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Barlow

Season 3 1974

  • 1974-01-23T00:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 50m
  • 6h 40m (8 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role. Johns had previously played Barlow in the Z-Cars, Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s. Barlow at Large began as a three-part self-contained spin-off from Softly, Softly: Taskforce in 1971 with Barlow co-opted by the home office to investigate police corruption in Wales. Johns left Softly, Softly for good in 1972, but returned for a further series of Barlow at Large in the following year, Barlow having gone on full-time secondment to the Home Office. This second series, rather than telling one story in serial form, as the 1971 series had, was instead ten 50-minute episodes, each with a self-contained story. In this series, Barlow was supported by Norman Comer as Detective Sergeant Rees, who had been helpful to him during the first series. He also had to deal with the political machinations of the senior civil servant Fenton. In 1974 the series was renamed Barlow and a further two series of eight episodes each followed, introducing the character of Detective Inspector Tucker, played by Derek Newark. The final episode was transmitted in February 1975. The Barlow character was seen again in the series Second Verdict in which he, along with his former colleague John Watt, looked into unsolved cases and unsafe convictions from history.

8 episodes

Season Premiere

1974-01-23T00:00:00Z

3x01 Big Deal

Season Premiere

3x01 Big Deal

  • 1974-01-23T00:00:00Z50m

Barlow's involvement in the security arrangements for a number of big open-air pop festivals appears to be routine. But when things go wrong at least one chief constable is glad he's there.

1974-01-30T00:00:00Z

3x02 Snatch

3x02 Snatch

  • 1974-01-30T00:00:00Z50m

A prominent Jewish industrialist appears to have been kidnapped. Is it a hoax? Or is it the action of Arab guerillas - in which case what exactly do they want?

1974-02-06T00:00:00Z

3x03 Plunder

3x03 Plunder

  • 1974-02-06T00:00:00Z50m

Even on holiday in Italy Barlow manages to combine business with pleasure - which accounts for his knowledge of and interest in Etruscan art.

1974-02-13T00:00:00Z

3x04 Hit

3x04 Hit

  • 1974-02-13T00:00:00Z50m

Barlow is instructed to make discreet enquiries into the undesirable company being kept by a politician. In the process he meets up with an old adversary and decides, for once, to go it alone.

1974-02-20T00:00:00Z

3x05 Corruption

3x05 Corruption

  • 1974-02-20T00:00:00Z50m

A series of apparently unconnected explosions reveals a web of intrigue. Barlow's enquiries touch a raw nerve in high places and he takes a big personal risk.

1974-02-27T00:00:00Z

3x06 Restitution

3x06 Restitution

  • 1974-02-27T00:00:00Z50m

1974-03-06T00:00:00Z

3x07 Snookered

3x07 Snookered

  • 1974-03-06T00:00:00Z50m

A mysterious call from Special Branch leads Barlow into a cloak-and-dagger world which is, as Fenton warns him, ""shadowy, full of intrigue - and violent"".

1974-03-13T00:00:00Z

3x08 Sect

3x08 Sect

  • 1974-03-13T00:00:00Z50m

The Home Office have received a number of complaints about an apparently harmless religious sect. Barlow's team investigate, with tragic results.

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