Star Cops
Episode guide
Star Cops comprised nine episodes and was first broadcast on Monday nights on BBC2 between 6 July 1987 and 31 August 1987.

Star Cops

Section Title: Episode guide
Table Section Text: Star Cops comprised nine episodes and was first broadcast on Monday nights on BBC2 between 6 July 1987 and 31 August 1987.

Ep. No.	Title	Writer	Director	Airdate	Airtime	Duration	Audience (millions)

1	"An Instinct for Murder"	Chris Boucher	Christopher Baker	6 July 1987	8.30pm	51'26	2.8m

Plot: Reluctantly reassigned from a case involving a mysterious drowning, Chief Inspector Nathan Spring, shortlisted for the post of Commander of the International Space Police Force, the "Star Cops", becomes embroiled in the investigation of a series of unexplained spacesuit failures on the space station Charles de Gaulle.

2	"Conversations with the Dead"	Chris Boucher	Christopher Baker	13 July 1987	8.35pm	51'26"	3.2m

Plot: Spring's life is thrown into turmoil when his girlfriend, Lee Jones, is brutally murdered. Warned off the case by investigating officer Colin Devis, Spring becomes entangled in the murky world of international espionage.

3	"Intelligent Listening for Beginners"	Chris Boucher	Christopher Baker	20 July 1987	8.30pm	48'19"	2.6m

Plot: Spring fires two Star Cops, Pal Kenzy and Kirk Hubble, for corruption. A terrorist organisation, the Black Hand Gang, has attacked a chemical plant and the Channel Tunnel using a computer worm.

4	"Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits"	Chris Boucher	Graeme Harper	27 July 1987	8.30pm	51'45"	2.5m

Plot: As Spring attempts to persuade the sceptical Americans to allow him to open a Star Cops office on their space station, the Ronald Reagan, he is asked to investigate the disappearance of a scientist Dr Harvey Goodman from the Ronald Reagan station.

5	"This Case to be Opened in a Million Years"	Philip Martin	Graeme Harper	3 August 1987	9.55pm	51'19"	1.4m

Plot: While Theroux is left to investigate the crash of a rocket carrying nuclear waste, Spring, on an enforced vacation, is lured to Rome where he is framed for drug-trafficking.

6	"In Warm Blood"	John Collee	Graeme Harper	10 August 1987	8.35pm	51'46"	2.2m

Plot: The returning crew of the survey ship Pluto 5 are discovered dead, appearing almost freeze-dried. All with a connection to a large Japanese corporation and the suicide of a scientist close to the Moonbase commander.

7	"A Double Life"	John Collee	Christopher Baker	17 August 1987	8.35pm	51'41"	2.1m

Plot: Mystery surrounds a world-famous pianist accused of kidnapping and ransoming embryos from Moonbase. Anna Shoun and Colin Devis investigate and ultimately confront what turns out to be the clone of the accused pianist.

8	"Other People's Secrets"	John Collee	Christopher Baker	24 August 1987	8.35pm	51'43"	1.8m

Plot: Ever increasing glitches and equipment failures around the Moonbase coincide with a safety inspection and lead eventually to a decompression emergency for the base.

9	"Little Green Men and Other Martians"	Chris Boucher	Graeme Harper	31 August 1987	8.35pm	51'11"	1.2m

Plot: Rumours swell of alien artefacts discovered on Mars. An attempt is made to kill Nathan Spring as he investigates drug smuggling and the deaths of two pilots.

Unmade Episode

Ep. No.	Title	Writer	Director	Airdate	Airtime	Duration	Audience (millions)

n/a	"Death on the Moon"	Philip Martin	Graeme Harper	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Plot: This episode would have been a country house murder mystery – of the sort popularised by the fiction of Agatha Christie and the board game Cluedo – set on the Moon.

Sentence(s)

The Star Cops fifth episode, "This Case to be Opened in a Million Years", was broadcast at 9.55pm.

final_sentence: The Star Cops fifth episode, "This Case to be Opened in a Million Years", was broadcast at 9.55pm.