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1 Wild Thing By Michael
Russell
04/09/94
15.14m
Sheep are vanishing from farms around the
area and Nick is called out by a local farmer to investigate. The farmer
shows Nick a couple of his badly mauled sheep that have been attacked and
Nick begins to suspects that some sort of dog is possibly responsible for
the attacks. Inspector Crossley however to Nick and Blaketon's
amusement feels this attack and others across the country recently are the
work of some kind of wild animal, such as a Puma and he orders an
immediate search for a large 'cat like' wild animal roaming the moors.
There's another attack and some children hear something in the woods and
Crossley then organises night watches in order to find the 'beast of the
moors' as its become known quickly. Nick and Crossley are then one night
called out to beck farm where Alfred is seen at the scene of yet another
attack and the farmer shoots and injures him. The case is taken to court
and a furious Claude is annoyed when the court magistrate finds Alfred
guilty of the killings and orders that he should be destroyed. Claude
later however goes and rescues Alfred from the police station. Meanwhile
Kate starts her new job that she's accepted with Dr. James Radcliffe's
practice in Whitby, but has to put his receptionist - Christine in her
place when she starts transferring patients from Kate's surgeries to his,
leaving her surgeries virtually empty. Nick then discovers that Alfred in
fact isn't responsible for the Sheep killings and they are in fact down to
sheep rustlers when he catches them in the act after the one of them who
is a patient of Kate's suffered from a painful seizure in his arms, an
illness it turns out that is spread by Sheep ticks. And Claude finds a
novel way of getting the Inland Revenue off his back by putting the entire
contents of his house on their offices doorstep as payment for his debts!
'(There's) Always
something There to Remind Me'
Sandie Shaw (1964)
'I'm on My
Own' ?
'Sunny Afternoon' The Kinks (1966)
'Apache'
The Shadows (1960)
'I'm a Tiger' Lulu (1968)
'Look
Though any Window' The Hollies (1965)
'Wild Thing' The
Troggs (1966)
2 Witch Hunt By Brian
Finch
11/09/94
Some local
kids see an old lady who they thinks a witch vandalise the funeral urn of
the late Amy Dewhurst in the graveyard. They tell Nick who replaces it and
informs the relatives, Marjorie and Harry Salter who suspect their cook -
Nancy Bellow is responsible as she was Dewhurst's live in friend until
Dewhurst died and had to move out of her house which was left to the
Salter's. Nick goes to see Nancy, but she denies the accusation. The
Salter’s then fall ill and both go to hospital where Kate suspects they
are suffering from food poisoning. It turns out the Salter's have in fact
got arsenic poising and Nick returns to see Nancy with Inspector Crossley
who seems to be taking charge of the case to Blaketon's annoyance.
Crossley suspects Nancy of poising the Salter's and starts to interrogate
her and tells Nick to check the poison register which confirms that Nancy
did in fact buy some rat poison recently - but Nancy denies she is
responsible for their illness. The Salter's return home, but soon become
ill again and Kate realises that they have in fact been poisoned by the
dust created by the old paint they're stripping off the walls whilst
decorating their home. But Nancy, due to Crossley's continued disbelieve
of her innocents has tried to commit suicide and ends up in hospital to
recover. Crossley then leaves after Blaketon calls CID to inform them of
developments in the case which Crossley should have done, but didn't due
to his underhand methods to try and get a confession from Nancy. He is
then replaced by an Inspector Murchison, which to Blaketon's surprise
turns out to be a woman! And Alf gets his own back on Phil by faking an
arm injury, after Phil teased him about getting fit!
'Black Magic
Woman'
Fleetwood Mac (1968)
'You Really Got Me'
The Kinks (1964)
'Just One Look' The Hollies (1964)
3 Mid Day Sun By Jonathan
Critchley
18/09/94
Mike
Halstood, an army officer discharged from Germany is camping near
Aidensfield with his wife and his son, Jamie in the hope of finding a job
and somewhere to live in the area. But their movements have been hampered
by the fact that their dog, Sam has gone missing. Jamie who’s very
distressed about it is continually searching for the dog. Meanwhile Nick
receives reports that a beagle and a fox have been mysteriously killed.
Also the local garage mechanic at Mostyn's garage - Jim Swaby goes to Kate
as he's not been very well recently and is suffering from a constant
raging thirst. He starts experiencing violent convulsions when Nick visits
him and he's taken to hospital were Kate and James start to treat him. His
condition quickly worsens and he's soon diagnosed to have the killer
disease - Rabies. Kate asks him if he's been near any animals recently and
he just about gets out that he was bitten by a dog at the garage - Swaby
then dies. Meanwhile the area is cornered of with roadblocks and a huge
search is on for the animal responsible. It becomes apparent that Jamie's
dog which is missing is the carrier of the disease. Nick finds Halstood
and his wife and they are questioned - but Jamie however is still out
searching for Sam. Claude who is helping in the search sees Jamie in the
woods. Jamie has at last found Sam, but the dog is very aggressive and
bites Jamie. Claude then shoots the dog while Nick takes Jamie to meet
Kate who immediately injects Jamie with the vaccination. Meanwhile - The
Halstood's are charged for illegally bringing an animal into the country
and breaking the quarantine laws. And Ashfordly gets a new patrol car, but
Alf drives it first and asks Nick to give him a refresher course in
driving, but he ends up hitting Claude's truck!
'Shakin' All Over' Johnny Kidd
and the Pirates (1960)
'This Wheel's On Fire' Julie Driscoll,
Brian Auger and the Trinity (1968)
'Fox On The Run' Manfred Mann
(1968)
'The Cruel Sea' The Dekotas (1963)
4 Turn of the Tide By Johnny Byrne
25/09/94
Containers are thought to be being picked
up at sea and smuggled into the country, and so Nick is assigned by
Murchison to go undercover to start investigating the stories of smuggling
happening of the coast of Whitby after a number of tip offs. Alf meanwhile
is just about to go on his annual fishing holiday in Whitby and so Nick
goes with him. They stay above the Stirling’s shop, which is where Alf
always goes. Jake Stirling takes Alf and Nick out to sea to give Nick an
incite into Fishing, in doing so they see local fisherman - Cedric Shanks
recovering some lost ‘merchandise’ out of the water and Nick begins to
suspect Cedric who is known to Alf for his card games of being involved
with the smuggling. Back on land Nick follows Cedric to his warehouse and
discovers the recovered container is full of counterfeit cash and he then
informs Murchison. He then over hears Cedric talking to another man called
Hesketh arranging a final delivery and so Nick sets Cedric up by arranging
a poker game with him and Alf. Nick wins the game and Cedric plays him
back with some of the counterfeit cash - forcing Cedric into telling him
the time and location of the delivery. The Customs and Excise catch the
delivery boat at sea and Hesketh and the others all get caught in a big
police raid at Cedric’s warehouse. Kate in the meantime tells Lisa Everett
that she's pregnant, but Jake Stirling who’s her boyfriend tells her to
get an abortion. Lisa, who’s scared off losing Jake over it asks Kate to
help her get rid of it, but she refuses and so Lisa tries to do it herself
and ends up in hospital. And Claude takes advantage of Nick's absence by
selling Venison to all the locals, but Blaketon is soon on to
him!
'Mars, The
Bringer of War' By Gustav Holst (Classical)
'Walkin the Dog'
sung by Bill Maynard from the original song by The Dennisons
(1964)
'Paranoid' Black Sabbath (1970)
5 Love Child By Brian
Finch
02/10/94
Nick
interrupts a robbery at the children's department of Ashfordly council
offices during the night where a thief escapes with some blank postal
orders, but injures her hand braking a window to escape. Later it’s
discovered a file containing details on an adoption has also gone missing
from the department. The office staff later tell Nick of a call they had
recently from a young woman asking about an adoption of a baby boy 3 years
previous, and the stolen file seems to be the one about the same boy.
Meanwhile a woman called Sandie who Kate treated for a cut hand takes a
child she's been watching from his nursery school thinking it to be her
own which was taken away from her when it was born. Nick meanwhile get the
natural mother - Sandra Eliot's home address and goes to see her only to
find she hasn't lived there since she had a row with her parents who
disowned her after she turned to crime when her child was taken away from
her. Nick later discovers from Kate that Sandra Eliot is in fact Sandie
and that she has in fact taken the wrong child. Nick and Kate then search
for Sandie and go to see her husband - Vinnie who doesn’t know where she
is. Kate however realises where she must be after Sandie mentioned a place
special to her near the railway. They find her there with the child and
explain to her that the boy is not her son, and that he in fact died soon
after she was parted with him. Claude and his mates meanwhile have started
up a pigeon racing society and Claude complains when one of his pigeons is
killed by a Peregrine and reports the 'murder' to Blaketon, but with
little success. He then gets the blame when a couple of birdwatchers
accuse him of vandalising a Peregrines nest, but Claude denies
responsibility and the real culprit turns out to be Lord Ashfordly’s
gamekeeper who was protecting his lordships grouse.
'Send an S.O.S' ?
'Dedicated Follower of Fashion' The Kinks
(1966)
'Funny How Love Can Be' Ivy League (1965)
6 Nice Girls Don't By Jane
Hollowood
09/10/94
The North
Riding Police force wins a rugby match against the Harbour men of Whitby.
After the match at the Mermaid pub the winning trophy is presented to the
police rugby captain - PC Little from Whitby. To Phil's distress at the
celebrations he losses the chance to win Gina's heart when she starts
flirting with one the Harbour men - Neil Gibson. Everyone leaves at
closing time and Gina drives off in her car. On her way home she realises
a car is following her and panics. She stalls her car and can't restart
it, so she flees into the wood to escape, but her pursuer grabs her and
starts to attack her, however he is scared off by a scream from deep
within the woods. Claude who is in the woods meanwhile tells Nick he saw a
girl in the woods and Nick and Kate realise its Gina when they find her
car abandoned. They go to the pub to find Gina in a terrible state and so
they take her to Ashfordly for questioning where Murchison gives her a
hard time believing that she is making the whole thing up, which annoys
Kate. Phil at first then becomes a suspect when his tie is found in Gina's
car, but he naturally denies it. Then Gibson becomes a suspect and Nick
with PC Little go and arrest him for questioning. But Gina then decides to
drop the charges when Gibson’s family threatens her and George. The case
then seems finished, but Nick is still determined to solve it and
discovers the attacker is in fact PC Little after he finds him attacking a
Whitby barmaid in her flat. Little is then charged when Gina then makes a
positive identification in an ID parade. And the noise in the woods turned
out to be a piglet that Claude was trying to catch to sell to a buyer,
which turns out to have been stolen from a Mr. Forbes farm.
'Bend Me, Shape
Me'
sung by Tricia Penrose from the original song by Amen Corner
(1968)
7 Trouble in Mind By Johnny
Byrne
16/10/94
A man
called Dennis Parker reappears in the village looking for his family,
which he apparently walked out on 7 years previous with no explanation. He
goes to the pub were he collapses and George calls Kate out and Parker
ends up staying in the pub. He tells Kate that he can't remember the last
7 years and she believes he's suffering from Amnesia. Nick starts to
investigate Parker and discovers he vanished after collecting the weekly
payroll for his employer’s 7 years ago. Parker is arrested, but insists he
doesn’t remember what happened after some men in a car stopped him after
he collected the £800 payroll. However he's charged, but is released on
bale. Nick suspects he was the victim of a wages snatch and Kate meanwhile
finds his wife - Helen and arranges for Parker to meet her at the police
house. Nick then discovers that on the day of Parker's disappearance - two
villains were caught with the £800 and suspects Parker's telling the
truth. Then a Mrs.Selby arrives and identifies Parker as her
husband, but he doesn’t know her. It turns out Parker was thrown out of
the car by the villains, who kidnapped him and took the money. Selby met
him the same day suffering from Amnesia and they'd lived together ever
since until she recently reported him missing after he had an accident at
home and lost his memory again. However she then leaves when she hears
Parker is already married and the charges against him are dropped. And
after going to see 'Strangers on a Train' at the cinema Claude is
approached by a complete stranger called Jenkins who offers to burn his
barn down for the insurance money, but only if he agrees to also burns
down his shop. Claude declines, but his barn goes up in flames anyway.
Alfred is then kidnapped by Jenkins when Claude doesn't carry out his part
of the 'deal' and Claude instead tells Nick, and he then arrests Jenkins
for arson.
'Joanna'
Scott Walker (1968)
8 Fair Game By Veronica
Henry
23/10/94
Wealthy
local - Susannah Temple-Richards is having an affair with Jeremy Kirby, a
young man who works on her and her husband - Jack's estate. Keen to
get her husband out of the way so she can run off with Jeremy, one evening
she poisons Jack's Whisky drink with an overdose of sleeping pills. The
next morning Susannah is surprised to see Jack arrive at the annual Hunt
which meets up in the village. Jack however is in a terrible state and
during the hunt he attempts to take a jump, but falls from his horse and
is killed. Susannah then secretly regrets her actions and Kate tells her
that there will be a post-mortem to see exactly how Jack died. The
pathologist's report then confirms Jack tied from a broken neck, but it
also mentions that a high level of sleeping pills was in his blood stream
also and Nick becomes suspicious about Susannah and hears of her
relationship with Kirby. Nick then goes to see Susannah who denies knowing
that Jack took the overdose. However Nick later finds Jack's hip flask
which proves Susannah was responsible and she confesses to Nick and is
then arrested. Meanwhile local pensioner - Artie Sneed dies from heart
failure and Claude asks Nick if he can look after Artie's poultry until
his estate is sorted out, and Nick agrees - but it's only until later that
Nick is told by Blaketon and Alf that Sneed was known for his
cock-fighting. Claude meanwhile arranges a meeting with a buyer to sell
him Artie's champion cockerels, but the buyer - called Cutter finds out
they are Artie's and just helps himself to them. Claude then realises
Cutter's taken them and tells Nick about a Cockfight meeting that’s about
to happen to get his revenge on Cutter. The police are waiting and arrest
the culprits, which include Cutter and Jeremy Kirby. And Kate feels it
would be better to stay at Whitby most nights due to the fact she’s always
tied in the evenings.
'Son of a
Preacher Man' Dusty
Springfield (1968)
'Theme from Z-Cars' Johnny Keating
(1962)
'Death Of A Clown' Dave Davies (1967)
'The Crying
Game' Dave Berry (1964)
'You Can't Always Get What you Want'
The Rolling Stones (1969)
Also see The Best Laid Plans from Series
6
9 Red Herring By Michael
Russel
30/10/94
A Russian
ship docks in Whitby Harbour and one night its crew return to the ship
very drunk having been drinking in the local pubs. Later Kate is called
out when its claimed the ships captain has been killed in a fight with one
of the crewmen - Vladimir Ivanov who has fled the ship and is on the run.
However, on her arrival Kate finds that the captain just has a head
injury. Ivanov however feels he's killed him and ends up in Aidensfield
were he asks Nick for Political Asylum because he feels he's in danger due
to the fight. Nick takes Ivanov to Ashfordly and asks a local
Russian-speaking priest - Father Sergei to translate for them. Immigration
officer - Fillingham then arrives and Ivanov tells him his ship is a spy
ship watching nato ships in the North Sea and also has nuclear radio
equipment on board. Fillingham then orders that Ivanov be transported to
York's immigration office, but he escapes while Nick and Alf are
transporting him there, as he fears Fillingham is from the KGB. Meanwhile
James' daughter - Jennifer who is obsessed with smugglers and robbers get
injured with her friend - Dennis on a nature studies school trip and end
up at the bottom of a cliff and a huge police search is organised to find
them. Ivanov sees the search party thinking they are searching for him and
asks Claude for help. So Claude takes Ivanov to Sergei who he's been
poaching with recently. Meanwhile MI5/6 and the local CID on Fillingham’s
orders are watching Ivanov’s ship and so Sergei and Claude ask Nick for
help to get Ivanov back on the ship. It turns out Ivanov lied about the
ship being a spy ship in order to stop the police sending him back, but
now he wishes to return knowing his captain is not dead. Unable to get him
back on the ship by land as Fillingham is there, James transports a drunk
Ivanov back to the ship via his fishing boat, and Ivanov leaves the
Harbour with his comrades!
'Play with Fire'
The Rolling Stones (1965)
'Back in the U.S.S.R' The
Beatles (1968)
'Slop John B' The Beach Boys (1966)
'Lara’s
Theme from Dr. Zhivago' by Maurice Jarre (1965, classical)
10 Arms and the Man By Jonathan
Critchley 06/11/94
Farmer - Mr. Cooper ends up in hospital when his old
army rifle explodes in his face when he and his farm help - Morris were
target practicing. Nick goes to Cooper's farm to investigate and see why
he has such a weapon in his possession. Meanwhile the Swinton boys have
come across some army ammunition and have started experimenting with it.
Nick goes to see Cooper in hospital who insists he was just trying the gun
out. Claude meanwhile buys some old grenades from Morris and they us them
to go poaching with on the Ashfordly estate to get back at his lordships
new gamekeeper who tries to poison Alfred. In the meantime Nick suspects
Cooper has more illegal weapons on his property and looks around his farm,
which looks like a shine dedicated to warfare. Blaketon then discovers a
grenade pin beside the river on the Ashfordly estate the poachers used,
and when Kate informs Blaketon that young Billy Swinton's received a bad
burn on his arm from touching explosives Nick suspects Cooper is somehow
connected to both events and gets a search warrant to search Coopers farm
for more illegal ammunition. An alarmed Cooper then discharges himself
from hospital to go and hide a large collection of armoury he has stored
in his house and in his shed. Meanwhile Claude tells the police that the
Swinton boys have some explosives and Billy tells Kate his brother Sandy
is planning an explosion for his friends - near Coopers shed in a quarry.
Nick and Phil break into Coopers home to find him there with his suspected
collection. Then Blaketon and Nick go to Cooper's shed and save Sandy
Swinton and his friends just in time before Coopers shed goes up as a
result of Sandy's explosion. And Nick and Kate begin to argue and drift
apart further as Kate spends more time in Whitby. She also discovers she’s
pregnant and tells James, but decides not to tell Nick.
'Apache'
The Shadows (1960)
'Little Red Rooster' The
Rolling Stones (1964)
'Hey Joe' Jimi Hendrix Experience
(1967)
'Tired of Waiting for You' The Kinks
(1965)
'Crosstown Traffic' Jimi Hendrix Experience
(1969)
11 Treading Carefully By Lizzie
Mickery
13/11/94
Nick and
Kate's relationship is really beginning to suffer and it’s starting to
affect their professions. Kate has a heart to heart talk with James about
the baby and how her career will suffer having a baby right now. James
however tells her she has to tell Nick she's pregnant. Nick in the
meantime gets a visit from Blaketon, who has noticed a change in Nicks
work, he asks how he is and Nick confides in him and says that he and Kate
are drifting apart. Kate then suddenly tells Nick she's pregnant and he's
delighted, but Kate is not so pleased and expresses her wish to carry on
working and even talks of separation and bringing up the child alone if
need be which annoys Nick. Nick then visits Blaketon again and asks for
his advise, while James arranges with Kate a system with the practice once
she’s had the baby. Meanwhile Nick is called out by a farmer who reports
he's had some lead stolen from his farm, then a local church also reports
a theft, and Nick starts to investigate. After a third theft Nick suspects
Claude is involved after he sold some lead he claims is his own to a
chimney sweep friend - Eddie. In the meantime three soldiers - Mike, Phil
and Snakey are on leave and are camping at Claude's and turn out to be the
lead thieves. One night while they are raiding a church, Mike falls from
the church tower and Phil and Snakey leave him there. Nick with Kate get
called to the church the next morning and Kate climbs on to the church
roof to examine him and he's taken to hospital. Nick goes to see Claude to
see what he knows about the soldiers and he tells Nick they know an
ex-army man called Will Bentley who buys lead. The police go to Bentley’s
house and find a large amount of the stolen lead on a truck. They raid the
house and Phil, Snakey and Bentley are arrested. And Nick and Kate make
up.
'We Can Work it
Out'
The Beatles (1965)
'Magic Bus' The Who (1968)
12 Bad Blood By Steve
Trafford
20/11/94
17.80m
Arthur & Emily Jacobs return from a
few days away to find their farmhouse has been broken into and the cows
have been let out and are roaming the roads. Nick helps Arthur round them
up and Emily tells Nick that they've been robbed. Nick gets a list of the
stolen items which Includes Emily's record player and begins to make
enquires. Darcy - Arthur's brother who helps on the farm and was looking
after it while they were away says he heard nothing. Meanwhile Claude
sells a record player to an old boyfriend of Gina's called Billy who's
arrived to see her again. Billy however steals cash from the pub till and
Gina tells him to leave. She then tells Nick about the player, Billy tells
Nick he got the player from Claude who tells Blaketon that Darcy Jacobs
sold it to him. In the meantime Alf tells Nick the Jacobs farm was their
father's until he was killed when his tractor rolled over on top of him.
Kate meanwhile has told Emily she's pregnant - but Emily doesn’t seem to
happy about it as she feels this will make life worse at the farm between
Arthur and Darcy who seem to argue all the time. She tells Arthur that
Darcy must leave or she will and when Darcy hears Emily is expecting a
baby - a fight erupts between the brothers with Darcy claiming the farm
should be his. Emily leaves the farm and goes to stay with Nick and Kate
at the police house, but Darcy later breaks into the police station to
take her back home, but the police arrive and arrest him for the farmhouse
break in. It turns out the brothers have been arguing for years because
their father left the farm to Arthur. Darcy has always resented this and
admits to actually killing his father, having made it look like an
accident and forcing Arthur to help him cover it up and keeping it
quiet. And Blaketon gets Ashfordly stations 'clear up rate' up to
scratch on Murchison’s orders.
'Midnight Rambler'
The Rolling Stones (1969)
'I'd Never Find
Another You' Billy Fury (1961)
'Hippy Hippy Shake' Swinging
Blue Jeans (1963)
'You'll Never Walk Alone' Gerry and the
Pacemaker's (1963)
13 Assault and Battery By Freda
Kelsall
27/11/94
Mervyn
Sykes' battery hen farm gets vandalised with graffiti one night by someone
protesting about animal rights. Sykes calls Nick out who goes to inspect
the damage himself. Nick asks Sykes if he knows who might be responsible
and he shows Nick an anomalous threatening letter he's received. Nick
suspects it’s the work of campaigners who have vandalised other farms
recently. Meanwhile Kate is treating Sykes' wife - Monica for depression,
caused by her husband flirting with other women. Sykes is then killed when
he shoots himself with his own gun when the intruder returns taking
pictures of the Hens. At the scene Nick discovers a flash bulb from a
camera. Meanwhile a young attractive woman called Loveday is staying at
the pub and catches Phil's eye. Phil arranges to take her out to see the
local sites, however she doesn't turn up and he later finds her injured
walking with her bike on the moors. He and Kate take her to hospital where
she recovers. Nick meanwhile finds some bloodstained overalls near the
farm and suspect Monica is hiding something. Then when he and Phil recover
Loveday's bike, Nick finds Loveday’s camera, which is missing its flash
bulb. Loveday then confesses to the graffiti and tells Nick that Sykes'
death was an accident. Nick also finds that the poison pen letters were
down to Monica who did it to teach Mervyn a lesson about his affairs.
Claude meanwhile goes into the free range eggs business, selling them to
the villagers. However he ends up buying eggs from Sykes' farm and selling
them as free range, but his customers then find the eggs are off and they
demand their money back to Claude's bad luck! And Blaketon goes to inspect
the decorating Nicks done in the police house in the baby's
bedroom.
'Let There Be
Drums'
Sandy Nelson (1961)
'Jolity Farm' Bonzo Dog
Doo Dah Band
'Hey, Little Hen'
'When I'm Cleaning
Windows' George Formby
'Wipe Out' The Surfaris
(1963)
'My Girl' Otis Redding (1965)
14 Lost and Found By
Johnny Byrne 06/12/94
Story details
coming soon!
'Something in the
Air'
Thunderclap Newman (1969)
'Let it Be' The Beatles
(1970)
'Apache' The Shadows
'Telstar' The Tornado's
(1962)
'5-4-3-2-1' Manfred Mann (1964)
15 A Bird in the Hand By Jonathan Critchley & Peter N
Walker
13/12/94
Elderly
farmer - Tom Abbott is to becoming to frail to run his farm and is worried
about his neighbour Ronald Pitts buying his farm, but Frank who works for
Abbott tells him not to worry about it. Pitts then complains to Nick about
some of Abbott's sheep roaming on his land and he also tells Nick that
Abbott should be in a home as he can't run the farm anymore. Meanwhile
Kate is unsure what young Jane Shields is suffering from, but suspects its
Flu. However she discovers she has in fact got brucellosis caused by
drinking milk from Abbott's farm. She tells James about it and it turn out
James is a distant relative of Abbott's. In the meantime Pitts
deliberately damages a stonewall on Abbott's land with his Land Rover and
Abbott's sheep roam onto the road. Nick finds a peace of broken brake
light at the scene and suspects Pitts is responsible. Abbott then ends up
in hospital after catching pneumonia and
Nick also suspects Pitts of deliberately infecting Abbott's milk with
brucellosis as he had a case of it on his farm once. However Abbott's
condition is silicosis - caused by breathing in fumes from Parrott dug. It
turns out Frank has been storing stolen exotic birds on Abbott's farm
without him knowing for seeds supplier - Thorpe who sells them on. And
Pitts is found to be responsible for the malicious damage to the wall and
also for deliberately infecting Abbott’s milk with brucellosis. In the
meantime Claude brakes into a church, but it can't be proved. Claude is
trying to find a long lost relative of a rich Australian as there's a
reward, so with Gina's help he searches local records to find the
relative, but Christine beats them to it and discovers Abbott is in fact
the Australian's long lost twin brother!
'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' The Hollies
(1969)
'In Dreams' Roy Orbison (1963)
'You Can't Always
Get What you Want' The Rolling Stones (1969)
'I Can't Control
Myself' The Troggs (1966)
'Air on a "G" String' By Johann
Sebastian Bach (classical)
'Sunshine Superman' Donovan
(1966)
'Mr Slater's Parrot' Bonzo Dog Doo Dah
Band
The 1994 Christmas Special
16 A Winters Tale
By Brian
Finch
25/12/94 17.08m
It's the week before Christmas and Nick
gets called out by Lady Whitly who reports she has intruders on her
estate. When Nick arrives he discovers from Lady Whitly that she has had a
number of her Christmas trees stolen from her estate. Nick starts to
investigate the crime and begins to suspect Claude after he sold a tree to
George. Claude however denies it and insists he found the tree on the road
and that his truck has been stolen anyway meaning he couldn't have done
it. Later Nick finds Claude's truck abandoned in a barn and full of pine
needles, so Nick goes to see Claude again and takes him to the station,
but he still denies it. Claude's truck then vanishes again and Lady Whitly
reports that more of her trees have gone. The real culprits turn out to be
Ellie and Ronnie Parkin, a couple of local children who stole the trees so
they could sell them to try and raise money to take their ill younger
brother - Danny to Switzerland to get him his necessary treatment as their
father can't afford it. Ellie Parkin then goes to apologise to Lady
Whitly, but she shows no remorse and feels the children need to be
punished to learn by their mistakes, but Lady Whitly then remembers her
difficult upbringing and has a change of heart and decides to pay for
Danny's treatment and the trip to Switzerland. Meanwhile Kate is holding
auditions for the Christmas concert and persuades Claude to play Santa for
the concerts play, and Alf and Phil arrange a surprise for Blaketon by
reuniting him with his son Graham who's arrived to take part in the
Christmas concert.
'Sleigh Ride'
The Ronettes (1963)
'Blue
Christmas' Elvis Presley (1964)
'Santa Claus is Coming to
Town' The Crystals (1963)
'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus'
The Ronettes (1963)
'The Christmas Song' Nat 'King' Cole
(1963) |
