The BEST episodes written by Douglas Watkinson

#1 - Second Chances

Heartbeat - Season 11 - Episode 16

Helen Jones returns home walking her dog and surprises a young intruder who strikingly resembles her run-away husband decades ago. Later David finds him in Vernon's barn, and soon Vernon is involved in the wine processing business.

#2 - Windows of Opportunity

Heartbeat - Season 11 - Episode 20

#3 - Old Masters

Heartbeat - Season 11 - Episode 6

Vernon conducts tours of Ashfordly Hall. During a tour, a valuable painting vanishes. A journalist, who had caught Ventress asleep whilst on duty, photographed him. Later, when Ventress & Blaketon see the photo, they recognise the culprit - a known thief.

#4 - They Say We're Rough

The Bill - Season 4 - Episode 23

Viv and Ken go to an army surplus store that seems to be being supplied off the back of a lorry. Van used to deliver the gear was nicked from Yorkshire. 2 redcaps (who don't think much of police) turn up to collect squaddies. Cryer doesn't think they are kosher. Cryer wants someone for a p.a. job at local school and asks Ken to buy a flying jacket. An ice-cream van and a car cause a traffic snarl-up near the station. Roach sends a traffic warden to sort it out. Hollis is also sent out to deal with it. After walking around the block, Hollis comes back to find part of a funeral has now joined the bigger traffic jam.

#5 - Uninvited Guests

Heartbeat - Season 11 - Episode 9

There's a salmonella outbreak and a chicken pie from the Aidensfield Arms is suspected as the source. Two criminals take a mother and her son as hostages and Vernon wants to start a cemetary for pets.

#6 - Blood Will Out

Midsomer Murders - Season 2 - Episode 4

Some distance away the demented bee-like sound of an old moped cuts through the silence of the valley as Fleur motors her way through the village. She waves to the mild mannered shopkeeper, Peter Fairfax who is preparing his shop window. As Peter watches her go Tilly Dinsdale cycles past, wearing her usual green wellies and waxed jacket, in too much of a rush to stop - much to Peter's relief.

#7 - Dumb Witness

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 6 - Episode 4

Poirot reflects on which member of Emily Arundel's family could have poisoned her medicine, and the key witness turns out to be a pet dog.

#8 - Death and Dust

Midsomer Murders - Season 10 - Episode 5

The detectives have to decide if the murder of a young GP killed the wrong victim, or if the recently engaged Dr. James Kirkwood was really the intended target.

#9 - Fly the Flag

Lovejoy - Season 4 - Episode 5

A family struggling to pay death duties needs Lovejoy's help to raise the wind. Meanwhile, Beau Whittaker, working in a local parish church, finds a valuable old flag dating from the American War of Independence hidden behind a monument. A fierce battle quickly breaks out over the question of who is now the flag's true owner.

#10 - Dead in the Water

Midsomer Murders - Season 8 - Episode 2

During a regatta, the body of Rowing Club chairman Guy Sweetman is found bludgeoned and drowned. Bachelor Sweetman was prolifically promiscuous and jealousy would seem to be the motive.

#11 - Beyond the Grave

Midsomer Murders - Season 3 - Episode 4

With much enthusiasm he recounts the story of The Battle of Aspern Tallow and the wealthy royalist, Jonathan Lowrie. He describes how Jonathan, having survived the conflict, made his way through the village, pausing only briefly to drink from the well, towards the church.

#12 - Down Among the Dead Men

Midsomer Murders - Season 9 - Episode 4

Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.

#13 - Three Men and a Brittle Lady

Lovejoy - Season 5 - Episode 5

Charlotte's former lover arrives from New York and invites her to live with him in Paris, but she turns him down.A forger cons Charlie Gimbert into buying some fake porcelain, but Lovejoy catches up with him. In doing so, he discovers a good artist.

#14 - Breaking the Broker

Lovejoy - Season 6 - Episode 7

The police set up Tinker, so that they can get a favour from Lovejoy. They want him to check out an up-market pawnbroker who is suspected of receiving antiques stolen overseas.

#15 - Death in Disguise

Midsomer Murders - Season 1 - Episode 5

DCI Barnaby needs all his wits about him as he investigates a string of deaths at a local New Age commune.

#16 - The Case of the Missing Will

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 5 - Episode 4

A wealthy man is murdered before he can change his will, which is then stolen.

#17 - Faithful unto Death

Midsomer Murders - Season 1 - Episode 4

When the wife of a wealthy local businessman disappears, Barnaby finds that Fawcett Green harbors a complex web of financial and romantic entanglements.

#18 - The Chocolate Box

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 5 - Episode 6

When Hercule Poirot returns to his native Belgium, an old murder case rears its head.

#19 - Raise the Hispanic

Lovejoy - Season 2 - Episode 9

Amanda Peagram, a local landowner's daughter, is engaged to Roger Hall, and Lovejoy (on the instructions of Amanda's father) is furnishing a house with antiques for the couple. Unhappily, Amanda is not impressed, while Roger continues to play the field. At the wedding, Lovejoy overhears a row between Roger and Amanda's father and later finds Roger's body hidden in a suit of armour... but the body vanishes and nobody believes him. After the wedding, Roger is treated as a missing person. Lovejoy insists Roger is dead, but he can't produce the body - so he decides to investigate the murder and solve the mystery.

#20 - No Strings

Lovejoy - Season 3 - Episode 3

A band called The Hothouse Flowers is due to appear at a local charity gig, and their manager is an old friend of Tinker's. Before going away with Victoria on a little trip, Lovejoy gets Jane to agree to take in the Flowers. Then, though, the organizer of the planned gig runs off with the money. One of the band decides to sell his valuable antique harp to make good some of the shortfall, but before Lovejoy can arrrange the sale the harp also disappears.Lovejoy works his way up to proposing to Victoria, but she turns him down and goes back to South America.

#21 - Who Dares, Sings

Lovejoy - Season 2 - Episode 5

Lovejoy and Jane have the job of fitting out a smart new restaurant being opened by Major Linden Walker, an old army friend of Tinker's. With the help of a former prison officer (one he knew on the inside) Lovejoy delivers the goods, only to find he has been gulled. Linden and Tinker's cabaret act Crime and Punishment makes its first and last appearance.

#22 - The Assassins

The Bill - Season 4 - Episode 45

Burnside and Tosh are in a cafe waiting to catch a group of people who take apart restaurants. They turn out to be upper class twits. One of them winds the magistrate up so much he is sentenced to 28 days in jail and the diplomat father of another waives his immunity. Yorkie and Haynes investigate a removal van. The elderly driver doesn't think the company is to be trusted and he is proven right after visiting the station three times. Tosh's wife turns up looking for housekeeping money from him, and she mentions it is their 15th wedding anniversary.

#23 - Servant of Two Masters

The Professionals - Season 3 - Episode 8

Bodie and Doyle are shocked to discover that Cowley appears to be selling nerve gas to a group of East Germans in order to line his own pockets, and are assigned by his rival Plumb to track their boss's every move.