Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.
Maggie is assigned to investigate the death of a woman discovered in a love nest.
Episode 5. Blade
1980-05-09
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Episode 6. Rogue
1980-05-16
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Episode 7. Melody
1980-05-23
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Series 2
10 episodes · 1980
Episode 1. Something Blue
1980-09-05
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Episode 2. Decoy
1980-09-12
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Episode 3. Break-In
1980-09-19
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Episode 4. Menaces
1980-09-26
When Ivor Stocker, a J.P. and successful businessman, rteceives a blackmail threat, it becomes a case for Det-Insp. Maggie Forbes...
Episode 5. Hammer
1980-10-03
A series of robberies with violence have been reported. All have a similar pattern, and all are carried out by women. Maggie Forbes and her police team are puzzled to know who these women are. Or could it be one woman in many disguises.
Episode 6. Chance
1980-10-10
Det.-Insp. Maggie Forbes spends a frustrating day at the law courts. She feels she would be much usefully employed trying to solve the criminal cases that keep arriving on her desk.
Episode 7. Loyalties
1980-10-17
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Episode 8. Maggie's Luck
1980-10-24
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Episode 9. Shame
1980-10-31
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Episode 10. The Ring
1980-11-07
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Series 3
13 episodes · 1981
Episode 1. Gifts
1981-11-06
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Episode 2. Doubt
1981-11-13
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Episode 3. The Hit
1981-11-20
Detective Inspector Forbes has a marksman with a high-powered rifle loose on her patch.
Episode 4. Scapegoat
1981-11-27
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Episode 5. Knife
1981-12-04
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Episode 6. Protection
1981-12-11
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Episode 7. Paint It Black
1981-12-18
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Episode 8. Affray
1982-01-01
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Episode 9. Black Fox, White Vixen
1982-01-08
A famous television actress received death threats.
Episode 10. One of Those Days
1982-01-15
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Episode 11. Vigil
1982-01-22
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Episode 12. Damage
1982-01-29
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Episode 13. Solution
1982-02-05
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Series 4
13 episodes · 1982
Episode 1. Right of Entry
1982-10-22
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Episode 2. Be Lucky Uncle
1982-10-29
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Episode 3. Cause and Effect
1982-11-05
An articulate, well-educated young black man confesses to a crime that he did not commit. As her son Steve seeks advice which only a father can give, Maggie's problems go from bad to worse.
Episode 4. Auctions
1982-11-12
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Episode 5. Danny
1982-11-19
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Episode 6. Victims
1982-11-26
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Episode 7. The Meat Rack
1982-12-03
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Episode 8. Joker
1982-12-10
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Episode 9. Tough, Mrs. Rudge
1982-12-17
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Episode 10. Private Views
1983-01-07
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Episode 11. Pressures
1983-01-14
Maggie suffers severe stress when faced with a bloody multiple murder.
Episode 12. Weekend
1983-01-21
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Episode 13. Who's Afraid of Josie Tate?
1983-01-28
When a loyal wife is determined to help her jailed husband get justice, Maggie is Forced to review the evidence.
Series 5
13 episodes · 1984
Episode 1. Finders, Keepers (1)
1984-09-01
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Episode 2. Losers, Weepers (2)
1984-09-08
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Episode 3. Do It Yourself
1984-09-15
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Episode 4. The Conference
1984-09-22
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Episode 5. The Good, the Bad and the Rest
1984-09-29
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Episode 6. Mad Dog
1984-10-06
When animal rights campaigners free some dogs from a labratory, but fail to realise that one of the animlas is dangerously ill, a children's birthday party becomes a terrible nightmare for Maggie Forbes.
Episode 7. Wise Child
1984-10-13
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Episode 8. Appearances Can Be Deceptive
1984-10-20
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Episode 9. Secrets
1984-10-27
Her name is Cecily. She's sophisticated well-liked - and dangerous, as DI Maggie Forbes will soon find out when she makes enquiries at Cecily's elegant flat, a place which conceals a grim secret.
Episode 10. Fox and Hounds
1984-11-03
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Episode 11. Cure
1984-11-10
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Episode 12. A Woman's Word
1984-11-17
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Episode 13. Exit Laughing
1984-11-24
A minor civil servant is found dead in exotic circumstances, and Maggie tries to protect his widow from publicity.
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