Heartbeat: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Heartbeat Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Manoeuvres in the Dark
Sep 26, 1999 · 60 min
Terry Noble deserts the army and contacts Gina with hot kisses and cute words. Maggie Bolton is a proud mother, and an army veteran from World War II hits a boy in a car accident.
Tricks of the Trade
Oct 3, 1999 · 60 min
As the new owner of Aidensfield Arms Blaketon has moved in but his ideas of running the place do not fit with the experiences of Gina and Mary. A nasty burglary hits the home of on
Intuition
Oct 10, 1999 · 60 min
Bill offers Auntie Mary to become hotel manager in Sidmouth. Celia Gilmour wants to see her sister, but the front door is locked and suddenly a van rushes away.
Puppet on a String
Oct 17, 1999 · 60 min
Alison keeps secrets away from her parents and burns a letter in the fire place. Ventress stops smoking to live up to his status as temporary leader of the local police while Crad
Honor Among Thieves
Oct 24, 1999 · 60 min
Blaketon runs in a local election against Tom Drabble, one of Grengrass' mates. A romantic author, Honor Gable, rents a house in the area for six months to write a book, but she fi
Shotgun Wedding
Oct 31, 1999 · 60 min
A dramatic train robbery threatens and interferes with Bradley's plan to marry Jackie Lambert. Greengrass has not seen his sister for 22 years, but now her husband has died she tur
Always a Copper
Nov 7, 1999 · 60 min
The Chief Constable makes Blaketon organize a crime prevention committee. A burglar spills some blood when leaving a site of his crime, and Greengrass is a tourist 'guide' for Norw
Negative Vibes
Nov 14, 1999 · 60 min
A car driver smashes the front of a shop. Greengrass brings one of his mates to hospital but it's in vain, and to the widow's deep despair the body is given to the medical student
Kindness of Strangers
Nov 21, 1999 · 60 min
An old man is very obsessed with his son who fell in World War II near the German border, a real war hero. A young couple is caught shoplifting but she simulates yjat the borth of
Hollywood or Bust
Nov 28, 1999 · 60 min
Nathaniel Clegghorne brawls with David and Greengrass over two maran hens and with Lord Ashfordly who trains a dog close to Clegghorne's ground. A film producer seeks locations and
Flesh and Blood
Dec 5, 1999 · 60 min
After the funeral of a local butcher's wife various skeletons are found in the family's hidings. Bellamy experiences a revival of a romance of his very youth, and David and Greengr
No Surrender
Dec 12, 1999 · 60 min
A fortune teller promises David a real change of luck on love and money, and in spite of Greengrass' warnings strange incidents make David believe it. Clegghorne is ruthless to a n
Stag at Bay
Dec 19, 1999 · 60 min
A couple of poachers attacks Lord Ashfordly's stags with a brutality that's unheard of. A headmistress makes Jackie Bradley put pressure on the police to enforce an injunction. Gre
Full Circle
Dec 26, 1999 · 60 min
Stella Redford arrives to talk to Mrs. Trotter but she only just reaches her funeral. Stella fears to have lost an important photo for good as her wallet is stolen at the hotel. Gr
The Seven Year Itch
Jan 2, 2000 · 60 min
Ray Nixon visits his mother's grave before renting a room at the Aidensfield Arms. Blaketon feels a kind of guilt to Ray Nixon. Sergeants Nokes and Craddock temporarily change plac
Weight of Evidence
Jan 9, 2000 · 60 min
Greengrass buys a sheep to win some races, and of course money. Jackie has become halfway partner of the lawyers' firm, but to reach full partnership she needs £5000. A young girl
For Art's Sake
Jan 16, 2000 · 60 min
The painting artist Joe Vaughan seeks peace in Aidensfield, bu he runs into brawls and controversies with members of the local rugby club and the police takes him into custody, unt
A Shot in the Dark
Jan 23, 2000 · 60 min
Lyn is a maid at Ashfordly Hall. She is secretly visited by her boyfriend Gary who has a suspended sentence. As he leaves the estate manager tries to stop him with shouts, and soon
The Good Doctor
Jan 30, 2000 · 60 min
Jackie's friend Sue is wounded by a hit-and-run car driver but Dr. Peters claims it's not as bad and serious as it looks. Greengrass finds some old bicycles he wants to rent to par
Against the Odds
Feb 6, 2000 · 60 min
Lottie finds Charlie Weller dead and to the ugly surprise and disgust of his nephew, Martin, her mother, Peggy Turner is the beneficent of a week old will. At the same time Blaketo
Desperate Measures
Feb 13, 2000 · 60 min
Roy Brooks gets a suspended prison sentence for horse theft, but later in the evening a racing horse is stolen from Lord Ashfordly and his estate manager is seriously knocked down.
With This Ring
Feb 20, 2000 · 60 min
Frank is an addicted gambler always in serious and his actions to deal with his debt hits both his employer and his wife and daughter. Mike plans secretly a honeymoon to Majorca, b
Wise Guy's
Feb 27, 2000 · 60 min
Franco Mazzetti has suddenly died, so Greengrass finds guts to buy one of his vans to sell fish and chips from. He's soon mixed into a brawl between the Mazzettis and another local
The Son-In-Law
Mar 5, 2000 · 60 min
Jackie Bradley's parents arrives from South Africa, She admits to Mike that she has not told them of their wedding. A car is found driven far into the river and at the same time a