The BEST episodes of The Sweeney season 3
Every episode of The Sweeney season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Sweeney season 3!
The Sweeney was one of the finest British police series of the mid 1970s. Jack Regan is a hard edged detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police (called 'the Sweeney' from the Cockney rhyming slang 'Sweeney Todd' = 'Flying Squad'). He pursues villains by methods which are underhand, often illegal, frequently violent, and more often than not, successful.
#1 - Taste Of Fear
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1976
A detective with a very good past joins the Sweeney, in time to investigate a violent burglary by a group of ex soldiers. But is the new recruit up to it? Jack Regan thinks not but nobody seems to share his view, believing he has a vendetta.
#2 - Pay Off
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1976
Carter's girlfriend asks him to find a missing villain, who turns up dead.
#3 - Bad Apple
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1976
A group of CID detectives are accepting bribes from criminals but when one is sent down, he soon grasses up the police officers involved. Regan & Carter go undercover to investigate the operation and to stop the officers involved.
#4 - Tomorrow Man
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1976
Regan has to do battle with a brilliant computer expert bent on revenge to ensure the safe shipment of a consignment of gold bullion.
#5 - Sweet Smell Of Succession
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1976
Regan gets involved in gangland warfare following the death of one of London's leading villains.
#6 - Lady Luck
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1976
Regan knows the identity of a robber, but has a difficult time proving his guilt.
#7 - In From The Cold
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1976
Regan whilst on a routine operation spots Billy Medhurst, who had been part of a gang that carried out a robbery in which a former Sweeney officer, Eddie Jackson was shot and left permantly disabled. Regan blames himself for the accident and decided to get Medhurst put away, but is the past clouding his judgement and destroying the case?
#8 - Down To You, Brother
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1976
Regan is fitted up by an ex-con in an attempt to get his daughter's criminal boyfriend out of the picture.
#9 - Selected Target
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1976
Two prison cell mates plan a robbery together whilst inside and then stage a fight and kidnapping when they are released to keep the Sweeney off their trail. The Sweeney tail Kibber believing he has killed Oates but have no proof. Kibber gets away and The Sweeney release Oates has blackmailed a London bank when it is too late.
#10 - On The Run
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1976
An armed robber is sprung from jail and comes looking for Regan.
#11 - Loving Arms
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1976
Regan must find the source of dangerous illicit firearms that are flooding the market.
#12 - May
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1976
Regan tries to help out the son of an old friend when the lad is implicated in a brutal assault.
#13 - Visiting Fireman
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1976
Turkish policeman Captain Shebbeq arrives in England for his old friend Regan to help him track down a gold-smuggling ring, possibly connected to an insurance firm which is fire-bombed. Their joint investigation leads them to uncover another form of smuggling, in the process of which someone puts a bomb in Regan's car. However, he does have the last word on the zealous fellow cop who had him suspended.