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1 Kids By Brian
Finch
01/09/96 12.14m
Derek Ramsey who is Dorothy McGowan's partner is
drunk and drives to the pub and is abusive and starts a fight with Phil,
Nick and Alf who are trying to have a quiet drink. Ramsey is arrested and
Dorothy is concerned he'll be sent down. Derek is found guilty of assault
and is sentence to 28 days imprisonment, but in court Ramsey makes a
disturbance when he see a man in court talking to Dorothy. While on their
way to prison with Ramsey, Phil and Alf fall for it when Ramsey says he
needs the toilet but escapes instead. Dorothy meanwhile gets assaulted by
a man and ends up in hospital. Nick suspects the man who arrived during
the Ramsey case at the court, but Blaketon thinks its Ramsey whose
responsible. The man then appears again in Hospital demanding Dorothy to
tell him where some cash is. It turn out the man is responsible for the
assault on Dorothy and he is in fact her husband - Arnold. Nick catches
him and Ramsey fighting at Dorothy's home and arrests them. Arnold
returned to get a large amount of money Dorothy took with her when she ran
off with Ramsey. Meanwhile Nick does Jo a favour and teaches the children
at the school road safety, George faces a dilemma when Lord Ashfordly
raises the rent for the pub, and Claude becomes the lollypop man for the
School!
'My Boy Lollipop' Millie (1964)
'Money' The
Beatles (1963)
'Charmaine' Mantovani (1967)
'Let There Be
Drums' Sandy Neilson (1961)
'Gimma Some Loving' Spencer
Davis Group (1966)
'Little Red Rooster' The Rolling Stones
(1964)
'Guaglione' Perez 'Prez' Prado and his
Orchestra
2 Old Colonials By Ron
Rose
08/09/96 14.22m
Local stables owner - Bill Ruane is having financial
difficulties and his business is going down hill fast. Walter Gillies who
works for Lord Ashfordly offers to buy him out, but Bill refuses.
Meanwhile Nick asks Jo out for a drink, but he has to go and investigate a
robbery. One of Ruane's horses nearly collides with Blaketon's car and he
gives Ruane who doesn't understand how it escaped a warning. Then Bill
finds his horse feed has been poisoned with turps and he starts to think
someone has got it in for him. Another robbery then takes place and Nick
warns Gillies to be on the look out at Ashfordly Hall. But the Hall is
then robbed and Gillies gets injured. He tells Nick he saw an old Bedford
van near by and the police suspect Bill who has such a van, and the motive
for the robberies - But he denies everything. Meanwhile Claude's nephew -
Norman
(Domestic) returns with an American called Jeb who runs
an import business selling jackets and American Beer. It turns out however
Jeb is responsible for two of the robberies, but he denies the Ashfordly
Hall job. Blaketon still feels Ruane is the man, but Nick suspects Walter
Gillies. So he sets Gillies up and discovers he was responsible for the
Ashfordly Hall robbery and Ruane's recent troubles. It seems he was trying
to get Bill out of the way in order to buy his stables. And George
considers closing the pub due to the rise in the rent.
'Applejack'
Jet Harris/Tony Meehan (1963)
'Dick-A-Dum-Dum' Des O' Conner
(1969)
'Johnny B. Goode' Chuck Berry (1958)
'I Only Want
to Be With You' Dusty Springfield (1963)
'Night of Fear' The
Move (1967)
'Lady Madonna' The Beatles (1968)
'As Tears Go
By' MariAnne Faithful (1964)
'The Wanderer' Dion
(1962)
'You Really Got Me' The Kinks (1964)
3 Forget me Not By Jane
Hollowood
15/09/96 12.45m
Mr. Shaw moves into the cottage next to the quiet Mr.
Davies. But Davies calls Nick out when he hears strange noises from Shaw's
house - but Shaw doesn't understand what the fuss is about. Soon after
Shaw's arrival a bird watcher called Fenwick talks to Davies thinking he's
a Mr. Prockter, but Davies corrects him. Davies then has strange phone
calls and flowers delivered to him. Mr. Shaw meanwhile is acting in a
distressed mAnner and is constantly drinking in the pub. Davies then has
an intruder who leaves picture of a little girl behind. He doesn't know
the girl and reports it to Nick. At first Mr. Davies' partner is suspected
of it all because he and Davies aren't talking to one another. Then Davies
has a picture of 'Dr Killdare' put on his wardrobe door and he's scared
witless and to Phil's delight he has to stay with Davies overnight. Davies
doesn't turn up at the police station to talk about the recent events and
Claude who has been watching Fenwick acting strange around an old
building, discovers that Davies is being held there. It seems Davies has
been mistaken for Shaw, who is in fact a Dr Graham and accidentally killed
a little girl while he was drunk, and he served only six months. Fenwick
is a Private Detective hired by the girl’s father to find Graham. The
police arrive to rescue Davies and arrest Fenwick and the girl’s father
who wanted his revenge for his daughter's death. Shaw however is found
dead in his home after taking an overdose, he was so distressed about the
girl’s death. And Gina's latest boyfriend - Anton becomes the chief at the
pub.
'I'm the Urban Spaceman' Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
(1968)
'Bad Moon Rising' Creedence Clearwater Revival
(1969)
'Help' The Beatles (1965)
4 A Long Shot By David
Lane
22/09/96 13.86m
A local boy called Len Scholfield is caught by Nick
playing Truant from School and then stealing sweets from the village
store. Nick tells him he will talk to his father - Harry Schofield, the
local blacksmith. Harry is angry with Len and when Len arrives at school
with Bruises on his arm, which he says he got playing Cricket, Jo feels
Harry is assaulting him. Jo tells Nick, but he feels it's probably nothing
to worry about. Then Len arrives with a black eye and Nick then has a
word. Jo becomes even more concerned and talks to Maggie about it and she
test Len's eyesight, which is not very good. Maggie and Jo then go to see
Harry who admits he got the injuries during Cricket Practice. Harry it
seems has visions of Len becoming professional when he's older, But Harry
tells Maggie and Jo he failed a recent test to get into a Cricket school.
Len who over hears this feels he's let his dad down and runs away. Harry
informs Nick and a big police search is on for Len. Meanwhile Claude and
stables owner Joss Harrop 'borrow' Lord Ashfordly's Stallion - Ashfordly
Lad to mix with Harrop's Mare's, but find it hard to put him back when
they've finished with him! They find Len lying on the side of the road and
take him to hospital where he recovers. Nick however discovers what Claude
and Harrop are up to, but as they rescued Len he forgets the matter, but
only if they return the horse immediately. Ashfordly thinks they found the
horse wants to reward them and agrees for him to mix with Harrop's Mare's,
but tells them it won't do much good as Ashfordly Lad is Sterile!
Meanwhile Alf is acting out of Character and it seems he's loosing at
cards, and Eileen starts a job cooking for the pub.
'My Name is
Jack' Manfred Mann (1968)
'For the Benefit of Mr. Kite' The
Beatles (1967)
'The Long and Winding Road' The Beatles
(1970)
5 Something of Value By
Johnny
Byrne
29/09/96 14.77m
Pollards & Son, a local Brewery is broken into
one night and a load of rare wines are stolen. The police start to
investigate and it’s thought that it could be an inside job. Nick talks to
Charlie Wallace who owns a local haulage company which delivered to
Pollards on the day of the robbery, and it would seem also delivered to
five other warehouses recently, the days they were raided to and so Nick
becomes suspicious. Meanwhile Alf is still acting strange and asks Nick
for a chat, unable to tell him at first Alf eventually tells Nick he's
short of cash - some £1200. Alf confesses to playing card games with
Wallace and it seems Wallace has a load of. I.O.U's from Alf. Nick
suspects Wallace of stealing the wines as he's a wine fanatic, so he goes
to visit Wallace again pretending that he's there investigating Alf's card
games, but in fact sets he up a meeting between Wallace and Alf. Alf meets
up with Wallace and Wallace tells Alf the police are investigating him,
Nick meanwhile noses around the haulage yard. Meanwhile Claude via two
schoolboys finds a disused building on the Ashfordly estate, which is full
of the Wines, and he starts to secretly sell it on at the pub. Jo
discovers a bottle of wine from one of the boys and tells Nick. Alf visits
Wallace and tells him the police are on to him about the stolen wines, and
he'll help get him off if he returns his I.O.U's - which he does. Wallace
then gets arrested when trying to move the wines one
night.
'Apache' The Shadows (1960)
'Hang on Sloopy'
The McCoy's (1965)
6 Frail Mortality By Keith
Temple
06/10/96 15.28m
Maggie is treating Michael Harvey who is suffering
from an illness and he has just months to live. His son Ronnie and Susan
Watkins who works as housekeeper for Michael hold a birthday dinner for
him. Ronnie is having a relationship with Susan, but then his father asks
Susan to marry him. Michael and Ronnie start to argue, while a distressed
Susan leaves. It’s a foggy night and Susan is injured in a hit and run
accident and goes into a coma. Maggie arrives on the scene shortly and
calls for an ambulance. However Maggie becomes the suspect for the
accident when Nick’s spots damage to her car, but she claims she was
forced off the road by another vehicle. Nick feels Maggie is innocent but
Blaketon feels otherwise and he goes to see Michael and Ronnie to inform
them of the accident and discovers Susan left on her bicycle. Nick wonders
where the bike is as it wasn't at the scene of the crime and he begins to
suspect Ronnie when talks to him at the station. Michael meanwhile finds a
damaged car in his barn and later goes to the station and confesses to the
accident. Due to his talk with Ronnie, Nick finds Susan's bike also in the
barn and Ronnie insists his father is innocent even though he's confessed.
It turns out that Ronnie in fact hit Susan and left her in the road after
thinking he'd killed her. Michael's confession was just to try and cover
up Ronnie's guilt. Meanwhile Nick talks to Blaketon about promotion and
taking his Sergeant's exams, Claude asks Bernie to stuff Ida's cat,
'Stuart Granger' - which for Claude has disastrous results! And Nick and
Jo decide to go away together for a weekend.
'I'm Alive' The
Hollies (1965)
'Eloise' Barry Ryan (1968)
'Jersey
Thursday' Donovan (1965)
7 Snapped By Peter
Gibbs
13/10/96
15.77m
A fire starts at a local hotel
one night and Nick is called in by the owner - Ralph Webster. Webster
thinks the fire wasn’t an accident like a number of happening at the hotel
recently and feels his employee (originally employed by his late father) -
Brian Rogers may be responsible. Nick talks to Rogers and feels he's
incapable of being responsible. A guest then falls down the stairs and
Webster blames Rogers and sacks him. Rogers runs off all upset, gets a
taxi home, gets drunk and doesn't pay his fare. The driver calls the
police when Rogers becomes violent with a smashed bottle and shuts himself
in his house. Nick arrives to talk to Roger's who is by now very upset and
threatens Nick with a gun. Blaketon then arrives to try and resolve the
situation. Roger's mother then arrives to talk to him and goes in, but a
gunshot is then heard. The police are about to break the door down when
Mrs. Roger opens it unharmed, but Rogers is arrested. Meanwhile a
London fashion photographer - Jansson, with his two models arrive in the
area looking for appropriate locations for taking pictures. They choose
Webster’s hotel and also the pub, where Gina gets involved. Claude thinks
he can make a few bob by getting Jansson to use his house as well and gets
his picture taken. After Jansson and the models finish their pictures,
they leave suddenly. It turns out they've been stealing from the hotel,
the pub and Claude's. Jansson and the girls however are caught and
arrested for the robberies by Nick after trying to escape. And Jo falls
out with Nick when he's late arriving for their trip away due to the
Roger's case and she decides to ends it with Nick there and
then.
'Applejack' Jet Harris/Tony Meehan (1963)
'Dead End
Street' The Kinks (1966)
'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' The
Animals (1965)
'Yeh Yeh' Georgie Fame (1964)
'Pretty
Flamingo' Manfred Mann (1966)
'Girls' Johnny Burette
(1961)
'Sunshine Girl' Herman's Hermits (1968)
'Oh Pretty
Woman' Roy Orbison (1964)
'Get Away' Georgie Fame
(1966)
8 Catch Us if You Can By
Brian
Finch
20/10/96
15.41m
Juke Boxes are the in thing to
have in your establishment at present and Reggie Rawlins who owns a small
Juke Box firm is going around trying to earn a living by renting his boxes
to the local clubs and pubs, and he persuades George to have one in the
pub. Rawlins is an old friend of Claude's and he offers to help Reggie
distribute the machines and store them at his house. But no sooner are the
jukeboxes installed and too rockers go and vandalise them and the police
begin to investigate. The jukebox in the pub then gets vandalised, and
Rawlins starts to panic as the machines have not been paid for yet and
he's getting into debt. Nick begins to become suspicious of a large rival
juke box firm in Whitby called L.E.W and starts to suspect them of the
vandalism and goes to visit them acting a customer. Nick then sets them up
by telling the company that Rawlins business is booming and he's getting a
new load of machines arriving at Claude's. Soon after the rockers arrive
to do more damage but are arrested by the waiting police. Meanwhile
Ventress gets ready for his daughter - Gail's wedding and has a good time
at his son in law to be's stag night, but ends up sleeping at the station
to Blaketon's discussed! But his problems worsen when the company dealing
with the marquee for the wedding seem to have vanished with Alf's money,
so Nick fixes up the company with Gina's help by arranging a meeting with
them. Blaketon gets concerned when Inspector Hackett talks to him about
retirement, but not Oscar's - but his own! And Nick and Jo have split up
and Jo has a heart to heart with Maggie.
'Purple Haze' Jimi
Hendrix Experience (1967)
'Itchycoo Park' The Small Faces
(1967)
'Dedicated Follower of Fashion' The Kinks
(1966)
'Hippy Hippy Shake' The Swinging Blue Jeans
(1963)
'Crosstown Traffic’ Jimi Hendrix Experience
(1967)
'Lazy Sunday' The Small Faces (1968)
'You're No
Good' Swinging Blue Jeans (1964)
'Bend Me, Shake Me' Amen
Corner (1968)
'I'm Only Sleeping' The Beatles (1966)
'My
Generation' The Who (1965)
9 Giving the Game Away By
Guy Meredith
27/10/96
16.89m
Errol Jones, a reformed London
criminal known to Nick arrives in the area, but is being followed by a
man. Errol's arrival doesn't go down to well with the locals because he's
black. Meanwhile Phil finds local farmer - Jed Hunter has been assaulted
and has had £50 stolen. Blaketon suspects Errol after Hunter had earlier
made a complaint about him trespassing on his farm. Nick goes to see Errol
who has in the meantime got involved with the local cricket match. He
denies the assault but admits he was on Hunter's land after he got lost.
Hunter who is in hospital asks Maggie to feed his dog and when she does
she finds his dog ill in the barn next to a leaking toxic barrel.
Meanwhile Claude has bought a load of the toxic barrels from local B&B
owner - Frank Beckshaw whose business is failing. It turns out Beckshaw
provided Hunter with the pester side, but he didn't pay his bill, Beckshaw
in fact assaulted Hunter who tried to put the blame on Errol. The barrels
turn out to be illegal and Claude then tries to dispose of them. In the
meantime the cricket match goes ahead and Errol becomes popular after
Aidensfield win the game, but he then runs for it when the man (Stannard)
chases him. Errol 'took' money from Stannard who wanted it back. Ruby also
returns to see Nick and hopes to meet Jo, she meets her and arranges for
Nick and Jo to meet and they start to talk to each other
again.
'Keep on Running' Spencer Davis Group (1965)
'Hit
the Road Jack' Ray Charles (1961)
'Here Comes the Sun' The
Beatles (1969)
'I Feel Free' Cream (1966)
10 The Championship By Jane
Hollowood
03/11/96 13.73m
There's a Quoits match between Aidensfield and
Holinsby. The Aidensfield team include Nick, Alf, Bernie and Greengrass.
But the Holinsby team whose captain is Donald Smethwick win the match.
Jack and Jean - friends of Eileen’s arrive for the match, but fall out
when Jean sees Jack kissing Donald’s wife - Annie who he's having an
affair with. Jean drives off all upset and crying. During the celebrations
at the pub where Ruby and Gina have done the food the Holinsby team are
disqualified due to a complication. The Holinsby team then leave on there
coach. But it crashes off the road after Donald who was driving it
see Jack and Annie together in his rear view mirror. Phil who is also one
of the passengers on the coach manages to gets out to finds help. Help
soon arrives when the emergency services arrive. Meanwhile Nick and Jo are
having dinner with her parents at her cottage and Jo's mother makes it
obvious she doesn’t approve of Nick when she discovers he has been married
before and has a daughter. Then Jo gets a phone call about the coach
accident and Nick rushes off claiming that Eileen and Katie were on the
coach. However on arriving at the scene of the accident Nick discovers
Eileen and Katie in fact got off before to accompany Jean who was in a
state and parked on the side of the road after seeing Jack earlier with
Annie. Jack whose badly injured in the coach tells Nick to tell Jean that
he's sorry and asks him to give Annie a message, but Jack then dies. Nick
then tells Jean the news and takes her to the hospital to see him and
tells Annie who doesn’t want to know.
'(If Paradise Is) Half as
Nice' Amen Corner (1969)
'Have I the Right' The Honeycombs
(1964)
'Nut Rocker' B. Bumble and the Stingers (1962)
'You
Can't Always Get What You Want' The Rolling Stones
'It
Takes Two' Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston (1967)
'True Love
Ways' Buddy Holly (1960)
11 Who Needs Enemies? By Brian
Finch
10/11/96 13.63m
School boys -Billy Burke and Timmy Gower are at the
golf course collecting golf balls when Timmy sees too men exchanging money
in a grey car, Billy then finds Timmy laying in the grass injured and he
gets help. Nick starts to investigate and goes to see Timmy in hospital;
the nurse feels someone has hit him in the face. Timmy tells Nick that one
of the men from the car (a grey Jaguar) hit him. Meanwhile An inspector
Barry arrives at the station to see Blaketon about the possibility of a
merger for the station and Barry is there to access how Ashfordly station
is run. Blaketon who is worried about his job sees his old friend
Arnold Sampson who offers him a security job which he excepts. Nick
meanwhile finds a grey Jaguar at the golf club and discovery’s the owner
is a Les Langley. Langley insists he knows nothing about the incident and
Nick borrows a picture from the club and Timmy identifies Simpson as the
man who hit him. Nick questions Sampson who denies hitting the boy,
but Nick isn’t convinced. It turns out that Sampson who’s a builder was
fixing a deal with Langley (who works in the local planning department) to
get permission for his company to build a new shopping centre in the car,
which is when Sampson hit Timmy. Faced with the truth about Sampson,
Blaketon then turns down his job offer. And Claude is about to put a
bet on for his old mate - Jonty's own dog 'Green hornet'. However
Claude who's suffering from a rumbling appendix has to go to hospital
before he's able to put the bet on, but 'Green Hornet' wins and so Claude
isn’t to keen to leave the hospital early!
'Little Children' Billy J.
Kramer and the Dakotas (1964)
'Shakin' All Over' Johnny Kidd and
the Pirates (1960)
'Here Comes That Feeling' Brenda Lee
(1962)
'Three Steps to Heaven' Eddie Cochran (1960)
'The
Green Door' Jim Lowe (1956)
'Chain Gang' Sam Cook
(1960)
12 Thanks to Alfred
By Rob
Gittins
17/11/96
14.37m
Sylvia
Phillips has left her husband Jim and moved in with her lover, Mike
Scott. Nick is later then called up to the moors when her body is
found by the side of the road. A DSI Adams is called in to take
charge of the case and Mike Scott tells him Sylvia went home to try a
final attempt to repair her relationship with her family. Her husband -
Jim is questioned and reveals he killed her. Nick however isn't sure what
Phillips said is the truth. It turns out they had a row after Sylvia found
Jim with his next door neighbour - Anne Fowles. Sylvia hit her head on the
fire place in a struggle with Fowles and Jim dumped the body hoping it
would look like a car accident. Meanwhile Claude is helping wrestle
promoter Pat Starr promote the forthcoming appearance of the famous
Wrestler - the Masked Marvel who is coming to Aidensfield. Whilst
promoting the Marvel, Alfred who it seems doesn't like the Marvel because
of his masked face bites him and the Marvel becomes ill. Starr and
Claude begin to worry what their gonna do. However Claude then decides
that Ken Fairbrother
(Blood Sports) could take
the Marvel's place. The Marvel meanwhile is unhappy that he's not
benefiting from the fight and with Alf and Gina's help he gets his revenge
on Starr by setting up a fight between him and Fairbrother (who's 'acting'
as the Marvel). In the meantime Blaketon learns that Ashfordly station
will not in fact be closing down after all, to Alf's disappointment!
And Nick is being tested for his exams by Jo and Alf.
'Good Day
Sunshine' The Beatles (1966)
'A Picture of You' Joe Brown
and the Bruvvers (1962)
'The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly' Hugo
Montenegro (1968)
'Silence is Golden' The Tremeloes
(1967)
'A World Without Love' Peter and Gordon
(1964)
'Where Did Our Love Go'
Sung by Tricia Penrose from the original song by The Supremes
(1964)
13 Obsessions By Peter
Gibbs
01/12/96
16.57m
There's a house on fire in the
village and Nick breaks in to rescue the occupant - a Miss Sandra Croft.
Croft is taken to hospital to recover and Nick goes to visit her to see
how she is. Sandra explains she was drunk after receiving a letter from
her now ex-boyfriend, Clive Kenway, and that the fire must have started
accidentally. Nick is then asked to visit Sandra when she's back home as
she feels Kenway is following her. Nick goes to see Kenway who denies it
completely. Sandra then accuses Kenway of stealing her bracelet and again
he denies it. Croft who it seems is taking a shine to Nick then becomes
angry and obsessed with him when she sees him with Jo. He begins to become
concerned about her continually contacting him and tells Blaketon who
tells Alf to keep an eye on her. Croft then starts to call Nick at Jo's
and visiting the police house and Nick tells her to stop pestering
him. She then accuses Nick of stealing her bracelet, which she actually
planted in Nick’s spare uniform. Blaketon has the bracelet after Nick
handed it in and he tell her to leave him alone. Alf then arrests Croft
after she tries to run Jo down with her car. Meanwhile Claude has gone
into the tourist business by opening his house as a B&B, and providing
his guests with walk routes to do around the area. However his first
guests - Mr. and Mrs. Flintoff have a row and Mrs. Flintoff uses Claude's
van in an attempt to run her husband down in the bird hide which puts an
end to Claude's immediate business plans!
'Love Letters' Ketty
Lester (1962)
'Rescue Me' Fontella Bass (1965)
'Black
Magic Woman' Fleetwood Mac (1968)
'I'm into Something Good'
Herman's Hermits (1964)
'Need Your Love So Bad' Fleetwood
Mac (1968)
'I Love How You Love Me' Jimmy Crawford
(1961)
'Hound Dog' Elvis Presley (1956)
14 The Best Laid Plans By
Freda
Kelsall
08/12/96 17.55m
There's a post office raid where the owner’s
locket also gets stolen along with the cash. Nick and Alf go to
investigate and find the escape car was a green Hillman Minx. The raid
looks as if its connected to a series of recent jobs and the car is found
abandoned. Meanwhile Susannah Temple-Richards
(Fair Game) is out of jail and has returned to the village
trying to forget her past when her former cellmate - Maureen Bristow turns
up asking for somewhere to stay, and insisting she's been released early.
Susannah however is suspicious and tries to tell Nick, but Bristow stops
her and makes her a prisoner in her own home by tying her up. In the
meantime Gina befriends an Irishman staying at the pub called Jed, it
seems Jed has offered Gina a job in a bar he's going to open up in Spain.
However Nick is suspicious about Jed and Bristow after Susannah can't be
found. It turns out that Jed has been doing the post office jobs and is in
a relationship with Bristow. After trying to raise more cash in order to
get to Spain, Jed does the Aidensfield post office, but eventually Jed and
Bristow are caught, and a frightened Susannah is found tied up in the boot
of their vehicle. Claude meanwhile buys an old Georgian chest after
hearing it's late owner hid his valuable war medals in it, however he
can't find them but comes across some old fivers he thinks are
in-exchangeable, however Nick tells him he can change them, but David has
already dealt with them! And Eileen tells Nick that she approves of his
and Jo's relationship after being surprised Jo had stayed the
night.
'Strange Brew' Cream (1967)
'Heartbeat' The
Shadows
'Catch Us if You Can' Dave Clark Five (1965)
15 Bygones be Bygones By Peter
Gibbs
15/12/96 16.49m
Nigel Wheeler - a financial adviser arrives in the
village and is going around visiting people to try and sell them
insurance. Jo's father mentioned Jo to him and he visits her. He then goes
to visit a Mrs. Jowett having heard of the recent death of her husband,
and also tries to sell her insurance. Nick who has become a little
suspicious about Wheeler and his goings on goes to visit him at his office
in Leeds, to find that its just a answering service there for a number of
companies. Nick and Jo then go to her father to tell him to be careful and
not to trust Wheeler, to which he takes offence and goes to the office
himself to discover they were right. Wheeler seems to become more and more
desperate to sell insurance to people including George and becomes angry
when they don't buy it. He then under a different name visits the
Ashfordly building society's manager, a Mr Sims. He tells Sims that his
wife is in danger and forces him to part with £3000 of the society's
money. Wheeler leaves with the cash and Sims phones the police. Wheeler is
later arrested and it seems he got into debt with loan sharks and was just
desperate to get some cash to pay them back. Meanwhile people in the area
including George, Maggie, Alf, Claude and Blaketon have received anonymous
letters threatening each of them by revealing secrets from there pasts.
Nick discovers that Mrs. Jowett's late husband - Thomas (who wasn’t
re-elected as leader of the local council once) typed the letters and
instructed his solicitor to post them after his death. He apparently held
a grudge against them all after he wasn’t re-elected and blamed his voters
for his downfall.
'A Well Respected Man' The kinks
(1965)
'Spirit in the sky' Norman Greenbaum
(1970)
16 Old Friends By Ron
Rose
22/12/96 15.69m
A prisoner - Ronnie Savage is being transported in a
secure police van from H.M Prison Sefton, on its journey the van comes
across some road works, the van is then ambushed in a set up escape plan.
Savage escapes in a car and Ashfordly station is informed and asked to
help in a large surveillance operation watching Savage's relations.
Savage's sister runs a local pub - the Black Bull and Nick and Phil go in
plain cloths to watch it. They see his wife - Brenda arrive who then goes
to the fishing docks in Whitby. Inspector Jennings whose now in control of
the case tells Nick and Phil to keep an eye on the docks as it looks as if
Savage is intending to leave the country by ship. Nick acts as a worker at
the docks to keep an eye on things inside, he suspect’s suspicious goings
on and feels the owner at the docks - a man called Penrice is involved.
Meanwhile Claude is enjoying a healthy business is the fish trade and is
buying his stock from Penrice. One night Phil suspects something and goes
on foot to investigate, but gets caught. Nick arrives the following
morning to find Phil missing. The police are concerned that Claude might
ruin the operation and he's pulled in and tells the police about a
suspicious Caravan he's seen recently. Jennings feels it’s connected with
Savage and raids the caravan only to find it’s the wrong one and
interrupts a couple of naturists! Nick sees Ronnie arrive at the
docks, which are then raided. Savage and everyone involved are then
arrested, and Phil is found tied up on board the ship. In the meantime
Eileen has a surprise when an old flame - a Frenchman called Antonin comes
to visit her asking her to marry him and come back with him to France, but
she turns him down for the time being as she wishes to stay with Katie for
now. And Nick receives his sergeant's exam results and has
passed!
'Get Away' Georgie Fame (1966)
'As Tears Go
By' The Rolling Stones (196?)
'The Magical Mystery Tour' The
Beatles (1967)
'Blackbird' The Beatles (1968)
'Shakin' All
Over' Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (1960)
'Boom Boom' The
Animals
'Don't Let the Sun Catch you Crying' Gerry and the
Pacemakers (1964)
The 1996 Christmas Special
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Charity Begins at
Home By Jane
Hollowood
25/12/96
9.50m
Its Christmas time and at the
village hall preparations are underway for the Nativity play being held
there. Jo and Nick are getting ready to have Christmas dinner with her
parents after Jo has finished helping with the Nativity play, but as the
snow falls the weather conditions worsen, Jo and Nick becomes stranded at
her cottage as the car is stuck. They then hear a plane crash near the
cottage and they go to help. When they arrive they find a pregnant woman
called Sophie alone in the plane, her husband - Hugh for some reason fled
before they arrived. Sophie however insists she flew the plane and was
alone. Nick and Jo take her to a nearby barn where she goes into labour.
Nick who saw footprints near the plane continues to ask her where her
husband is, but she insists he's in Spain. Meanwhile her husband, Hugh
turns up at Claude's asking him to take him to Whitby, and they start out
on Claude's tracker. Nick delivers Sophie's baby, but he's still
suspicious about Sophie's story. Claude who also becomes suspicious of
Hugh takes him to Jo's house where Nick arrests him. It turns out that
Hugh is a wanted man. The Met have been after him for months, as he stole
£100,000 from a charity. Meanwhile Alf is playing Santa for the Nativity
play, but he and Phil get stranded in the snow and Blaketon has to rescue
them! Claude whose selling Geese to everyone for their Christmas dinners
is annoyed with David who had an accident and instead delivers the Geese
to the police station! The play goes ahead and Claude is asked to play
Santa as Alf hasn't arrived, but there ends up being 2 Santa's when Alf
arrives late! And after the play is over Nick and Jo return to her
cottage, where Nick asks Jo to marry him.
'Let it Snow, Let it Snow,
Let it Snow ' Doris Day
'White Christmas' Darlene Love
(1963)
'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' The Crystals
(1963)
'Winter Wonderland' Darlene Love (1963)
'Here Comes
Santa Claus' Bob B. and the Blue Jeans (1963)
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