The Sweeney - Season 3
Season 3
Network
Episodes13
DatesSep 6, 1976 - Dec 20, 1976
Episodes
Season 3Episode 160 min
Selected Target
Two prison cell mates plan a robbery together whilst inside and then stage a fight and kidnapping when they are released to keep the Sweeney off their trail. The Sweeney tail Kibber believing he has killed Oates but have no proof. Kibber gets away and The Sweeney release Oates has blackmailed a London bank when it is too late.
Sep 6, 1976
Season 3Episode 260 min
In from the Cold
Regan whilst on a routine operation spots Billy Medhurst, who had been part of a gang that carried out a robbery in which a former Sweeney officer, Eddie Jackson was shot and left permantly disabled. Regan blames himself for the accident and decided to get Medhurst put away, but is the past clouding his judgement and destroying the case?
Sep 13, 1976
Season 3Episode 360 min
Visiting Fireman
Turkish policeman Captain Shebbeq arrives in England for his old friend Regan to help him track down a gold-smuggling ring, possibly connected to an insurance firm which is fire-bombed. Their joint investigation leads them to uncover another form of smuggling, in the process of which someone puts a bomb in Regan's car. However, he does have the last word on the zealous fellow cop who had him suspended.
Sep 20, 1976
Season 3Episode 460 min
Tomorrow Man
Technophobe Regan is initially all at sea when he comes up against the clever computer expert Tony Gray. Gray is bent on revenge against Dennis Longfield, intending to steal his gold bullion consignment with the help of a little computer trickery but, at the end of the day, it’s Regan’s old-fashioned policing methods that get the results.
Sep 27, 1976
Season 3Episode 560 min
Taste of Fear
Robert Hargreaves, who has an apparently distinguished military background, joins Regan’s team. However, at a raid on a caravan site to capture a gang of ex-soldiers who have carried out a violent robbery and are armed, Hargreaves bottles it and cowers behind a tree. Running against the general tide of opinion, Regan believes he is unsuitable for the job but needs to find out more.
Oct 4, 1976
Season 3Episode 660 min
Bad Apple
Haskins is concerned that, in an adjacent manor, crooks seem to be getting nicked and then released without charge. Posing as an ex-con Regan follows a lead to the Blue Parrot club, haunt of corrupt officers Perraut and Huke who take bribes from villains to let them go and are running a protection racket. Using marked notes he sets them up.
Oct 11, 1976
Season 3Episode 760 min
May
Regan tries to help out the son of a friend when the lad is implicated in an assault.
Oct 25, 1976
Season 3Episode 860 min
Sweet Smell of Succession
Regan gets involved in gangland warfare following the death of one of London’s leading villains.
Nov 8, 1976
Season 3Episode 960 min
Down to You Brother
At a stag party Regan re-encounters well-to-do Raymond Meadows, an ex-criminal who drunkenly admits that his wealth is due to a robbery he once pulled, for which Regan let him go for lack of evidence. Widower Raymond disapproves of his daughter Debbie’s boyfriend, flash villain Dougie Owen, and Regan suspects Raymond is using him to get the boy out of the picture. However, Owen plays directly into Regan’s—and Raymond’s—hands by using Debbie as the innocent pawn in a robbery.
Nov 22, 1976
Season 3Episode 1060 min
Pay Off
Carter is asked by an old flame, Shirley Glass, to try and help her locate her partner Eddie, who has gone missing. Eventually Eddie, a small time crook, is discovered dead. Shirley works as a croupier for the smooth Arnold Drake, whom Regan and Haskins suspect of large scale misdemeanours, and they use Shirley and Carter as bait to trap him.
Nov 29, 1976
Season 3Episode 1160 min
Loving Arms
Retired engineer Fred Booth has a very religious but very sick wife and is in need of money. He meets wide boy Artie Ward who pays him to make guns, which Fred genuinely believes to be replicas, but they are in fact the real thing and Artie sells them to kids who use them to hold up small businesses. When an off-duty policeman is killed by one of these faulty guns along with the youth he was chasing Regan is desperate to find the source.
Dec 6, 1976
Season 3Episode 1260 min
Lady Luck
Regan knows the identity of a robber, but has a difficult time proving his guilt.
Dec 13, 1976
Season 3Episode 1360 min
On the Run
An armed robber is sprung from jail and comes looking for Regan.
Dec 20, 1976
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