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39 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
30 mins
First outing in this series introduces Canadian cop new to London. With his taciturn English counterpart he grapples with a protection war between rival gangs.
Episode 2
30 mins
Robbers snatch a payroll from the Evening News.
Episode 3
30 mins
Maguire intercepts a gang smuggling jewels into London on a fishing trawler.
Episode 4
30 mins
Villains rob the Edinburgh to London mail train, with the only clue being a footprint left by a track bridge.
Episode 5
30 mins
A murder on a boat moored in the Thames starts Mike on the trail of a vicious gang of heroin smugglers.
Episode 6
30 mins
Maguire hunts down a serial killer who preys on young lonely women.
Episode 7
30 mins
Frank and Jane, while honeymoon in London, have their pockets picked by Mickey who find an insurance policy for diamonds. Mickey turns the info over to a mobster friends who plans to steal the jewels if McGuire doesn't stop him.
Episode 8
30 mins
Ex-commando cracks safes and plans to flee the country.
Episode 9
30 mins
Police are baffled by robberies known as "the red rose series". Maguire and his partner suspect a seemingly innocent jeweler.
Episode 10
30 mins
A gang tries to steal diamonds from the Glasgow to London postal train.
Episode 11
30 mins
Bill Killian is caught in the act of opening a safe. His brother springs him from court and attempts to smuggle him out of the country with the police in pursuit.
Episode 12
30 mins
Maguire and Inspector Dean investigate a scheme to manipulate racing odds by a crooked owner and a firm of bookmakers.
Episode 13
30 mins
A team of assassins seize a taxicab company in order to launch a multi-pronged attempt on the life of a visiting American scientist.
Episode 14
30 mins
A silent mechanical alarm alerts to police to a thieves stealing high class furs, removing identifying marks and settling remodeled versions.
Episode 15
30 mins
Maguire infiltrates a dockyard gang who are smuggling out freight boxes.
Episode 16
30 mins
Two crooks rob an office, but one is badly wounded; they hijack an ambulance to escape. They hide out in the town. It would be very difficult for police to fingerprint everybody in a town of 25,000.
Episode 17
30 mins
Maguire investigates when a London fashion house reports that it's designs are being stolen and copied in New York.
Episode 18
30 mins
Gang of car thieves hit upon a clever ruse to dispose of their booty under the noses of the police.
Episode 19
30 mins
Maguire spots Caldwell a Canadian criminal whom is planning to rob a bank by breaking in from the little shop next door.
Episode 20
30 mins
After an international criminal commits murder in Britain, Maguire is assigned the task of capturing him with no support.
Episode 21
30 mins
A robber is released from prison but is shadowed by police and other criminals who are interested in finding where he hid the loot.
Episode 22
30 mins
A hold-up gang uses a canal sight-seeing barge to make their getaways.
Episode 23
30 mins
A gang of confidence tricksters try to con tourists out of their money.
Episode 24
30 mins
Maguire must serve a warrant to an America gangster seeking sanctuary in England to ensure he is sent back to the US
Episode 25
30 mins
A gang tries to kill one of its members but a policeman gets shot by mistake.
Episode 26
30 mins
A criminal pursues a murder witness through London streets in order to kill him and so stop him testifying.
Episode 27
30 mins
Gang of jewelry thieves who smuggle their booty out by ship kill a police detective.
Episode 28
30 mins
In accordance to the rules, police officers are unarmed; an exception to the rule is deemed essential in this case.
Episode 29
30 mins
Crooks hijack a serum needed to save the life of a lawyer's daughter and ransom it for £20,000.
Episode 30
30 mins
Payroll gang are double-crossed by their insider and his accomplice.
Episode 31
30 mins
This episode tells the story of a case in 1950's London, Which the Police have nick-named 'Spaceman'. It starts off with a robbery by gunpoint, where the robber escapes by hanging on the back of a removals lorry, after standing on the top to rob an office's payroll through the first floor window. After their escape the robbers change their van for motorbikes. Maguire is then called in to investigate, he finds the lorry and continues his search for the gang. One of the trio of crooks is Sue a woman (played by Jo Owen)while the two men in the gang are Kemp (played by Neil McCarthy) and Groves (Michael Ely). While checking for evidence around the stolen lorry Maguire notices some holes in the ground made by a woman's high heels.
Episode 32
30 mins
Gang of kidnappers try to extort money from a nouveau riche family.
Episode 33
30 mins
Maguire changes places with a smuggler of counterfeit plates, members of whose gang pursue him to Battersea funfair.
Episode 34
30 mins
Robbers use the Trojan Horse method to rob warehouses but become unstuck.
Episode 35
30 mins
Dockland gang murder a policeman but are caught thanks to a sandwich board.
Episode 36
30 mins
Convict fresh out of jail plans to kill the three witnesses who had put him away.
Episode 37
30 mins
Thieves steal a car that has a box of radio-active bars in it, and its a race against time to track it down.
Episode 38
30 mins
Gang of robbers hold up a jeweler's shop and hole up in an apartment while the police go to work.
Episode 39
30 mins
Scotland Yard is called in after the wife of a wealthy lawyer is killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances.