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A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01ShipmentSeptember 9, 1977—Hackett and team stake out a cargo ship carrying £30,000 in silver. A tip-off from snout Ted Knight points the finger at Jack Maynard. When
- S01E02Blow OutSeptember 16, 1977—Harry Skeats runs a gang of jewel thieves. During a safe breaking, gang member Rocky Wall is badly burned; he's dumped and dies in hospital.
- S01E03Big ElephantSeptember 23, 1977—Courier Pink gives Sharkey a chance to make some money by bringing Lebanon hashish into Britain. Before he can hand it to Cetti, police raid
- S01E04Hunting PartiesSeptember 30, 1977—Criminals Dickie Tufnell and Harry Kemp are shot dead in a gangland hit. Hackett learns that the latter had been forced into the robbery by
- S01E05VandraggersOctober 14, 1977—Two youths hijack four lorries and beat up the drivers. Tate believes they are stealing to order. When the pair attempt to sell new TV/radio
- S01E06Lady LuckOctober 21, 1977—Hackett's snout Collars is murdered. Inquiries lead to the release of Swain and Lewis from Parkhurst. Target criminal Ruby Daniels' daughter
- S01E07Set UpOctober 28, 1977—An informer tells Hackett to go to a squash club where he will find a briefcase in a locker. Leaving, he is approached by Dep. Chief Constab
- S01E08RoadrunnerNovember 4, 1977—A young runaway is found at the scene of a lorry hijacking. Down the road, a second lorry is hijacked but the driver is dead and carrying a
- S01E09Carve UpNovember 11, 1977—Bids are being placed for a lucrative city development building project but is there an element of police corruption connected to one of the
Season02
- S02E01Rogue's GallerySeptember 15, 1978—A number of art shops have been broken into with paintings stolen to order. Bonney discovers a link to a man called Abbo and curator Jenny W
- S02E02A Good and Faithful WomanSeptember 22, 1978—Hackett and team are left in the lurch when Raymond Blake fails show to pick up £100,000 in stolen cash. Blake is met by Charlie Walker and
- S02E03Queen's PardonSeptember 29, 1978—Geoffrey Wyatt wants a Queen's Pardon for his son, who was wrongfully hanged 15 years earlier. He takes MP Jack Sissons hostage with a brief
- S02E04Fringe BankingOctober 13, 1978—Millett Construction are bidding for the M58 contract. Civil servant John McCorquadale is caught in a honey trap but then killed. Hecht buys
- S02E05PromisesOctober 20, 1978—Hackett and DC Aston are guarding informer Heslop prior to giving evidence against target criminal Collyer. Aston is killed by a bomb placed
- S02E06The Trouble with CharlieOctober 27, 1978—Hackett bumps into ex-girlfriend Trish Walker at the airport, who's carrying £12,000 of cocaine for Scott Taylor. While out, with Hackett, T
- S02E07Figures of ImportanceNovember 3, 1978—Hackett's ex-fiancée Gemma Maskell rings him out of the blue. He's unaware that her husband is threatening her life if she doesn't return to
- S02E08The RunNovember 10, 1978—A courier arriving from Frankfurt is mugged. He has on him a sample case with pure gold moldings. Hackett believes Billy Jarvis is smuggling
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