About this season
A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
Episodes (8)
1. Rogue's Gallery
Aired 15 September 1978 • 50 min
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 Wilder, who has exported paintings from fourteen of the galleries.
2. A Good and Faithful Woman
Aired 22 September 1978 • 50 min
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 his team who demand an 80% cut. Hackett is alerted when Mrs. Blake is seen with aid Venables.
3. Queen's Pardon
Aired 29 September 1978 • 50 min
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 briefcase of explosives.
4. Fringe Banking
Aired 13 October 1978 • 50 min
Millett Construction are bidding for the M58 contract. Civil servant John McCorquadale is caught in a honey trap but then killed. Hecht buys Millett and Hackett tries to find the money.
5. Promises
Aired 20 October 1978 • 50 min
Hackett and DC Aston are guarding informer Heslop prior to giving evidence against target criminal Collyer. Aston is killed by a bomb placed in Heslop's car. Now Heslop has gone on the run from both Hackett and Collyer.
6. The Trouble with Charlie
Aired 27 October 1978 • 50 min
Hackett bumps into ex-girlfriend Trish Walker at the airport, who's carrying £12,000 of cocaine for Scott Taylor. While out, with Hackett, Taylor's drug deal goes wrong and an innocent man is killed.
7. Figures of Importance
Aired 3 November 1978 • 50 min
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 London. The following day, she is dragged from the river, strangled to death.
8. The Run
Aired 10 November 1978 • 50 min
A courier arriving from Frankfurt is mugged. He has on him a sample case with pure gold moldings. Hackett believes Billy Jarvis is smuggling gold and using his porn empire has a front.