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Detective Inspector Mike Maguire is a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman posted to New Scotland Yard.
- 1958-1959
- 1 season
- Suspense
Detective Inspector Mike Maguire is a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman posted to New Scotland Yard.
Season 1 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
The Killing Job
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
Special Edition
30 mins
Robbers snatch a payroll from the Evening News.
Episode 3
Illegal Entry
30 mins
Maguire intercepts a gang smuggling jewels into London on a fishing trawler.
Episode 4
The Great Gold Robbery
30 mins
Villains rob the Edinburgh to London mail train, with the only clue being a footprint left by a track bridge.
Episode 5
Thames Division
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
Missing Persons
30 mins
Maguire hunts down a serial killer who preys on young lonely women.
Episode 7
Honeymoon
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
Commando Crook
30 mins
Ex-commando cracks safes and plans to flee the country.
Episode 9
77 Bus
30 mins
Police are baffled by robberies known as "the red rose series". Maguire and his partner suspect a seemingly innocent jeweler.
Episode 10
Night Mail
30 mins
A gang tries to steal diamonds from the Glasgow to London postal train.
Episode 11
Escape
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
The Big Fish
30 mins
Maguire and Inspector Dean investigate a scheme to manipulate racing odds by a crooked owner and a firm of bookmakers.
Episode 13
Special Branch
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
The Mechanical Watchman
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
Ghost Squad
30 mins
Maguire infiltrates a dockyard gang who are smuggling out freight boxes.
Episode 16
50,000 Hands
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
Fashions in Crime
30 mins
Maguire investigates when a London fashion house reports that it's designs are being stolen and copied in New York.
Episode 18
Rolling Racketeers
30 mins
Gang of car thieves hit upon a clever ruse to dispose of their booty under the noses of the police.
Episode 19
24 Hours a Day
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
Hunter, Hunted
30 mins
After an international criminal commits murder in Britain, Maguire is assigned the task of capturing him with no support.
Episode 21
A Mined Area
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
The Barge Burglars
30 mins
A hold-up gang uses a canal sight-seeing barge to make their getaways.
Episode 23
Old Soldiers Sometimes Die
30 mins
A gang of confidence tricksters try to con tourists out of their money.
Episode 24
Extradition
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
Gun Rule
30 mins
A gang tries to kill one of its members but a policeman gets shot by mistake.
Episode 26
Key Witness
30 mins
A criminal pursues a murder witness through London streets in order to kill him and so stop him testifying.
Episode 27
Down to the Sea
30 mins
Gang of jewelry thieves who smuggle their booty out by ship kill a police detective.
Episode 28
The Exception to the Rule
30 mins
In accordance to the rules, police officers are unarmed; an exception to the rule is deemed essential in this case.
Episode 29
Deadly Blackmail
30 mins
Crooks hijack a serum needed to save the life of a lawyer's daughter and ransom it for £20,000.
Episode 30
Payroll Job
30 mins
Payroll gang are double-crossed by their insider and his accomplice.
Episode 31
The Motorbike Bandits
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
Living Loot
30 mins
Gang of kidnappers try to extort money from a nouveau riche family.
Episode 33
An Inside Job
30 mins
Maguire changes places with a smuggler of counterfeit plates, members of whose gang pursue him to Battersea funfair.
Episode 34
Picture Puzzle
30 mins
Robbers use the Trojan Horse method to rob warehouses but become unstuck.
Episode 35
Rat Trap
30 mins
Dockland gang murder a policeman but are caught thanks to a sandwich board.
Episode 36
Heads or Tails
30 mins
Convict fresh out of jail plans to kill the three witnesses who had put him away.
Episode 37
Radio Active
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
Robbery with Violence
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
Death Ride
30 mins
Scotland Yard is called in after the wife of a wealthy lawyer is killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances.