Star Cops
Star Cops: Season 1

Air Date

July 6, 1987

Episodes

9 episodes

Star Cops

Season 1

Episodes

An Instinct for Murder

1. An Instinct for Murder

July 6, 1987
50 min

With a body in the river and a series of spacesuit failures, Spring is unconvinced by the machine's verdict of accidental death. And instinct is telling him to pursue it even if it means laying his own life on the line.

Conversations With the Dead

2. Conversations With the Dead

July 13, 1987
50 min

""Lee Jones has been dealt with. You are next."" Somewhere out there is a killer. Can Nathan Spring, recently appointed head of the International Space Police Force, pre-empt his deadly messenger?

Intelligent Listening for Beginners

3. Intelligent Listening for Beginners

July 20, 1987
50 min

There has been an explosion at the chemical plant, disaster in the Channel Tunnel and now there's a terrorist threat. The only clue is a couple of lines of obscure poetry. Can Spring and Theroux unravel the secret in time?

Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits

4. Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits

July 27, 1987
50 min

Microbiologist Harvey Goodman has disappeared. It seems that the American space station RONALD REAGAN holds the answer, but pool-playing Commander Griffin is proving less than helpful. Diving deeper into a web of international double-dealing, Nathan smells a rat.

This Case to Be Opened In a Million Years

5. This Case to Be Opened In a Million Years

August 3, 1987
50 min

Exactly what happened to make a nuclear waste dumper launch abort? Is the Mafia alive and kicking in 2027? Will Nathan manage to survive being charged with murder?

In Warm Blood

6. In Warm Blood

August 10, 1987
50 min

'Knowledge is light.' 'Ignorance is darkness.' Science must succeed. Nathan knows that. But when it means the loss of innocent lives, the Star Cops swing into action.

A Double Life

7. A Double Life

August 17, 1987
50 min

When a mystery kidnapper steals three frozen embryos from Moonbase, the crime seems motiveless. Then their mother turns out to be the wife of an infamous arms dealer with a list of henchmen and enemies a mile long. With the ransom deadline approaching, Nathan is finding out what it's really like to race against time to save lives.

Other People's Secrets

8. Other People's Secrets

August 24, 1987
50 min

The stress of deep space seems to be taking its toll at last with the onset of more and more maintenance errors. The trouble is, they've co-incided with the arrival of the safety controller and a visiting psychiatrist! As the chaos escalates, the safety of the entire moonbase is at stake.

Little Green Men and Other Martians

9. Little Green Men and Other Martians

August 31, 1987
50 min

Can a martian really have been unearthed at last? With a freighter carrying the new discovery bound for Moonbase, it certainly seems that way. Suddenly the Star Cops find themselves caught up in a race for the scoop of the millennium. But the cost is high, and the body count is rising...