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the detectives (1993 - 1997)

Season 3
Episode 1 DC Of Love
Director Ed Bye
Writer Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill
Guest Star
Plot As a lonely and meaningless retirement beckons after 25 years on the force, the boys are given the task of fishing "The Black Widow" from a Sea of Love after a series of gruesome lonely hearts murders.
Episode 2 Flash
Director Ed Bye
Writer Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill
Guest Star
Plot The boys are asked to question the local madman 'Flash Gordon', but there is a slight mix up and they are interviewing the son of a Duke who's been found in possesion of drugs. The comedy comes because it takes them so long to work out they both are talking about different things
Episode 3 Art Attack
Director Ed Bye
Writer Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill
Guest Star Stephen Aintree
Plot A concept artist has his masterpiece stolen. A fish tank containing a tin of peaches and pair of Spanish maracas in four gallons of his own urine. However through his co-artist grassing it turns out he makes loads of them and sells them to people as the 'only one'.
Episode 4 On Thin Ice
Director Ed Bye
Writer Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill
Guest Star Richard O'Brien, Amanda Mealing 
Plot A member of the British Ice Skating team is attacked and gets her leg broken. She discovers her attacker is her own manager, who wants to put his girlfriend at her place in the European competition in London. Briggs and Louis are to investigate.

Richard O'Brien  (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) makes an appearance as the spooky Police Doctor in a very funny scene!
You can also see a young Amanda Mealing, the despicable Holby City's Connie Beauchamp.
Episode 5 Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Director Ed Bye
Writer Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill
Guest Star Mike Reid
Plot Frank Cottam's once oldest friend Ronnie became a criminal and fled to Spain.  When he learns that Ronnie's daughter is currently in Gibraltar, he wants to finish the job he failed 30 years before. However Briggs and Louis are in Gibraltar too because they won a holiday in a tv game show. 
Episode 6 Twitchers
Director Ed Bye
Writer Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill
Guest Star Bill Oddie, Pat Roach
Plot A rare bird has been found to laid some eggs on a remote island off the coast of England. Briggs and Louis are sent to guard the nest 24 hours a day. Professor Rose however sees the pair for what they are and takes the eggs into his own keep safe. When the detectives discover the eggs have disappeared, they buy chicken eggs to put them in the nest instead.
Episode 7 Thicker Than Water
Director Ed Bye
Writer Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill
Guest Star Philip Withchurch
Plot As Briggs and Louis settle down for Christmas dinner a reknown criminal attempts to break in. But the criminal appears to be Bob's half brother. This is the best Christmas episode of a tv show ever made!! Finally it's funny, bitter and not corny at all!