Episodes
- 1
1. Shipment
9 Sept 1977 · 50 min
Hackett and team stake out a cargo ship carrying £30,000 in silver. A tip-off from snout Ted Knight points the finger at Jack Maynard. When the stakeout is terminated, the team discover Knight with his throat slit on the dock.
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2. Blow Out
16 Sept 1977 · 50 min
Harry Skeats runs a gang of jewel thieves. During a safe breaking, gang member Rocky Wall is badly burned; he's dumped and dies in hospital. Knowing they need a new burner, Hackett bails Tim Farlow out of jail to use has bait.
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3. Big Elephant
23 Sept 1977 · 50 min
Courier Pink gives Sharkey a chance to make some money by bringing Lebanon hashish into Britain. Before he can hand it to Cetti, police raid his home, leaving Sharkey in possession of half a million pounds' worth of heroin.
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4. Hunting Parties
30 Sept 1977 · 50 min
Criminals Dickie Tufnell and Harry Kemp are shot dead in a gangland hit. Hackett learns that the latter had been forced into the robbery by a pair of revolutionaries looking to raise funds.
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5. Vandraggers
14 Oct 1977 · 50 min
Two youths hijack four lorries and beat up the drivers. Tate believes they are stealing to order. When the pair attempt to sell new TV/radio cassette players to Tyler Electronics, they cross a big firm.
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6. Lady Luck
21 Oct 1977 · 50 min
Hackett's snout Collars is murdered. Inquiries lead to the release of Swain and Lewis from Parkhurst. Target criminal Ruby Daniels' daughter Sam is kidnapped and the abductors want £300,000 in cash. Hackett believes Daniels is connected to the pair.
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7. Set Up
28 Oct 1977 · 50 min
An informer tells Hackett to go to a squash club where he will find a briefcase in a locker. Leaving, he is approached by Dep. Chief Constable Goddard. Instead of documents, there's £10,000 in cash and Hackett facing suspension.
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8. Roadrunner
4 Nov 1977 · 50 min
A young runaway is found at the scene of a lorry hijacking. Down the road, a second lorry is hijacked but the driver is dead and carrying a large amount of money. Hackett suspects that girls are being used as bait and goes undercover.
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9. Carve Up
11 Nov 1977 · 50 min
Bids are being placed for a lucrative city development building project but is there an element of police corruption connected to one of them?
Target Series 1: quick answers
How many episodes are in Target Series 1?
Series 1 of Target has 9 episodes, about 8 hours in total.
When did Target Series 1 come out?
Series 1 premiered on 9 Sept 1977.