The Sweeney

- Season 1

(1975)

When the body of a member of Scotland Yard's elite 'flying squad' is found brutally murdered in the Thames near docklands, fellow squad member Jack Regan investigates. The dead officer had been on the trail of local gangs, and Regan goes out on a limb and breaks rules in his desperation to learn the truth.

After Regan's car is stolen with invaluable surveillance photos from a stakeout, the thief gives a heads-up to Sweeney's target.

Regan's flying squad falls under suspicion after they apprehend a gang of hijackers, but a bag with 35,000 pounds in it has somehow disappeared.

Regan clashes with an arrogant police superintendent when a crime kingpin is allowed to leave the country and go to France.

After a high-powered lawyer gets three petty thugs off on a murder charge, Regan is authorized to use whatever means necessary to bring the hoodlums in.

Regan is convinced that Eddie Boyse, a recently released career criminal, is responsible for a robbery, but Boyse was with Regan when the crime occurred.

When the Superintendent finds out that there is a bank robbery in progress on a Saturday afternoon, he assigns Regan to visit an old girlfriend whose apartment is adjacent.

Regan adopts a new identity as an ex-con and goes undercover as a truck driver to expose a hijacking ring.

It's unclear whether a beautiful crime reporter is involved with a criminal gang or just a catspaw.

When seedy informant Harry Fuller is spotted by Regan in a pub flush with money, he knows something is up and interrogates Harry.

After their own getaway driver is killed fleeing police, a gang blackmails a young policeman into being their driver by kidnapping his bride.

The Smith Brothers, a vicious group of mobsters, abandon their usual strong-arm tactics to run a parking ticket scam at a car park.

After Danny Keever, a convict on weekend release and due for parole, is framed in a bank robbery, Regan works to clear him.

After Regan gets a tip about an upcoming robbery from a trusted informant, the gang kidnaps his daughter to blackmail him into inaction.