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1 Manoeuvres in the Dark By Peter Gibbs
26/09/99 12.87m
A
soldier and ex-boyfriend of Gina's called Terry Noble has gone AWOL from
the army after having a fight with a fellow soldier. He arrives in
Aidensfield asking for Gina's help. Gina secretly helps him and provides
him with food, drink and money. Meanwhile Ashfordly station has been
informed of Noble going AWOL and is on the look out for him. The police
then hear that the other soldier involved in the fight has since died -
and Gina then tells Mike that she has been helping Noble and tells him
where he is - But Noble's vanished. Meanwhile an ex-war veteran, a General
Clifford is ordered by court to retake his driving test after knocking a
cyclist off his bike, Jackie becomes his Solicitor, but also his driving
adviser. He is suffering from the eye disease - Cataract, which stops him
from being able to drive at night due to his poor vision. Noble brakes
into Clifford’s house and takes him hostage, and then Phil to when he
visits the General's home during the search for Noble. Noble eventually
gets caught by Mike however when he steals Clifford's car and is seen
driving it at night! Greengrass meanwhile organizes a gourmet dinner, but
David ruins the main course! Blaketon has inherited some money and buys
the Aidensfield Arms from Lord Ashfordly, and Maggie's new baby boy is
called Sam.
'Baby Love'
The Supremes (1964)
'Drive My Car' The
Beatles (1965)
'Stranger on the Shore' Acker Bilk
(1961)
'My Generation' The Who (1965)
2 Tricks of the Trade By
Johnny
Byrne 03/10/99 12.95m
There have been a number of burglaries of homes
belonging to people who have recently died, including a friend of
Claude's. Mike starts to investigate the latest break in and his only lead
is a leaflet advertising a company that do house clearances. A Mr. Fuller
who Claude seems to know runs it. Claude meanwhile is determined to get
back the stolen items from his friend’s house and he meets a man called
Flowers and asks him to get the items. Flowers introduces Claude to a Mr.
Kendal and for a price Kendal recovers some of the items that were stolen.
The police meanwhile arrest Fuller for the crime, but Claude who’s a
friend of Fuller's explains that he's innocent and they let Fuller go
without charge. Kendal then becomes prime suspect and Claude works with
them in a plan to set Kendal up by offering him £100 for some of the
stolen items. Claude arranges to meet Kendal in a pub and Mike and Phil
wait outside. Kendal takes Claude to a warehouse in Whitby docks where all
the stolen items are kept - but Kendal is eventually caught and arrested.
Meanwhile Maggie who is on maternity leave is forced back to work when a
flu outbreak turns into an epidemic and her stand in - Jan Hollis comes
down with it. Maggie then worries when Sam has a temperature, but local
GP, a Dr Halliday says he's fine. And Gina and Mary become increasingly
annoyed by Blaketon and his plans on how to run the pub!
'Space
Oddity' David Bowie (1969)
'I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door'
Eddie Hodges (1961)
'I Heard it Through The Grapevine' Marvin
Gaye (1969)
'With a Little Help From My Friends' Joe Cocker
(1968)
'Won't Get Fooled Again' The Who (1971)
3 Intuition
By Eric Deacon 10/10/99 13.22m
Celia Gilmour goes to visit her sister - Irene Bayne
but gets no answer and tells the police so they start making enquiries
about Irene's husband - Tommy Bayne who according to Celia hates his wife.
Celia then confronts Bayne asking him where Irene is, but he insists he
doesn't know and she revisits the police. Mike and Phil begin to
investigate and go to the Bayne's house. Phil discovers Irene's body
through a window and they break in. Mr Bayne is then questioned about his
wife's death and insists he was in Whitby with his sister at the time.
Mike goes to see his sister and she confirms Tommy's story and tells him
that Tommy's wife and Celia are unusual and keep all the doors in the
house locked. Jackie is then asked to represent Bayne during questioning
and Craddock feels he's guilty, but Mike isn't so sure because the room
where his wife was found was locked from the inside. Bayne tells the
police Celia moved in with him and Irene and that they both made his life
a misery and he kept himself to himself. Mike then discovers Bayne has a
fiancée in Whitby and he then confesses that when he told his wife about
the woman, they had a struggle and he pushed her away and she accidentally
hit her head and died. Tommy story is proven and he's allowed to go free.
Meanwhile Craddock announces he's temporarily going away to teach police
cadets, and to everyone's surprise Alf is appointed as acting sergeant in
his absence. Claude and David try cleaning gutters in an attempt to gain
business from a couple of conmen going around the area. A friend of Mary's
from Sidmouth comes to see her and offers her a job as the manager of a
guesthouse, which she accepts. And Alf bets with Phil that he can give up
smoking!
'Flying' The Beatles (1967)
4 Puppet on a String By Colin
Shindler 17/10/99
13.29m
Story details coming soon!
5 Honor among Thieves By Peter
Gibbs
24/10/99 13.77m
The famous romantic novelist - Honor Gayle comes to
stay in Aidensfield to try and find inspiration to write her new novel.
However while she's suffering from lack of inspiration for her book, she
takes a shine to Mike and she tries to make fiction into fact using him,
which angers Mike. She even sets up a photographer to photograph them
together portraying Mike as some sort of hero. Meanwhile some Borstal lads
have come to do some clearing work along a river under the eye of prison
officer - Blenkiron. One of them, Colin Sloper escapes and ends up at
Honor's home and she returns him after giving him a meal. Then another
called Varley goes AWOL and Mike starts searching for him, he catches
Varley just as he's attacking Jackie who he has chased into the woods. In
the meantime the local by-elections are on with Blaketon and Tom Drabble
the Aidensfield Candidates. Blaketon knows however that Drabble has a
criminal past and wins the election with the help of his old friends at
Ashfordly station, but Greengrass who was helping Drabble with his
election campaign believes it to be a set up! Honor meanwhile leaves with
enough ideas for her new book and lets Mike and Jackie stay in the house
until the her rent runs out - and Mike asks Jackie to marry
him.
'Everybody's Talkin' Nilsson (1969)
'I Got You'
James Brown (1966)
'Unchained Melody' The righteous Brothers
(1965)
'I Got you Babe' Sonny and Cher (1965)
'Do you Want
to Know a Secret?' Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas (1963)
'Brown
Eyed Girl' Van Morrison
'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore'
The Walker Brothers (1966)
6 Shotgun Wedding
By Peter Barwood 31/10/99
13.71m
There is a train robbery
committed and £200,000 is stolen, and a signalman and one of the three
robbers gets injured in a struggle with a shotgun. The robbers retreat to
a disused farmhouse. Eventually the two other robbers decide to run for it
and abandon their injured colleague. There is a massive search on for the
robbers and DCI Shiner is in charge of the operation. Meanwhile Jackie and
Mike decide on a quick date for their wedding at the registry office and
try to keep it secret and tell only there witnesses, Phil and Maggie - but
it slips and everyone then knows. Meanwhile Greengrass' sister - Bella
turns up and Claude's not too happy about her presence there and he
decides to go and live on the moors in a caravan! Mike meanwhile checks
out the disused farmhouse after David saw a light on in it, he is
confronted by the injured robber who orders him to drive him home, but
it's Mike's wedding in 2 hours! But he eventually convinces the robber
that he is getting married and that he should get his injuries seen to and
takes him to the station. Mike arrives just in time at the registry
office. However to Jackie and Mike's surprise there is a big party on for
their special day!
'Money' Bern Elliott and the Fenmen
(1963)
'You Really Got Me' The Kinks (1964)
'Dizzy Miss
Lizzie' The Beatles (1965)
7 Always a Copper
By Michael Jenner
07/11/99
14.59m
Jackie and Mike return from
their honeymoon and Jackie moves into the police house. Meanwhile
Blaketon, to Craddock's annoyance is asked by the Chief Constable to
organize a Crime Prevention Committee in Aidensfield and he sets up a
meeting between locals to arrange it. There is tension however amongst the
locals because of the recently unsolved burglaries that have been
happening. A local brewery is broken into and Mike hits a man called
Gulliver who runs out in front of Mike who’s on his way to the Brewery on
his bike. An Irishman called Andy Ryan who Gina takes a fancy to is
suspected by Blaketon of being responsible for the burglaries; he searches
Ryan's room in the pub to find money and a knife. Jackie finds out however
that Ryan is in fact a deep-sea diver and completely innocent. It turns
out the Brewery was an inside job by some of it's workers and the other
burglaries where done by Gulliver on behalf of one of Blaketon's friends
on the crime prevention committee. Claude meanwhile tries to convince some
Norwegian students that Vikings once battled near Aidensfield by getting
David to paint a Viking ship on a cave wall, But David gets carried away
and also paints buses and space rockets!
'Daydream Believer' The
Monkees (1967)
'Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)' The
Beatles (1965)
'Matthew and Son' Cat Stevens
(1966)
'Applejack' Jet Harris/Tony Meehan (1963)
'Dead End
Street' The Kinks (1966)
'The Last Time' The Rolling Stones
(1965)
8 Negative Vibes By John Flanagan & Andrew McCulloch
14/11/99
13.22m
A men's suit shop gets ram
raided late at night, but nothing gets stolen and the owner of the shop -
Mr Hodgson sees the red car responsible reverse out and drive off. The
police start to investigate and are stopping passing cars to see if anyone
has seen anything. Jackie passes and Phil asks if she has seen anything,
but she's not her normal self, she says she saw nothing and quickly drives
on. Later on a damaged red saloon car is spotted and Mike pulls it over.
The owner - Sean Banks tells the police it couldn’t have been him
responsible for the ram raid because he was with a lady at the time in a
pub - the lady to Mike's anger turns out to be Jackie. A suspicious Mike
is then unable to trace Jackie to ask her if she can back up Banks' story,
but Jackie later confesses to Craddock that she was with Banks at the
time. Mike meanwhile goes to the pub in question where the landlord also
confirms she was with Banks. Mike and Jackie then have an argument,
and he demands an explanation from her, but Jackie insists it's nothing to
worry about. Mike later finds an envelope full of nude photographs of what
appears to be Jackie - but it is in fact her sister - Elizabeth. Banks
apparently is a photographer and is threatening to publish the photos in a
national newspaper unless Jackie and Elizabeth pay him £1000. Mike then
helps them to set Banks up and get him arrested. Meanwhile the ram raid
was in fact Claude and his friend Cylis Morecroft. Cylis it seems lost
control of his car after becoming ill at the wheel, Claude without
stopping took him to hospital, but he later died. Claude with Bernie's
help then sets about helping Clyis' wife Agnes by organising the funeral
for Cylis despite finding out that Cylis wanted to leave his body to
medical science. So they decide to bury a sand filled coffin instead, but
it starts to leak and Blaketon and Alf find out what Claude's up
to!
'You Can't Always Get What you What' The Rolling Stones
(1969)
'I Close my Eyes and Count to Ten' Dusty Springfield
(1968)
'Heart of Stone' The Rolling
Stones (1965)
'I'll Never Fall in Love Again' Bobbie Gentry
(1969)
'The Fool on the Hill' The Beatles (1967)
'He Ain't
Heavy, He's My Brother' The Hollies (1969)
'Think for
Yourself' The Beatles (1965)
9 Kindness of Strangers By
James Stevenson 21/11/99
14.30m
A local elderly man
called Ernest Dewhurst is obsessed about his dead son, Colin - who was
killed during the war. Dewhurst really is not capable of looking after
himself and his daughter - Jenny is concerned about her father's health
and she visits him regularly to see if he's all right. One day Jenny
suspects someone has been in her father's house and she calls the police -
but Ernest says that only Colin has been there. It turns out that a young
man called Mark came to visit Ernest once, and Ernest thinks it's his son,
so Mark just played along with it. But Mark has stolen from Ernest to gain
money for his wife who is expecting a child. Ernest is then assaulted and
hit over the head with a decanter and Mark becomes the prime suspect for
the assault. He does admit to stealing and asking Ernest for money - but
denies that he assaulting him. It turns out that it was in fact Ernest's
daughter - Jenny who assaulted him, she was so annoyed with her father's
obsession about Colin and she just hit him. Her husband helped her cover
it up to make it look like a robbery. Meanwhile their is a local car rally
coming up and Claude gets a deal together with one of the contenders to
help him win the rally, but it all goes wrong and the rally result is
cancelled. And Andy Ryan
(Always a Copper) returns
to see Gina and buys her a new car - a white Beetle.
'Reflections of
My Life' Marmalade (1969)
'The Magical Mystery Tour' The
Beatles (1967)
'Don't Stop the Carnival' Alan Price
(1968)
'No Milk Today' Herman's Hermits (1966)
'True Love
Ways' Peter and Gordon (1965)
10 Hollywood or Bust By Brian
Finch 28/11/99
13.91m
A film company called Arcourt films arrives in the
village looking for locations in the area to shoot their latest film. They
ask the police for permission to do so and Craddock is more than willing
to help the company where possible. The film crew all stay at the
Aidensfield Arms and they ask Blaketon if they can film in there as well.
Everyone begins to get all excited about the possibility of meeting famous
film stars and actually appearing in the film. Gina in the excitement then
takes a picture of the famous director, Denzil Arcourt - who is furious
about this to everyone’s surprise. Gina's camera is then stolen and Mike
begins to suspect that Arcourt and his crew are not quite what they seem.
They then start to film at Ashfordly hall, and while Lord Ashfordly is
away they begin to load their lorry full of items. Mike arrives to find
Lord Ashfordly tied up, and Arcourt trying to escape. Phil who blocks the
road off eventually catches Arcourt. Meanwhile David buys a couple of old
Hens from a local farmer called Clegghorn
(Local Knowledge), Claude
then informs David that they are unable to lay and he and David then get
into a spot of bother when they try to swap them for a couple of younger
Hen's behind Clegghorn's back!
'Days' The Kinks
(1968)
'Act Naturally' The Beatles (1965)
'Little Red
Rooster' The Rolling Stones (1964)
'Hey Joe' Jimi Hendrix
Experience (1967)
11 Flesh and Blood By Gillian
Richmond 05/12/99
14.23m
A local woman dies and there's
a family feud erupting between her Son and Husband - Tom and Don Lomax.
The Situation worsens when one of the woman’s two daughters - Vera is left
everything in the Will, but Vera is a patient in a mental hospital. The
other daughter, Barbara turns out to be a childhood sweetheart of Phil's
and they start to see each other again. Tom and Barbara later start
clearing out their mother's things and discover the skeleton of a baby in
the attic. Don tells the police he knows nothing about it and an
investigation starts. Vera then escapes from the hospital and returns to
her parent’s home and hides in the cellar, and later confronts her father.
Barbara tells Phil that the baby was hers and she had it when she was just
14. Then the Lomax's house is set on fire and Barbara later confesses to
it. It turns out that Don Lomax sexually assaulted Vera, his own daughter
- and Barbara had just learnt this and it angered her. Mike then arrests
Lomax just as he takes his Granddaughter away for a weekend. Meanwhile
Claude and David sell wild rabbits to a pet shop owner, dying there coats
black - as black rabbits are worth a lot - but the shop owner then gives
the rabbits a wash!
'Ticket to Ride' The Beatles
(1965)
'Catch Us if You Can' Dave Clark Five (1965)
'Run
Rabbit Run' Bud Flanagan
12 No Surrender By Neil
McKay 12/12/99
13.37m
Two farmers - Clegghorn
(Hollywood or Bust) and Colborne who are
neighbours are feuding. At the annual village fate the farmers argue and
start fighting. Clegghorn it seems knows something about Colborne's
military past and is trying to drive him out of his farm so he can buy it.
Clegghorn's milk tank then gets vandalised by someone shooting it and
Colborne's son who is an army cadet is suspected. Then Colborne's farm,
containing a new tracker is burnt down and Clegghorn is then suspected.
During the investigation Mike begins to suspect the local farm supplier
Bennett of being involved. It turns out that Colborne was part of a secret
army during the war and he had Bennett down on his execution list as he
feels Bennett was a traitor in the war. Bennett turns out to be
responsible for the barn fire after Colborne's wife, whom he is having an
affair with, gave him the list. Meanwhile David starts to believe what a
fortune teller told him at the fate about a woman in his life when a woman
called Gloria Evans takes quite a shine to him and asks him and Claude to
clean and decorate her new cottage, but then her husband turns up. And
Gina talks of marrying Andy and perhaps leaving Aidensfield.
'Set Me
Free' The Kinks (1965)
'Can't Take My Eyes off You' Andy
Williams (1968)
'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' The Righteous
Brothers (1965)
Christmas Episode
13 Stag at Bay By Susan
Wilkins 19/12/99
14.66m
Its Christmas time and a
number of Deer have been shot and killed by poachers on the Ashfordly
estate and Lord Ashfordly informs the police and they start to
investigate. Meanwhile Jackie is acting as Julia Kendell's solicitor in
the divorce from her husband Frank, and it's all having a terrible effect
on their young daughter Katie. Jackie asks for Craddock's help in the case
as Julia Kendell accuses her husband of harassing her, but Craddock feels
he's completely innocent. Preparations in the meantime are under way for
the Christmas concert and Katie is asked to take part but she refuses and
becomes friends with David. One of the poachers with Claude's help is
found and it turns out the other is Frank Kendell who was killing the Deer
to get back at Lord Ashfordly who he knew was having an affair with his
wife - Julia. Kendell and the other man are then arrested when they
attempt to kill Lord Ashfordly. Katie then decides to take part and sing
at the concert now taking place at Ashfordly Hall. And Greengrass tries
his hand at being a driving instructor when he starts his own driving
school using an old hurse. But his first pupil causes an accident with
Andy and Claude panics when Andy mentions insurance to him to play for the
damage to his sports car!
'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree'
Brenda Lee (1962)
'Santa Claus is Back in Town' Elvis Presley
(1980)
'Frosty the Snowman' The Ronettes
(1963)
14 Full
Circle By Johnny
Byrne 26/12/99
11.01m
Story details coming
soon!
'Applejack'
Jet Harris/Tony Meehan (1963)
15 The Seven Year Itch By
Peter Gibbs
02/01/00
13.51m
Ray Nixon, recently released
from prison comes to stays at the pub - to Blaketon's surprise. It seems
Blaketon tried to get Nixon off as he was an informant in a crime seven
years previous, but the judge at the trial felt Nixon should serve time as
well and now Blaketon is worried that Nixon blames him for his unnecessary
time inside and wants his revenge. Nixon then reports a missing watch and
later accuses Blaketon of drinking and hitting his car when reversing out
- which angers Blaketon as he feels Nixon is trying to fit him up. It
turns out that Nixon when he was inside became a qualified electrician and
returned to booby trap the electrics of the pub to hopefully cause
Blaketon harm. Mike is able to save Blaketon just in time - but Nixon has
long gone. Meanwhile a female sergeant, a Sgt Nokes temporarily replaces
Craddock at Ashfordly station and she takes quite a shine to Phil! And
Greengrass gets involved with local - Anthony Mottram in a mad scheme
involving his late father's old valuable maps!
'Wild Horses' The
Rolling Stones (1971)
'Nowhere Man' The Beatles
(1965)
'I Close my Eyes and Count to Ten' Dusty Springfield
(1968)
'Waterloo Sunset' The Kinks
(1967)
'Good
Vibrations'
The Beach Boys (1966)
16 Weight of Evidence By Peter
Barwood 09/01/00
13.11m
It's Ben Ealham 21st birthday
party and Siam who is meant to be helping Gina and Andy behind the bar is
flirting with Ben. Andy who it would seem likes Sian becomes jealous and
causes a scene and drives off. Sian whilst driving home then gets rapped
and tells Mike that it was Ben. Mike and Sgt Nokes both feel Ben is
guilty, but Jackie who is representing him doesn't and she feels Ben has
been forced to admit guilt in his statement after Nokes promised him a
lighter sentence. The case is thrown out of court however due to
insufficient evidence. Mike and Jackie then fall out when Ben is let off
and Nokes, due to the case's result, is transferred. Andy then becomes a
suspect, but confesses to Mike he was with another woman at the time. Then
it's discovered the fuel tank of Sian's car was sabotaged and its found
out Ben was in fact the rapist after all and Nokes then re-charges him for
the crime. Claude and David meanwhile buy Lightning - a racing 'Sheep',
which wins at a sheep race meeting, but then its real owner arrives
demanding its return!
'Do Wah
Diddy Diddy'
Sung by a group from the original song by Manfred Mann (1964)
'I'm Into Something Good'
Sung by a
group from the original song by Herman's Hermits (1964)
'From Me to You'
The Beatles (1963)
'Lightnin'
Strikes'
Lou Christie (1966)
'Barbara Ann' The Beach
Boys (1966)
'I'll Never Find Another You' The Seekers
(1965)
17 For Art's Sake By Andrew
McCulloch 16/01/00
14.76m
Local artist - Joe Vaughan is
the subject of a bad joke when someone puts fireworks though his
letterbox. Meanwhile Vaughan is trying desperately to get his career back
on track and his friend, Rod Dundas who is an art dealer is trying to help
him. However Vaughan gets arrested when he starts a fight with a local man
called Roache at the pub. After attending Court he opens a Gallery of his
works at his home to try and raise some cash, but someone later sets his
house alight and he ends up in hospital - Roache becomes the suspect. He
denies the fire, but admits to the fireworks incident, insisting it was
just a bad joke. Mike then suspects two Scousers who have been looking for
Vaughan recently - especially after Vaughan vanishes from the hospital.
But they end up just wanting him to do some paintings for them. It's
actually found out to be all down to Vaughan's friend, Dundas - he was
broke and needed the money. Claude gets into a spot of bother when he sets
up a B&B, and also when he helps his old friend - Betty Kirk buy a
'winning' race horse! And Blaketon causes Andy to leave Gina suddenly when
he discovers Andy is in fact married and has a child in
Grimsby.
'Jumping Jack Flash' The Rolling Stones (1968)
'A
Whiter Shade of Pale' Procol Harum (1967)
'Death Of A Clown'
Dave Davies (1967)
18 A Shot in the Dark By
Peter
Gibbs 23/01/00
15.16m
Gary Tyler gets shot in the
shoulder whilst leaving Ashfordly Hall after secretly visiting his
girlfriend Lyn who works there. Lord Ashfordly informs the police of the
incident and Reed (the estate manager, who fired the shot) insists he shot
into the air. Tyler doesn’t report his injuries, as he's known to the
police and fears for Lyn's job. Maggie however treats Gary and sends him
to hospital and the police then get involved. Mike discovers a screwdriver
in the grounds and thinks Gary dropped it when he escaped, but Jackie who
is representing him feels it was put there. Gary - worried for Lyn insists
he was not an intruder and eventually tells Jackie the whole story. Jackie
insists on Lyn's involvement to help Gary's case and meets her, unknown to
Gary. Lyn tells Jackie that Reed wasn’t the one who shot at Gary - it was
in fact Ashfordly. Jackie then warns Ashfordly of his legal situation if
the case goes to court and he later decides to forget the matter.
Meanwhile Claude is offered the chance to write a column for the Ashfordly
Gazette and takes this opportunity to express his inner thoughts about the
police force, however Claude is surprised at the amount of his column that
doesn’t end up in the paper!
'In The Midnight Hour' Wilson
Pickett (1965)
'Paperback Writer' The Beatles (1966)
'Fire
Brigade' The Move (1968)
'Hello Little Girl' The Fourmost
(1963)
19 The Good Doctor By Jane
Hollowood 30/01/00
14.78m
A new GP called Dr
Ian Peters sets up a temporary surgery in the village with an interest in
applying for a permanent practice there. Maggie befriends Peters after he
treats Sam for an infection, they then become friends and they go out for
dinner together. Meanwhile David witness' a car crash into another with
Jackie and her friend Sue in it. The car then just drives off. Jackie is
unhurt, but Sue sustains some head injuries and later complains of a bad
headache. Mike starts to investigate the accident and later finds the car
which turns out to belong to Lord Ashfordly , burnt out. Mike questions
Lord Ashfordly's nephew Charles who says he suspects a worker on the
estate called Eric. Mike then talks to Eric who doesn't talk, then David
comes forward saying he saw the driver and describes him - which
eliminates Eric. Sue then dies from a blood clot on the brain and Mike
from David's description discovers the driver was in fact Ashfordly's
nephew - Charles. Meanwhile to Gina's anger, Andy returns to try and patch
things up with her, but after over hearing him talking, Andy suspects Dr
Peters of being an impostor and informs Craddock who then makes enquires
and discovers he's on no official GP lists. Peter's is questioned at the
station but then escapes. He's eventually found and saved by Andy after
jumping off Saltburn pier. It turns out he faked a CV to become a GP and
in doing so killed a patient. And Claude sees the chance to make a few bob
at a local cycle race by renting old bicycles out to the contenders (which
include Ventress, Phil and Craddock), but then he starts to panic when
everyone's brakes start failing!
'Get Back'
The Beatles with Billy Preston
(1969)
'Itchycoo Park' The Small Faces (1967)
'Think'
Aretha Franklin (1968)
'Gimme Shelter' The Rolling Stones
(1967)
'Behind Blue
Eyes' The
Who (1971)
20 Against the Odds By Johnny
Byrne
06/02/00 15.16m
A man called Charlie Weller is found dead in his
farmhouse by Lottie Turner, he suffered a heart attack. Lottie and her
mother Peggy lived with Charlie when Peggy's husband died. At the reading
of Charlie's will, his only relative - his nephew - a Mr. Martin Weller is
angry to hear that everything is being left to Peggy. Martin accuses Peggy
of getting him to change his Will. Mike starts to investigate the
accusations and Peggy denies it, but Jackie finds out she had a
relationship with Charlie, and Lottie is his daughter. Someone then sets
fire to Charlie's barn and Martin becomes the suspect, but Claude whose an
old friend of Charlie's and whose helping Peggy with Charlie's winning
race horse - Red Rover feels the culprit is local business man - Ray
Walker who wants to buy the horse, but Walker denies he is responsible as
he was in hospital at the time. Meanwhile council worker Samantha Neilson
talks to Blaketon about a proposed new industrial estate to be built in
Aidensfield, to which he as village councillor agrees. But then he
discovers a complex scheme involving Neilson and Martin Weller to get
Peggy out of Charlie’s house in order to build the industrial estate there
and make millions of pounds and it turns out that Martin killed his uncle.
And Claude starts a business selling 'Red Rover' Manure and goes to the
races looking like you've never seen him before!
'Shout' Lulu
and The Luvvers (1964)
'Samantha' Kenny and his Jazzmen
(1961)
'Love Letters' Ketty Lester (1962)
'Walk Don't Run' The Ventures (1960)
'Dedicated Follower of
Fashion' The Kinks (1966)
21 Desperate Measures By Neil
Mckay 13/02/00
13.77m
With Jackie’s help,
local man - Roy Brooks is let of in court for Horse theft, and his son and
daughter - Ian and Christine are delighted. Meanwhile a horse is
stolen from Lord Ashfordly’s stables and Reed
(A Shot in the Dark) is
hit over the head in a struggle with the intruder and ends up in hospital.
Reed describes the blue van he saw, and Mike starts to investigate. Maggie
also reports a blue van that forced her off the road the same night, which
helps the police suspect Roy Brooks who owns such a van. Brooks is
arrested and questioned, but is released on bale after the lack of
evidence against him. Brooks then leaves his children because he feels
he’s let them down. Meanwhile Lord Ashfordly catches the intruder - John
Lynch who returned to retrieve the weapon he hit Reed with. Lynch tells
the police a man called Steve Lawton is behind it all and he forced
Brook’s son - Ian to drive his fathers van and help him. Meanwhile Maggie
becomes worried when Sam is kidnapped and she suspects an old lady called
Brenda who she’s recently befriended of taking him, but it turns out to be
Brook’s daughter Christine who took him. She did so because Maggie told
the police about the van that forced her of the road, which helped the
police's case to arrest her father. And Claude and Bernie get involved in
the Spirit world and hold a séance for an elderly widow who needs to talk
to her late husband, but they have more success than they wished
for!
‘Spirit in the Sky’ Norman Greenbaum (1970)
‘Why do Fools Fall in
Love’ Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers (1956)
‘Let it Be’ The
Beatles (1970)
22 With this Ring By Gillian
Richmond
20/02/00
11.69m
Lord Ashfordly hosts a party
at Ashfordly Hall, but while everyone is enjoying themselves downstairs,
an intruder is upstairs stealing money his Lordship keeps in an unlocked
draw to pay his employees wages. Lord Ashfordly reports the robbery and
Mike and Phil start to investigate by interviewing all the employees on
the estate, including gamekeeper - Frank McCreedy. Franks wife - Mary
knowing her husband's got a reputation for gabbling, feels her husband is
responsible and indeed he later confesses to her he did steal the cash. He
asks her however to keep it quiet, but later he also steals money saved
for their daughter's education and Mary becomes upset and distressed. Mike
suspects Frank and visits Mary who denies she knows about it. After an
argument with Frank, Mary goes to see Mike and tells him Frank's guilty,
Mike then arrests him. Mike then returns to see Mary - only to witness her
shoot herself. Frank blames Mike for his wife's death, which affects Mike
badly. Mike who has already fallen out with Jackie over holiday plans
argues with her and goes of on his bike. Blaketon talks to Mike that helps
him get over it and he returns home and makes up with Jackie. Meanwhile
Andy returns to the pub from another job, but collapses after hitting his
head at work and ends up in hospital. Gina then finishes it with Andy when
his wife and kids arrive to see him in hospital; Blaketon rang his wife to
tell her about him. And Claude and David steal some coal from a broken
down lorry and Craddock tells Alf who he should suspect first - Greengrass
of course!
'The in Crowd' Dobie Grey (1965)
'Easy Going
Me' Adam Faith (1961)
'The Wind Cries Mary' Jimi Hendrix
Experience (1967)
23 Wise Guys By Susan
Wilkins 27/02/00
13.51m
Franko Mazzetti has died and
his fish and chip restaurant run by him and his family in Whitby carries
on despite his absence. The Mazzetti's mobile chip van then gets
vandalised and they put the blame on an Ashfordly chip shop owner known as
Big Eddy. Mike starts to investigate and discovers Franko had been feuding
with Big Eddy for years, but Eddy denies any involvement. Claude meanwhile
buys one of the Mazzetti's old chip vans from Bernie and decides to go
into the fish and chip business himself and goes to Ashfordly on market
day, only to be threatened by Eddy. So Claude decides to set up in
Aidensfield outside the pub instead to Blaketon's annoyance. Meanwhile
Eddy has a window smashed and blames the Mazzetti's who deny it. A
full-fledged war then erupts between Mazzetti's, Big Eddy and Claude. The
Mazzetti's restaurant is set alight, Eddy's shop is flooded out and
Claude's van has its wheels nicked. Claude is questioned and admits to
immobilising Eddy's new mobile van, but denies the rest. Mike then becomes
suspicious of one of the Mazzetti brothers - Marco and follows him one
night and catches him about to firebomb Eddy's shop. Marco admits it was
all down to him. His father had left the business solely to his older
brother - Paolo and he wanted the family business to fail as a result, so
he faked a feud between his family and Eddy. Meanwhile a widow called Mrs.
Poole reports a break in at her house and Alf goes to investigate and they
take quite a shine to one another. She then reports a further break in and
later retreats to the pub after being confronted by some youths. Blaketon
however becomes suspicious of Mrs. Poole's stories and to Alf's annoyance
discovers she made it all up because she felt lonely and enjoyed Alf's
company.
The 150th
Episode
24 The Son-in-Law By Peter
Barwood
05/03/00 14.52m
A car cashes into a river and the police go to
investigate. Mike searches the car to find its empty, but strangely the
car is missing its hubcaps. The car it turns out was stolen and its owners
- a Mr and Mrs. Drew are informed. Meanwhile Claude and David befriend a
hitchhiker called Micky Shannon who writes songs and Gina takes a shine to
him, so she organises a concert for Micky to do at in the pub. But
Andy turns up again and apparently knows Micky. Meanwhile Jackie hears
from her parents who live in South Africa and who are coming to visit her,
but Jackie becomes worried as she hasn't told them the whole truth
about her marriage to Mike. When they arrive Mike is more than happy to
meet them, but they are not so keen to meet him as they feel he's not good
enough for Jackie. They even try to persuade Jackie to move to Cape
Town by offering her a job there. Mike and Jackie's relationship suffers
as a result and they fall out. Meanwhile the pub is raided and Blaketon
ends up in hospital and Shannon has suddenly left the pub also. Andy tells
the police that Shannon is in fact a conman and he becomes prime suspect
for the car accident, and the pub job. It turns out that the Drew's were
in fact smuggling diamonds from Amsterdam and Shannon stole their car
which had the diamonds hidden in the hubcaps. The Drew's are arrested and
Shannon is to when he's caught at Claude's after he sold Claude some
Orchid seeds which in fact turn out to be Marijuana. However Shannon is
allowed to perform the concert at the pub before going to the
station.
'Just
Like Eddie'
Heinz (1963)
'Colours' Donovan
(1965)
'Poor Man's Son' Rockin Berries (1965)
'Hole in My
Shoe' Traffic (1967)
'Anyone Who Had a Heart' Dionne Warwick
(1964)
'All That I've Given Away' Gary Barlow
(2000) |
