Series 8 (1992)

The Best Policy
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January 2, 1992 • 22m

D.C.I. Reid's influence in high places suddenly makes D.I. Burnside look vulnerable to criticism. CID investigate an armed robbery.

A Friend In Need
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January 7, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Quinnan is the subject of a civil complaint. P.C.s Stamp and Stringer follow up on a fire at a home for ex-psychiatric patien...Read more

Whose Side Are You On?
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January 9, 1992 • 22m

D.C. Lines investigates a mugging, and tries to get the victim charged with the murder of his assailant.

Lip Service
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January 14, 1992 • 22m

D.C. Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved in a bar brawl.

Illegals
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January 16, 1992 • 22m

D.C. Lines investigates when a cellarful of illegal immigrants is discovered. He enlists the help of Sgt. Boyden, who takes a fanc...Read more

Fair Play
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January 21, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Quinnan investigates the illegal sale of steroids. P.C. Garfield is put on the spot when his old sparring partner is arrested.

Dinosaur
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January 23, 1992 • 22m

D.I. Burnside's unorthodox policing methods, which include flushing an informant's head down a toilet, set him on a collision cour...Read more

Joyride
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January 28, 1992 • 22m

A girl is seriously injured in a joyriding incident. Ch. Supt. Brownlow must decide whether he is prepared to risk a riot by sendi...Read more

Not Waving
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January 30, 1992 • 22m

A student nurse is sexually assaulted. D.I. Burnside arrests the obvious suspect, but he escapes from police custody.

Mates
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February 4, 1992 • 22m

Sgt. Cryer is finding being non-operational tedious. He goes undercover as a punter in a brothel, but his presence on the operatio...Read more

Lost Boy
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February 6, 1992 • 22m

D.S. Greig is led to a vice ring when searching for a missing thirteen-year-old boy. D.C. Dashwood and W.P.C. Ackland are brought ...Read more

Chicken
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February 11, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Stringer tries to stop some children from playing 'chicken' on the railway line, but one of them is run down by a train. Sgt....Read more

Somebody Special
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February 13, 1992 • 22m

Acting D.I. Greig tries to recruit a hardened female thief as a snout, but finds her more than a match for him. D.C.I. Reid is pro...Read more

Previous Convictions
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February 18, 1992 • 22m

Investigating an apparent accident in which a man's hand is crushed in a car-breaker's yard, Sgt. Maitland uncovers years of animo...Read more

Beggar My Neighbour
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February 20, 1992 • 22m

A tramp is attacked, leading the police into a web of crime.

It's A Small World
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February 25, 1992 • 22m

Thinking of leaving the force, D.C. Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative business opportunity with a firm of security consultants.

Licence
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February 27, 1992 • 22m

A man convicted of strangling his wife has been released on licence, but the probation service fails to notify Sun Hill. His prese...Read more

Comeback
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March 3, 1992 • 22m

The community police station run by P.C. Smollett is fire-bombed. The area car is stolen from P.C. Loxton and W.P.C. Datta, and it...Read more

Fireproof
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March 5, 1992 • 22m

D.I. Burnside leads an investigation into the firebombing of the community police station.

The Paddy Factor
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March 10, 1992 • 22m

D.C. Carver and W.D.C. Martella have a car thief under observation, and see him shot as he gets into a car. The Anti-Terrorist Squ...Read more

The Wild Rover
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March 12, 1992 • 22m

D.S. Roach ignores the Anti-Terrorist Squad, and investigates a possible IRA cell.

Coincidence
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March 17, 1992 • 22m

A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted abduction in an adventure playground.

Going Soft
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March 19, 1992 • 22m

A routine trip to a magistrate for a warrant turns into a nightmare for D.C. Dashwood when he is taken prisoner by two hooded burglars.

Re-Hab
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March 24, 1992 • 22m

Jack Meadows arrives to take charge of Sun Hill CID. He becomes involved with a father suspected of murdering his drug addict son.

Acting Detective
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March 26, 1992 • 22m

A woman who collapsed at an airport is found to be a mule, smuggling drugs in her stomach. D.I. Burnside, with only limited time t...Read more

Stopover
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March 31, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Smollett tries to offer a follow-up service to victims of crime. A woman whose husband is in prison, and who runs a guesthous...Read more

Suspects
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April 2, 1992 • 22m

D.S. Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong.

All The King's Horses
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April 7, 1992 • 22m

A lorry overturns and sheds its load outside a school, burying a boy and girl and putting P.C. Loxton to the test.

Party Politics
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April 9, 1992 • 22m

W.D.C. Martella celebrates her birthday. D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach go to a party attended by a crooked businessman, who makes B...Read more

Trials & Tribulations
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April 14, 1992 • 22m

W.P.C. Marshall becomes a vital witness in a murder trial, and soon realises that someone is trying to intimidate her.

A Can Of Worms
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April 16, 1992 • 22m

A traffic accident draws attention to a minicab firm.

Timing
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April 21, 1992 • 22m

D.C.I. Meadows tries to find the link between three arson attacks. D.S. Roach and D.C. Dashwood track down an escaped prisoner, bu...Read more

A Nice Little Line In Plastic
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April 23, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Quinnan and W.P.C. Datta arrest a girl using stolen credit cards and uncover a major racket.

Trial & Error
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April 24, 1992 • 22m

An armed robber who put an innocent bystander in an wheelchair has his house firebombed by the victim's son. D.I. Burnside is dete...Read more

Owning Up
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April 30, 1992 • 22m

P.C.s Loxton and Stringer follow up on a mugging but their case is nearly ruined when it collides with an investigation by D.S. Gr...Read more

Up Behind
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May 5, 1992 • 22m

It's Saturday night, but CID are at work trailing a known criminal believed to be responsible for a series of artifice burglaries ...Read more

Appearances
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May 7, 1992 • 22m

Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barmaid is hit by a car and later dies. P.C.s Quinnan and Stringer have...Read more

Principled Negotiation
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May 12, 1992 • 22m

D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach look favourably on an ex-villain with a loan-shark problem, but they expect favours in return.

Sign Of Our Times
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May 14, 1992 • 22m

An armed robber admits to D.C. Lines that redundancy and the repossession of his house made him take to crime to solve his problems.

Priorities
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May 19, 1992 • 22m

P.C.s Stringer and Loxton attend to a theft at an old people's home and begin to suspect that the ex-policeman who runs the home i...Read more

Users
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May 21, 1992 • 22m

W.D.C. Martella arrests a woman for drug dealing. D.I. Burnside suspects that she is using teenage girls as couriers by offering t...Read more

Man Of The People
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May 26, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Stringer wins the election for the post of Federation Rep, beating the incumbent P.C. Hollis by fifty-eight votes to two. Ch....Read more

Runaway
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May 28, 1992 • 22m

D.S Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl, and tries to establish if his suspect is also responsible for a number of mu...Read more

Exposures
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June 2, 1992 • 22m

A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic session. W.D.C. Martella discovers that every picture tells a story.

Better The Devil
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June 4, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Stringer gets involved with a bizarre household, and discovers a horrifying case of parental cruelty in the attic. W.P.C. Mar...Read more

Prisoners
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June 9, 1992 • 22m

Sgt. Boyden and P.C. Hollis are hoping for a quiet night in the custody suite at Sun Hill, but that's not how it turns out.

World To Rights
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June 11, 1992 • 22m

W.P.C. Marshall, on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row, makes an error of judgement and is attacked by a woman's husband.

Do The Right Thing
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June 16, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Stringer is mugged by a gang, and determines to get his own back. P.C. Quinnan and W.P.C. Datta follow a cheque card fraudster.

Hiding To Nothing
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June 18, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate. In trying to assist him, W.P.C. Ackland crashes the Area car, much t...Read more

Punching Judy
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June 23, 1992 • 22m

A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband. D.S. Greig and D.C.I. Meadows interview the husband. W.P.C....Read more

Vicious Circles
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June 25, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby, and finds himself drawn into a complicated family set-up.

Up All Night
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June 30, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Garfield pursues a burglar and is beaten up. Sgt. Boyden's inaction brings hostility from the relief and trouble for D.S. Roach.

Part Of The Furniture
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July 2, 1992 • 22m

D.C. Dashwood is to be transferred to the Art and Antiques Squad. D.S. Roach hands him a burglary at an infants' school as a wind-...Read more

Snakes & Ladders
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July 7, 1992 • 22m

It's P.C. Garfield's first day back after the attack. The relief place bets on the likelihood of Garfield punching Sgt. Boyden, bu...Read more

Street Cleaning
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July 9, 1992 • 22m

Sgt. Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and get back to work, to sort out the takeover of genui...Read more

Hands Up
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July 14, 1992 • 22m

Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat, and arrests a drunk for criminal damage.

A Scandalous Act
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July 16, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Garfield brings in a teenaged girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her.

Raiders
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July 21, 1992 • 22m

A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?

Talk Out
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July 23, 1992 • 22m

A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing, but W.P.C. Ackland isn't sure that they are telling the whole truth.

True Confessions
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July 28, 1992 • 22m

D.S. Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession and accuses the police of oppression.

Private Enterprise
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July 30, 1992 • 22m

D.C.I. Meadows tackles CID about passing intelligence to the collator; but D.S. Roach is reluctant to share information relating t...Read more

Getting Through
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August 4, 1992 • 22m

The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men who come to the front desk with allegations of GBH against each other.

Last Night Of Freedom
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August 6, 1992 • 22m

Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember a thing about it.

Cutting Loose
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August 11, 1992 • 22m

Burnside and Lines are returning a chief suspect to prison when they are ambushed by a gang of masked men, who spring him.

Soft Targer
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August 13, 1992 • 22m

P.C. Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats and reletting them to squatters. At Sun Hill, a ...Read more

I've Never Been To Harrogate
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August 18, 1992 • 22m

D.S. Greig and D.C. Woods investigate the mysterious collapse of an old lady who has been burgled.

Human Resources
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August 20, 1992 • 22m

Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper. Lack of personnel for D.S. Roach's operation places W.D...Read more

Exit
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August 25, 1992 • 22m

A loan shark is attacked. D.S. Greig has a vital witness who is young, blonde and pretty, but she keeps stringing him along, and then disappears.

Loyalties
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August 27, 1992 • 22m

Acting on information from a snout, D.I. Burnside mounts a raid on crack-houses. When details of the raid are leaked, D.C.I. Meado...Read more

Snapshot
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September 1, 1992 • 22m

A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege, as a man waves a gun at P.C.s Stamp and Quinnan.

Letting Go
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September 3, 1992 • 22m

Reg is playing with a train set before going out. He is looking for a place to live as he is moving out of the section house but ...Read more

Travelling Light
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September 8, 1992 • 22m

Viv helps Donna dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case. They find a man who spoke to the dead woman and gives them a new ...Read more

Radio Waves
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September 10, 1992 • 22m

Monroe talks to Conway about a problem with a car chase. Tony and Dave were chasing joy riders with Ron in the back. Norika and ...Read more

A Blind Eye
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September 15, 1992 • 22m

Viv brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps make an identikit picture. Boyden gets spoken to by Monroe about working with ...Read more

Sympathy For the Devil
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September 17, 1992 • 22m

Tosh is at the building society waiting for an armed robber. Dave and Barry assist CID and they catch an old age pensioner. Ste...Read more

Force Is Part of the Service
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September 22, 1992 • 22m

Brownlow and Conway have a meeting with councillors about the changes in the police force. Conway gives them a tour of the statio...Read more

On the Record, Off the Record
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September 24, 1992 • 22m

CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of personal CD players. Steve spots the van used in the ro...Read more

Stoning the Glasshouse
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September 29, 1992 • 22m

Bob visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch. His son is stealing to support his drug habit. Bob's friend thinks...Read more

Tip-Off
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October 1, 1992 • 22m

Tosh is asked for by a burglar whom he put inside. He gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery. CID catches the...Read more

Open to Offers
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October 6, 1992 • 22m

Monroe and the relief go to a pub where some men are damaging it. One of the men tries to blackmail Dave over some moonlighting D...Read more

Playing God
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October 8, 1992 • 22m

CID are tied up with a court case. A burglary suspect of Ted's may have to be released as he is at court. Tony brings in an old...Read more

Crack of Doom
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October 13, 1992 • 22m

There is a search of people looking for crack. A man has a scuffle with another man and claims a piece of crack was planted on hi...Read more

Spit and Polish
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October 15, 1992 • 22m

Steve is late for shift. Just as Steve is about to arrest a fine defaulter Dave is nearly run over by a speeding BMW. Steve real...Read more

Overdue
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October 20, 1992 • 22m

Burnside talks to a snout in a bus queue about a delivery. Woods and Carver observe the delivery and CID raid the premises. The ...Read more

We Should Be Talking
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October 22, 1992 • 22m

George is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ramraid. While checking in with the station, his radio goes d...Read more

Reasonable Grounds
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October 27, 1992 • 22m

Norika goes to see a man about a missing child. Barry has to tell a man his brother is dead after complaining of having to let a...Read more

Discipline
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October 29, 1992 • 22m

An obbo on a club nearly goes wrong when a fight starts outside it. The man who started the fight turns out to be a D. S. suspend...Read more

Minefield
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November 3, 1992 • 22m

Sgt. Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedural error meant that a dangerous and possibly psychopa...Read more

Gamers
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November 5, 1992 • 22m

Tosh investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop. Dave and Cathy investigates an Asian lady accused of shoplifting. Cathy thin...Read more

Occupational Hazard
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November 10, 1992 • 22m

When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious. W.D.C. Martella has to pick up the pieces.

Just Send Some Flowers
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November 12, 1992 • 22m

W.D.C. Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral. D.C. Carver links it to previous burglaries and an employe...Read more

Waifs and Strays
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November 17, 1992 • 22m

A missing girl's blood-stained book leads D.C. Lines to uncover the family's dark secrets and come up with an unexpected result. ...Read more

Happy Families
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November 19, 1992 • 22m

What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villain like Daniel Batt? D.I. Burnside thinks it's all to do with female hormones, b...Read more

Well Out of Order
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November 24, 1992 • 22m

Meadows and Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element, but Brownlow is committed to a s...Read more

Into The Mire
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November 26, 1992 • 22m

CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.

Master Of The House
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December 1, 1992 • 22m

The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.

Fireworks
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December 3, 1992 • 22m

Stamp uses some old-fashioned policing methods to tackle the problem of children playing with railway detonators.

Cold Shoulder
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December 8, 1992 • 22m

A local youth with form is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development. D.C.I. Meadows investigates when no w...Read more

Safety First
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December 10, 1992 • 22m

D.I. Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired shotgun during a robbery at his shop.

Counting the Cost
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December 15, 1992 • 22m

A local hero who prevented a robbery, and was severely injured in the process, but received no compensation, is being harassed by ...Read more

Compassion
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December 17, 1992 • 22m

A probation officer seems eager to assist D.I. Burnside over the murder of a prostitute, but how close is she to the murderer?

Finders Keepers
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December 22, 1992 • 22m

D.C. Carver finds a buried treasure and the glory should be his. D.C. Dashwood, now with the Art and Antiques Squad, takes the cas...Read more

Return Match
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December 24, 1992 • 22m

When a collection of valuable dolls is stolen, D.C. Dashwood from the Art and Antiques Squad turns up, wrong-foots D.C. Lines and gets a result.

High Places
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December 29, 1992 • 22m

An ex-criminal who used to be part of a circus high-wire act is found dead, apparently from a fall, but the pathologist says he died elsewhere.

When Push Comes To Shove
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December 31, 1992 • 22m

Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub. W.P.C. Ackland tries to calm the situation, ...Read more