S1E1 — Ringer

Regan loses his girlfriend’s car with surveillance photos from a stakeout that were in the boot. He catches up with a memorabilia thief after first dealing with the car thief.

Guest stars: Brian Blessed

S1E3 — Thin Ice

A crime kingpin Bishop is allowed to leave the country and go to France. Regan lures him back using Bishop’s dog as bait.

Guest stars: Alfred Marks (The Good Old Days)

S1E5 — Jigsaw 

Recently released criminal Eddie Boyse is involved in a robbery but appears to have a valid alibi as he was with Regan at the time of the crime. In his attempts to break the alibi Regan meets opposition from an MP and is accused of police harassment.

Guest stars: Del Henney (character actor)

S1E7 — The Placer

Regan goes under cover as an ex convict lorry driver to expose a hijacking ring. There’s slight romance between Regan and a woman he picks up and he uses her to worm himself into the ring.

Guest stars: Susan Tracy (Fran)

S1E9 — Golden Boy

A chance meeting happens in a pub between Regan and informant Harry Fuller who is throwing plenty of money about. It leads to the unravelling of a gold bullion heist.

Guest stars: Dudley Sutton (Lovejoy)

S1E11 — Big Spender

The Smith brothers start running a parking ticket scam and regan is attracted by the large sums of money being spent by the mobsters.

Guest stars : Warren Mitchell, Catherine Schell

S1E13 — Abduction

We learn that Regan has an ex-wife and a young daughter. A gang kidnapps the daughter and blackmail Regan to do nothing regarding an up-coming robbery.

Guest stars : Stuart Wilson (DI Ken Knowles also Jimmy Knox in episode Latin Lady S4E12)

S2E1 — Chalk & Cheese

Toffs Giles and Carrie rope in an accomplice of a lower class, Tommy who is in love with Carrie. They plan and commit highway robberies in quiet lanes. Carter knows Tommy from the past and suspects but once Regan catches with Carrie and she refuses to co-operate, Giles and Tommy are on a job that ends in the death of the victim.

Guest stars: Lesley-Anne Down (Caroline Selhurst), David Lodge (Pop Garett)

S2E3 — Supersnout

Haskins is in Toronto and stand-in Quirk wants to round off a long career with the capture of what he believes is a gang that have been robbing Post Offices over the years. Quirk relies on his informant but Regan’s snitch Joey Stickley is more involved than given credit for and feeds Quirk’s informant false info to settle an old score and the sting therefore is a failure.

Guest stars: Bill Maynard (Quirk), Carl Duering (A Clockwork Orange)

S2E5 — Hit & Run

Straightforward story. Carter’s wife is killed in a hit and run which Carter learns was a case of mistaken identity. When the French teacher goes on the run, the Sweeney close down the guilty mob.

Guest stars: Michael Sheard (Auf Wiedershen Pet)

S2E7 — Golden Fleece

Two Australian louts and a woman from New Zealand set up cover jobs. The woman is working for a gold dealer and over six months has provided the louts with client information of who has bought Kruger Rands, leading to eleven home robberies. Part of the process was to set up Haskins who is temporarily suspended.

Guest stars: Nicholas Smith (Are you being served)

S2E9 — Stay Lucky. Eh?

In the background is an invitation to leave the force, meanwhile a group of villains are themselves robbed following a job and the hunt is on to find the unknown thief and a shoot out finale in a theatre.

Guest stars: Peter Vaughan (Jamaica Inn), John Challis (Boycie)

S2E11 — I Want The Man

Villain Frankie Little wants to go straight but is blackmailed into compliance by Maynard under threat of harming Frankie’s daughter and grandson. Reagan latches on to Frankie through informant Popeye, but when Popeye is taken hostage by Maynard, Regan pushes Frankie to be in on the next robbery but Frankie is himself kept on a leash and the only clue he can get to Regan is ‘Old Readies’.

Guest stars: Roy Kinnear (Frankie Little), Michael Coles (Maynard – also in the movie Sweeney! (1977))

S2E13 — Thou Shalt Not Kill

Regan’s team arrive at an active bank robbery where a shootout takes several on each side. Killers Wands and Monks are inside with hostages. Haskins turns up to take control but his hesitation allows the robbers to get away with their hostages, to Regan’s disgust.

Guest stars: Ronald Lacey (Zuly Dawn, Firefox),Harriet Philpin (Dr Who)

S3E1 — Selected Target

Two cell mates Oates and Kibber plan a robbery for when they are released. They appear to be enemies on the outside and Regan suspects Kibber may have killed Oates, but the diversion is all part of the plan. The sky blue Triumph 2000 returns from episode ‘poppy’ but it appears to have changed from a mark 1 to a mark 2.

Guest stars: Lee Montague, Maureen Lipman, Bill Treacher

S3E3 — Visiting Fireman

A Turkish policeman Captain Shebbeq, a friend of Regan, comes to England following a case of gold-smuggling connected to an insurance broker Regan takes Shebbeg’s car and narrowly escapes a car bomb planted for Shebbeg.

Guest stars: Nadim Sawalha (Shebbeg – Murphy’s Law), Katya Wyeth (Clockwork Orange)

S3E5 — Taste Of Fear

A new DS from Bristol, Robert Hargreaves, joins Regan’s team. Hargreaves has a problem with confrontation and bails out on a couple of assignments forcing Regan to tell Haskins. In the meantime a robber and murderer is caught.

Guest stars: Arthur English (Tug), George Sweeney (Citizen Smith (Speed)), Norman Eshley (George & Mildred)

S3E7 — May

An acquantance of Regan’s, May calls him when her son gets into bother and goes on the run. Regan must find him and unravel the mess he’s got himself into with some nasty characters.

Guest stars: Karl Howman (Brush strokes)

S3E9 — Down To You, Brother

Regan stands in at a stag party for Haskins and bumps into ex-criminal Raymond Meadows, seemingly on the straight. He attempts to lead Regan into investigating his daughter’s criminal boyfriend Dougie Owen, but Dougie messes up when he tries to incriminate daughter Debbie a robbery.

Guest stars: Simon Callow (character actor)

S3E11 — Loving Arms

Engineer Fred Booth has a sick wife and needs cash fast. He comes across villain Artie Ward who pays him to make toy replica guns, but they are not replicas and the local youths are using them in robberies. When a policeman is killed, Reagan and the team shift up gears to locate the maker and seller.

Guest stars: Clifford Kershaw (also in Sweeney 2 (1978) – Gloria’s father)

S3E13 — On The Run

Violent criminal Tim Cook is sprung from custody by ex-cellmate Ian Pinder. Pinder houses him in the house of a former Justice of the Peace who has taken Pinder under his wing. But Cook is crazy, beats up the JP and goes on the run leading to another predictable manhunt with a shoot out.

Guest stars: George Sweeney (Tim Cook – also played Tim Cook in previous episode Taste of Fear (1976))

S4E1 — Messenger Of The Gods

The Sweeney investigate a haul of missing mercury which leads to a minor criminal Lukey Sparrow, but Sparrow has an alibi until Regan breaks it. Regan apprehends him on Sparrow’s wedding day just in the nick of time before the mercury robbers get to him suspecting Sparrow of grassing them.

Guest stars: Diana Dors (Mrs Rix), Michael Tarn (A clockwork orange (1971) – Pete)

 S4E3 — Drag Act

Thieves make off with a haul of brandy killing the driver and injuring a policeman. Their apprehension evades the Sweeney. It falls to two women PCs to pursue the case and recover the brandy at which Carter is employed virtually in sexual harassment of one of the women. Regan takes the credit putting him at odds with Carter and thus ends whatever relationship Carter was aiming for with the WPC.

Guest stars: Oliver Smith as the lorry driver

S4E5 — Nightmare

A strange and uncharacteristic episode revolving around the dream of Regan’s girlfriend that tells of his demise. A haul of cigars is taken with the driver and a robber being killed in the robbery. The IRA in turn attack the robbers, because the cigar boxes contained cocaine. The trail leads the Sweeney to the IRA.

Guest stars: Tony Rohr as Sean Flynn, David Ellison as the Dutchman Vaughton

S4E7 — Bait

Robber Vic Tolman and his girl-friend Lyn Hurst are under surveillance by Regan. Hurst is injured in a road accident and escapes from the ambulance using a gun. The Sweeney discover she is connected to a wages robbery and Carter uses Hurst’s sister to lure Tolman out.

Guest stars: Arthur Cox (also Sweeney 2) as DCI Roan, George Sewell as Vic Tolman Eric Dodson (Mr Banyard from Porridge) as Mr Dodds and Barbara Ewing (Within these walls 1974 series) as Joan Maskall

S4E9 — Feet Of Clay

Regan is asked for help by Alan Ember, a criminal from the past and police informant, whose son has been kidnapped, now that Ember is a wealthy successful and legitimate businessman. The ransom is £10K and Regan advises Ember to pay it. The sone is recovered but the subsequent reunion is unexpected.

Guest stars: Joss Ackland as Alan Ember, Carol Drinkwater (Barbara from Bouquet of barbed wire 1976) as Roz, and Cheryl Campbell (Eileen from Dennis Potter’s Pennies from heaven) as Erica Taylor. 

S4E11 — Hearts And Minds

Professor Busby is burgled but nothing appears to have been stolen. Busby was working on an experimental drug to alleviate heart disease and the Sweeney believe the attempted burglary was connected to Danilov who was after the pills. Busby entrusts the pills to his girlfriend Wendy who goes on the run with her workmates Morecambe and Wise who in turn are pursued for the pills.

Guest stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Edward de Souza as Professor Frederick Busby, George Mikell (also Sweeney 2) and Edward Hardwicke

S4E13 — Victims

Detective Sergeant Taylor is badly wounded and accuses his informant Jimmy Park. Carter chases after Park while Regan gets involved with Doreen Haskins. Park is eventually tracked down to a warehouse.

Guest stars: Peter Wright as Jimmy Park and George Innes (also Sweeney 2 and series Danger UXB) as Willoughby