7x42 - Last Bus To Newtown

January 3, 1972

Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.

7x43 - Lynch

January 10, 1972

Change. New people. Different methods. Some people call it progress. Bert Lynch, out on his own, is starting to feel left behind. Not the best time for his surprise visitor to call.

7x44 - Team Work

January 17, 1972

Whether it's a family trying to adjust to change or the police force mounting a big crime prevention operation a team is only as strong as its weakest member.

7x45 - The Attackers

January 24, 1972

A lad is walking home late at night...

7x46 - Retirement

January 31, 1972

An old man tries to stop a robbery...

7x47 - Promotion

February 14, 1972

Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.

7x48 - Canal

February 21, 1972

It's the age of fast getaways, but Frank and George are exceptions. They're villains all the same and Sgt. Miller thinks they're worth watching.

7x49 - Care

February 22, 1973

Two girls with their husbands away. Maureen is the social type and likes a drink; Jill is the lonely type, but she finds something for the police to do.

7x50 - Week Off

February 28, 1972

Lynch tries to get away from it all...

7x51 - Missing

March 6, 1972

Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.

7x52 - Quilley

April 10, 1972

Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.

7x53 - Tessa In The Woodpile

April 17, 1972

After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.

7x54 - Keep To Yourself

April 24, 1972

Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.

7x55 - Smoke

May 1, 1972

7x56 - Operation Ascalon

May 8, 1972

Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?

7x57 - Short Cut

May 15, 1972

Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.

7x58 - Hagger

May 22, 1972

DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.

7x59 - Playtime

May 29, 1972

Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.

7x60 - Sweet Girl

June 5, 1972

A lass is missing...

7x61 - Access

June 12, 1972

Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?

7x62 - Goss

June 19, 1972

Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.

7x63 - The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1

July 10, 1972

7x64 - The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2

July 11, 1972

Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.

7x65 - Forget It Part 1

July 17, 1972

7x66 - Forget It Part 2

July 18, 1972

A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?

7x67 - A Neighbour's Goods Part 1

July 24, 1972

7x68 - A Neighbour's Goods Part 2

July 25, 1972

There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.

7x69 - Loyalties Part 1

July 31, 1972

7x70 - Loyalties Part 2

August 1, 1972

Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.

7x71 - Relative Values Part 1

August 7, 1972

7x72 - Relative Values Part 2

August 8, 1972

OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.

7x73 - Not Good Enough Part 1

August 14, 1972

7x74 - Not Good Enough Part 2

August 15, 1972

Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.

7x75 - Breakage Part 1

August 21, 1972

7x76 - Breakage Part 2

August 22, 1972

A man with a parcel - George T. Wood - who's looking for someone; who's been kept waiting most of his life. And a derelict building, all glass and wind - and someone up on the roof. Quilley takes a big risk.

7x77 - Connor

September 11, 1972

Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.

7x78 - The Team

September 18, 1972

Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.

7x79 - Witness

September 25, 1972

Terence Nichols is in custody at Newtown police station after a wages snatch. There are three days to the trial and Stone thinks it's an open and shut case. He has a reliable witness in Sydney Adams. But one of the villains is still on the run.

7x80 - Takes All Sorts

October 2, 1972

A new Inspector arrives at Newtown, Ralph Edward Pratt by name, spruce as a pocket hanky and dripping self-confidence. He is fussy and believes in doing everything by the book. He also wants to get involved in everything that's going on, however trivial. It doesn't take long for Bert Lynch to take a violent dislike to the newcomer and to make every effort to avoid him!

7x81 - Sins Of The Father

October 9, 1972

Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.

7x82 - Damage

October 16, 1972

Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.

7x83 - Day Trip

October 23, 1972

Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.

7x84 - Public Relations

October 30, 1972

DS Haggar doesn't like Ken Knowles. ""Journalists,"" he says, ""grow fat on misrepresenting police information"". He doesn't like old Bertha either. She doesn't give information. So what chance does he stand against both of them?

7x85 - Old Soldiers

November 6, 1972

Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.

7x86 - Diabolical Liberty

November 13, 1972

There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.

7x87 - Old Acquaintance

November 20, 1972

A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.

7x88 - The Legacy

November 27, 1972

Sgt. Stone goes to the funeral of an old and respected thief in the hope of unearthing a few skeletons. But dead men don't talk and neither will this one's grandson.

7x89 - The Amateurs

December 4, 1972

While Austin Nuttall dreams of owning his own business Connor dreams of nailing a fence. And with two crimes unsolved, Connor demonstrates how to kill two men and two birds with one stone.

7x90 - Hobo

December 11, 1972

A gullible old man, a con man, and a do-gooder. And Tom Stone is right in the middle and in need of somewhere to live.

7x91 - Old Lag

December 18, 1972

7x93 - Skin Game

January 11, 1973

A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.

7x94 - Backwater

January 18, 1973

All Tom Stone wants is a quiet weekend's fishing, but then he meets Sergeant Rust. Together they catch a very queer fish, but have different ideas about landing it.

7x95 - Big Jake

January 25, 1973

Who gets to Big Jake first, Billy Fielden or DC Skinner? One of them wants to help him, the other just wants him. And who, or what, is Big Jake anyway?

7x96 - Women At Work

February 1, 1973

Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.

7x97 - Jack The Dodger

February 8, 1973

There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.

7x98 - Miller

February 15, 1973

A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.

7x99 - Operation Watchdog

March 1, 1973

Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother

7x100 - Defection

March 8, 1973

A member of a visiting Trade Delegation takes a positive step concerning th future. But Sgt. Stone's future is left for Connor and Richards to fight over.

7x101 - Invention

March 15, 1973

Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.

7x102 - Hard Man

March 22, 1973

Clifford Roscoe is the local hard man. He's fresh out of jail and ready and anxious to cause trouble. But Stone and Connor are ready for him.

7x103 - Domestic

March 29, 1973

A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.

7x104 - Pat

April 5, 1973

Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?

7x105 - Bowman

April 12, 1973

Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.

7x106 - The Lady And The Gentleman

April 19, 1973

There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.

7x107 - Suspicion

April 30, 1973

Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.

7x108 - Mileage

May 7, 1973

Jupp has a large family and needs to keep his job. But events pile up against him - his boss and a robbery - and he needs to keep his cool.

7x109 - Routine

May 14, 1973

Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.

7x110 - The Spike

May 21, 1973

A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?

7x111 - Hi-Jack

June 4, 1973

A stolen lorry load of meat parked on a busy road. A piece of cake for the police, unless the lorry driver's name is Houdini!

7x112 - Mother And Child

June 11, 1973

Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.

7x113 - Co-Operation

June 18, 1973

Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?

7x114 - No Proceedings

June 25, 1973

Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.

7x115 - Officer Material...?

July 2, 1973

It's the day of Lynch's promotion board. He's already passed his exams, so he knows his stuff. But - is he the right type to be an officer?