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.
Disturbance
Local knowledge
Outcast
Behaviour
Vanishing trick
Reasonable suspicion
Discretion
Care and protection
Incident
The old folks at home
All too tidy
Lost dog
Skeletons
Help
Perspectives
Villain
Blind eye
Lost sheep
Charlie
Digger
Ella
Witness
Seady job
Vistors
Free while wednesday
Kids
Intent
Reprisals
Sudden death
Outsiders
Echoes
Say nothing
Not me
Interference
Job
Missing
Spinsters
Take away
Kicking and screaming
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