The Detectives

Season 3

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In the never ending, high tech war against crime, Detective Constables Bob Louis and David Briggs are the Scud missiles of the police arsenal of intuition, hunches and inspired guesses... all of them hopelessly wrong.

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6 Episodes

D.C. Of Love
E1
D.C. Of LoveCottam can't bring himself to pass on news about forced retirement, an investigation into lonely heart murders leads to a night of blind dates, and Briggs can't believe his luck when he receives an offer of casual sex.
Flash
E2
FlashBriggs realises he may have ended his career at a drunken gala dinner, the Marquess of Tipperary faces questions about indecent exposure, and Sparky the Magic Piano manages to give the Drug Squad the runaround.
Art Attack
E3
Art AttackWhen forced to transfer into the Fine Arts Squad, our heroes are despatched to recover the latest artistic creation of 'enfant terrible' Hadyn Smailes - a pair of maracas, a tin of peaches and a fish tank of the artist's own urine.
On Thin Ice
E4
On Thin IceA figure skater claims sabotage when she's injured in an attack, the case is closed just as Briggs and Louis think they've cracked it, and a lack of an identification card proves problematic for a door-to-door assignment.
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
E5
Between A Rock And A Hard PlaceBriggs and Louis head off to Gibraltar for a holiday they won on Bullseye, Cottam's keen to nab a former friend who nearly ended his career, and a lack of jurisdiction leaves no choice but to beg for the worst kind of help.
Twitchers
E6
TwitchersBriggs and Louis are assigned to keep an eye out for egg-snatchers; the professor of ornithology has to explain why he's hanging around; and falling asleep proves costly when the nest gets emptied in the night.