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The Knock

TV·1994–2000·5 seasons, 38 episodes·ITV1·Crime, Drama·1h·Created by Anita Bronson

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The Knock is a British television drama series, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV from 1994 to 2000, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise. The series derived its name from the distinctive 'knock knock knock' command used over the radio to synchronise a raid.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season017Episodes1994AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Win Some, Lose SomeApril 10, 1994Customs and Excise discover a plot to smuggle heroin into England from Jamaica via mail, illegal plane landings, and a Columbian woman drive
  2. S01E02Love and RespectApril 17, 1994Child pornography is being smuggled from Thailand. Adams tries to stop it, and Ralston investigates the unidentified plane.
  3. S01E03Trouble in ChinatownApril 24, 1994George Webster gets a hold on Birch while the team discover a heroin-smuggling group linked to a Chinese restaurant in London's Chinatown, r
  4. S01E04Endangered SpeciesMay 1, 1994Ralston discovers products made from endangered species, as a spilt container reveals animal horns. Meanwhile, Barton begins smuggling gold
  5. S01E05Reason for ConcernMay 8, 1994Andreotti inadvertently begins investigating an international drug smuggler. Diplomatic issues bring Ralston's investigation to a halt. Birc
  6. S01E06Show Your MetalMay 15, 1994The team follow Barton as he brings gold illegally into the country. Webster decides to up their smuggling operation and take bullion from a
  7. S01E07Hold Me CloseMay 22, 1994Webster cuts Barton off, so he tries to escape but is chased into the London Underground, where he commits suicide. Birch and Beverley Webst

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0213Episodes1996AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01One Day the World FrozeApril 28, 1996Local villain Eddie Davies hires Maddern to help with his bootleg run from France, selling to local shops at rates they can't afford. One su
  2. S02E02Eye of the EagleMay 5, 1996A mobile number found on Nadine Charles leads Christie and Andreotti to Rufus Teague, a known drug dealer. While Nadine is up in court, her
  3. S02E03The Need for SubstanceMay 12, 1996Andreotti goes undercover in South London in order to observe Davies and his son. He gets chatting to one of Davies' men in their local pub
  4. S02E04A Crack in the MainframeMay 19, 1996Reinhardt's long wait at Short's offices is finally rewarded when Lathem picks up the package from Sweden. While Roberts is held up in traff
  5. S02E05Rotten WeaknessMay 26, 1996After a complex operation using a Swedish undercover customs officer, City and South are finally in a position to knock Short's offices. How
  6. S02E06Best Served ColdJune 2, 1996To Roberts' horror, Jackson is forced to drop the charges against Short once the collaborators arrested refuse to name him in connection wit
  7. S02E07Hunger for PenniesJune 9, 1996Adams poses as a potential buyer for one of Webster's apartments in order to get closer to him. Maddern considers De Vooght's offer of Webst
  8. S02E08Take the BribeJune 16, 1996Jules Laurens negotiates a deal with a Russian gang to buy £20 million worth of heroin. Englishman Allan Montford is to buy another ten.
  9. S02E09NooseJune 23, 1996While the lorry containing a large quantity of Russian heroin treks across Europe, Reinhardt visits Interpol to examine their mugshots of kn
  10. S02E10A Fallen HorseJune 30, 1996Adams, furious at himself for having put Reinhardt's life at risk, orders him home as soon as he's reported to the Gendarmerie Centrale. Ada
  11. S02E11Out of the PictureJuly 7, 1996The consignment of heroin arrives in Lyon. The French Mafia plots to wipe out the Russian smugglers using Montfort to infiltrate the gang. C
  12. S02E12The Organ GrinderJuly 14, 1996Christie persuades a scared and reluctant Lucas to show him the house where Dafyd delivered his print-outs. City and South check out the foo
  13. S02E13Hard TaskJuly 21, 1996Adams receives permission from Jackson to bring the seriously injured Saphyvid to Heathrow in order to identify Montfort, thought to be trav

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season037Episodes1997AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01About the Long and Short of ItApril 6, 1997A diabetic is hospitalised after taking counterfeit medicine. Adams and team follow a trail that leads to an investigation in Africa.
  2. S03E02WavelengthApril 13, 1997The trail of the counterfeit drugs lead Ralston and Christie to West Africa where the drugs are causing an outbreak of septicemia. Counterfi
  3. S03E03Russian RouletteApril 20, 1997Smuggler John Danson is being intimidated by members of the former East German secret police, now turned smugglers. Master forger Donald Dew
  4. S03E04The Combination of TwoApril 27, 1997Danson buries Noveski's body near the smuggling route on the Suffolk Coast. An accomplice of Dewhurst's comes forward, leading Andreotti and
  5. S03E05ProtectedMay 4, 1997A consignment of tobacco on the Suffolk coast nearly gets Danson killed, as he's targeted by the East German assassins. In Morroco, Dewhurst
  6. S03E06Track and TraceMay 11, 1997Surveillance takes place as Dewhurst, Ransley and ex-agent Leakey arrive in London. Meanwhile, Danson is on the warpath when his son is kidn
  7. S03E07Walk the LineMay 18, 1997Ecstasy smuggling and cars stolen for export are the order of the day.

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season046Episodes1999AiredSeason avg
  1. S04E01A Stake in TerrorJanuary 7, 1999The team get a new boss in David Ancrom. Meanwhile, drug baron Frankie Johnson and his partner, American wheeler-dealer Greg Taylor with a s
  2. S04E02Heaven and HellJanuary 14, 1999Johnson and Taylor arrange to have the courier killed, as he returns from South Africa suffering from radiation sickness. The team are in a
  3. S04E03Call TimeJanuary 21, 1999As fellow conspirators start turning up dead and the Customs net starts to close in on him, Taylor panics and desperately attempts to close
  4. S04E04Tough CookieJanuary 28, 1999An Algerian heroin smuggling ring is exposed after an illegal immigrant is found hiding in the luggage compartment of a coach. Ancrom invest
  5. S04E05Out of ControlFebruary 4, 1999Christie's undercover operation is threatened when the Algerians suspect they've been betrayed, putting Christie in danger. The rest of the
  6. S04E06Last Ditch OpportunityFebruary 11, 1999Ancrom discovers Ralston made a deal with Toni Maxwell, in return for Christie's whereabouts. An operation on a gang of crooked airport bagg

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season055Episodes2000AiredSeason avg
  1. S05E01Armed and DangerousOctober 21, 2000An illegal arms racket is discovered after a suspicious container at Tilbury Docks explodes, almost killing Christie. A new elite squad know
  2. S05E02The MoleOctober 28, 2000Siblings Rick and Jenny Foster supply deadly ecstasy tablets in the clubs of Ibiza. The pair are so hard to catch that Indigo suspect there'
  3. S05E03PoisonNovember 4, 2000A poisonous toad smuggling operation causes a series of deaths to Indigo. An international drugs baron has an old score to settle with team
  4. S05E04Power TripNovember 11, 2000When a teenage girl goes missing, an online pedophile ring are the chief suspects. An explosion kills the main suspect. The team race to fin
  5. S05E05Episode 5

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

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