Softly Softly: Task Force

- Season 4

(1972)

A series of assaults on women occurs, and when one of them manages to fight back, the trail to the culprit begins. What is the significance of a white car, and a garage owned by an elderly lady?

Josephine has been found guilty of the murder of a small child. But as she is driven from court, an accident frees her. How can a vulnerable teenager be traced, and how can she be prevented from committing another crime?

Det. Chief Supt. Barlow has inside knowledge that a gang of safe breakers are in operation. When they move into make their arrest a gun is pulled of PC Snow.

PC Snow attempts to be-friend a troubled youngster by giving him a pet dog when his father kills the animal Snow considers taking the law into his own hands

Danny Fitch, who works for Harry Hawkins girlfriend Sara, is conspiring with target criminal Tom Rattery to rob her uncle's bank, in Thamesford. Is Hawkins too involved?

On his way to a promotion board interview, Det. Chief Supt. Barlow is told he has been targeted by violent thug Timothy Redway who intends to gain revenge.

Barlow and Watt investigate an armed gang who have stolen a lorry containing Scotch Whiskey worth twenty grand. Barlow plays the suspects off against each other to see who will crack first.

Det. Chief Supt. Barlow attempts to get to the bottom of Arthur Austin who is unapologetic about embezzling twenty thousand pounds from the company he used to work for

Det. Chief Supt. John Watt steps into the shoes of Charlie Barlow, following his promotion.

A search is on for a couple who are flooding shops with fake one pound notes. Market stallholder Ben Fisher attempts to get his money back by using local dog track.

Det. Chief Supt. John Watt is tipped off that the council are working a land scam with a local developer. Evans and Snow look into an epidemic of wireless robberies.

Chief Inspector Adler moves back to CID putting noses out joint. Thire first task is to investigate antiques dealer George Bensfield who is fencing stolen items.

A bank robbers use information gained from a gullible youngster to impersonate gas workers, working in the area, pull off the perfect crime.

An unpopular prison warden is run down outside the prison gates. Watt believes he knows which prisoner was behind it but he has to find the driver.

Sgt. Evans and PC Nesbitt hear shots at the home of aging gangland boss Billy Baxter and discover his minder shot and his girlfriend terrified. Watt and Hawkins fear Baxter will be next.

Veteran safe breaker Jack Rogers has teamed up with Simmonds, who is unknown to the police, to pull a series robberies around the country and all with perfect alibi.

Dawes runs a small gang of safe breakers but when he takes his new girlfriend on holiday to Spain, Det. Supt. Adler decides to play mind games with old flame Lucy.

A car left at a scrapyard alerts Watt to criminal Alfred Felton, who has disappeared with a suitcase full of money and is on the run from the gang he works with.

Detective Superintendent Adler is suckered into interviewing glamorous Patti Nolan at her home, while investigating missing loot from a bank robbery. Instead it he who finds himself under investigation for taking a bribe.

A law and order conference is threatened to be hijacked by Heston, a right wing agitator. Meanwhile PC's Nesbitt and Knowles misjudge local youngsters running riot in a tower block that turns into a siege.