Season 3

E1. The Gamblers

Jan 25, 1966 · 60m

Helen Burton and her daughter are happy to be reunited after a long separation, but the reunion turns out to be a prelude to tragedy when a murder is committed.

E2. A Question of Honour

Feb 1, 1966 · 60m

Kevin Jones is murdered on the Mornington Peninsula. Bronson and Mackay are sent there to investigate the crime. They have three suspects, and while they are there investigating, another murder takes place.

E3. Vicious Circle

Feb 8, 1966 · 60m

Detectives have five suspects in the brutal murder of a young married woman. All five of them saw her in the hours preceding her death.

E4. Three-Headed Dog

Feb 15, 1966 · 60m

An artist arrives at an outdoor party with a stunning blonde. Within minutes the girl is dead, and so is a folk-singer who was at the party. Homicide detectives are called in to investigate the puzzling case.

E5. No Honour Among Thieves

Mar 1, 1966 · 60m

A criminal earnestly trying to reform is being framed for a double murder and a $20,000 payroll robbery.

E6. Detour

Mar 8, 1966 · 60m

Truck driver Roy Smith reports his wife has been murdered. He claims he spent the night at the country town of Seymour, however police discover that he is having an affair and that he also stole a car in Seymour.

E7. Chain Reaction

Mar 15, 1966 · 60m

Policewoman Helen Hopgood is involved in the case of a runaway schoolgirl, but when Helen suddenly disappears it is feared she could have been murdered.

E8. Holiday Affair

Mar 22, 1966 · 60m

A teenage girl's skeleton is found in the Aireys Inlet sandhills, with no clue to her identity.

E9. Wolf Pack

Mar 29, 1966 · 60m

A woman close to death after being attacked and robbed refuses out of fear to identify her attackers. The pack then goes hunting again, terrorising a mother and her teenage daughter.

E10. Country Boy

Apr 5, 1966 · 60m

Young Kathy and Johnny Moore were happy together according to friends and neighbours, yet Kathy is found murdered in their wrecked living room and Johnny is missing.

E11. The Old Game

Apr 12, 1966 · 60m

Two women act as decoys and one victim after another is attacked and robbed - until one of the victims dies.

E12. Flashpoint

Apr 19, 1966 · 60m

Homicide detectives pursue 'Blue' Carmody in rugged country, after he murdered a Forests Commission officer who ordered him to put out a fire on a Total Fire Ban day. Two women at a roadhouse assist him.

E13. Vendetta

Apr 26, 1966 · 60m

Peter O'Brien breaks out of prison, killing a warden and taking his gun. He sets out to kill the two detectives who put him inside.

E14. The Last Enemy

May 3, 1966 · 60m

A scrawled note, a milk bill and a wrecked room confront the police when they investigate the death of a clergyman. Mackay is promoted back to Detective Sergeant.

E15. Terror That Strikes

May 10, 1966 · 60m

Police struggle to come up with a motive for why a killer shot three people, until they discover his murder victims are all connected with Chinese people.

E16. Prove It!

May 17, 1966 · 60m

A man knocks on the door of a house and tells the people there to call the police because his wife has been murdered, but police believe that he killed his wife and set about proving it.

E17. Let's Get Together

May 24, 1966 · 60m

Using the Moomba festival crowds as cover, a gang of jewel thieves, headed by an American, keeps the police guessing. A report that a schoolboy has disappeared alerts detectives to more sinister activities.

E18. Wasp Nest

May 31, 1966 · 60m

Ray Fox is shot at when he leaves his flat. He goes straight to the police, they investigate and discover a fraud racket that leads them to another murder three years ago.

E19. The Witness

Jun 21, 1966 · 60m

Concerned for the safety of a murder witness, police hide the man at Dromana. However, the ruse is discovered and the police must protect him from a group of criminals.

E20. Nor All Thy Tears

Jun 7, 1966 · 60m

Linda Neilsen walks out of a staff party to a violent death, but three suspects emerge to confuse the issue, and one of the three is the killer.

E21. Knife & Beads

Jun 28, 1966 · 60m

Joan Ordini is stabbed to death while walking home at night. Homicide detectives have three suspects, then police find out that rosary beads are missing from the victim and they find them in possession of the killer.

E22. Flashback

Jun 28, 1966 · 60m

Sally Trevor is shot dead on a busy city street. The killer's description tallies with her long-time admirer Arthur Parrish.

E23. The Boy from Anywhere

Jun 14, 1966 · 60m

People notice Ron Paige and think he is a charming youth, which is a big help to detectives investigating a puzzling case of callous murder.

E24. Circumstantial Evidence

Jul 12, 1966 · 60m

Maree Duncan tells police her husband has threatened to kill her, and soon afterwords she is found shot dead. Is the killer her husband or the man whose company she preferred?

E25. Deadly Flagfall

Jul 19, 1966 · 60m

Arthur Lowe's taxi is stolen. And police have a job tracking it down and when they did find it implicates someone else in a murder.

E26. Death Us Do Part

Jul 26, 1966 · 60m

Margaret Boyce makes a suicide pact with an older man that she loves after her parents refuse to give their permission to get married. When she dies and he doesn't, police have to figure out if it was suicide or murder.

E27. Tiger Hunt

Aug 2, 1966 · 60m

16-year-old Anne Vincent meets a violent death by human hands or something else. Homicide are called in to investigate and are confronted by strange evidence.

E28. Where There's a Will

Aug 9, 1966 · 60m

Is Maggie the abused wife she claims to be? Arrested for shooting her husband, she says it was self defence but suspicion comes up between Maggie and her stepson.

E29. End of Class

Aug 16, 1966 · 60m

Lorraine Purvis's classmates are shocked when she falls to her death from a roof. But some of them are suspects as police try to establish if it was suicide, an accident or murder.

E30. The Black Book

Aug 23, 1966 · 60m

A man is fatally stabbed. llona Tabori, his drunk friend, wakes up the next morning and finds the knife beside her and fears that she might be responsible for it.