The BEST episodes written by Roger Marshall
#1 - Trojan Bus
The Sweeney - Season 2 - Episode 10
Australian villains Colin MacGruder and Ray Stackpole return to London and steal a bus, posing as its crew. They rob an art dealer travelling on the bus of a Goya painting, which they plan to sell to a buyer in Amsterdam. Regan tracks them down by leaning on their accomplice, the dealer's female assistant, leading to a river chase and a shoot-out, making it the end of the line for the boys from Down Under.
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#2 - Taste Of Fear
The Sweeney - Season 3 - Episode 5
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.
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#3 - Bad Apple
The Sweeney - Season 3 - Episode 6
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.
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#4 - Feet Of Clay
The Sweeney - Season 4 - Episode 9
Regan is asked to help a criminal from his past who's son has been kidnapped.
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#5 - Room Without a View
The Avengers - Season 4 - Episode 15
A brilliant scientist reappears at the house of his wife. Has he escaped from notorious Manchurian prison camp Ni-San? And why have so many missing people stayed at the Chessman Hotel? Steed and Emma book in.
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#6 - Death of a Great Dane
The Avengers - Season 2 - Episode 8
A man involved in a car crash is found to have fifty thousand pounds worth of diamonds in his stomach. Steed investigates the man's joke shop, Big Laugh, and then the offices of multi-millionaire Litoff. The burial of one of Litoff's Great Danes is not quite what it seems.
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#7 - Dial a Deadly Number
The Avengers - Season 4 - Episode 10
A series of sudden deaths in high finance leads Steed to dabble in shares while Emma investigates the makers of executive paging devices. Are companies being acquired through a simple and subtle form of murder?
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#8 - Golden Fleece
The Sweeney - Season 2 - Episode 7
Chief Inspector Haskins is framed for corruption while Regan and Carter investigate a spate of break-ins. Is there a connection?
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#9 - Mandrake
The Avengers - Season 3 - Episode 18
After attending the funeral of an old friend in a lonely Cornish village cemetery, Steed discovers a plot to poison millionaires.
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#10 - The Danger Makers
The Avengers - Season 4 - Episode 20
Several military figures have been killed in dangerous games of daring. Emma and Steed follow the trail to a secret society of military men with very dangerous aims.
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#11 - Double Edged Sword
Lovejoy - Season 6 - Episode 4
A tough-talking business man hires Lovejoy to recover a sixteenth-century samurai sword which has been stolen from him. Another dealer, Lovejoy's mentor Jim Leonard, buys the sword at an auction, but it is promptly stolen from him by Joanna, the daughter of the original owner. Lovejoy stays on the trail.
#12 - Out To Lunch
Lovejoy - Season 3 - Episode 2
Lovejoy is spending more and more time with Victoria, not so much on his business. Together with Jane and Alexander, he and Victoria go away for the weekend at a friend's cottage. Meanwhile, Lovejoy buys some drawings for a song and sells them to an art gallery for a good profit. He is shaken when the pictures are denounced as fakes - even the artist says they are not his, but Lovejoy is sure they are. What is going on?
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#13 - On The Run
The Sweeney - Season 3 - Episode 13
An armed robber is sprung from jail and comes looking for Regan.
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#14 - The Gilded Cage
The Avengers - Season 3 - Episode 7
Steed's trap for criminal mastermind J.P. Spaggs involves a brilliant plan to steal a million pounds in gold bullion. But when two detectives arrive at Steed's flat and arrest Cathy for Spagge's murder things don't seem to be going to plan.
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#15 - The Girl from Auntie
The Avengers - Season 4 - Episode 17
Steed returns from holiday to find that a quite different Mrs. Peel is inhabiting his old friend's flat. With the aid of actress Georgie Price-Jones, he discovers that Art Incorporated and the Arkwright Knitting Circle are doing more together than just sharing needles.
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#16 - The Kakiemon Tiger
Lovejoy - Season 5 - Episode 4
Lovejoy is threatened by a debt collector and hijacks a country house auction to pay his debts. In the process, he finds the lost 'Kakiemon Tiger', but he has to deal with competitors for it. Beth Taylor joins Lovejoy Antiques on a youth employment scheme, to learn the business.
#17 - The Ring
Lovejoy - Season 4 - Episode 2
With the naive help of Jane, Lovejoy sets up an unusual form of dealers' ring to bump up the price of a painting he has entered in an auction. Three old friends (Matron, Gideon and Henry the Hearse) rally round, but nothing seems to go according to plan...
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#18 - Hit and Run
The Sweeney - Season 2 - Episode 5
George Carter's wife Alison is killed by a hired assassin when she is mistaken for a fellow teacher with dubious connections.
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#19 - Benin Bronze
Lovejoy - Season 3 - Episode 5
Greg Veitch is on a visit from Australia, looking for antiques, but especially what he calls 'my Eureka' - the thing he must have. At Sir Max Spence's house, Greg sees a magnificent bronze from Benin, in Africa, and wants it, but he can't get an export license. Then the bronze goes missing, and Lovejoy comes under suspicion - so he feels he must get to the bottom of what's going on.
#20 - The Hour That Never Was
The Avengers - Season 4 - Episode 9
Following a motor crash, Steed and Emma explore the seemingly deserted RAF Hamelin, where they were heading for a party to celebrate the base's closure. Is this surreal landscape all a dream, or is it something worse?
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#21 - Lily's Pearls
Lovejoy - Season 2 - Episode 10
Jane's husband, Alexander, has a new business partner called Joe Gruder, but Lovejoy is suspicious of him. Jane gets a call from Lily Gruder, Joe's wife, who has a problem with some pearls and a pawnbroker, and Lovejoy decides to look into Joe's affairs. Mr Gruder does not come up smelling of roses.
#22 - They Call Me Midas
Lovejoy - Season 4 - Episode 9
Jim Leonard (Lovejoy's antiques mentor) resurfaces, wanting Lovejoy's help with a harmless little scam to catch out a famous dealer. The plot centres on a fake painting by Klimt... Eric plays the role of a rich gentleman farmer, Tinker falls heavily for Jim's wife, and Jane is also drawn into the scheme, but Lovejoy finds out just too late that he too is a victim.
#23 - One Born Every Minute
Lovejoy - Season 2 - Episode 6
Ashley Wilkes travels around East Anglia painting charming pictures of country cottages and seducing their female inhabitants. An army officer hires Lovejoy to find Wilkes, on the pretext of having a commission for him, but Lovejoy smells a rat. When he finally catches up with the elusive painter, it appears that Wilkes has a terrible secret.
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#24 - Love You to Death
Dempsey and Makepeace - Season 2 - Episode 3
Dempsey is stalked by a homicidal women who obsesses over him, and who hates Makepeace for being with him.
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#25 - No Stone
The Professionals - Season 5 - Episode 11
A young woman from a rich and successful family turns terrorist, shunning her wealthy background and the British Justice system which she now views as being corrupt. Important legal establishments located around London are targeted by the terrorist groups, who are planting several bombs at key points around the city.
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#26 - Hijack
The Professionals - Season 4 - Episode 11
Silver bullion is being shipped into Britain via the Iron Curtain, only for it to be hijacked by one of the group's own officials.
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#27 - Take Away
The Professionals - Season 4 - Episode 6
A team of Hong Kong police join CI5 in London to help crack a local heroin supply and protection racket. It's down to Bodie and Doyle to expose a scheme to smuggle drugs to the US by teams of Triads and European agents.
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#28 - Slush Fund
The Professionals - Season 4 - Episode 9
A hitman is employed by a group of East German officials to assassinate a reporter who is planning to publish a report in which their new fighter plane is branded as a potential death-trap.
#29 - The Golden Fleece
The Avengers - Season 3 - Episode 11
Steed and Cathy eat at a Chinese restaurant, but, as ever, it's not just for fun: Steed suspects the owner, Mr Lo, of gold smuggling. He also seems to be allied with Army types who are smuggling ammunition to support ex-servicemen.
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#30 - Death of a Batman
The Avengers - Season 3 - Episode 5
At the reading of the will of Wrightson, Steed's former batman, the man's family are shocked to discover his estate is worth a fortune. Steed and Cathy set out to find out where a twenty pounds per week draughtsman acquired such a huge amount of money, and whether it was legal.
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#31 - Victims
The Sweeney - Season 4 - Episode 13
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.
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#32 - Silent Dust
The Avengers - Season 4 - Episode 14
The lack of martens in a pleasant stretch of English countryside alerts Steed to the possible release of a fertiliser that has failed, reducing a landscape to a wasteland. But why is the local farming community so aggressive?
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#33 - The £50,000 Breakfast
The Avengers - Season 5 - Episode 19
The accidental death of a ventriloquist reveals that he had been carrying a fortune in gems inside his stomach. Steed stoops to blackmail and Emma goes shopping for ties in the search through the business community for a rich Borzoi.
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#34 - Parasites
Survivors - Season 2 - Episode 10
Mina befriends a man called John Millen and arranges to meet him at Whitecross at a later date. When John fails to arrive and two other men come to the settlement on his barge (one of them wearing John's hat) Mina fears the worst. Charles and Greg welcome the men, Kane and Grice, but also have misgivings about their intentions. Pet is suspicious too, as she recognises Kane from before 'the death'...
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#35 - Conspiracy of Silence
The Avengers - Season 2 - Episode 23
The Marfia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.
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#36 - The Removal Men
The Avengers - Season 2 - Episode 6
Steed is trying to infiltrate a group of assassins currently based in the South of France. He robs the leader of some jewellery in order to impress him, then waits for them in the local club. It just so happens that Venus Smith is singing there.
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