9x1 - Bits An' Bats

September 9, 1974

There's a new Cash'n'Carry being built in Newtown and some odd characters work on it. One of them is on the fiddle - bits and bats to begin with.

9x2 - Old Bones

September 16, 1974

Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.

9x3 - Mysteries

September 30, 1974

Ossie Davies is a security guard. He's a pushover. You just knock off his specs, threaten him a bit and help yourself. But Miller reckons there's more to Ossie than that.

9x4 - Night Train

October 7, 1974

Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.

9x5 - Friends

October 14, 1974

Quilley is a good copper, but as an amateur footballer he has his limitations. Jesse Alty is a good footballer but has ambitions to be a better car thief. He and Quilley play for the same team and Gordon Glossop is a friend of both of them.

9x6 - Gardens

October 28, 1974

A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.

9x7 - Quiet As The Grave

November 4, 1974

Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.

9x8 - Pursuit

November 11, 1974

A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.

9x9 - Have You Seen This Child

November 18, 1974

Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.

9x10 - Occupation

November 25, 1974

A factory work-in is on its last legs with the police outside the gates, keeping the peace but waiting for someone to break it.

9x11 - Unnecessary Force

December 2, 1974

How did a man like Derek Murphy get beaten up by his best friend, a man half his size? A puzzle for Miller, Yates and Skinner.

9x12 - The Bouncer

December 9, 1974

Eddy Howarth is the over-enthusiastic bouncer at the local dance hall, but his devotion to duty and jealousy over a woman land him in trouble, and he finds himself facing a serious charge.

9x13 - House To House

December 16, 1974

A full-scale house to house enquiry fails to produce a witness until a mysterious night prowler and two criminals lay their own freedom on the line.

9x14 - Boy In Blue

January 6, 1975

The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.

9x15 - Local Knowledge

January 13, 1975

Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.

9x16 - Innocent And Vulnerable

January 20, 1975

Tempers fray among men constructing a block of flats, but for one family who actually live in a high-rise, nerves reach breaking point and an everyday flare-up develops into a police enquiry.

9x17 - Intervention

January 27, 1975

Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.

9x18 - Tonight And Every Night

February 3, 1975

9x19 - Transit

February 10, 1975

When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.

9x20 - Snouts

February 17, 1975

Jack Melish is walking down a deserted street near the docks to keep a secret appointment with Inspector Lynch. Suddenly a car pulls up alongside him and he is bundled into the back seat. The car races off...

9x21 - Squatters

February 24, 1975

9x22 - Eviction

March 3, 1975

Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.

9x23 - Incitement

March 10, 1975

Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?

9x24 - Thanks But...No Thanks

March 17, 1975

Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?

9x25 - Kronur

March 24, 1975

A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.

9x26 - Scapegoat

April 7, 1975

As an act of kindness Bert Lynch gives a deadbeat tramp a cell for the night - and finds himself up to his neck in trouble.

9x27 - Bit Of Business

April 14, 1975

A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.

9x28 - Distance

April 21, 1975

Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?

9x30 - Legacy

May 5, 1975

Continuation of the two previous episodes 'Distance' and 'Ritual'. The hunt for Skinner's murderer has moved away from Newtown. So why is a London detective on his way there, in secret?

9x31 - A New Broom

May 12, 1975

The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?

9x33 - Mugs

October 21, 1974