony are called to ...Read more
August 22, 1989 • 22m
Taffy and Stamp are on a shout when they come across an accident. They have to carry on. Taffy's wife thinks Cryer is stopping h...Read more
August 24, 1989 • 22m
Lines sits in on a poker game at a mini cab office. Illegal gambling is suspected. They raid the wrong place. Cathy moans to T...Read more
August 29, 1989 • 22m
While attending a traffic accident, Alex is approached about vandalism on an allotment but it is about couples coming in having se...Read more
August 31, 1989 • 22m
Penny is kicking the drunks out of the cells. One of the drunks is very relucant to go. He is later found dead by a cleaner. H...Read more
September 5, 1989 • 22m
Roach and Dashwood arrest a man at an after match function. The suspect tries to help a girl and gets stabbed. Roach gets very ...Read more
September 7, 1989 • 22m
Burnside is having problems with the C.P.S.(Crown Prosecuting Service). He asks Brind to check a warrant on a man asked after by ...Read more
September 12, 1989 • 22m
Lay visitors are visiting the station. 30 prisoners are about to be transferred from Barton Street. Sgt. Peters processes a boy ...Read more
September 14, 1989 • 22m
After being raked over the coals by Brownlow for the accident in the custody suite. Sgt. Peters mows Mrs Gunn's lawn before taking...Read more
September 19, 1989 • 22m
Garfield is on the beat when he notices an old lady catching her breath. He drops in to see her later and Cryer is worried he is ...Read more
September 21, 1989 • 22m
Stamp calls on a lady who complains her neighbour is making noises. She has security bars on her door and loses the key. Tony ca...Read more
September 26, 1989 • 22m
Greig interviews a suspect in an armed robbery. Most of the evidence is circumstantial but the suspect decides to confess.
September 28, 1989 • 22m
Turnham wants a name from Cathy but annoys her by whistling and then asks Reg who he thinks the suspect is. Cathy is rude to Roac...Read more
October 3, 1989 • 22m
Burnside, the rest of CID and some uniform assist Flying Squad thwart a hold-up on a security van at a supermarket. Carver is not...Read more
October 5, 1989 • 22m
Mike and Tosh are looking for a private detective. His girlfriend is not saying anything about his whereabouts. A client is also...Read more
October 10, 1989 • 22m
Burnside and Carver are doing a joint observation with Robbery Squad on a security van. Info seems to be incorrect as to time of ...Read more
October 12, 1989 • 22m
Dashwood and Ackland are on a tour in a graveyard. Garfield and Carver are in the hotel waiting to catch a thief. Greig is in th...Read more
October 17, 1989 • 22m
Brownlow is driving when he notices a driving erratically. He gives chase and catches the driver but can't reveal his location. Th...Read more
October 19, 1989 • 22m
Stamp is near an underpass when he spots a girl begging. He brings her in to the station where it turns out that she was abused b...Read more
October 24, 1989 • 22m
Brind sorts out a bit of bother in a pub. A man, who turns out to be from Special Branch, chats her up afterwards. Conway is no...Read more
October 26, 1989 • 22m
Taffy and Tony go to a rail yard where a female body has been found. Burnside thinks the watchman fits the picture. It turns out...Read more
October 28, 1989 • 22m
Episode 87 of Series 5 premiered on October 28, 1989
November 2, 1989 • 22m
Taffy is up for APA and is wound up by Tony. Taffy goes to deal with an alarm at a warehouse. Turns out to be an actual break in...Read more
November 7, 1989 • 22m
Sunhill has an open day and a sliver cup is nicked. Lines is having money problems. Reg is concerned about stress on the job. ...Read more
November 9, 1989 • 22m
Burnside is driving past an electricity substation when he sees someone climbing over the wall. While investigating he is beaten ...Read more
November 14, 1989 • 22m
A special constable gaves a ticket to a motorist. Penny warns a car owner to move his car and tells the special constable to dest...Read more
November 16, 1989 • 22m
Norika talks to a driver who parks illegally. She then deals with an upset drug addict at a chemist. The girl is later found bad...Read more
November 21, 1989 • 22m
Conway talks to the relief about image. ""Efficient service with a smile"". Martella is asked to do surgery that afternoon. Boo...Read more
November 23, 1989 • 22m
A amn at a caryard has complaints about kids damaging cars and nicking car radios. The kids harass a man who has moved back into ...Read more
November 28, 1989 • 22m
A group of children are harassing a shop keeper but the real complaint is against a sax player. Melvin thinks there is a connecti...Read more
November 30, 1989 • 22m
Carver goes to the hospital to see how a victim of a hit-and-run accident is. Roach thinks it is attempted murder and although s...Read more
December 5, 1989 • 22m
Taffy and Claire find an old lady on the street with a bird cage and a suitcase. She has run away from a home and later dies in t...Read more
December 7, 1989 • 22m
Jim has brought a new suit. 27 motorbikes including a police bike have been nicked. Garfield and Viv notice 2 youths stealing a...Read more
December 12, 1989 • 22m
June and Melvin call at a school where a baby has been taken. June thinks she knows who took the baby. Viv and Able are called to ...Read more
December 14, 1989 • 22m
Frazer brings in a suspected shoplifter. Frazer is having her apprasial interview later. A woman comes in to inform Frazer that...Read more
December 19, 1989 • 22m
Greig has been made Acting D. I. and Ted takes it up with Conway when he gets back. Ted is bringing in a prisoner who has been o...Read more
December 21, 1989 • 22m
Norika can't get her car started. A man helps who turns out to be the bogus repairman. Norika and Dave are on the beat together ...Read more
December 26, 1989 • 22m
The van brings in a Reverend with a sheath knife after a fight. Burnside has been after the Reverend for a long time. Reg recogn...Read more
December 28, 1989 • 22m
DC Carver is at the hospital checking on a stabbing of a drug dealer. WPC Martella has some info about the deceased which prompts ...Read more