Probation Officer: Season 2
Season 2 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 Probation Officer Season 1.
- 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 2 Progress Shield
S2.E2 ∙ Episode #2.2
Sep 19, 1960
Philip Main is asked to help a girl who is ill treated by her father, a strongly religious widower.
S2.E4 ∙ Episode #2.4
Oct 3, 1960
A man is in trouble for selling something he has bought on hire purchase.
S2.E6 ∙ Episode #2.6
Oct 17, 1960
Dr Svoboda is a Czech physicist whose hatred of Germans lands him in trouble.
S2.E7 ∙ Episode #2.7
Oct 24, 1960
Ken Austin was friendless, and when he finds friends in a Soho club he immediately took to them and their habits - drink and drugs.
S2.E9 ∙ Episode #2.9
Nov 7, 1960
A vicar's disappointment with four boys from his youth club who break into the vicarage at night for a private drinking party.
S2.E11 ∙ Episode #2.11
Nov 21, 1960
Two elderly spinsters whose house is due for demolition refuse to let the authorities enter their home.
S2.E12 ∙ Episode #2.12
Nov 28, 1960
Kenneth Wheatley is up in front of the magistrate for assaulting his wife and step-sister and damaging a club.
S2.E18 ∙ Episode #2.18
Jan 9, 1961
Philip Main comes to the aid of a young member of a street gang who runs away in disgust after the beating of a helpless old man.
S2.E21 ∙ Episode #2.21
Jan 30, 1961
The probation officers come to the aid of down-on-his-luck business man Charles Hamilton and the elderly Miss Carrington who has a mania for breaking dirty cafe crockery.
S2.E23 ∙ Episode #2.23
Feb 13, 1961
A young married couple are having trouble with noisy neighbours.
S2.E30 ∙ Episode #2.30
Apr 3, 1961
The first in a two part story about the difficulties faced by Bill Walker as he is released from prison.
S2.E31 ∙ Episode #2.31
Apr 10, 1961
The probation officers continue their efforts to help released prisoner Bill Walker.
S2.E32 ∙ Episode #2.32
Apr 17, 1961
Maggie Weston comes to the aid of a young expectant mother who also has to look after her elderly grandmother.
S2.E37 ∙ Episode #2.37
May 22, 1961
A man earning £2,500 a year defends his refusal to let his wife have more than one child on financial grounds.
S2.E38 ∙ Episode #2.38
May 29, 1961
The probation officers come to the aid of out-of-work actress Netta Loring.