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TV·1977–1978·2 seasons, 17 episodes·BBC One·Drama, Crime·50m·Created by Graham Williams

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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

Season019Episodes1977AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01ShipmentSeptember 9, 1977Hackett 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
  2. S01E02Blow OutSeptember 16, 1977Harry 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.
  3. S01E03Big ElephantSeptember 23, 1977Courier Pink gives Sharkey a chance to make some money by bringing Lebanon hashish into Britain. Before he can hand it to Cetti, police raid
  4. S01E04Hunting PartiesSeptember 30, 1977Criminals Dickie Tufnell and Harry Kemp are shot dead in a gangland hit. Hackett learns that the latter had been forced into the robbery by
  5. S01E05VandraggersOctober 14, 1977Two 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
  6. S01E06Lady LuckOctober 21, 1977Hackett's snout Collars is murdered. Inquiries lead to the release of Swain and Lewis from Parkhurst. Target criminal Ruby Daniels' daughter
  7. S01E07Set UpOctober 28, 1977An 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
  8. S01E08RoadrunnerNovember 4, 1977A 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
  9. S01E09Carve UpNovember 11, 1977Bids are being placed for a lucrative city development building project but is there an element of police corruption connected to one of the

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season028Episodes1978AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Rogue's GallerySeptember 15, 1978A 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
  2. S02E02A Good and Faithful WomanSeptember 22, 1978Hackett 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
  3. S02E03Queen's PardonSeptember 29, 1978Geoffrey 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
  4. S02E04Fringe BankingOctober 13, 1978Millett Construction are bidding for the M58 contract. Civil servant John McCorquadale is caught in a honey trap but then killed. Hecht buys
  5. S02E05PromisesOctober 20, 1978Hackett and DC Aston are guarding informer Heslop prior to giving evidence against target criminal Collyer. Aston is killed by a bomb placed
  6. S02E06The Trouble with CharlieOctober 27, 1978Hackett bumps into ex-girlfriend Trish Walker at the airport, who's carrying £12,000 of cocaine for Scott Taylor. While out, with Hackett, T
  7. S02E07Figures of ImportanceNovember 3, 1978Hackett'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
  8. S02E08The RunNovember 10, 1978A courier arriving from Frankfurt is mugged. He has on him a sample case with pure gold moldings. Hackett believes Billy Jarvis is smuggling

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

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