Dempsey and Makepeace
Dempsey and Makepeace
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Dempsey and Makepeace

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6.5 / 10
1985
3 seasons
30 episodes
Action & AdventureDrama

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Armed and Extremely Dangerous

    11-01-198593m

    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...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Squeeze

    18-01-198548m

    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...

  • Ep 3

    3.Lucky Streak

    25-01-198548m

    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...

  • Ep 4

    4.Given to Acts of Violence

    01-02-198548m

    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...

  • Ep 5

    5.Hors De Combat

    08-02-198546m

    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...

  • Ep 6

    6.Nowhere to Run

    15-02-198548m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.Make Peace, Not War

    22-02-198544m

    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...

  • Ep 8

    8.Blind Eye

    01-03-198546m

    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...

  • Ep 9

    9.Cry God for Harry

    08-03-198548m

    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...

  • Ep 10

    10.Judgement

    15-03-198547m

    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...

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