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Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Friday, January 11, 1985

Ended: Friday, March 15, 1985

When does Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 come out?

Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 premiered Friday, January 11, 1985 on ITV1 and ended Friday, March 15, 1985. The season has 10 episodes.

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1. Armed and Extremely Dangerous

This feature-length episode starts with a gun being held by Leiutenant James Dempsey of the New York Police Department. He is sitting in his apartment waiting for his partner, Joey, to call. Dempsey's phones rings. It is Joey calling to tell Dempsey of their latest stakeout. They go to the docks where they suspect a drugs drop-off will take place. All of a sudden, Dempsey's CO (Commanding Officer), Coltrane, turns up at the docks in his car. Another man at the docks stands up with a bag. The man at first heads towards Coltrane's car, but then walks towards Dempsey and Joey. Dempsey realises that he is going to be set up. Joey and Coltrane were going to set Dempsey up, but Dempsey reached for his gun and shot the man approaching him. joey grabbed Dempsey from behind, while Coltrane made his getaway. Dempsey pushed Joey to the floor, turned round and shot Joey, who died. Back at the station, Dempsey and his associate, O'Grady, are having an argument about Dempsey's situation. Dempsey wa

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2. The Squeeze

A heavy duty transit van carrying half a million pounds in used notes is high jacked, drivers and all, and SI 10 is tasked with finding it. Meanwhile, Spikings has his hands full trying to get Dempsey to part with his gun, as it is illegal for police officers in England to carry one.

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3. Lucky Streak

Dempsey happens to be present at a casino when it is robbed and a security guard murdered. Spikings tells him to wake up Makepeace in the middle of the night and start their investigation.

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4. Given to Acts of Violence

Dempsey and Makepeace are shadowing Frank Egan, who has just got off Scott free on a murder charge. His next big job seems to involve 'a bird man' and 'haggis'. It leads to Makepeace posing as a floozy and Dempsey as a pilot.

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5. Hors De Combat

Frank Price is sprung out of jail, only to be killed by his accomplices. Spikings suspects Price's boss Jack Lang, but when Lang's granddaughter Debbie is kidnapped it seems like someone else is trying to instigate a gang war. Meanwhile, Dempsey is more interested in wooing fellow American Angie Hughes.

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6. Nowhere to Run

A truck carrying studio equipment is hijacked. Then it turns out the contents were actually automatic guns meant for a group of Arab terrorists.

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7. Make Peace, Not War

Dempsey takes the place of American hit-man Schwartz to infiltrate a gang of drug dealers who are lacing T-shirts with heroin. Little does he suspect that their main contact, Lei Shan carries a grudge against the real Schwartz. When Makepeace gets her hands on one of the T-shirts via one of her contacts, the undercover Dempsey finds himself forced to bump her off.

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8. Blind Eye

Jailbird Charlie Wilson wants to speak to Gordon Spikings alone concerning an urgent matter. But he shuts up tight after his little boy is kidnapped in the park. Meanwhile Spikings finds himself subject to a bombed briefcase while traveling by tube.

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9. Cry God for Harry

A priceless collection of jade artifacts has been stolen from Makepeace's ancestral home, Winfield Hall. When she and Dempsey join her father's other guest for a weekend pheasant hunt, the search soon turns into an old-fashioned murder mystery.

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10. Judgement Finale

Makepeace has been asked by her best friend, Sarah Hackett, to be the matron of honour at Sarah's wedding. Makepeace accepts. Makepeace is giving Sarah a lift to the railway station. Sarah is off to Harrod's with her father, Sir Lionel Hackett, who turns out to be a judge. Sarah is murdered while she is on the train. Makepeace is devestated when she is informed. Sir Lionel, however, takes the law into his own hands. Makepeace gives Sir Lionel a photo-fit of a man who was seen at the railway station where Makepeace had taken Sarah. Sir Lionel assumed that he was the killer and goes in search of him. But, what Sir Lionel doesn't know is that he is looking for the wrong man.

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Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 guest stars

  • Elaine Ives-Cameron

    Mrs. Prescott-Lowell

  • Zienia Merton

    Zienia Merton

    Lei Shan

  • William Simons

    William Simons

    Tennant

  • David Barrass

    David Barrass

    Det. Insp. Wilson

  • Ian McCulloch

    Ian McCulloch

    Archie McAllister

  • Nicola Stapleton

    Nicola Stapleton

    Debbie

  • Michael Melia

    Paul Marshall

  • Stuart Milligan

    Stuart Milligan

    Schwartz

  • Ralph Arliss

    Naismith

  • Linda Regan

    Linda Regan

    Gloria

  • Tip Tipping

    William Thornton

  • Trevor Byfield

    Chentzu Spiceri

  • Trevor Ray

    Roger Watts

  • Michael Cashman

    Michael Cashman

    Prosecuting Counsel

  • Christopher Ellison

    Christopher Ellison

    Tommy

  • Ralph Michael

    Ralph Michael

    Lord Winfield

Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 FAQ

When does Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 come out?

Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 premiered Friday, January 11, 1985 on ITV1.

How many episodes are in Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1?

Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 has 10 episodes.

Are new episodes of Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 finale?

The Dempsey and Makepeace Season 1 finale (Episode 10) aired Friday, March 15, 1985.

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