Series 2 (1989)
| # | Episode Notes | Directed By | Written By | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kevin's brother Micky is playing truant from school and making hoax calls to the station; Sicknote tries to introduce a smoking ban; Sandra Hallam introduces Bayleaf to Clare, a fireman's widow; while driving for Cyril George meets Julia and immediately falls for her, but she turns him down; at Malcolm's suggestion, he sends her poetry and mimes to Sicknote's singing outside her house and she asks him out | John Reardon | Anita Bronson | 22 October 1989 (1989-10-22) |
| 2 | The new ADO, the pedantic and disciplinarian Scase, arrives at Blackwall; Marion gives birth to a son; Micky and his friends start a fire at their school; Charisma is still unable to get rid of Donna, who refuses to leave his house, saying she is now legally his common law wife; Hallam is appointed temporary station officer at Borough Street station, where he finds that Maddox, a black officer, is being bullied by his colleagues, led by the racist Scouser; Charisma's mum/sister arrives from Australia and forcibly evicts Donna. | Gerry Mill | Anita Bronson | 29 October 1989 (1989-10-29) |
| 3 | Charisma bores the watch with tales about Big Ron; the watch are called to deal with a leaking nuclear container; at Borough Street, Maddox is tied to a ladder and hoisted over a pool made of hoses; Scouser kicks the ladder, forcing Maddox' head underwater; Hallam arrives and pulls an unconscious Maddox from the water Josie passes her leading firefighter exams; Vaseline's ex-wife, also named Marion, arrives and is invited to stay by the other Marion; the watch are called to an accident, where a young window cleaner has been impaled on railings. | John Reardon | Anita Bronson | 5 November 1989 (1989-11-05) |
| 4 | Blue Watch are called to save men trapped under scaffolding on the Thames; Tate ignores Scace's orders to first secure the scaffolding as the tide is coming in quickly; Scase responds by reporting Tate for insubordination; Sicknote is jealous when Dominic is given the lead role in a play ahead of him, alongside Jean; the two Marions gang up on Vaseline | Gerry Poulson | Anita Bronson | 12 November 1989 (1989-11-12) |
| 5 | Scase and Tate are both disciplined by Area Commander Bulstrode, but it is Scase who is transferred away; Charisma does a magic act for Jaffa's gran; Blue Watch attend a blaze at the cafe across the road; Josie passes her officers exams; Dorothy gets a job at a bar, although Tony disapproves | Gerry Mill | Anita Bronson | 19 November 1989 (1989-11-19) |
| 6 | Sicknote has left Jean and moved in with Charisma; Hallam is called to testify at the Brigade disciplinary hearing for the incident involving Maddox; George is still pining for Julia, but she leaves him when she realises he doesn't trust her; a young girl is electrocuted while trying to retrieve her brother's cap near an electric generator; at Maddox' hearing all five officers are found guilty and dismissed from the job; Vaseline sees Malcolm kissing Julia and tells George, who tries to attack Malcolm; Blue Watch have to rescue a man trapped in a sewer | John Reardon | Anita Bronson | 26 November 1989 (1989-11-26) |
| 7 | It's Bonfire Night and Blue Watch are on alert; at a shout Sicknote is tasked with rescuing a parrot on a rooftop; Sicknote and Charisma continue to bicker about living together, while George is still convinced that Malcolm cheated on him with Julia and attacks him again; two rival gangs of kids light each other's bonfires, unaware that a boy is asleep inside one; Clare's son is injured by a firework; | Gerry Poulson | Tony Hoare | 3 December 1989 (1989-12-03) |
| 8 | The two Marions go out for the evening, leaving Vaseline to babysit his son; Dorothy leaves Tony; all the members of the watch (except a depressed Tony and Vaseline who is babysitting again) go to see Sicknote in The Student Prince, but they annoy him by singing along; Blue Watch are checking local fire hydrants when a van falls into the river; Vaseline, Bayleaf and George dive underwater to rescue the occupants, but Vaseline does not come back up; his BA set has malfunctioned underwater, drowning him. | Gerry Mill | Tony Hoare | 10 December 1989 (1989-12-10) |
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