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Special Branch

Season 1 Episode 8: The Children of Delight

'The Children of Delight' is a group of hippies that has arrived on Eden's patch. Is there something sinister going on behind its facade? Detective Sergeants Webb and Gifford go undercover to investigate.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Troika

1. Troika

Aired: Sep 17, 1969

At 3.55 am in London John Morrissey gets into a taxi to Scotland Yard. He is ...

Episode 2 Smokescreen

2. Smokescreen

Aired: Sep 24, 1969

Cowley commits suicide shortly after an unproductive round of questioning by ...

Episode 3 The Promised Land

3. The Promised Land

Aired: Oct 1, 1969

A small boat arrives at a beach in Kent where illegal aliens are unloaded, bu...

Episode 4 A Date with Leonidas

4. A Date with Leonidas

Aired: Oct 8, 1969

A teenager's vow of vengeance leads to Inspector Jordan interrupting a weddin...

Episode 5 The Kazmirov Affair

5. The Kazmirov Affair

Aired: Oct 15, 1969

Informed that the manuscript of a Russian author's novel which has been smugg...

Episode 6 A New Face

6. A New Face

Aired: Oct 22, 1969

The son of a trusted officer of the special branch has become radicalised whi...

Episode 7 You Don't Exist

7. You Don't Exist

Aired: Oct 29, 1969

A girl lands at Heathrow from Rhodesia, but owing to Britian's break of diplo...

Episode 9 Reliable Sources

9. Reliable Sources

Aired: Nov 12, 1969

Superintendent Eden is on the spot. The Security Commission has met to consid...

Episode 10 Short Change

10. Short Change

Aired: Nov 19, 1969

A girl being held for giving official secret documents to the Russians faces ...

Episode 11 Exit a Diplomat

11. Exit a Diplomat

Aired: Nov 26, 1969

When a member of a foreign embassy is caught shoplifting in London, but tries...

Episode 12 Care of Her Majesty

12. Care of Her Majesty

Aired: Dec 3, 1969

A British embassy in Eastern Europe receives a coded message from London to s...

Episode 13 Visitor from Moscow

13. Visitor from Moscow

Aired: Dec 10, 1969

When a KGB officer is sent to London to coordinate security measures with the...

Episode 14 Time Bomb

14. Time Bomb

Aired: Dec 17, 1969

Sent to investigate the death of the son of a pro-British oil sheikh in a bom...

Info about Special Branch

Seasons: 4

Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Genres:Drama, Crime, Action