8x1 - Inspector Lynch

October 22, 1973

Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?

8x2 - Nuisance

October 29, 1973

Alexandra is always complaining to an already overworked police force about her next door neighbour Percy. But is she just a nuisance? Or should Inspector Lynch take her complaints seriously?

8x3 - Escape

November 5, 1973

Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.

8x4 - Break Up

November 19, 1973

A woman is arrested for shoplifting and a thief has his alibi checked. On the face of it two routine cases. But even the most routine cases can have repercussions.

8x5 - Stray Girl

November 26, 1973

Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.

8x6 - Pieces

December 3, 1973

A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.

8x7 - The Cinder Path

December 10, 1973

Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!

8x8 - Cadet

December 11, 1973

Cadet Peter Preston wants nothing more than to be a policeman, and even though he's a bit of a joke at Newtown his future seems assured. Then his father takes someone for a ride.

8x9 - Pressure Of Work

December 17, 1973

Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.

8x10 - Absence

January 7, 1974

A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.

8x11 - In Police Hands

January 21, 1974

Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.

8x12 - Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears

February 4, 1974

Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.

8x13 - Joanna

February 11, 1974

When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.

8x14 - Pressure

February 18, 1974

A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.

8x15 - Waste

February 25, 1974

Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.

8x16 - Two Wise Monkeys

March 4, 1974

When villains like Burford and Tyndale fall out they will go to any lengths to settle a score. And somewhere along the line the police have to take drastic measures.

8x17 - Dinner Break

March 11, 1974

Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.

8x18 - Allegiance

March 18, 1974

Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.

8x19 - Rota

March 25, 1974

The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.

8x20 - Priority

April 1, 1974

Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.

8x21 - Background

April 8, 1974

8x22 - Losers

April 10, 1974

DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!

8x23 - Turnabout

April 22, 1974

Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?

8x24 - Intruder

April 29, 1974

8x26 - Pastime

May 13, 1974

A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.

8x27 - Certain Parties

May 20, 1974

Back in Newtown after seven years in Parkhurst, Pikey Nimmo wants to settle up with the men who put him away. Stone was one of them.

8x28 - Family

June 30, 1974

Susan Giles wants her father back inside and uses two men to help her. One of them is Quilley, and he unwittingly ruins Skinner's work.