Tue, Feb 21, 1978
Rupert and Amy are in Manchester awaiting the arrival of a Hollywood producer who wants to make a film of one of Rupert's books. At dinner the night before the producer's arrival, Rupert speculates about a fellow diner who is demanding that the violinist play Danny Boy. The diner is American and Rupert thinks he looks like a Godfather type. The next morning, when they are meeting the producer at the airport, Rupert and Amy witness the arrival of an American singer, Carole Fortune, and notice that she is being watched by the 'Godfather' from the previous evening. Rupert is worried that the Godfather is going to kidnap the singer so he leaves Amy to deal with the Hollywood producer while he investigates.
Tue, Mar 14, 1978
The episode opens with a young boy standing by the side of the road, trying to hitch a lift. Rupert stops and picks him up. Because the boy doesn't have a specific address that he's trying to get to in York, Rupert takes him back to the flat and Amy. The boy, a Londoner, tells Rupert and Amy that he's looking for his mother who left home with a strange man, crying as she went; and later sent him a postcard of York Minster. Amy takes the boy under her wing while Rupert tries to find his mother.
Tue, Feb 7, 1978
Christopher, Rupert's literary agent and friend, buys a long-empty, old house with a view to renovating it and selling it. On his first night he sees, and talks to, a woman who has appeared in the house despite all the doors being locked. She asks for a glass of water but when he comes back with one she has gone. He is sure she is a ghost and, later, he hears strange sounds like a heart beat. The next day, he tells Rupert and Amy about his experience [Amy believes in ghosts, Rupert doesn't] and they agree to stay at the old house with him that night. Nothing happens that night and the next morning Christopher has to go back to London. Rupert and Amy stay on and, that night, Rupert has the same experience as Christopher but he manages to lock the woman in the room. He goes to fetch Amy but when they open the door, the woman is gone. Amy thinks it's a ghost. Rupert thinks that people are using the house for nefarious purposes and the woman is a plant designed to scare people away so they can carry on their business in private. Who is right?
Tue, Feb 14, 1978
The episode opens in Africa where three men who appear to be close to death are rescued. Then Rupert's elderly 'honorary aunt' Rachel writes to tell him that her son Jamie has died out in Africa and later rings to say she's been told that there's a man living at her son's cottage. The man is Colonel Stone who ran the expedition that Jamie was on when he died. He describes himself as a friend of Jamie's but Aunt Rachel says that Jamie told her that he didn't like the Colonel. Rupert and Amy decide to investigate.
Tue, Jan 17, 1978
The episode opens with Amy complaining to Rupert that she has too much to do [looking after their flat and typing up Rupert's notes on top of her job as an artist] and she's going on strike. Later, while Amy is talking to Rupert's literary agent, a fake telephone engineer calls and plants bugs in their flat. The next day, a girl calls at the flat to return Rupert's wallet after his pocket has been picked by her colleague, and they offer her a live-in au-pair job. She moves in and is caught by Amy late at night looking through Rupert's desk - for one of his novels to read, she claims. The next day, Amy discovers one of the bugs and the couple speculate that they are the victims of mistaken identity? After all, there is a strange man living in the flat below who looks, for all the world, like a white slave trader?
Tue, Jan 31, 1978
The episode opens with Helen tidying the mess left by her husband, David, who is crashed out on the sofa after drinking 'too much, too often'. Helen invites friends Rupert and Amy to their country house for the weekend where they meet Clare, David's quiet secretary and Leo, his business partner. David behaves badly, especially with his wife. Later, he gives Amy a family history that he's written and asks for her comments. Next day, while clay pigeon shooting, David behaves madly, aiming his gun at Rupert, firing over his head, then driving off. Leo turns up later looking for David who has not come home. Leo has a black eye from where David hit him after Leo accused him of stealing company money. Later that evening, Rupert and Amy read David's family history. The next morning David's car is found in a pub car park near the river. Rupert calls in the police and they all search the river bank where they find David's watch and cap. Rupert thinks David has killed himself because two of his ancestors committed suicide. Amy thinks David has faked his own death and gave them the family history as a deliberate ploy. But who is right?
Tue, Jan 24, 1978
The episode opens with Rupert giving Amy her wedding ring back, it having slipped from her finger yet again - and it prompts the couple to ponder the things they've given up since marrying each other [Amy doesn't go dancing anymore as Rupert has two left feet; Rupert doesn't go to concerts anymore as Amy has cloth ears]. Amy receives 'practically a royal command' drinks invitation from a local society matron who has also invited a local radio host [a former beau of Amy's who used to take her dancing] and the local librarian who is also a nature lover. The society matron asks them to form a committee to build a pleasure lake for local people. Later, Amy discovers it's all a ploy to enable the society matron's industrialist brother to build a factory and reservoir in a beautiful Yorkshire dale that has romantic & artistic associations for Amy. Amy spends a day in London trying to stop the development but returns home without success. Then the librarian arrives to tell them she has been to the dale and found a rare orchid that she claims was considered to be extinct. Rupert takes a photo of the plant to a botanist [an attractive woman who loves going to concerts] and she tells him there is only one other specimen in the country, in Norfolk. But when Rupert and the botanist drive to Norfolk together, they find the specimen gone. Rupert does find something at the site though ...