About this season
Special Branch is a British police drama centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.
Episodes (13)
1. Double Exposure
Aired 14 February 1974 • 60 min
Craven and Haggerty are assigned to investigate if a photographer is a threat to national security.
2. Catherine the Great
Aired 21 February 1974 • 60 min
The team are on the trail of Rehfuss - a deadly assassin who has managed to get into the country.
3. Jailbait
Aired 28 February 1974 • 60 min
Craven and Haggerty are hot on the trail of a traitor has broken out from prison.
4. Stand and Deliver
Aired 7 March 1974 • 60 min
An experimental weapon is stolen from a military research facility, but the thieves are unaware the weapon is unstable.
5. Something about a Soldier
Aired 14 March 1974 • 60 min
Tensions run high as Craven and Haggerty investigate two army officers.
6. Rendezvous
Aired 21 March 1974 • 60 min
Craven provides security for the debriefing of a captured KGB agent.
7. Sounds Sinister
Aired 28 March 1974 • 60 min
Craven and Haggerty investigate the broadcasting of compromising information about public figures on a pirate radio station.
8. Entente Cordiale
Aired 4 April 1974 • 60 min
Craven is appalled to find himself implicated in his ex-wife's terrorist activities.
9. Date of Birth
Aired 11 April 1974 • 60 min
Craven must unravel the connection between a recently-killed spy and an au pair.
10. Intercept
Aired 18 April 1974 • 60 min
Craven has to investigate a morally dubious but strategically important foreign VIP who has been robbed of a fortune in diamonds.
11. Alien
Aired 25 April 1974 • 60 min
A German student revolutionary has been allowed into Britain under the strict condition that he does nothing political. Craven and Haggerty are made to ensure that he sticks to the terms of his deal.
12. Diversion
Aired 2 May 1974 • 60 min
Is Strand's erratic behaviour a result of the pressure he is under or is he playing a much more dangerous game?
13. Downwind of Angels
Aired 9 May 1974 • 60 min
Craven and Haggerty are working against the clock to find a gunman stalking the London streets.