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COLLECTION · Series · 1985

Dempsey and Makepeace

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.

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* 6.6 (31)ActionAdventureDramaUnited Kingdom
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Creators
Tony Wharmby
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
ITV1
Runtime
50–60 min/ep
Release
11/01/1985
Score
6.6 / 10 (31)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
10 episodes · 1985
Episode 1. Armed and Extremely Dangerous
1985-01-11 · 93 min

This feature-length episode starts with a gun being held by Leiutenant James Dempsey of the New York Police Department. He is sitting in his apartment waiting for his partner, Joey, to call. Dempsey's phones rings. It is Joey calling to…

Episode 2. The Squeeze
1985-01-18 · 48 min

A heavy duty transit van carrying half a million pounds in used notes is high jacked, drivers and all, and SI 10 is tasked with finding it. Meanwhile, Spikings has his hands full trying to get Dempsey to part with his gun, as it is…

Episode 3. Lucky Streak
1985-01-25 · 48 min

Dempsey happens to be present at a casino when it is robbed and a security guard murdered. Spikings tells him to wake up Makepeace in the middle of the night and start their investigation.

Episode 4. Given to Acts of Violence
1985-02-01 · 48 min

Dempsey and Makepeace are shadowing Frank Egan, who has just got off Scott free on a murder charge. His next big job seems to involve 'a bird man' and 'haggis'. It leads to Makepeace posing as a floozy and Dempsey as a pilot.

Episode 5. Hors De Combat
1985-02-08 · 46 min

Frank Price is sprung out of jail, only to be killed by his accomplices. Spikings suspects Price's boss Jack Lang, but when Lang's granddaughter Debbie is kidnapped it seems like someone else is trying to instigate a gang war. Meanwhile,…

Episode 6. Nowhere to Run
1985-02-15 · 48 min

A truck carrying studio equipment is hijacked. Then it turns out the contents were actually automatic guns meant for a group of Arab terrorists.

Episode 7. Make Peace, Not War
1985-02-22 · 44 min

Dempsey takes the place of American hit-man Schwartz to infiltrate a gang of drug dealers who are lacing T-shirts with heroin. Little does he suspect that their main contact, Lei Shan carries a grudge against the real Schwartz. When…

Episode 8. Blind Eye
1985-03-01 · 46 min

Jailbird Charlie Wilson wants to speak to Gordon Spikings alone concerning an urgent matter. But he shuts up tight after his little boy is kidnapped in the park. Meanwhile Spikings finds himself subject to a bombed briefcase while…

Episode 9. Cry God for Harry
1985-03-08 · 48 min

A priceless collection of jade artifacts has been stolen from Makepeace's ancestral home, Winfield Hall. When she and Dempsey join her father's other guest for a weekend pheasant hunt, the search soon turns into an old-fashioned murder…

Episode 10. Judgement
1985-03-15 · 47 min

Makepeace has been asked by her best friend, Sarah Hackett, to be the matron of honour at Sarah's wedding. Makepeace accepts. Makepeace is giving Sarah a lift to the railway station. Sarah is off to Harrod's with her father, Sir Lionel…

Season 2
Season 2
10 episodes · 1985
Episode 1. Silver Dollar
1985-08-31 · 48 min

While trying to stop a extremist group who are trying to overthrow the British government by flooding the country with counterfeit money, Dempsey and Makepeace try everything in there power to stop them.

Episode 2. Wheelman
1985-09-07 · 49 min

Makepeace poses as reporter Debby Smith to get close to hoodlum 'Marocco' Jack and ends up saving his life from a rival gang. Dempsey joins Marocco's gang by posing as an American driver called Andy Sallapuccio, whom they need to pull off…

Episode 3. Love You to Death
1985-09-14 · 51 min

Dempsey is stalked by a homicidal woman who obsesses over him, and who hates Makepeace for being with him.

Episode 4. No Surrender
1985-09-21 · 47 min

Makepeace gets injured while pursuing jewelry thieves with Dempsey. On her first day out of hospital, they run straight into a bank robbery and hijacking - and Dempsey is reluctant to put Makepeace in any kind of danger.

Episode 5. Tequila Sunrise
1985-09-28 · 47 min

Dempsey and Makepeace investigate a jewel thief who has masterminded a series of robberies but his life is also under threat by his underworld rivals.

Episode 6. Blood Money
1985-10-05 · 45 min

An antique dealer is murdered and priceless Egyptian artefacts are stolen. While the crooks try to find a buyer, Dempsey and Makepeace go undercover and find several parties looking to get their hands on the artefacts.

Episode 7. Set a Thief
1985-10-12 · 48 min

Dempsey and Makepeace witness a young woman being run down on the street. She turns out to have been a model with connections to drug trafficking and members of parliament.

Episode 8. The Hit
1985-10-19 · 45 min

A police informant suffers a near-fatal beating and due to this Dempsey and Makepeace go on the trail of a vicious gang leader.

Episode 9. In the Dark
1985-10-26 · 44 min

Once again, Dempsey and Makepeace are witness to a fellow policeman being shot. In this case it's one of Makepeace's former partners, Tom Bishop, who's dying words involve millions in cash and 'the man in the red coat'.

Episode 10. The Bogeyman
1985-11-02 · 48 min

A boxer turned murderer who escapes a police stakeout has Dempsey on his trail trying to catch him.

Season 3
Season 3
10 episodes · 1986
Episode 1. The Burning (1)
1986-08-30 · 50 min

Dempsey goes undercover and infiltrates a gang after discovering a link between the London underworld and the New York police department.

Episode 2. The Burning (2)
1986-09-06 · 49 min

While working undercover, Dempsey comes across a former nemesis from New York City.

Episode 3. Jericho Scam
1986-09-13 · 48 min

When Dempsey is framed by another cop for something he didn't do, Makepeace risks her career to prove his innocence.

Episode 4. The Prizefighter
1986-09-20 · 50 min

While investigating a death of a boxers, Dempsey and Makepeace discover a counterfeit money laundering scheme.

Episode 5. Extreme Prejudice
1986-09-27 · 47 min

Dempsey and Makepeace go undercover as Middle East terrorists to find an arms dealer supplying several terrorist groups in Britain, Can they find the dealer and stop him.

Episode 6. Bird of Prey
1986-10-04 · 45 min

When the main witness of a trail of a drug dealer threatens to withdraw her statement when her daughter is kidnapped, Dempsey goes to the Bogeyman for help.

Episode 7. Out of Darkness
1986-10-11 · 47 min

A murderer who is obsessed with Makepeace threatens to kill his hostage within 24 hours if Makepeace will not meet with him.

Episode 8. The Cortez Connection
1986-10-18 · 44 min

When an old girlfriend of Dempsey's shows up it causes problems as Dempsey is in pursuit of a cocaine dealer.

Episode 9. Mantrap
1986-10-25 · 46 min

Dempsey and Makepeace are targeted into a deadly trap which involves both jewels and bank robbers who set the trap, to even the sides Dempsey get help from a boxer who Dempsey sent to jail to help him out.

Episode 10. Guardian Angel
1986-11-01 · 50 min

When Dempsey is nearly killed during an investigation, Makepeace resigns for good from the police force.

Cast by season
Michael Brandon
Michael Brandon
James Dempsey
Glynis Barber
Glynis Barber
Harriet Makepeace
Tony Osoba
Tony Osoba
Det. Sgt. Chas Jarvis
Ray Smith
Ray Smith
Spikings
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