Episode 1
The Stone Standard Part 1
Aug 2, 1971
Episode 2
The Stone Standard Part 2
Aug 3, 1971
Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.
Episode 3
The Mystery Part 1
Apr 9, 1971
Episode 4
The Mystery Part 2
Aug 10, 1971
A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.
Episode 5
Nobody Hit Me Part 1
Aug 16, 1971
Episode 6
Nobody Hit Me Part 2
Aug 17, 1971
Two grocers, one across the road from the other. Both ordinary, everyday characters. But then one of them has a fire in his shop. Goss and Stone end up with one villain and two very frightened men.
Episode 7
Dan, Dan... Part 1
Aug 23, 1971
Episode 8
Dan, Dan... Part 2
Aug 24, 1971
To get stolen goods to the public a villain has to be an organising genius, and that's not all. The police are keeping an eye on Reg Thurley, who seems to be leading a double life.
Episode 9
Funny Fellah
Aug 31, 1971
Episode 10
Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1
Sep 6, 1971
Episode 11
Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2
Sep 7, 1971
Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.
Episode 12
Purely Medical Purposes Part 1
Sep 13, 1971
Episode 13
Purely Medical Purposes Part 2
Sep 14, 1971
Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.
Episode 14
Grandstand Finish Part 1
Sep 20, 1971
Episode 15
Grandstand Finish Part 2
Sep 21, 1971
Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.
Episode 16
Funny Creatures Women Part 1
Sep 27, 1971
Episode 17
Funny Creatures Women Part 2
Sep 28, 1971
Night, a deserted park and a young woman on her way home. Skinner is interviewed by Goss and Stone. Then they take the keys to his quarters.
Episode 18
The Dirty Job Part 1
Oct 4, 1971
Episode 19
The Dirty Job Part 2
Oct 5, 1971
The Bannion family is in trouble, but at first not with the police. Bannion can possibly help Goss catch a villain. But is Goss willing to help Bannion in return?
Episode 20
Ding Dong Part 1
Oct 11, 1971
Episode 21
Ding Dong Part 2
Oct 12, 1971
Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.
Episode 22
Intrusion Part 1
Oct 18, 1971
Episode 23
Intrusion Part 2
Oct 19, 1971
Episode 24
Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1
Oct 25, 1971
Episode 25
Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2
Oct 26, 1971
There's a V.I.P. visit in the offing and everyone is making plans: Newtown police, Special Branch, Headquarters. And they're not the only ones. It's a straight line from the airport to the Remand Home. And the roads should be fairly quiet.
Episode 26
Contact Man Part 1
Nov 1, 1971
Episode 27
Contact Man Part 2
Nov 2, 1971
Three villains are under lock and key. But where is the missing eight thousand pounds? With business problems and an expensive wife Mr. Owen has lots of reasons to be worried, but there's another reason too.
Episode 28
Take Away Part 1
Nov 8, 1971
Episode 29
Take Away Part 2
Nov 9, 1971
Nicked cars are normally just a routine job. So what makes Annette Minto's so different? At first she just wants her car back, but then something makes her change her mind.
Episode 30
Who Were You With? Part 1
Nov 15, 1971
Episode 31
Who Were You With? Part 2
Nov 16, 1971
A hairdresser's shop is wrecked. In the middle is a frightened girl. She's alone and vulnerable and it's night time. She's no money and nowhere to go. It's not surprising that she's scared.
Episode 32
Danny Boy's Home Part 1
Nov 22, 1971
Episode 33
Danny Boy's Home Part 2
Nov 23, 1971
Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.
Episode 34
Rules Of The Game Part 1
Nov 29, 1971
Episode 35
Rules Of The Game Part 2
Nov 30, 1971
Episode 36
The Wrong Odds Part 1
Dec 6, 1971
Episode 37
The Wrong Odds Part 2
Dec 7, 1971
Episode 38
The Horse Dealer Part 1
Dec 13, 1971
Episode 39
The Horse Dealer Part 2
Dec 14, 1971
With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.
Episode 40
Collation Part 1
Dec 20, 1971
Episode 41
Collation Part 2
Dec 21, 1971
Promotion is in the air and Goss is in with an outside chance. A sighting, plus a report from a beat man, might just add up to a feather in Goss's cap at just the right time.
Episode 42
Last Bus To Newtown
Jan 3, 1972
Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.
Episode 43
Lynch
Jan 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.
Episode 44
Team Work
Jan 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.
Episode 45
The Attackers
Jan 24, 1972
A lad is walking home late at night...
Episode 46
Retirement
Jan 31, 1972
An old man tries to stop a robbery...
Episode 47
Promotion
Feb 14, 1972
Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.
Episode 48
Canal
Feb 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.
Episode 49
Week Off
Feb 28, 1972
Lynch tries to get away from it all...
Episode 50
Missing
Mar 6, 1972
Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.
Episode 51
Quilley
Apr 10, 1972
Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.
Episode 52
Tessa In The Woodpile
Apr 17, 1972
After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.
Episode 53
Keep To Yourself
Apr 24, 1972
Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.
Episode 54
Smoke
May 1, 1972
Episode 55
Operation Ascalon
May 8, 1972
Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?
Episode 56
Short Cut
May 15, 1972
Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.
Episode 57
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.
Episode 58
Playtime
May 29, 1972
Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.
Episode 59
Sweet Girl
Jun 5, 1972
A lass is missing...
Episode 60
Access
Jun 12, 1972
Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?
Episode 61
Goss
Jun 19, 1972
Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.
Episode 62
The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1
Jul 10, 1972
Episode 63
The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2
Jul 11, 1972
Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.
Episode 64
Forget It Part 1
Jul 17, 1972
Episode 65
Forget It Part 2
Jul 18, 1972
A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?
Episode 66
A Neighbour's Goods Part 1
Jul 24, 1972
Episode 67
A Neighbour's Goods Part 2
Jul 25, 1972
There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.
Episode 68
Loyalties Part 1
Jul 31, 1972
Episode 69
Loyalties Part 2
Aug 1, 1972
Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.
Episode 70
Relative Values Part 1
Aug 7, 1972
Episode 71
Relative Values Part 2
Aug 8, 1972
OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.
Episode 72
Not Good Enough Part 1
Aug 14, 1972
Episode 73
Not Good Enough Part 2
Aug 15, 1972
Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.
Episode 74
Breakage Part 1
Aug 21, 1972
Episode 75
Breakage Part 2
Aug 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.
Episode 76
Connor
Sep 11, 1972
Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.
Episode 77
The Team
Sep 18, 1972
Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.
Episode 78
Witness
Sep 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.
Episode 79
Takes All Sorts
Oct 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!
Episode 80
Sins Of The Father
Oct 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.
Episode 81
Damage
Oct 16, 1972
Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.
Episode 82
Day Trip
Oct 23, 1972
Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.
Episode 83
Public Relations
Oct 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?
Episode 84
Old Soldiers
Nov 6, 1972
Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.
Episode 85
Diabolical Liberty
Nov 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.
Episode 86
Old Acquaintance
Nov 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.
Episode 87
The Legacy
Nov 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.
Episode 88
The Amateurs
Dec 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.
Episode 89
Hobo
Dec 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.
Episode 90
Old Lag
Dec 18, 1972
Episode 91
Skinner
Jan 4, 1973
Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.
Episode 92
Skin Game
Jan 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.
Episode 93
Backwater
Jan 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.
Episode 94
Big Jake
Jan 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?
Episode 95
Women At Work
Feb 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.
Episode 96
Jack The Dodger
Feb 8, 1973
There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.
Episode 97
Miller
Feb 15, 1973
A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.
Episode 98
Care
Feb 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.
Episode 99
Operation Watchdog
Mar 1, 1973
Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother
Episode 100
Defection
Mar 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.
Episode 101
Invention
Mar 15, 1973
Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.
Episode 102
Hard Man
Mar 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.
Episode 103
Domestic
Mar 29, 1973
A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.
Episode 104
Pat
Apr 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?
Episode 105
Bowman
Apr 12, 1973
Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.
Episode 106
The Lady And The Gentleman
Apr 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.
Episode 107
Suspicion
Apr 30, 1973
Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.
Episode 108
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.
Episode 109
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.
Episode 110
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?
Episode 111
Hi-Jack
Jun 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!
Episode 112
Mother And Child
Jun 11, 1973
Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.
Episode 113
Co-Operation
Jun 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?
Episode 114
No Proceedings
Jun 25, 1973
Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.
Episode 115
Officer Material...?
Jul 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?
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