Heartbeat

A gang of rabble-rousing rockers from Whitby cause chaos when PC Rowan refuses to let them into the village hall. Kate Rowan chalks up some nosebleeds to her anemia, but unfortunately the cause is much more serious.

Joe Norton and two of his friends are terrorizing Aidensfield with petty thievery and vandalizations, but their luck changes when they target a traveling gypsy's caravan.

Nick and Kate return to Aidensfield with their newborn baby girl, but even amidst all the excitement and joy Nick and Kate seem distant and distracted - although no one yet knows their tragic secret.

In the middle of his mourning, Nick struggles through full-time fatherhood and sends for his mother. Greengrass is visited by his entrepreneurial nephew.

Eddie King is under suspicion for vandalizing Martin Shepherd's home bought at auction. Nick's mother Ruby sets her sights on Sergeant Blaketon.

A young German arrives in Aidensfield to visit his father's grave but soon learns he is an unwelcome guest after the villagers realize he is the son of the German bomber pilot who dropped a bomb on the Tyler family cottage, killing both Jo Tyler and his wife.

Schoolteacher Barry Jackson's wife is murdered in a home fire and her widower suspects arson. Malcolm Brown checks into the Aidensfield Arms with his daughter Vicki.

Several residents of Aidensfield claim to see a UFO during a terrible thunderstorm, including PC Ventress, who goes so far as to swear he was abducted.

Gina is awakened by a masked intruder known as the Be-Ro Man, who has been breaking in all over North Riding. Claude Greengrass makes a new singer-songwriter friend who looks suspiciously like Bob Dylan.

PC Rowan is on loan to the CID to investigate gangster Frank Armstrong, but Katie's christening and a visit from an old Met colleague, Jill Criddle, have him distracted.

A burglar gets more than he bargained for when one of his victims has a heart attack and dies, putting him square in the crosshairs of the dead man's widow.

Archaeologist Professor Brigstocke is found dead in his library, putting Greengrass on the hunt for an ancient treasure the late professor was rumored to be hiding.

A young man named Danny, who turns out to be Nurse Bolton's brother, helps PC Rowan go undercover as a DJ at the illegal radio station operating from a ship off the coast of Whitby.

Rowan takes on a case in which a young boy's mother claims her son's father abducted him after their divorce.