| Season 5 |
| Episode
1 Special Branch |
| Director |
Ed Bye |
| Writer |
Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill |
| Guest Star |
Sandy Hendrickse
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| Plot |
The
Super wishes to renew contact with his daughter, who hates policemen
and has become an ecologist watchdog who's living in a forest guarding
trees. Briggs and Louis are sent to contact her, so they go undercovered
as hippies!
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| Episode
2 Cardiac Arrest |
| Director |
Ed Bye |
| Writer |
Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill |
| Guest Star |
Jamie Foreman, Joanne Good |
| Plot |
Briggs
and Louis are sent to the hospital to protect a thief who got shot in
a failed burglary and the police want him alive to testify.
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| Episode
3 The Beast Of Hackney Marshes |
| Director |
Ed Bye |
| Writer |
Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill |
| Guest Star |
Tony Selby |
| Plot |
The
Police Gala Variety Night is coming and everyone is preparing a sketch.
Briggs and Louis are spending more time practicing their 'umbrella' act
than policing. The local press are making a big thing of 'The Beast Of
Hackney Marshes'. Rumours say a bear has escaped from London's zoo and
wanders the Marshes at night. The pair are sent to spend the night on
the marshes, there is a bear there but naturally not as you would
expect... |
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| Episode
4 The Curse Of The Comanches |
| Director |
Ed Bye |
| Writer |
Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill |
| Guest Star |
Anthony Valentine
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| Plot |
Briggs
and Louis have lost accidentally a sacred Comanche statue, now an
Indian chief has come to recover it, they have to accompany him to find
it.
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| Episode
5 Best Man |
| Director |
Ed Bye |
| Writer |
Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill |
| Guest Star |
Tony Selby, Derek Martin
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| Plot |
Briggs and Louis are invited to a wedding. Only Briggs gets asked to be
the best man, he can't figure out why because he barely knows the
groom. But as it turns out it's due to a case when he was a young bobby
and the bride's father is not really dead. He's in prison framed for a
crime he did not commit. |
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| Episode 6 Mine's A Larger One |
| Director |
Ed Bye |
| Writer |
Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill |
| Guest Star |
Malcom McFee |
| Plot |
The
head has decided to once again do a job swap scheme. The boys get put
on the river police only to find they don't do anything. Now they have found
their paradise and are about to negotiate a permanent swap. Suddenly, the
boat runs into an unexploded WWII river mine.... |
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| Special Episode Go West Old Man |
| Director |
Ed Bye |
| Writer |
Steve Knight & Mark Whitehill |
| Guest Star |
John Ratzenberger, Elizabeth Kelly, Rory McGrath
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| Plot |
After
years of stress due to being responsible for useless bungling
detectives, Chief Superintendant Cottam suddenly disappears. Briggs and
Louis follow his trial all the way to Canada to try and get him to come
back to England but will he be easily persuaded? |
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