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Jason is suffering writer's block so his publisher sends him to Greece to inspire him. However, some Greek criminals use a beautiful woman to seduce Jason using his fame to smuggle drugs into France - but who is seducing who?
Private eyes Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are gathering information to allow Fay Sorrensen to divorce her cheating husband but he murders her and makes it look like a heart attack. Marty is suspicious but is killed by a hit-and-run driver before he can prove that Sorrensen is a murderer. His white-suited ghost gets Jeff to meet him at his grave in the cemetery and they expose the murderer between them. However, Marty has been out of his grave beyond the dawn and must wander the Earth as a ghost for the next century, though only Jeff can see him.
McGill goes from the Cezanne to the frying pan when he's hired by an estranged daughter to investigate why her dying father refuses to see her. Nothing is as it appears beyond the wrought-iron gates of her family's mansion.
Director: Peter Duffell
Writers: Wilfred Greatorex, Richard Harris, Dennis Spooner
Stars
Richard Bradford
Terence Alexander
Justine Lord
Government minister Gerald Overton goes to a party without his wife Jennifer, where he holds forth on his views on law and order. After being side-tracked by the seductive Mary Tregallas, he walks home and is barged into by a man in a park.
Holidaying in Connecticut, Gregory visits an isolated hunting lodge and meets a girl called Jane, who tells him a disturbing story about an accident which befell members of her family when they went on a hunting expedition.
Mrs. Marsh is once again hankering after an improvement in her lot through the Corporal's promotion; and when C Flight are set on night guard of the camp under Sergeant Dobson, an opportunity arises.
The cold has set in and fuel rations are severely limited amidst a fuel crisis, so Marsh is quick to alleviate C Flight of their portion of coke for Alice's use each night. Meanwhile, Ken is facing troubles of the heart.
The morning after the fire and basic training is complete. The boys are due in front of the Selection Officer to determine their future trade. Mrs. Marsh is similarly insistent that the Cpl. assesses his own career.
After just a week in Malta, Leckie, Ken, Lilley and Jakey are dismayed to find themselves re-posted back to Britain, and into the welcoming bosom of RAF Hospital Druidswater.
The results are in, and with them a new set of postings. Marsh is initially due to join three of the boys in Malta with Leckie sent to Germany, but they're not keen on the arrangement.
Training continues, and the boys are perplexed to the point of anger when Marsh appears to actually have some knowledge.
Leckie attracts the eye of a female Corporal, whilst Lilley discovers a tendency to faint at anything remotely bloody or grisly even being suggested. Matters between the group and Marsh come to a head when he takes them for a swimming lesson.
After lucking out with a girl yet again, Ken is forlorn when he discovers Mrs. Fairfax is set to leave the camp; whilst Leckie is owed some money by Corporal Marsh - but he's refusing to pay up.
The boys are looking forward to their first leave, and an opportunity to get out of the camp at last. A dance at the local village hall beckons.
The boys of C Flight are delighted to have 36 whole hours' leave. Ken and Jakey soon get into a spot of bother in London with some of Jakey's old teddy-boy mates.
Jakey's got some sets of cheap hankies he has it in mind to sell, which causes an awful lot of trouble as C Flight collect their kit from the stores.
Returned from leave, Ken, Jakey, Leckie and Lilley arrive at RAF Midham to begin their next round of training - as nursing attendants.
As C Flight prepare themselves for a first visit to the M.O., it seems Leckie is finding hsi service far tougher than the others. Could a few careless words about suicide from Cpl. Marsh put ideas in his head?
Christmas has arrived and C Flight's Jakey, Leckie, Lilley and Ken are the only boys left on camp, as the appointed maintenance crew over the season. Alice instructs Cpl. Marsh to invite them for dinner.
Lilley's parents invite Marsh - the hero - to give a rousing talk at their church hall; but seeing everyone fawning over the deceitful bully sends Matthew round the bend, and he develops a nasty streak like Marsh himself.
The food being served up in the camp canteen continues getting worse and worse, as Cook-Corporal Jenner runs a side-line in offloading as much as possible to line his own pocket. C Flight decide to take a stand.
Marsh hatches a cunning plan to ensure C Flight graduate top of their intake, ensuring him his long-desired third stripe and a promotion to the rank of Sergeant.
Lilley's principles are fast getting in the way of smooth relations amongst C Flight, before Marsh nails his boots to the floor.
C Flight are initially put out when their regular routine is changed; but as it's in favour of some real training - both with guns on the ground, and on a real air flight - they quickly change their minds. Corporal Marsh, however, is far less keen with the latter endeavour.
A new set of recruits arrive for their two years of National Service at RAF Skelton, and proceed to become particular enemies of their Drill Instructor, Corporal Marsh.