A visiting vaudeville show has a grotesque murder, and young comedian Charles Chaplin may have been the intended target of a killer who is intent on finishing their job.

Tristan struggles with war trauma after panicking during a horse examination, and the whole village gets involved in a victory celebration as the news of Japan's surrender is announced.

Angel has gone to Brazil and left Tess to endure a harsh winter on a swede farm; while being relentlessly pursued by Alec, she has written to Angel pleading with him to return before it is too late.

Two bodies are found in a London church with their throats slashed, a homeless man and an aristocratic Tory MP; Dalgliesh is forced to draw on his own personal tragedies to disarm the killer.

Inspector Brackenreid learns that his youngest son Bobby is wanted for murder, and the Murdochs and Crabtree suspect that old enemies are returning to harm them.

Murdoch learns from Terence Meyers that James Pendrick has been abducted and the inventor's life is in danger - the team soon find themselves in a dangerous situation.

The abduction of an eight-year-old boy and his babysitter sends Alberg's team racing across multiple leads to uncover a larger plan: a high-stakes jewellery heist timed to a local charity auction.

James manages a nativity play while Helen is ill and treats an ageing Tricki that Mrs Pumphrey is struggling to get to mate; Siegfried wrestles with his feelings for Dorothy on her return from Malta.

Angel has gone to Brazil and left Tess to endure a harsh winter on a swede farm; while being relentlessly pursued by Alec, she has written to Angel pleading with him to return before it is too late.

A part-time university student is found dead with electrical burns on the head, and two newly-arrived American psychology professors with a penchant for unusual experiments may be responsible.

As the Murdochs investigate a series of murders at a country inn while on holiday, Crabtree and Higgins investigate the beheading of an accountant in a community garden.

When serial killer Tommy Cummins offers to reveal the locations of his remaining victims, he insists on speaking only to Alberg, the detective who put him away.

When teenagers stumble upon the body of a young girl in a pit; Dalgliesh and Miskin arrive in Norfolk to assist with the inquiry - and eventually get caught up in a bigger murder mystery.

When UFOs and USOs (unidentified submersible objects) begin plaguing a massive naval exercise on the border of Russian waters, it's up to Hynek and Quinn to prevent World War III.

Eliza and Blake are drawn into a troubling case when a violent psychiatric patient escapes custody and leaves behind an unidentified body; Blake enlists Eliza's skills to unravel the case's secrets.

A part-time university student is found dead with electrical burns on the head, and two newly-arrived American psychology professors with a penchant for unusual experiments may be responsible.

As the Murdochs investigate a series of murders at a country inn while on holiday, Crabtree and Higgins investigate the beheading of an accountant in a community garden.

When UFOs and USOs (unidentified submersible objects) begin plaguing a massive naval exercise on the border of Russian waters, it's up to Hynek and Quinn to prevent World War III.

Eliza and Blake are drawn into a troubling case when a violent psychiatric patient escapes custody and leaves behind an unidentified body; Blake enlists Eliza's skills to unravel the case's secrets.