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1 Chalk and Cheese
By Peter Gibbs
22/10/00 12.24m
Schoolteacher - Celia Hanson retires and moves into the village
next door to farmer - Don Foster, a local known to be set in his ways.
Foster's patients wears thin when Celia's car breaks down and she asks for
his help. This starts a series of events in which Foster purposely makes
her life a misery. Celia then asks Blaketon for help after Foster plasters
her garden with manure and Blaketon visits him, but has little success.
Then when Foster's cows roam into her garden, Celia complains to Craddock.
Mike goes to see him but Foster doesn’t want to know. Foster then lets his
dog attack Celia on purpose and she ends up getting bitten, so Mike warns
him that his dog could get destroyed. But Foster is then arrested when she
accuses him of trying to run her down when his tractor ran into her broken
down car. Foster initially denies it, but then confesses to it after
questioning from Craddock and he signs a statement, Jackie who is
representing Foster suspect something's not right and ask Craddock to
retake the statement, but he declines. Craddock it seems also suspects
Foster of murdering his wife years before when she suddenly vanished and
asks Alf to investigate it. At the court in the meantime Foster is allowed
to go when it's discovered he can't read and there for couldn’t have read
his own statement. And Alf discovers his wife is in fact still alive after
his enquires. Meanwhile Phil wants to cheer up Gina who's finally fid of
Andy and he decides to take her to a new club where she ends up singing,
but he finds out she's still very emotional. And Claude gets into double
trouble with the council when he tries to make a few bob in illegal
dumping on his land, and to make the situation worse David ends up finding
a live shell from the war and decides to clean it up a
bit!
'Good Day
Sunshine' The Beatles
(1966)
'Where Do You go to My Lovely' Peter Sarstedt
(1969)
'Colours' Donovan (1965)
'Mama Told Me Not to Come'
Three Dog Night (1970)
'Can't Buy Me Love' Sung by a band in
the episode from the original hit by The Beatles (1964)
'Cryin' in
the Rain' Sung by Tricia Penrose from the original hit by The Everly
Brothers (1962)
'Hole in My Shoe' Traffic (1967)
'Time Has
Told Me' Nick Drake (1970)
'Man in a Shed' Nick Drake
(1970)
'Hard Headed Woman' Cat Stevens (1970)
2 Smile for the
Camera
By Jane Hollowood
29/10/00 14.22m
Mike and
Jackie begin to get a number of strange phone calls at all hours and it's
beginning to get Jackie worried. Mike promises to sort it out, but
Craddock tells him its just part of the job. Mike then however discovers
film rappers in the garden of the police house and begins to feel it's
more than just someone mucking around. Then Jackie finds her car has been
broken into and a message written in her diary saying, "I AM WAITING".
Jackie then goes to see Craddock who behind Mike's back accuses her of
having a secret boyfriend, and insisting to Mike it's a domestic matter.
Then Jackie is sent some flowers and receives more calls at work and then
when Mike find's a restaurant bill in Jackie's coat he suspects Jackie is
having an affair with a local man - Anthony Smythe. Mike then confronts
Smythe one night accusing him of stalking Jackie, he denies it insisting
they are just friends. However at the same time the stalker strikes again
at the police houses and a frightened Jackie escapes and runs to the pub
for help. Craddock who is furious that Mike went to see Smythe takes him
off the case and Alf takes over and he asks Blaketon for help. Blaketon
discovers a possible suspect in his old files, Martin Padmore - a known
stalker. Alf and Mike go to Padmore's house to discover he is indeed the
culprit as he has hundreds of pictures of Jackie everywhere, and so they
go after him. However Padmore is already with Jackie hidden in her car,
which he hijacks by holding a gun to Jackie's head. Jackie however is able
to escape into some woods and Mike and Alf arrive just in time to arrest
the obsessed Padmore. Meanwhile Smythe's father - General Smythe has died
recently and David, Bernie and Claude agree to do the funeral, but they
need a gun carriage for the coffin to lay upon and end up with a hey cart
which is fine until a donkey distracts the horse pulling it!
'For Your Love'
The Yardbirds (1965)
'I Don't
Want Our Loving to Die' The Herd (1968)
'Poison Ivy' The
Coasters (1959)
'The Wind Cries Mary' Jimi Hendrix Experience
(1967)
'Sweet Talkin' Guy' The Chiffons (1966)
'Many
Rivers To Cross' Jimmy Cliff
3 Dog Collar
By Neil McKay
05/11/00 13.68m
A concert takes place at
Elthering church in order to raise money for the church roof and Rev.
Thomas Gibbs is pleased with the events success. However after the event
is over and everyone has left, Alf finds that candlesticks have been
stolen from the church. Mike goes to the vicarage and informs Rev.Gibbs
and starts to investigate the theft by checking in the local antique and
porn shops. Then when Alf goes to do the church flowers on behalf of his
wife, he is assaulted by an intruder and ends up in hospital, and takes
full advantage of the break! Mike in the meantime discovers more items
have been stolen from the church and its safe has been opened, and he
realises it must have been opened by a key kept by Rev.Gibbs. Mike sees
Gibbs again and discovers the key has been stolen. Suspicion then falls on
Simon Cutler, who does jobs for Gibbs and is dating his daughter - Karen.
Mike and Phil go to see Cutler, who denies it, but Phil finds cash in his
room and he's questioned. Simon insists he earned the money and then Karen
reveals Simon was with her at the time of the robberies. Suspicion then
falls on Rev.Gibbs when Phil sees him leaving an antiques shop. The police
suspect Gibbs is in on the robbery with a porn shop owner called Oakes,
and Mike goes to see Gibbs who confesses to his involvement saying that he
did it in desperation and Oaks wanted a cut in it. Oakes is then caught
doing another break in - but with Gibbs' wife, Ruth. She turns out to be
who stole the candlesticks and gave the key of the safe to Oakes,
Rev.Gibbs just tried to cover up his wife's involvement. Meanwhile Phil
tries to impress Gina by getting Mike to fix her waste pipes in the pubs
kitchen saying he fixed them, and Claude and David on behalf of a Mrs.
Benton plan to enter her prize winning poodle - Harvey in a forthcoming
dog competition, however David looses Harvey and instead enters Alfred
under Mrs. Benton's name in the "best Mutt" competition - and
wins!
'Lord of
the Dance'
sung by actors in the show
'White Rabbit'
Jefferson Airplane (1967)
'If I Were a Carpenter' Bobby Darin
(1966)
'Walkin' the Dog' The Dennisons (1964)
'Keep on
Running' Spencer Davis Group (1965)
'I Feel Free' Cream
(1966)
'A Fool Such As I' Elvis Presley (1959)
'Hound Dog'
Elvis Presley (1956)
'Don't Let the Sun Catch you Crying'
Gerry and the Pacemakers (1964)
'It's Now or Never' Elvis
Presley (1960)
4 Gabriel's Last Stand
By Gil Brailey 12/11/00 13.17m
Retired MP
- Gabriel Firth and his wife Diana move back into the village, he
organises his retirement party at his manor in the hope of persuading a
local and wealthy businessman - Mr. Hudson to employ him. However Firth
then cancels the village’s annual fireworks display, which traditional
takes place on his estate, as it is on the same night as his party. He
also sacks the event's organiser Judd Holdsworth for starting to build the
bonfire without his permission. Later that same night the Firth's
are awoken by a biker riding in the grounds and vandalising their gardens,
Firth calls the police and accuses Holdsworth. Mike and Craddock then go
to see Holdsworth to question him, but he denies it. Then the Firth's find
paint sprayed all over the walls of their manor and Holdsworth who's got
the motive for it is immediately arrested, but he still insists he's not
responsible. Then Firth is nearly killed when the brakes of his car fail.
He again accuses Holdsworth when Mike informs him his car had been
tampered with, but Mike then tells him that Holdsworth was in police
custody at the time. The Firth's new neighbour - Jennifer Bennett is then
suspected and questioned. She reveals that she is Firth's mistress, and
admits to the vandalism with the paint and in the gardens, but denies
tampering with the car. Mike then looks at Firth's car more closely and
discovers a necklace belonging to his wife Diana under it. Diana then
confesses, saying she did it as she knew of her husband's affair with
Bennett. Meanwhile Jackie points out to Firth he legally has to let the
village party go ahead along side his own, and Claude and David provide
their 'homemade' fireworks for the event. But David is to eager to start
the show and accidentally sets alight the entire stock on Claude's truck
in one go! And Gina and Phil 'finally' get together at the party for
an evening out.
'A Taste of Honey' Mr. Acker Bilk and his
Paramount Jazz Band (1963)
'Long Live Love' Sandie Shaw
(1965)
'Light My Fire' The Doors (1967)
'I've Got a
Feeling' The Beatles (1970)
'Charlie Brown' The Coasters
(1959)
5 War Stories
By Peter
Barwood
19/11/00 14.94m
Alf's
old Commando friends arrives in the village for their 25th reunion, but
during the celebrations there is a disruption between one of them - Matty
Lovell and his best mates son - Charlie Penwarden, who's father was killed
in a raid the commando's did during the war. Penwarden it seems blames
Lovell for his death. Lovell then goes poaching with Claude and Penwarden
on Lord Ashfordly's land, but Lovell ends up dead with a shot to his head
and suicide is suspected. Sgt Nokes
(Weight of Evidence) who
is currently in charge, calls CID in to help investigate the killing.
Meanwhile Alf discovers Lovell was the trustee of the 'Widows and Orphans
fund' for the commando regiment, and it seems he was committing Fraud.
Penwarden it seems discovered what he was up to and threatened to expose
him if he did not pay up for his ill mother. However a writer called Drake
who plans to write a book about the war raid tells Blaketon that Lovell
had no need to shoot himself as Penwarden's father was the guilty one, not
Lovell. It turns out Penwarden was the guilty one with regard to the funds
moneys, Lovell was giving him the money for his mother who he then
discovered wasn't ill at all. Lovell threatened to expose Penwarden if he
didn't return the cash, so Penwarden shot him. Meanwhile Maggie is
treating Molly Rysinski who has come out of hospital, as she prefers to be
at home. But her son Graham, feels she should be in hospital and is angry
with Maggie. However Maggie tells him his mother is dying and that her
best interests is what matters now. So when he gets her back in hospital
against her will, Maggie with Claude and David's help gets her out so she
can die peacefully where she wanted to - in the countryside. And Gina
becomes worried when a Mr Blain threatens her with legal action over
supposed noise pollution in the pub, but when Phil discovers hazardous
substances badly stored in Mr Blain's garage, he comes to an arrangement
with him and Gina rewards Phil with a kiss!
'The Great Escape
Theme' Elmer Bernstein (1963)
6 The Fool on the Hill
By Helen Blizard
26/11/00 13.86m
Rachel Osborne is staying with her
Friends - Sandra and Dave Wilson at their house. The house is then broken
into and items of Rachel's are stolen. Meanwhile an elderly woman called
Enid, who turns out to be Craddock's mother, witnesses an assault on a
woman and then sees a green car drive off. She reports it to the police
and later, a dazed Rachel Osborne collapses in the pub and is taken to
hospital with head injuries. It appears it was her who Enid saw assaulted
on the moors and Mike informs the Wilson's of Rachel's assault. They tell
Mike she has a husband called Charlie who should also know. While trying
to trace Charlie who is in the army in Germany, Mike learns that Rachel
had filed for a divorce from him, which angered him. Mike then begins to
suspect Charlie of the break in when he hears that Charlie is now back in
the country and living in Whitby. He finds him and takes him for
questioning, where he admits he broke into the house. But later Charlie
discovers Rachel was having an affair with Dave Wilson and confronts
Wilson about it outside the pub were a fight between them starts and
Charlie is arrested. Rachel then dies and Charlie is questioned about the
assault. He says he was at his daughter - Lucy's school at the time of the
assault, which she confirms, eliminating him as a suspect. Enid then sees
the car she saw at the scene of the assault, which turns out to belong to
Dave Wilson. Wilson confesses and says he accidentally hit Rachel during
an argument in which Rachel suggested their affair should go on hold for
now. But Mike then discovers Wilson takes tablets for epilepsy, which
prevents him from Driving and realises Sandra Wilson in fact assaulted
Rachel after she learnt of her husbands affair. Meanwhile Claude and David
befriend Craddock's mother and put a bet on a horse for her at the races,
but then David loses the Betting slip after taking Alfred to the vets, and
Claude and David end up in the cells after getting caught trying to
recover it from the vets dustbins!
'Love Is All Around Us' Sung
by Jason Durr from the original hit by The Troggs
(1967)
'Blackbird' The Beatles (1968)
'As Tears Go By'
The Rolling Stones (1966)
7 The Traveller
By John
Milne
03/12/00 13.62m
There's an attempted armed robbery on
a local bookies, but when the robbers gun doesn't go off, the robbery
backfires and the culprits - Nat Cooper and Peter Corcoran then go on the
run. Division orders Ashfordly police to set up armed roadblocks around
the area to try and catch them. Alf sets up one, and Phil and Cradock set
up another. Whilst escaping in their car Peter accidentally shoots Nat in
the foot and after their car suffers a puncture they decide to dump the
car, and they split up. In the meantime a community of travellers who are
on their way to the forthcoming horse fair in Thirsk, arrive in the area.
One of them called Johnny Lee agrees to help Nat and gets him through the
police roadblocks. They arrive in the village and Gina then lets Lee camp
in the pub car park to Blaketon's annoyance. Lee then asks Maggie to look
at Nat's injured foot, and Maggie becomes suspicious when she discovers
Nat's injury is in fact a bullet wound. She then informs Mike and tells
him where Nat is. Peter meanwhile arrives at Alf's roadblock and
surrenders himself and is questioned, while the police go to see Lee
outside the pub to get Nat, but he tells them he's already gone and he
doesn't know where. However Lee is in fact secretly still helping Nat. A
huge police hunt is then on to search for Nat and when Nat breaks into the
pub and steals some money, Lee who suspects him goes to find him to get
the money back, telling him he should give himself up. Lee returns the
money to Blaketon and he tells Mike where Nat's gone. Lee then helps the
police find Nat who's ended up at Claude's house with David who is unaware
of Nat's situation. The police surround Claude's house and Lee runs in and
persuade an armed Nat to surrender. Meanwhile Claude Buys a horse to sell
at the horse fair, but then one of the travellers - Derek Egan persuades
Claude to sell it to him after it wins at a 'trotting' race they both
organised in the village!
'Lets Go to San Francisco' The
Flowerpot Men (1967)
'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place' The
Animals (1965)
'Daydream Believer' The Monkees
(1967)
'Hurdy Gurdy Man' Donovan (1968)
'Scarborough
Fair/Canticle' Simon and Garfunkel (1969)
'On the Road
Again' CAnned Heat (1968)
'Green Tambourine' The Lemon
Pipers (1968)
'On A Carousel' The Hollies
(1967)
'Daydream' The Lovin' Spoonful (1966)
8 Child's Play
By Michael Hall
10/12/00 13.80m
There's a break in at Mrs.
Carlton's house and her neighbour Edna (who's a bit of a psychic and can
predict things) tells Alf, who looks at the house and finds no sign of a
break in. Maggie who's been nursing Mrs. Carlton and is keeping an eye on
her house then discovers a young boy in the house who runs off, leaving
his school vest behind. She tells the police and Mike visits the boarding
school where the head teacher, who isn't very helpful, tells him that a
boy called Tom Bamber vanished during a recent cross country run. On
searching the house again, Mike then learns that Tom is in fact related to
Mrs. Carlton and he later finds him at the railway station with a man - a
Mr. Monks who says he's Tom's housemaster from the school. Mike can see
the boy is terrified of Monks and he suspects something is wrong. After a
visit to the police station, Monks then gets injured when he tries to push
Tom over a hilltop on the moors, and he ends up in hospital. Tom meanwhile
runs off and ends up at Claude's house where David looks after him until
he runs off again. A massive police search is then organised to find him.
Mike then returns to the school where the head teacher tells him that
Monks had a 'special' interest in Tom. It seems he has been assaulting
him, which is why he was so keen to track Tom down when he vanished. Mike
eventually finds Tom on the moors and rescues him. In the meantime
entertainer - Stanley Leroy who knows Bernie, claims to know singer -
Dickie Valentine. He then gets Bernie to help him arrange a mystery tour -
promising people that they will meet the singer in person. However Leroy
is a conman and runs off with all their money.
Meanwhile Graham Rysinski (War Stories) returns,
and he apologises to Maggie for how he treated her, and he ends up giving
her his mother's ring. And Phil's old flame - Sue Driscoll
(Echoes of the Past)
returns for a visit and goes out with him for a drink, but when Gina finds
out, she becomes very jealous. But then Sue tells her that Phil still
loves Gina - not her.
'On the Road Again' Willie
Nelson
The Magical Mystery Tour' The Beatles (1967)
'Where
Do the Children Play' Cat Stevens (1970)
'He Ain't Heavy, He's
My Brother' The Hollies (1969)
9 Fallen Heroes
By Johnny
Byrne
17/12/00 12.04m
There's a car crash and the police are
informed by an anonymous caller. The driver - Danny Reese who was knocked
unconscious is taken to hospital. At the scene of the accident Mike
collects up his belongings and takes them to the station. After he's
recovered, Reese goes to the station to collect his property, but
discovers that one of his cases, which was full of £18,000 in cash has
vanished. Mike suspects that the anonymous caller stole the case, while
Craddock is suspicious about Reese. Then people including Bernie, Maggie
and Mike start to receive letters with large amounts of cash in the post
asking them to pass the money on to villagers who need it. The police feel
the parcels of cash are part of the amount stolen from Reese's car and
they search for a connection between the villagers who are mentioned in
the letters. In the meantime Reese and his girlfriend, Jenny Preston stay
at the pub where Blaketon overhears them discussing the money and a casino
in Leeds. The police then contact the Casino owner - a Mr. Fraser who
denies any money has gone missing from his casino. Blaketon then sees
Reese and Preston forced into a car and the police later question them. It
seems it was Fraser's car and that they worked at his casino until they
stole the cash from it. Fraser who is unwilling to get the police involved
in the matter, as he hasn't declared it, now wants his money back. Mike
then realises who stole the cash from the car, it was postman - Fred
Leeder. He did it because he felt sorry for the relatives of soldiers who
died at the battle of the Somme, and just wanted to help them. However
Reese then steals the remaining cash back from Leeder’s house, but is
later arrested. And Fraser is questioned about not declaring the cash.
Meanwhile Maggie and Graham's relationship grows stronger when he arranges
for Maggie, Sam and himself to go away for a holiday together. And in an
attempt to impress Gina on her birthday, Phil takes up Alf's offer of
using a relatives flat while they are away. However when Gina arrives, so
do the owners!
'Sunny Afternoon' The Kinks (1966)
'When a
Man Loves a Woman' Percy Sledge (1966)
'The Letter' Box Tops
(1967)
'Theme from Love Story'
Christmas Episode
10 Cold
Turkey
By Peter
Gibbs
24/12/00
11.16m
Its Christmas time and the new Ashfordly bank Manager - Gordon
Stringer is making peoples lives a misery, including local farmer Jack
Dugdale's, who is behind with his loan payments. Then when
Stringer's son, Noel has a childish prank played on him at school, he
blames it on his father's actions and decides to leave home. He moves into
the Dugdales' seaside Caravan as he is friends with their son, Paul.
However Stringer then receives a letter at the bank saying Noel has been
kidnapped and by phone the kidnapper demands a large amount of cash in
return for Noel. However Stringer's bank won't provide the money unless
the police are involved, and so he's forced to call them. Paul Dugdale
then tells the police he knows nothing of Noel's disappearance, but admits
to sending the letter to get Stringer back for the way he treated his
father. Jack Dugdale then becomes a suspect and is watched by Phil, while
the bank sort out the ransom money. Stringer's wife - Molly meanwhile
takes instructions from the kidnapper who orders Stringer to leave
the money in an old disused mill. Stringer takes the money there while
Craddock and Mike watch from outside. After he delivers the cash, he finds
Noel unhurt, but the money has vanished. Noel's then questioned about the
kidnapper, but is unable to tell the police much. Dugdale is then
eliminated as a suspect as he has an alibi and Mike then suspects the
deputy bank manager - Mr. Draycott. Draycott is revealed to be the
kidnapper and did it to get the money so he and his fellow bank worker
could run off together. However, when she declines, Draycott has to plants
the money back in the banks night safe, making it impossible to prove it
was him. Meanwhile Claude who has been working on Stringer's patio has
hurt his back and gets David to dress up as his "debt collector" to go and
threaten Stringer at the bank, however poor David looses his bottle when
he sees Phil and Mike at the bank undercover and runs for it. Then Claude
and David spend the night at the station's cells with a "merry"
drunk!
'(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay' Otis Redding
(1968)
'Born to be Wild' Steppenwolf (1969)
'Winter
Wonderland' Darlene Love (1963)
'Oh Pretty Woman' Roy
Orbison (1964)
'Red, Red, Robin comes Bob, Bob Bobbin
Along'
'Soul Man' Sam and Dave (1967)
'Frosty the
Snowman' The Ronettes (1963)
'The Christmas Song' Nat 'King'
Cole (1963)
11 Sylvia's Mother
By Gillian Richmond
07/01/01
13.70m
Sylvia Smith's elderly mother, Freda is very ill and she takes
a turn for the worst. She calls out Maggie, and cancels her pre-arranged
date with her boyfriend - Jack Hall. An annoyed Jack meanwhile feels
Sylvia's older brother Tony Smith is not helping out enough with his
mother's welfare and causes a disturbance when he confronts him in the
pub. Later that night one of Tony's chip shops goes up in flames and the
police tell him it was arson. The police start to investigate and suspect
Jack of doing it after his outburst in the pub with Tony. So Mike
goes to question him, but he denies it. Mike then talks to Sylvia about
Jack and her brother's relationship, but she feels Jack is not responsible
while Tony's wife Gladys feels Jack is. Freda then dies and Maggie notices
some bruises on her arms, suspecting she may have been in a struggle with
Jack, and so she tells Mike. Mike and Craddock then visit Jack again and
question him about Freda's sudden death, which he also denies. But when
Jackie reads out Freda's will, Tony is left nothing. Mike then becomes
suspicious about Tony and his finances and discovers he is in fact married
to two women. Tony admits to the fire, and says he did it for the
insurance money, but he denies he had anything to do with his mother's
death. However a post-mortem then reveals Freda in fact died from heart
failure, possibly caused by her taking to much of her medication. However
Maggie then realises Sylvia in fact gave her mother an overdose on her
request. Meanwhile Blaketon has a surprise when an old flame - Ursula
Donne turns up, and he hopes to renew their friendship. However then Lord
Ashfordly steps in and asks Ursula out. Blaketon then gets suspicious of
Ursula when she goes into business with Ashfordly and discovers she's a
known con-woman. And Maggie, who has finished with Graham decides to
accept a new job at the hospital and so she has a big leaving party at the
pub!
'Pinball Wizard' The Who (1969)
'Strange Brew'
Cream (1967)
'Three Steps to Heaven' Eddie Cochran
(1960)
'Apache' The Shadows (1960)
'Kon-Tiki' The
Shadows (1961)
'Walk Don't Run' The Ventures
(1960)
'No Particular
Place to Go'
Chuck Berry (1964)
'Little Bitty Pretty
One' Thurston Harris
'All You Need is Love' The Beatles
(1967)
12 Safe House
By Peter Gibbs
14/01/01
13.71m
Mike gets an unexpected visit at the police house by a DCS
Tatton of Leeds CID. He asks Mike to secretly hide a criminal called Barry
Ross who is going to give evidence against the dangerous criminal - Jim
Duggan, at his trial. Ross it seems gave the police vital information
which lead to Duggan's arrest, but now Duggan is trying a last attempt at
finding Ross before he gives his evidence in a few days. Mike is unsure
about the situation, but agrees to secretly house Ross for the interim
period. Mike then discovers however that Ross is known for his violence
towards woman and gets jumpy when he's forced to leave Ross alone with
Jackie one night. After getting angry with Jackie while Mike's out, Ross
falls down the stairs and gets injured. When Mike returns, he gets
Ashfordly doctor - Patricia Summerbee to look at Ross. In the meanwhile
Sgt. Nokes is getting suspicious about Mike's behaviour and visits the
police house to discover that Mike has handcuffed Ross in his room after
he tried to run for it when he learned that Duggan's men were on to him.
Tatton then arrives to calm Ross down and informs Nokes of the situation.
However it turns out Tatton is being paid by Duggan's men to reveal Ross'
location. Come the day of Ross' appearance in court Mike takes him to meet
Tatton, but they are ambushed by Duggan's men, but manage to escape. Mike
then realises that Tatton has set them up and he hide's Ross in Bernie's
garage. Meanwhile Duggan's men go to the police house and kidnap
Jackie, forcing Mike to later give Ross' hiding place away. But the
men are eventually captured along with Tatton, and Ross still manages to
give his vital evidence against Duggan in court. Meanwhile Claude has left
Aidensfield to fly to the West Indies to meet his sister who has won a
huge amount of money, and he instructs Jackie to sort out his estate by
legally handing over his house to David to look after. Then to Bernie's
surprise, his step brother - Vernon arrives in the village and he helps
David get rid of a truck load of turnips!
'King of the Road'
Roger Miller (1965)
'He's in Town' The Rockin' Berries
(1964)
'In the Summertime' Mungo Jerry (1970)
'Pictures of
Matchstick Men' Status Quo (1968)
'Gimma Some Loving'
Spencer Davis Group (1966)
'Piggies' The Beatles (1968)
'A
Whiter Shade of Pale' Procol Harum (1967)
13 Blind Justice
By Neil McKay
21/01/01
13.82m
Craddock
has taken a fancy to his new dancing tutor - Susan Finlay, and he asks her
out to the police dance. Meanwhile Mike and Alf are speed checking
vehicles entering the village and a speeding van, driven by Richard
Finley, fails to stop. Mike eventually forces him to pull over and escorts
him to the station for questioning. Craddock then realises Finley is
Susan's son and he decides to let him go without charge. Then one night a
boy is the victim of a hit and run accident and he ends up seriously
injured in hospital. Blaketon, who moments later witnessed a speeding Ford
Anglia pass the pub informs the police. During a scout round the local
garages, Mike discovers a damaged car, fitting Blaketon's description at
Bernie's garage. It turns out the car belongs to Susan Finley and so Mike
and Craddock go to see her about the accident. She denies it as she was
with Craddock at the police dance at the time, so suspicion then falls on
Richard and he's brought in again for questioning about the accident. He
eventually admits he was in the car, but he denies hitting the boy and is
charged anyway. At the court however the magistrate decides to let him
off, due to the lack of evidence in the case. Blaketon however isn't
satisfied and goes to see Finley, but instead sees Susan with the court
magistrate - James Green. He tells Craddock, and Mike learns that Finley
is about to go and work for Green's engineering company. Craddock then
goes to see Susan and she tells him that her and Green had an affair years
before and Green is in fact Richard's real father. Meanwhile Alf persuades
Dr Summerbee to fix his eye test results in order for him to keep his job!
And later he learns that a local Casino is on the fiddle when Phil's luck
runs out. In the meantime, while Bernie's away, Vernon and David decide to
"repair" the fuel tank of Lord Ashfordly's Bentley themselves, which he
needs in time for his niece's wedding, but on Bernie's return a furious
Lord Ashfordly ends up taking his niece to her wedding in Bernie's hearse
instead, after his Bentley broke down!
'Nineteenth Nervous
Breakdown' The Rolling Stones (1966)
14 Home Truths
By Gil Brailey
28/01/01
13.06m
Jackie's
mother
(The Son-in-Law) turns up at the police house to Jackie's
surprise whilst she's staying with her friends, the Henderson's. Joe
Henderson runs a local quarry and the workers are unhappy about working
under the dangerous stone guards which need repairing and are in danger of
collapsing. Henderson however is choosing to ignore the matter to the
anger of his workers. Then one night, quarry worker - Jacob Fairbrother
has an accident and he is buried under the fallen rocks which fell as a
result of the unstable Stone guards. Henderson then goes with Mike to the
quarry and Mike rescues Jacob from the rubble and he is taken to hospital.
Jacob's wife, Pamela decides to take action against the Henderson's and
asks Jackie for her help. Jackie then falls out with her mother when she
asks her to also represent the Henderson's and she says she can't. Jacob
meantime discharges himself from hospital and goes to threaten Henderson
at the quarry. He then goes to the Henderson's home demanding some unpaid
wages he's owed. Later Jackie's mother finds Henderson's wife - Shona
murdered at her home and the police suspect it to be down to Jacob and so
he is questioned. He denies even going to the Henderson's house, and
vanishes from the station during a power cut. Dr Summerbee then tells Mike
she treated Shona in the hospital recently for cuts and bruises, but under
a different name and Mike then begins to get suspicious about Henderson.
Meantime Jacob returns to the station to confess that he did go to the
house, but he still denies murdering Shona. Henderson is then questioned
and it turns out he in fact murdered Shona after he lost his temper and
learnt that she had paid Jacob his wages. Meanwhile Vernon gets David and
Bernie to help with his new business venture - providing the catering for
a pop concert in Ashfordly. But when the catering van's lights fail,
Vernon has an idea of how to regain power which blacks out the whole of
Ashfordly and puts an early end to the concert! And Blaketon and Alf both
show concerns about Phil's relationship with Gina, a
licensee.
'Revolution' The Beatles (1968)
'From Me To
You' Sung by a group in the show from the original hit by The Beatles
(1963)
'I'm into Something Good' Sung by a group in the show from the original
hit by Herman's Hermits (1964)
'Do Wah Diddy
Diddy' Sung by a group in
the show from the original hit by Manfred Mann (1964)
'Think it Over' The Crickets (1958)
15 Not So Special
By Michael Hall
04/02/01
13.54m
The
elderly Mrs Barton is finding it increasingly difficult to run her late
husband's farm, which is falling into a state of disrepair. Her
niece - Glenda Marriot, feels she really should at last give up the farm,
but Mrs Barton refuses. David who helps her out on the farm then
accidentally crashes her Land Rover pulling a horse box, and the horse has
to be put down. The police then start to investigate the possibility that
Mrs Barton's Land Rover had been tampered with when she starts to insist
she has prowlers around the farm in the night. Then one night, out of fear
she fires her shot gun when someone attempts to enter her house. Meanwhile
it's learnt that the steering on the Land Rover had indeed been tampered
with, while back at the farm, traces of blood are discovered.
Suspicion begins to falls on the farm helper, the elderly - Jed Harrison,
who has suddenly vanished. In the meantime a new special constable -
Harold Emney starts his training at Ashfordly station, and Alf volunteers
to show him the ropes. However Emney gets on the wrong side of Phil when
he starts abusing his position and causes trouble in the pub for Gina.
Mike then hears from Jackie that Jed has in fact been left everything in
Mrs Barton's will and Mike later finds Jed at the farm claiming to be
putting out a fire that has been started there. He's questioned about the
recent events at the farm and the steering on the Land Rover, but denies
that he's responsible and comes up with an alibi. Suspicion then falls on
Mrs Barton's niece, Glenda. It turns out Harold Emney is in fact her son
and she confesses to Mike that she got him to try and frighten Mrs Barton
out of the farm, so she could claim it as she felt by rights, it was hers.
Emney is arrested at the farm when he's caught red handed threatening Mrs
Barton and Jed. Meanwhile Vernon takes up a new challenge and enters a
highly modified Morris Minor in a "hot rod" racing event. He wins the
race, but the car literally goes up in smoke! And Phil gets his
wires crossed when he thinks Gina is pregnant!
'Johnny B. Goode'
Chuck Berry (1958)
'In My Life' The Beatles (1965)
'Also
Sprach Zarathoustra' Richard Strauss (Classical)
'Sealed with a
Kiss' Brian Hyland (1962)
16 The Long Weekend
By Jane
Hollowood 11/02/01
13.69m
Vernon
goes into the security business and Lord Ashfordly hire's him to be a
bodyguard to his guest for the weekend, the Russian prince - Prince
Nikolas who is coming to stay for the Halls dance. However when the prince
wants to have some fun and go to the pub, Vernon gets into trouble with
his Lordship after bringing him back drunk. The prince then gets gout as a
result, but plans for the dance still go ahead. But after Vernon's
services are no longer required by his Lordship, the prince pays Vernon in
Russian roubles! Meanwhile Mike's teenage niece, Anne and her friend
Louise are coming to stay with him and Jackie at the police house whilst
they are there to do a school nature project, and a nervous Jackie is keen
to make a good impression. But when the girls arrive, they are more
interested in going out with their boyfriends who have arrived in the
village as well. Then, after being out late with them, and their new
friend, Kenny arranging a party, Jackie grounds the girls. In the meantime
Kenny, who's father works on the Ashfordly estate invites all his mates to
the party. The girls leave the police house by their bedroom window and go
to the party. Kenny then shows his mates a way into Ashfordly Hall and one
of them poses as a waiter and steals his Lordship's vintage wines and some
pills from the prince's room. He later gives them out at the party and
Louise takes some. The party then ends when Anne can't awake Louise and
she goes to Ashfordly Hall for help. Mike and Jackie soon arrive after
discovering the girls are not in their room. Meanwhile Phil starts to
organise a romantic surprise for Gina at Whitby Abbey. He asks Bernie to
drive her there, but Bernie at the last minute can't and so he asks David
to do it. But David ends up taking Gina to the Abbey Arms pub instead.
Phil's romantic surprise in the moonlight ends in tears and Gina returns
to the pub angry at being stood up. Then a drenched Phil bursts in and
gets down on one knee and proposes to her. And Dr Summerbee puts the
finishing touches to the old village surgery.
'I Could Easily
Fall' Cliff Richard (1964)
'These Boots are Made for
Walking' Nancy Sinartra (1966)
'Mellow Yellow' Sung by actor
in the show from the original hit by Donovan (1967)
'Changes IV'
Cat Stevens (1971)
'Something in the Air' Thunderclap Newman
(1969)
'Aquarius' The Fifth Dimension (1969)
'Living in
the Past' Jethro Toll (1969)
'The Look of Love' Dusty
Springfield (1967)
'The Fool on the Hill' The Beatles
(1967)
'Black Magic Woman' Fleetwood Mac (1968)
'Tomorrow
Never Knows' The Beatles (1966)
'The Air That I Breathe' The
Hollies (1974)
'Applejack' Jet Harris/Tony Meehan
(1963)
17 Who's Who? By Peter Gibbs
18/02/01
13.15m
Lord Ashfordly hosts a evening for his friends, two
of which are the county High Sheriff - Andrew Parkin and his wife, Sonia.
When the Parkin's leave in their Bentley, Sonia, who is driving hits and
injures farmer - Colin Taylor who was trying to warn them that his cows
had strayed on to the road. Taylor ends up in Hospital and Craddock goes
to see the Parkin's to get their statements. However Mike suspects that
Mr. Parkin was actually driving the Bentley at the time and his wife is
lying for him because he was drunk. Mike goes to see Lord Ashfordly who
can't confirm who was driving the Bentley, and he then discovers Sonia
wasn't in fact insured to drive the car anyway. Parkin says that was an
oversight on his part and blames Taylor for the accident, saying he jumped
out in front of them. Legally however it seems Taylor was to blame for the
accident and Jackie decides to represent him, and asks Blaketon to become
a P.I. for her and investigate the whole affair. Blaketon starts to make
enquires and discovers from Susie Cope, a servant of Ashfordly hall that
Parkin was driving at the time. Parkin then tries to conclude the business
and offers to pay Taylor £300 compensation, but Blaketon persuades him not
to take up the offer because of Susie's evidence. However when Susie's
evidence becomes unreliable due to the fact she lied to get her job at the
hall, Jackie tells Blaketon to visit Parkin to say Taylor has reconsidered
his offer, but Parkin then refuses. Blaketon then learns that Parkin is
having an affair with a young hairdresser and he tells Sonia. She then
goes to the police house telling Mike she in fact lied to protect her
husband. Meanwhile Gina who initially said yes to Phil's marriage proposal
confesses to him that she now doesn't want to marry him, and an upset Phil
then goes to see Craddock about returning to the force. And Vernon opens
up a marriage bureau for people to find there perfect partner. David
decides to join and Vernon sets him up with the lady of his dreams. David
sends her a letter to show her his love, but then her husband - "Big Bo",
then shows up!
'I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself' Dusty
Springfield (1964)
'Love Letters' Ketty Lester (1962)
'Can
This Be Love' Matt Monro (1961)
'Jumping Jack Flash' The
Rolling Stones (1968)
18 Gin a Body, Meet a Body
By Brian
Finch
25/02/01
12.67m
Blaketon has trouble in the pub
when teenager - Gareth North and his two friends try to buy some drinks.
And Phil, who's there at the time ends up having to throw them out.
Blaketon later then finds his car has been ruined by someone who stuck a
hose pipe in the window and filled it up with water. He tells Craddock
that he believes its down to Gareth North getting his own back. So Mike
and Phil go to see Gareth and his father, Harry, a local car dealer, about
the vandalism. Gareth denies the accusation and his father is less than
helpful. Gareth and his friends then steal the takings from a record shop
after seeing the owner of the shop regularly taking the money to the bank.
Phil witness' the robbery and goes in pursuit of Gareth, but looses him
when he escapes in a red Mini. Harry North meantime informs the police
that Gareth's Mini has been stolen and Mike goes to see him at their home,
just as Craddock and Phil arrive to question Gareth about the robbery,
which he also denies. Phil however is convinced it was Gareth, but can't
prove it. Then, Phil is suspended from duty when Harry North accuses him
of assaulting Gareth, but Phil denies it. Meantime Mike and Alf find
Gareth's Mini and the gun he used in the robbery. However it seems the gun
has two sets of figure prints on it, both of which are not good enough to
get a conviction. Mike then sees Gareth's friend - Vince and questions him
about the robbery and he confesses. Mike then sees Harry North, telling
him that his son has been lying to him and North then decides to drops the
charges against Phil. Meanwhile Vernon plans to start up a taxi service,
but when David gets a phone installed so they can receive clients calls,
he learns he has to share the line with their neighbour - Edith Fairley
who is always on the phone. Meanwhile her husband, Jack has just come out
of prison and is looking for Edith who apparently looked after the money
he stole. Edith then tells Vernon, who decides to help her get rid of him
in return for half of the stolen money, which turns out to be only five
pounds to Vernon's annoyance!
'Legend of Xanadu'
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
(1968)
'Surprise, Surprise' The Rolling Stones (1965)
'We
Gotta Get Out of This Place' The Animals (1965)
'Bend Me, Shape
Me' Amen Corner (1968)
'Anyone Who Had a Heart' Cilla Black
(1964)
19 Killing Me Softly By Helen Blizard
04/03/01
12.78m
Club manager - Renalto Pisconi catches his bar
worker - Garrick stealing cash from the Club's safe. Renalto it seems is
involved in a scheme distributing forged bank notes to clubs all over the
country. Garrick tells him he knows about it, but Renalto sakes him.
Meanwhile Ashfordly station are told to investigate the forged notes which
keep turning up and when Garrick tries to pay for a drink at the pub with
a one, he's taken in for questioning. Garrick claims to know nothing about
the notes and is allowed to go, but Craddock and Mike suspect the club is
the source of the notes and go to have a look round, but find nothing.
Meanwhile Renalto and his lover, Denise are worried Garrick will
grass on them, and so Renalto hires a man to find Garrick and retrieve
some of the notes he stole. The man forces Garrick off the road when he's
in his car and retrieves the notes. Mike later discovers Garrick's wrecked
car and gets him to hospital where he then confesses he got the notes from
the club. Renalto however denies the allegations and his wife, Veronica
provides him with an alibi. However secretly she has suspicions and has
hired Blaketon to watch Renalto. Veronica visits her wealthy father,
Reggie White who owns the club, telling him she suspects Renalto is in
trouble, but unknown to her, Reggie is the brains behind the forged notes
scheme. Then behind Renalto's back, Reggie asks Renalto's man to Kill
Garrick, but a nurse catches him in the act. Veronica then gets proof from
Blaketon of Renalto's affair and she then tells Craddock she lied about
Renalto's alibi and the police take him down the station. Renalto
confesses and he helps set Reggie and Denise up who are later arrested.
Meanwhile, after a chat with Bernie and Oscar in the pub, Vernon decides
to start up business in selling sports cars. Blaketon buys an MG-A from
him, but when Vernon provides him with the log book, Blaketon discovers
the car is stolen! And Jackie and Mike discuss the idea of starting a
family, but Jackie secretly suspects something is wrong with her health,
but after some tests, Patricia finds nothing wrong with
her.
'All I See Is You' Dusty Springfield
(1966)
'Leaving Here' The Birds (1965)
'All or
Nothing' The Small Faces (1966)
20 Unchained Melody By Susan
Wilkins
11/03/01
12.89m
Lord Ashfordly's sister -
Patricia
(Hot Rocks) returns and stays at the hall. Meanwhile Ashfordly station
is told to undertake a drug surveillance mission as a leading drugs dealer
from London is in the area. Mike and Craddock who are in plain cloths,
spot the suspects car go to Ashfordly Hall. It seems his Lordship knows
the suspect who turns out to be Lord Henry (or Hal) Tadcaster who is
dating Patricia. But Patricia isn't best pleased to see him and she asks
him to leave. However Hal stays at his Lordships request. Meantime
Craddock is refused permission to get Lord Ashfordly's phone tabbed and so
Mike and Phil keep watch on the hall day and night to watch Tadcaster's
movements. Meanwhile Jackie's old friend Caroline comes to stay with her
and Mike for a few days, but to Jackie's surprise she brings with her, her
baby boy - Stuart. Caroline however doesn't seem happy to have a son and
would much have preferred to continue to work in her law firm. Caroline
then goes to visit some friends while Mike agrees to baby-sits for her,
however when he leaves the baby for a moment in the garden, he returns to
find the baby has vanished. Craddock starts to investigate and at first
suspects Caroline is possibly responsible for the baby's disappearance.
Meantime Hal notices Phil and Mike watching him when he goes to Whitby and
later discovers Phil's a policeman. Hal suspects Patricia has grassed on
him and his business deals, but she says she hasn't. Then when Patricia
collapses and ends up in hospital, it appears she has recently had an
abortion after becoming pregnant with Hal's child. Patricia then confesses
to Mike that she took young Stuart as a result, but didn't mean him any
harm. Mike and Jackie then find Stuart in the good hands of his Lordship.
And when a postal strike occurs in the area, Vernon sets up his own
courier service using an old WW2 motorcycle. Hal asks Vernon to deliver
some fresh cabs and Lobsters from Whitby to London, and Alf who has been
watching him goes with Bernie to collect the goods. Alf then gets Bernie
to delivers the good to Ashfordly Hall instead, to Hal's annoyance and Hal
is arrested when he takes from the containers, drugs he was Going to sell
in London.
'The Great Escape Theme' Elmer Bernstein
(1963)
21
Truth
Games By
Jane Hollowood
18/03/01
12.84m
Businessman, Adrian Miller holds a
meeting at a local hotel, and later has a drink with some of his
colleagues. After having to tell one of them to stop pestering her, Miller
befriends Lisa Preston who is also staying at the hotel. Then later that
night, a distressed Preston shouts for help and accuses Miller of
indecently assaulting her. Miller is arrested and Jackie is called in to
be his solicitor. The following morning Mike gets Preston's side of the
story, while Miller tells Jackie he's innocent, and totally denies the
accusations. But when Dr Summerbee examines Preston and finds she is
covered in cuts and bruises, and then a Mr Lettington comes forward
claiming to have seen Miller run out of Preston's room at the hotel, even
Jackie then starts to believe that he is guilty. However Dr Summerbee is
then suspicious about Preston when she over hears laughter and chatting
from her room. She tells Mike who begins to investigate Preston, feeling
her attack is very similar to other recent attacks. Miller meanwhile gets
bail at his court appearance and stays at the pub where he then receives
an anonymous phone call saying Preston will drop the charges against him,
if he pays her £500. Miller tells Jackie who informs Craddock. It seems
Preston, along with Lettington were in a scheme together making false
claims of rape, just to gain the cash afterwards. And so after she meets
Miller, who hands over the cash, Preston and Lettington are then arrested.
Jackie in the meantime is then tempted by Miller's charm when he asks to
see her again. Meanwhile, David it seems hasn't paid the bills and so
Vernon tells him that the only way to pay the bills off is to get a proper
job. They go to see farmer, George Walker who hires them to do some
ploughing, but when David believes he's found a body in George's barn, it
ends up being a statue which is just one of many items that George
reported stolen, just to claim the insurance money. But when the police
try to track George down, he vanishes to David and Vernon's house asking
for their help. Vernon then decides to help him out and pays his insurers
a visit who it seems fiddled George when he made his claim
anyway!
'Pictures of Matstick Men' Status Quo (1968)
'The
Wind Cries Mary' Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
'She's Not
There' The Zombies (1964)
22 Consequences By Johnny Byrne
25/03/01
13.04m
There's
report of a strange man in a van hanging around ambulance driver - Frank
Metcalfe house one night. Mike goes to investigate and is just in time to
witness a huge explosion come from Metcalfe's garage where he's working on
his car. It seems his car was tampered with and fitted with an explosive
device. Metcalfe reveals he's been received anomalous letters and phone
calls recently too. The police start investigating who must have it in for
Metcalfe and realise the culprit must have been army trained to construct
the explosive device. Then there's another explosion at the village stores
where the owner - Mr Dale says he's also received threatening letters.
Meanwhile the police start looking for the suspected blue Transit van seen
shortly before both incidences, and discovers it belongs to Pete Atkins,
who uses it for his business. Meanwhile Craddock goes to the local army
camp where it's been discovered that some explosives have gone missing.
Blaketon then starts to receive strange phone calls at the pub and Mike
starts to suspect its connected. Its then discovered Atkins is an ex
paratrooper and could have had access to the armoury at the base, and so
he is taken in for questioning. Atkins denies he's responsible, but
Craddock feels he's lying. Gina then gets a threatening letter also and
she latter realises what the connection must be between her, Mr Dale and
Mr Metcalfe. She remembers that 2 years before a woman collapsed outside
the shops and she tried to help her, but she later died. He name was Mrs
Tranter, and her son - Brian an old Para friend of Atkins' and now works
for him. It seems Tranter blamed Gina, Mr Dale and Mr Metcalfe for his
mothers death, feeling they all could have done more. Tranter's arrested
after he kidnaps Gina from the pub. Meanwhile Lord Ashfordly meets up with
a Rev. Meeks who is intending to do up the local chapel, St Judes and get
it back in order. His Lordship hire's Vernon and David to clean it out
under Meeks' instructions. But when Meeks gets inpatient about trying to
find a valuable Norman fond, Vernon and David discover Meeks is a bogus
vicar, and they inform his lordship!
'I (Who Have Nothing)'
Shirley Bassey (1963)
'Hey Jude' The Beatles (1968)
'When
You Walk in the Room' The Searchers (1964)
'I Put Spell on
You' Alan Price (1966)
'Tin Soldier' The Small Faces (1967)
23 The Buxton Defence
By Brian
Finch
01/04/01
12.19m
A collection of valuable toy soldiers get stolen
one night in the latest in a number of similar robberies. Meanwhile Lord
Ashfordly asks for a police presence at the hall to protect a number of
collectable chess sets on display for a chess tournament taking place
their. However despite Phil and Alf's presence, one of the chess sets gets
stolen and Mike feels the culprit is the same thief who stole the toy
soldiers. Meanwhile chess world champion, a Russian called Leonid Vorodin
arrives for the tournament along with his publicist - Anna Young and two
men from the Russian embassy. At the tournament, Young Alan Buxton beats
Vorodin and wins. But then Lord Ashfordly receives a ransom note asking
for £300 in return for the chess set, and Mike feels the culprit must have
been at the tournament. The thief then takes the remaining chess set from
the hall and raises the ransom to £1000. Mike now suspects the thief was
near his lordship when he mentioned at the tournament the high value of
the remaining set and returned to take that also. Meanwhile the Russian
embassy men are keen to leave with Vorodin, but he is keen to stay with
Anna. Then Alan Buxton (who speaks Russian) phones Vorodin telling him
that the embassy men know he wishes to stay in England and plan to take
him back home instead. It seems Vorodin is being forced to leave the
country against his will and he seeks political asylum. Craddock helps him
and arrests the Russians. Meanwhile Mike discovers the thief is Alan
Buxton. After doing decorating jobs in all the houses involved, Alan
copied the keys and helped himself to items such as the chess sets and toy
soldiers. David meantime receives a letter from Claude who has decided to
sell the house. The estate agent puts the 'for sale' sign up and Vernon
and David agree to show potential buyers around. However Vernon does his
best to put them all off in every way possible and decides to buy the
house himself! And Mike gets suspicious about Jackie when she rushes off
to London on business, but he can't contact her.
'Something in the
Air' Thunderclap Newman (1969)
'Harlem Shuffle' Bob and Earl
(1969)
'Seven Rooms of Gloom' The Four Tops (1967)
24 Still Water By
Peter Gibbs 08/04/01
13.25m
Farmer - Bill Dyer suspects that cattle market
auctioneer Giles Sutton is on the fiddle and rigging the markets, and in
his anger Dyer smashes Sutton's car window. Sutton reports it and Mike
goes to see Dyer who admits to it and tells Mike of his suspicions about
Sutton. Mike goes to see Sutton who decides he doesn't want to press
charges and denies he's rigging the markets. Meanwhile Mike takes Jackie
out to a Restaurant and Sutton settles the bill which Mike isn't happy
about. But Jackie insists its a gesture as Sutton is a prospective client
of hers. Mike then discovers a huge amount of cash in his coat pocket and
believes Sutton put it there to try and bribe him into keeping his
nose out of his affairs. Jackie however feels Mike is jumping the gun, but
then Mike finds that his bank account has had a large amount of cash put
into it. Mike then goes to the cattle auction to witness Dyer's suspicions
first hand and realises he's probably right. Sutton still denies the
rigging however and threatens to reveal Mike's recent "good fortune" if he
reports what he's witnessed. Then Mike discovers a further £200 has been
paid into his account and he goes to see Sutton again who then reveals an
incriminating picture of them both together. After getting Blaketon's
advice as to what to do, Mike tells Craddock who is furious and says he is
forced to report the matter to division. Mike then looks as if he will be
suspended from duty when suddenly D.I Shiner arrives, and to Mike's relief
says C.I.D have been watching Sutton for a while and were about to arrest
him anyway. Meanwhile Vernon's neighbour, Dilys Powell tells him she has
spring water flow on her farm, so Vernon and Dilys go into partnership to
sell it as "Aidensfield spring water". Vernon goes to persuades Lord
Ashfordly to invest in it, but then his lordship discovers the source of
the spring is in fact on his land and he plans to turn it into a business
himself. But then Vernon hears that the water is not drinkable anyway!
Mike meantime has an even bigger shock when Jackie finally confesses to
him that she is in love with Adrian Miller
(Truth Games) and wishes
to leave Mike and go with Adrian to London. She departs for good, leaving
a tearful Mike a note on the coffee table.
'Take Me to the
Water'
'Cool Water' Frankie Laine (1955)
'Here
Comes the Sun' The Beatles (1969)
'First Cut is the Deepest'
PP Arnold (1967)
'Jealous Guy' John Lennon
(1971)
'Heartbeat' The Hollies (1980) |
