
Hunters Walk – devised by Dixon of Dock Green creator Ted Willis – was about crime on a smaller – but no less dramatic – scale, and featured a police force in the fictional Midlands town of Broadstone (the series was actually filmed in Rushden, Northants). Sharing several similarities with the classic 1950s police drama, in particular a small-town settingband storylines encompassing the more human aspects of police work, Hunters Walk offered a contrasting alternative to the 1970s more hard-hitting, action-led urban crime dramas. The small, idiosyncratic team of officers faced a typically broad spectrum of cases, from neighbours’ disputes and hooliganism to suspected murder.
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Air Date: 1973-06-04
Led by Smith, the Broadstone police force suddenly find themselves in a manhunt for a disturbed and potentially dange...
Air Date: 1973-06-11
A case of assault. A sick man at large. Smith, awakened from his slumbers by PC Pooley, is having none of it – but th...
Air Date: 1973-06-18
When Smokey Haines returns after serving two years for infanticide, Smith must look for mitigation circumstances in t...
Air Date: 1973-06-25
What is Smith to make of Raymond Flack, a new arrival in Broadstone — and why should local villain Jimmy Walker wish ...
Air Date: 1973-07-01
Certain there's a connection between a housebreaker who has eluded the police for months and the recent death of Ben ...
Air Date: 1973-07-08
The Criminal Law Act 1967, Section Two, sub-sections four and five states 'A constable may arrest, without warrant, a...
Air Date: 1973-07-15
When Ridgeway begins receiving anonymous complaints of petty offenses – people parking without lights, a householder ...
Air Date: 1973-07-22
Two separate cases, both concerning children, Smith and his colleagues face a harsh look at reality and the detective...
Air Date: 1973-07-29
When George Lomax, a down-on-his-heels dealer in double glazing, leaves a pub drunk and disgruntled, it sets off a ch...
Air Date: 1973-08-05
It's the old story all over again, Someone moves into Broadstone, sets up a con, takes easy pickings from the old and...
Air Date: 1973-08-12
When Les comes out of prison and his father tries to establish a new rapport with him – but the bored and spoiled Les...
Air Date: 1973-08-19
A number of seemingly unrelated events after a robbery suddenly fall into place and give Smith and his team something...
Air Date: 1973-08-26
When an elderly woman is found dead in her shop and the clues all add up to murder, the force are fishing in the dark...