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Series 11 · 13 episodes · Apr 5, 1977

  1. Episode 1

    The Man Who Killed Songbirds

    Apr 5, 1977

    Young Colin's route home from school lies across a grubby parkland. Hiding in the bushes is a man with sweets... and a knife.

  2. Episode 2

    Rage

    Apr 12, 1977

    It's not like Arthur Scarsdale to be violent. He's normally a peaceful little villain, but in the Newtown nick it takes three policemen to hold him down - and all Bowker did was offer him a cup of tea.

  3. Episode 3

    Guilt

    Apr 19, 1977

    Quilley was at school with Chris Murray and knows he wouldn't hurt a soul. So when Chris half murders a man and pleads guilty Quilley wants to know why.

  4. Episode 4

    Transit

    Apr 26, 1977

    Crime Squad from Cardiff want Inspector Moffat to lodge a prisoner overnight in the Newtown cells - and no-one must know about it. But someone has to know, even if it's only another policeman.

  5. Episode 5

    Error Of Judgement

    May 3, 1977

    Lorry hi-jacks: too many, too well-planned and executed. Braithwaite goes 'under cover' as a lorry driver with a shady past. He's out in the cold - and vulnerable.

  6. Episode 6

    Scavengers

    May 10, 1977

    Digging a deep hole in the sand by the light of the moon isn't the sort of behaviour you'd expect from a debt collector. Not even such a strange one as Clarrie Enwright.

  7. Episode 7

    Fall Of Wiskers Castle

    May 17, 1977

    It's his first day as a sergeant and Alec Quilley's hung over. It's his first job as a sergeant, and it requires a bit of gentle persuasion. But how can you be gently persuasive to a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun?

  8. Episode 8

    Rip Off

    May 24, 1977

    DC Bowker and Jack Crawford have met before. Their relationship is very simple: one way or another Bowker is going to nail Crawford, unless Crawford can nail Bowker first.

  9. Episode 9

    Quarry

    May 31, 1977

  10. Episode 10

    Attack

    Jun 14, 1977

    Coppers are fair game and copper-baiting is a good sport - unless the copper you pick on happens to be an expert in unarmed combat. In that case the game's called mayhem.

  11. Episode 11

    Skeletons

    Jun 21, 1977

    Excavating for a swimming pool a young couple come across an old trunk buried in their garden. For the police it means old files, old memories and old wounds must all be re-opened.

  12. Episode 12

    Domestic

    Jun 28, 1977

    Unlike his brother Terry, who's just a flat-footed scuffer, Graham Moffat is all set to wheeler-dealer his way into big business. Trouble is - the way it looks to Terry - brother Graham is all set to wheeler-dealer his way into crime.

  13. Episode 13

    Juvenile

    Jul 5, 1977