The WORST episodes of The Sweeney
Every episode of The Sweeney ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Sweeney!
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 - Hard Men
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1978
Regan and Carter pursue some Scottish villains around London, assisted by a Scots police officer.
#2 - Hearts and Minds
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1978
Regan and Carter get caught up in a plot to prevent a foreign head of state from getting his hands on an experimental drug to treat his heart condition.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Cover Story
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/1975
There's romance between Regan and a crime journalist, but when she is implicated in a major crime, her innocence comes into question.
#5 - Trust Red
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1978
Regan and Carter can find no leads after a criminal dies during a robbery.
#6 - Drag Act
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1978
The Sweeney get incorrect information from informants, allowing a gang of villains to make off with some contraband alcohol.
#7 - Victims
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1978
Regan and Carter are at the scene of a shooting where Sgt. Taylor has been badly injured. Carter discovers that Jimmy Park, one of Taylor's informants was involved. Regan finds himself distracted from by Doreen Haskins.
#8 - Latin Lady
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1978
Regan and Carter go after a gang of villains who attacked a gynaecologist and robbed him of a large sum of money he was planning to smuggle out of the country.
#9 - Hit and Run
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/1975
George Carter's wife Alison is killed by a hired assassin when she is mistaken for a fellow teacher with dubious connections.
#10 - Stoppo Driver
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1975
Bill, the regular Sweeney driver is off so Regan & Carter get recently transfered Sweeney driver Cooney (played by Billy Murray). His hot shot driving during a car chase leads to a key member of a gang being killed in a car crash. The gang need a new driver and decide that they can influence Cooney by snatching his newly married wife and holding her to ransome. Cooney decided to forget Police help and get his wife back by doing what he is told and driving as the group getaway driver, but Regan & Carter soon suspect that something is wrong.
#11 - Trap
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/6/1975
Regan and Carter are confronted by a newsman with information on the unsolved Golden Maid robbery. But does he still want that man? And why are Regan and Carter being photographed?
#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 - Money, Money, Money
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1978
Regan and Carter try to catch a man trying to blackmail a pools winner about the part he played in a robbery.
#14 - Jack Or Knave
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1978
Regan finds himself in deep trouble when an allegation of corruption is made by the Police Complaints Department. A security van is robbed, and a guard identifies one of the robbers.
#15 - I Want The Man
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/10/1975
Informant Popeye is abducted by villain Maynard whilst staking out small-time crook Frankie Little after a jewel theft. Regan pulls Little but agrees to drop charges if Little will go ahead as planned, acting as Maynard's driver on an upcoming robbery. However, all Little is able to phone in to Regan on the eve of the heist is "Old Readies". Regan must locate where the crime will take place before it is too late for Popeye.
#16 - Chalk and Cheese
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/1/1975
When a wealthy couple are robbed of their possessions while driving down a country lane, Carter gets to meet up with an old friend, but not in the circumstances he would have wished.
#17 - Abduction
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/1975
Jack Regan's tip off of a robbery lead him to close to the action, so the gang planning the robbery kidnap Jack's daughter to use as a hostage, to keep Regan off the scent of the action until they make a getaway. Regan wants his daughter back so takes it in his own hands to track down his daughter and to prevent the robbery, going against his ex wife, the orders of his bosses and the detective investigating the kidnap.
#18 - Contact Breaker
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/1975
Danny Keever is on weekend release from his prison sentence, at the same time a firm of robbers break into a bank vault, the hallmarks of the robbery and the statement of a witness seem to fit up Danny Keever but Regan & Carter believe is the victim of a set up, and set about to prove Keever's innocence against the wishes of Haskins, who has an old score to settle with Keever.
#19 - Big Spender
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/1975
The Smith brothers are a notorious gang of gangsters who carry out violent hijack's and robberies but always seem to keep themselves clear when the Sweeney come investigating, so Regan & Carter are set about the finally break them. The investigation reveals they are bribing the manager of a busy central London car park who is defrauding his firm by issuing fake parking tickets. The Smiths decide to move in and take their cut of his greed, but it doesnt take The Sweeney long to move in.
#20 - On The Run
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1976
An armed robber is sprung from jail and comes looking for Regan.
#21 - Loving Arms
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1976
Regan must find the source of dangerous illicit firearms that are flooding the market.
#22 - 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?
#23 - Thou Shalt Not Kill
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/24/1975
The day before the start of a new term, the university branch of the National Mercian bank is robbed. Regan and his squad arrive and catch or shoot most of the gang but known killer Hands and simple side-kick Monks are still inside with the manager and two women hostages. Haskins' hesitancy in ordering the police marksmen to fire on the robbers leads to a car chase and fatalities, causing Regan to round on his boss.
#24 - Supersnout
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/15/1975
An informant of Regan's tells him about a hijack involving a lorryload of cigarettes where he will be the look-out man. But can Regan trust his snout?
#25 - The Placer
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1975
Jack Regan goes undercover as a lorry driver to trap a ring of hijackers.