Series Five
18 Episodes. First broadcast: Sundays on ITV - 25 April to 22 August 1982
| Title | Episode | First aired | Writer(s) | Director |
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| Blue Marigold | 52 | 25 April 1982 | Aileen Wheeler Robin Chapman |
Giles Foster |
| Marigold is a top model much in demand until her temperamental nature takes over. She loses her contracts and winds up in a mental home. Released years later, she plans a comeback. | ||||
| Cast: Edward Jewesbury (Psychiatrist), Stephen Bent (Car Dealer), Ralph Bates (Paul Foster), Sharon Duce (Sophie Trent), Helen Fraser (Beryl), Toyah Willcox (Marigold), Billy Hamson (Bryan Sabotier), Paul Seed (Director of Commercial) | ||||
| The Eavesdropper | 53 | 2 May 1982 | Ruth Wissmann Robin Chapman |
John Gorrie |
| Happily married Donald and Moira are out shopping for a new watch as a gift for Moira. While there, she overhears a conversation between two women about a married man one of them is seeing. Moira soon realises it must be Donald they are talking about. |
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| Cast: Michael Craig (Donald Henderson), Dorothy Tutin (Moira Henderson), Sheila Ruskin (Louise), Bernice Stegers (Kaye), Rosalyn Elvin (Waitress), Ronnie Stevens (Jeweller), Neil Daglish (Young Man), Lill Roughley (Blonde Girl) | ||||
| Operation Safecrack | 54 | 9 May 1982 | Robin Chapman Henry Slesar |
Alan Gibson |
| On behalf of a company that designs safes, an advertising executive hires Sam Morrissey, an ex-safe cracker to break into one of their safes with the promise of £25,000 if he is successful. | ||||
| Cast: John Mills (Sam Morrissey), June Ritchie (Jenny Morrissey), David Healy (Jack Harrison), Edward Burnham (Henry Bliss), Eliza Buckingham (Reporter & Voice of Stewardess), Rachel Laurence (Hilda), David Hanson (Winford Stark), Jason Norman (Billy Thompson), Richard Everett (Television Director), Nick Diprose (Floor Manager) | ||||
| Run Rabbit Run | 55 | 16 May 1982 | John Bakkenhoven Robin Chapman |
John Jacobs |
| After World War II a US Army interpreter was stationed in Paris, staying at the house of the bully Hector and downtrodden Nathalie. Ten years later, he returns to the house and meets Nathalie, but Hector is mysteriously absent. |
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| Cast: Leslie Caron (Nathalie Vareille), James Aubrey (Robert Simpson), Constantine Gregory (Hector Vareille), Bernadette Windsor (Young Girl) | ||||
| Stranger in Town | 56 | 23 May 1982 | Sidney Carroll | Wendy Toye |
| A man going by the name of Sir Columbus dresses and acts like a clown, endearing himself to the local community. While there, he enters a business premises and reveals to the boss who he really is. | ||||
| Cast: Jean Kitson (Secretary), Bruce Clark (The Boy), Jennifer Connelly (The Girl), Clive Swift (Latham), Robbie MacNab (Hotel Receptionist), Stuart Howard (News-stand boy), Giles Phibbs (Foreman), Derek Jacobi (Sir Columbus) | ||||
| The Moles | 57 | 30 May 1982 | J.J. Maling Chaim Bermant |
Peter Hammond |
| Two businessmen on the verge of bankruptcy devise a plan to rob a bank. With the help of an experienced criminal, they dig a tunnel to reach the bank's vault. | ||||
| Cast: Fulton Mackay (Edward Boyle), Bill Owen (Meakins), Harry H. Corbett (George Balsam), Joe Gladwin (Heeney), Avril Elgar (Thelma Boyle) | ||||
| Decoy | 58 | 6 June 1982 | Victor Edwards Robin Chapman |
John Jacobs |
| Police officer Mary Bryan goes undercover to investigate a serial killer. The killer has murdered a number of women in the city and she sets up an ambush. | ||||
| Cast: Susan Penhaligon (WPC Mary Bryan), Tim Woodward (Anthony Burton), Paul Antrim (Mike), Ian MacKenzie (Police Draughtsman), Harold Reese (Pathologist), Ian Redford (Detective Sergeant Harvey), Tom Cotcher (Detective Sergeant Talbot), Frank Wylie (Chief Inspector McLintock) | ||||
| Pattern of Guilt | 59 | 13 June 1982 | Helen Nielsen Robin Chapman |
Herbert Wise |
| Keith Briscoe, a police pathologist has fallen out of love with his second wife and wants to get back with his first, Faye. While working on an investigation into a serial killer, he asks Faye to act as a decoy. | ||||
| Cast: Peter Egan (Keith Briscoe), Suzanne Danielle (Elaine Briscoe), Jennie Linden (Faye Briscoe), Andrew Manson (Young Man), Harry Webster (Old Man), Bernard Kay (Detective Sergeant Jim Gordon), Andrew Hilton (Plain Clothes Police Officer), Brett Forrest (Gerald), Neil Hutchings (Mark Briscoe), Darren Michael (John Briscoe) | ||||
| A Harmless Vanity | 60 | 20 June 1982 | Theda O'Henle Jeremy Paul |
Giles Foster |
| A woman is tipped off by a friend that her husband is having an affair. She is reluctant to believe it but sets up a meeting with this woman at a beach party. | ||||
| Cast: Keith Barron (George Hitchman), Phoebe Nicholls (Carol), Sheila Gish (Mary Hitchman), Suzanne Worsley (Girl lover), Colin Farrell (Dave Ferguson), Michael Nagel (Lifeguard), Carol MacReady (Liz Ferguson), Chas Bryer (Frogman), Michael Speake (Television Announcer) | ||||
| Death Can Add | 61 | 27 June 1982 | Philip Ketchum Johnny Byrne |
Graham Evans |
| Alan Corwin, an auditor in a city investment firm is approached by Oliver Platt, another member of the firm, to cover up his use of company money. For a price he agrees, but Corwin's secretary and girlfriend is ignorant to the arrangement. |
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| Cast: Geoffrey Chater (James Hamilton), Frank Gatliff (Thomas Keyes), Jan Francis (Leila Graham), Michael N. Harbour (Oliver Platt), Roland Culver (Sir Alex Bullen), Ian Holm (Alan Corwin) | ||||
| Light Fingers | 62 | 4 July 1982 | Henry Slesar Ross Thomas |
John Peyser |
| Joan and Ralph live a quiet life. Ralph is concerned though when thefts begin to occur at his glove factory. Eventually, he hires a private detective to catch the culprit. | ||||
| Cast: Frank Sinatra, Jr. (Cotter), Janet Leigh (Joan Stackpole), Tom Bosley (Ralph Stackpole), Kenneth Tigar (Semple), Penelope Gillette (Gladys Miton) | ||||
| Death in the Morning | 63 | 11 July 1982 | Zia Kruger John Gorrie |
John Gorrie |
| Sir Ian Masterson, a rich landowner marries Karen. On moving into the house, Karen has an uneasy feeling and confides in their neighbour that the place is haunted. | ||||
| Cast: Cherie Lunghi (Karen Masterson), Moray Watson (Sir Ian Masterson), Carol Drinkwater (Linda Larch), Alan Rowe (Duncan Larch), Hilary Mason (Mrs Pardoe), Richard Austin (Paul Masterson), John Stamp (Williams) | ||||
| What Have You Been up to Lately? | 64 | 18 July 1982 | George Baxt Denis Cannan |
Herbert Wise |
| Two old actor friends meet up for the first time in 25 years. They ponder the fact that neither of them have been successful in their career or life and reminisce about a girl they both had a crush on. | ||||
| Cast: Maggie Fitzgibbon (Melissa Mellor), Peter Barkworth (Richard Mellor), Benjamin Whitrow (Fergus Locke), June Watson (Audrey Locke), Fanny Rowe (Actress), Angela Harding (Cathleen) | ||||
| The Absence of Emily | 65 | 25 July 1982 | Jack Ritchie Denis Cannan |
Alan Gibson John Rosenberg |
| Norma has inherited a large estate and allows her sister, Emily and brother in law, Bob to live there. Emily disappears and Norma believes that Bob has killed her for an insurance pay out. She and a detective investigate. |
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| Cast: Anthony Valentine (Bob), Frances Tomelty (Norma), Susan Tracy (Emily), Patsy Byrne (Jean), Patrick McAlinney (Landlord), William Moore (Crisp), Derek Anders (Goff), Diana King (Ruth) | ||||
| In the Bag | 66 | 1 August 1982 | Robert L. Fish Bert Salzman |
Bert Salzman |
| Cara is determined to get back her family jewels, which have been hidden away in a safe. Hiring a safe cracker, she goes along with him undercover. | ||||
| Cast: Edward Albert (Sam), Terry O'Quinn (Cop), Lou Jacobi (Waiter), Roxanne Hart (Cara), Michael A. Candela (Gardener) | ||||
| A Man with a Fortune | 67 | 8 August 1982 | Peter Lovesey Alan Seymour |
Herbert Wise |
| American John Smith is visiting England to track down his family roots. While in London, he meets up with two girls who befriend him. | ||||
| Cast: Shane Rimmer (John Smith), Cyd Hayman (Janet Murdoch), Elizabeth Richardson (Eva), Peter Tuddenham (Tommy), Donald Eccles (Vicar), Nigel Greaves (Waiter), Jean Kitson (Clerk) | ||||
| Who's Got the Lady? | 68 | 15 August 1982 | Jack Ritchie Jeremy Paul |
Peter Hammond |
| An art gallery owner has received a priceless work of art on loan. He sets up a robbery with a supposed fake being put in its place. He then gets his girlfriend to make a copy of the painting in order to sell it as the real thing. |
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| Cast: Timothy Carlton (Walter Jameson), Gladys Spencer (Old Lady), Richard Johnson (Parnell), Robert Beatty (Amos Pulver), Victoria Tennant (Bernice), Vincent Wong (Japanese Art Collector), Michael Forrest (Detective Chief Superintendent Nelson), Neil Daglish (Heath), Laurence Payne (Hollingwood), Peter Howell (Louis Kendall), Olivier Pierre (Andre Arnaud) | ||||
| The Skeleton Key | 69 | 22 August 1982 | Graham Sutton Roy Russell |
Alan Gibson |
| Max, an arrogant young man plans a holiday with his girlfriend Emma, but, he needs an emergency operation beforehand. Andy, a kind-hearted radiologist at the hospital builds up a friendship with Emma. Max is being very bad tempered and so she finds she has a decision to make. |
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| Cast: Julie Dawn Cole (Emma), John Duttine (Max), Peter Jeffrey (Stewart), Peter Machin (Andy), Tony Osoba (Dr Hartley) | ||||
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