:: HEARTBEAT - SERIES 5 ::

5.1 WISHING WELL  3. SEP. 95
Nick is forced to deal with a violent confrontation between mods and rockers at a local rock and roll dance.
A lump of gold bullion turns up and is found to be part of a large haul stolen seven years before and never recovered.
Kate calls on one of her patients, Nettie, who has a wishing well so she throws in a coin and makes a wish. Later Nettie goes out and when she returns, finds that her house has been trashed. Everyone thinks it was the rockers but Nick proves otherwise. The wishing well turns out to be worth a bit more than a few coins.
Nick and Phil go to Whitby to find the rockers and their leader has a game of chicken with Nick and loses.
Expectant parents, Nick and Kate await the arrival of their first child.
5.2 EXPECTATIONS  10. SEP. 95
Joe Norton and two of his friends hassle Nick and then move on to the rest of the village. Clothing goes missing from the local clotheslines. An old Gypsy tries to sell a bit of "good luck" heather to Greengrass who declines so she places a hex on him. Nick visits Joe's father but doesn't have much luck there as it seems that Joe has been beating him up as well.
The hex on Greengrass seems to be working as nothing seems to be going right for him.
Kate gets bad news after she's had the results back from her blood tests which she had done secretly under another name. Joe sets fire to the Gypsy's caravan. Kate starts having contractions and is rushed to the hospital where she has her baby and they call her Sarah. Kate finally tells Nick the sad news.
5.3 THIEF IN THE NIGHT 17. SEP. 95
Kate and Sarah come home and Nick stays home from the job which doesn't sit well with Blaketon. Reports come in about prowlers in the middle of the night and when Nick doesn't do anything about it Mr. Copeland complains to Blaketon who then finds Nick and tears a strip off him.
Kate is finding it all very difficult so she asks Nick to take her and Sarah for an outdoor picnic which has disasterous results. She comes down with a very bad case of pneumonia.
Nick finally tells Phil whats going on and Blaketon goes back to apologize to Nick. They finally discover who the prowler is and what he is doing and end up catching him at Kate's funeral.
5.4 DOMESTIC 24. SEP. 95
Nick finds it difficult coping with Katie on his own and asks his Mother to come and help out for a while.
Norman comes to see his Uncle Claude and gets into a betting match in a game of darts which ends up in a brawl outside the pub.
Mr. Dewhurst puts in a complaint to Nick when Mr Barker his neighbour takes a pot shot at his cat Oscar.
Alf and Phil take turns babysitting Katie, Phil gets stuck with her and brings her to the station where he promptly has an accident with the baby powder.
Blaketon is on the warpath because Nick isn't spending enough time at the job.
5.5 VACANT POSSESSION 1. OCT. 95
Eddie, an illiterate man who works on a farm, had been promised a cottage to rent when an Aunt passes away but instead its been put up for sale and Brenda calls off their wedding since he doesn't have a place for them to live.
When the cottage is put up for auction and is sold for a very high price, Greengrass decides he can make a bundle by selling some of his property.
Nick's Mother Ruby asks Blaketon to dinner.
Aidensfield is plagued by a peeping tom and Eddie becomes the prime suspect.
Auntie Eileen comes for a visit.
5.6 WE'RE ALL ALLIES REALLY 8. OCT. 95
Nick meets a young German planning to visit his father's grave. An eccentric old man on holiday with his wife goes missing on the moors.
Heartbeat takes a look at racism and how it can affect a small village like Aidensfield.
5.7 SOPHIES CHOICE 15. OCT. 95
Barry Jackson's wife Sophie takes the car and nearly runs Greengrass and Alfred down, knocking them into a ditch. She then crashes into the bus shelter nearly hitting 3 school kids. Nick is called to Ashfordly to investigate an antique shop which has reported missing items - the shopkeeper describes Sophie and Nick finds the items at the Jackson home.
A stray racing pigeon ends up at the pub and Gina and Uncle George take him in and plan to race him but soon discover that he doesn't always come home.
A Father and Daughter check in at the pub for a few days and Gina soon discovers they have a secret to hide.
Sophie's life ends in tragedy
5.8 GONE TOMORROW 22. OCT. 95
A massive electrical storm hits Aidensfield and Alf Ventress finds himself witness to a UFO sighting. Nick and Maggie call in the help of a hypnotist and together they help Ventress reconstruct his missing moments.
During the storm Maggie is nearly trampled by stampeding horses, George's chimney is struck by lightening and the next morning the school children find cows in their classroom.
Claude turns up in the newspaper claiming he's seen a flying saucer. He has also won a mediterranean cruise but when he takes a "test cruise" around the harbor, it doesn't sit well with him.
The Halliwells and the Conways are having problems which doesn't stop romance between their kids.
Blaketon and Eileen spend an afternoon on the golf course where they find a very strange mark on the green.
5.9 TOSS UP 29. OCT. 95
A burglar nicknamed "Bero Man" terrorizes villagers and attacks Maggie Bolton; a Bob Dylan lookalike arrives in Aidensfield and proves himself unusually popular with the local teenagers; and a car crash has horrific consequences for two friends, Paula and Sandra, when one is killed and the other severely injured.
5.10 IT'S ALL IN THE GAME 5. NOV. 95
Katie is baptized and later when they are all back at the house an old girlfriend of Nicks turns up for a visit.
Mr. Armstrong sends a couple of men to trash Billy Black's house after he has lost a bet at a dog fight and can't pay up.
A Detective Inspector asks Blaketon to send Nick undercover to investigate Mr. Armstrong and his criminal activities. Nick's old girlfriend, a sgt in the Met, joins him undercover.
Blaketon has suspsions that Mr. Armstrong is going to nobble the favorite horse, Fab Four, at an upcoming racing event. Claude gets involved when he lets Billy Black stay at his place.
5.11 VIGILANTE 12. NOV. 95
Arthur Wakefield has a heart attack while he's tackling a burglar in his home. He is rushed to hospital where he goes into a coma. Mrs. Wakefield goes thru mug shots and identifies the burgler - a known criminal named Terry Tiniswood. Mrs Wakefield also picks him out of a lineup but the family get him released, saying that he was with them all night.
Mrs. Wakefield takes matters into her own hand.
Special Inspector Hector Cowley lends a hand on Rowan's patch and suggests to Blaketon that he improve on traffic conditions during the coming flower show. Insp.Cowley has a huge garden from which he intends to enter his prize gooseberries and Greengrass is determined to beat him.
5.12 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 19. NOV. 95
Alf is excited about his new piece of property and the start of his new house being built til he sees Greengrass show up with the digging equipment. Claude starts digging and of course runs into problems. He goes down into the excavation to untangle the digger but gets trapped on top of an unexploded WWII bomb. The army is called out to deal with the bomb and the village is evacuated.
One woman doesn't want to leave her home because there is a dead man in her bed and he isn't her husband.
Nick has his hands full what with the bomb, the dead man, a boy who's gone missing and railway station thefts.
5.13 SAINT COLUMBA'S TREASURE 26. NOV. 95
Professor Brigstock dies from a fall in his home and now everyone is speculating about buried treasure. Eileen decides to do a bit of sleuthing at Lord Ashfordly's estate and an American lady turns up who is also interested in the "treasure"
Lord Ashfordly is up in arms over his stolen trout and Nick is sent to investigate which of course leads him to Greengrass. Blaketon is set on catching Greengrass with the trout so he follows him and hides in his truck.
Greengrass is intent on finding the treasure and is on his way to the Abbey to do some treasure hunting. Blaketon follows him into the tunnel and they both get trapped by a cavein. While trying to find a way out they fall thru to the library and Blaketon breaks his leg and Claude decides to burn all the papers and books to keep warm little knowing that this is really the treasure.
Meanwhile Nick has been investigating several thiefts from deceased owners' homes and celebrating Gina's birthday.
5.14 SITTING OFF THE DOCK OF THE BAY 3. DEC. 95
Complaints start to come in when a pirate radio station broadcasts rock music.
Joe comes home from prison after serving time for setting fire to an old Gypsy woman's caravan. He hooks up with friends who get him to try a new drug - LSD. He ends up diving off a building.
Meanwhile Maggie's brother who is one of the DJ's on the pirate radio ship discovers that they are distributing the drugs in Whitby.
Nick goes undercover as a DJ to catch them in the act.
Greengrass decides to set up a whiskey still and runs into trouble when Nick finds out about it. Blaketon decides to catch him at it only to have the evidence go up in smoke.
Note that Maggie's brother in this episode is played by Kazia Pelka's real-life brother Valentine Pelka!
5.15 BLOOD SPORTS 10. DEC. 95
he village is endangered by a kidnapping with a deadly twist. Maggie organizes a mass vaccination when a boy, staying in a trailer on the outskirts of town, is diagnosed with polio. Meanwhile, Blaketon enjoys his status as president of the local rugby club, and Nick meets the new school teacher.

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