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Season 1

  • S01E01 What the Butler Saw

    • January 27, 1993
    • BBC One

    When the Earl of Lisson is murdered, Briggs and Louis try to discover ""who dunnit"".

  • S01E02 Hostage

    • February 3, 1993
    • BBC One

    A fanatical murderer has escaped from prison and Superintendent Cottam orders Briggs and Louis to catch him but the two detectives would rather be watching the F.A. Cup Final.

  • S01E03 Teed Off

    • February 10, 1993
    • BBC One

    Johnny McKenna is an arms dealer and a keen golfer. Briggs and Louis have to get evidence of his illegal activities.

  • S01E04 Acting Constables

    • February 17, 1993
    • BBC One

    Briggs and Louis are assigned to act as advisors for a TV police drama.

  • S01E05 Studs

    • February 24, 1993
    • BBC One

    Briggs and Louis find themselves on an assignment in Jersey. It isn't long before they get on the wrong side of Jim Bergerac.

  • S01E06 Strangers in Paradise

    • March 3, 1993
    • BBC One

    Gangster Tony Mazola has been murdered. Superintendent Cottam thinks that gang warfare may be about to start. He sends Briggs and Louis on an undercover assignment to the Paradise Club in the East End of London.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Collared

    • March 2, 1994
    • BBC One

    Suspended after an unfortunate incident involving the Queen, Briggs and Louis decide tore gain favour by nicking some serious East End villains.

  • S02E02 Witness

    • March 9, 1994
    • BBC One

    Two tough detectives are required to go undercover at a monastery. Unable to find any, the Super employs Briggs and Louis.

  • S02E03 Never Without Protection

    • March 16, 1994
    • BBC One

    A Duchess keeps appearing in the tabloids canoodling withher police bodyguards. What the Super needs are two completely unappealing detectives...

  • S02E04 Dutch Cops

    • March 23, 1994
    • BBC One

    On Customs and Excise duty, Briggs and Louis find themselves trapped in the back of a pilchard lorry - with a large quantity of diamonds.

  • S02E05 Sparring Partners

    • March 30, 1994
    • BBC One

    Briggs and Louis masquerade as the manager and trainer of a boxer as they investigate a steroid that promotes raw aggression - and enhances sexual prowess.

  • S02E06 Rear Window

    • April 6, 1994
    • BBC One

    While Louis is confined to a wheelchair, he witnesses a brutal crime of passion, but has trouble convincing Briggs that it wasn't all in his mind.

Season 3

  • S03E01 D.C. of Love

    • January 9, 1995
    • BBC One

    As a lonely and meaningless retirement beckons after 25 years on the force, the boys are given the task of finding 'The Black Widow' after a series of gruesome lonely hearts murders.

  • S03E02 Flash

    • January 16, 1995
    • BBC One

    After mixing their drinks at the policemen's ball, Louis and Briggs confront a new horror involving a flasher, a Marquess and the commissioner's wife.

  • S03E03 Art Attack

    • January 23, 1995
    • BBC One

    When 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.

  • S03E04 On Thin Ice

    • January 30, 1995
    • BBC One

    When Briggs and Louis investigate an attack on a top figure skater, the pair wind up on ice but fail to gain marks for artistic interpretation.

  • S03E05 Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    • February 6, 1995
    • BBC One

    After 30 years of watching and waiting, Superintendent Cottam ropes the boys into helping him catch notorious bullion thief, Ronnie Richardson.

  • S03E06 Twitchers

    • February 13, 1995
    • BBC One

    Briggs and Louis are assigned a case protecting the eggs of a newly-discovered breeding pair of red kites. Their lack of enthusiasm soon turns to panic as the eggs are stolen.

Season 4

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Thicker Than Water

    • December 23, 1995
    • BBC One

    'Tis the season to be jolly! And whilst others may be celebrating, our plucky detective duo, Louis and Briggs, can only think of one thing - avoiding the dreaded Christmas duty.

  • S04E01 The Great Escaper

    • February 15, 1996
    • BBC One

    Louis and Briggs are cuffed to a notoriously slippery customer as they escort him to his latest prison by train. So how do they end up crossing the Yorkshire moors carrying a toilet door?

  • S04E02 Fur Coat, No Knickers

    • February 22, 1996
    • BBC One

    Louis and Briggs are called in to investigate a murder that has taken place during the re-creation of a medieval battle scene. However they are more concerned with the police football quiz.

  • S04E03 Back to Class

    • February 29, 1996
    • BBC One

    After Briggs and Louis manage to murder the last female white-flippered turtle on the planet, they are only too pleased to investigate a drug scandal at an exclusive girls school.

  • S04E04 Sacked

    • March 7, 1996
    • BBC One

    There's a new person in charge of 'C' Division - and she's a woman. As Briggs and Louis find themselves heading for the career dustpan an unexpected saviour appears...

  • S04E05 The Wembley Stadium Mystery

    • March 14, 1996
    • BBC One

    Although Louis and Briggs have been assigned to a security operation at Wembley Stadium, they have their minds on winning the police table football tournament.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Special Branch

    • January 14, 1997
    • BBC One

    The Superintendent selects the duo for a particularly sensitive assignment. His granddaughter has become involved in an anti-road protest and he needs Louis and Briggs to 'rescue' her.

  • S05E02 Cardiac Arrest

    • January 21, 1997
    • BBC One

    When a gang member is shot during a getaway, Briggs and Louis are dispatched to the hospital. But with so many sick people, doctors and nurses around, Louis' hypochondria knows no bounds...

  • S05E03 The Beast of Hackney Marshes

    • January 28, 1997
    • BBC One

    A night patrolling the marshes, on the lookout for an escaped bear, is really not what our heroes had in mind - particularly when their umbrella act for the Super's variety show is really coming together.

  • S05E04 The Curse of the Comanches

    • February 4, 1997
    • BBC One

    When Briggs and Louis, helped by a mysterious Commanch Chief, go on the hunt for a sacred Indian carving, they soon find themselves on the trail of tragedy, death and disaster...

  • S05E05 Best Man

    • February 11, 1997
    • BBC One

    Much to his and everybody else's astonishment, Briggs is chosen to be best man at a colleague's wedding. When he discovers just who the bride's father is, Briggs isn't exactly keen either...

  • S05E06 Mine's a Large One

    • February 18, 1997
    • BBC One

    Briggs and Louis have found their true vocation - the river police. With peace, quiet and the total absence of any type of crime, it seems like paradise. Then the boat runs into an unexploded WWII river mine...

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Go West, Old Man

    • December 28, 1997
    • BBC One

    When Chief Superintendent Cottam suddenly disappears, Briggs and Louis follow his trail all the way to Canada to try to get him to come back to England, but will he be easily persuaded?