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18 Episodes 1981 - 1981
Episode 1
When trade secrets for the manufacture of a special brand of honey are handed over to Middle Eastern rivals, Parkinson, Head of the Special Investigations Branch of the Department of Trade, assigns agent Colingdale to find out who is selling the formula. When Colingdale dies, Bognor is assigned to the case.
Episode 2
After surviving an attempt on his life, Bognor strikes up a friendship with an unusual monk called Xavier. Meanwhile, the local madman, Batty Tom informs him he might have seen the murderer.
Episode 3
Batty Tom turns up dead and so does a letter supposedly written by him in which he confesses to the murder of Collingdale. Bognor is not convinced especially after noticing suspicious goings-on in a mysterious locked room in the shed.
Episode 4
Even after solving the mysteries of the running monk and the locked backroom, Bognor's troubles are not over, especially after Batty Tom's father, Lord Collingwood, shows up and blows his cover.
Episode 5
Bognor is suspicious when he learns that one of the monastery's regular visitors, a schoolmaster called Jones, is actually the high-level civil servant Graymer Burton.
Episode 6
Unmasked, the killer gives Bognor the slip and a cross-country chase ensues.
Episode 7
When a newspaper gossip columnist is found murdered, the paper's proprietor asks Parkinson to assign a discreet specialist to the case. With no one else on duty, the department head sends Bognor along - and not for the first time, the agent puts his life on the line to bring a murderer to justice.
Episode 8
While nursing a nasty bruise, Bognor has to find his nightly assailant, find the clue in an ominous poem, and deal with a suspicious journalistic union official.
Episode 9
Bognor gets drunk at a political party event and meets up with an old Oxford pal. Meanwhile, Port gets into a fight with Gringe after Gringe accuses him of being a Russian spy.
Episode 10
Bognor follows Gringe to a rundown motel while Monica helps him solve the dying man's poetic clue with the help of a painting and the 1932 edition of the Wisden's Cricketer's Almanac.
Episode 11
A drunken debacle at a rugby game leads to Bognor having a revealing heart-to-heart with Eric Gringe. Meanwhile, Monica begins suspecting he's having an affair with Molly.
Episode 12
Flanders arrests his prime suspect, but Bognor, who's just survived a poisoning attempt, suspects the secret behind the killer's true identity may be in a secret merger agreement.
Episode 13
Bognor and Monica are assigned to investigate shady goings-on at a world famous dog show. Clues point to show judge Percy Pocklington being somehow implicated in the mystery, but Bognor believes that beautiful Coriander Cordingley, who paints dog portraits, is the more likely suspects. Whatever, whenever Bognor is around. things have a tendency to turn nasty.
Episode 14
With his chief informant down with rabies, Bognor travels to the countryside where he tries to find the corpse of the dog he suspects was murdered.
Episode 15
Rose turns up murdered after meeting with Bognor and Coriander reveals she's a double agent for the C.I.A. - the Canine Information Agency.
Episode 16
Chased out of the countryside by a grumpy police inspector, Bognor travels to Denmark where he hopes to find a missing dog who can identify a certain brand of chewing gum by taste alone.
Episode 17
Bognor sets a fiendish trap for the dog smugglers.
Episode 18
Bognor travels to America where he unmasks the dog smugglers but soon finds himself being chased by a pack of specially bred hounds in his underwear.