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Dempsey and Makepeace: Season 1

10 episodes Premiered Jan 11, 1985 Updated Jul 21, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Armed and Extremely Dangerous

Jan 11, 1985 · 93 min

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

S1·E2

The Squeeze

Jan 18, 1985 · 48 min

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 t

S1·E3

Lucky Streak

Jan 25, 1985 · 48 min

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 invest

S1·E4

Given to Acts of Violence

Feb 1, 1985 · 48 min

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 Makepea

S1·E5

Hors De Combat

Feb 8, 1985 · 46 min

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 s

S1·E6

Nowhere to Run

Feb 15, 1985 · 48 min

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

S1·E7

Make Peace, Not War

Feb 22, 1985 · 44 min

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 S

S1·E8

Blind Eye

Mar 1, 1985 · 46 min

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

S1·E9

Cry God for Harry

Mar 8, 1985 · 48 min

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 h

S1·E10

Judgement

Mar 15, 1985 · 47 min

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 statio