TV Guide Drama Sunday

It is all work and little play for the Sun Hill officers as manpower is stepped up to deal with an anticipated rise in crime on the eve of the new millennium - when it's likely a few over-enthusiastic revellers could see in the year 2000 behind bars

PC Smith ventures into the dangerous world of feuding drug-dealers, going undercover as a contract killer - and is seriously disconcerted to discover the identity of the target he is supposed to eliminate

Part one of two. Burnside takes on an undercover operation in Newcastle

A new midwife joins the team as the area is rocked by power cuts and blizzards. The new arrival is delayed by the weather and falls ill as soon as she arrives. However, she is quickly dragged from her sick bed to assist with a difficult birth. Nurse Crane and Dr Turner treat an elderly cancer patient who faces losing her house due to slum clearances, and try to convince Sergeant Woolf to allow her to die at home

Valerie's friend Marjory goes into labour while Lucille is on duty, and the new recruit successfully delivers the baby. However, when Marjory's health takes a turn for the worst, her racist mother Mae accuses Lucille of incompetence. The nurses rally round to protect their new colleague, and convince her that she is welcome in the community. Sister Winifred comes up with a plan to get fathers more actively involved in their wives' pregnancies - but finds that very few of the local men are keen on the idea

Feature-length period melodrama set in Victorian times, charting the relationship between feisty Newcastle rag-woman Aggie Winkowski and 10-year-old orphan Millie Forester. Determined to protect Millie from the seamy world of prostitution, Aggie resolves to take the youngster under her wing. Starring Honeysuckle Weeks, Perdita Weeks, Val McLane, Alec Newman, Crispin Bonham-Carter and Patrick Ryecart

Sister Reginald's incorrigible brother Alfie Lynch, a habitual thief, turns up at the nunnery seeking help. He is put up at Mrs Clams's guest house. At an art exhibition in the local gallery, egocentric artist Gerry Ardwell features himself as the main exhibit. The next morning, Ardwell is found dead, bludgeoned by a brass statue, while a valuable painting has been stolen. Alfie Lynch is missing and DI Gillespie's main suspect. Sister Reginald pleads with Sister Boniface to find the real culprit, a task made harder when the painting is found in Lynch's room and other suspects have alibis

A new midwife joins the team as the area is rocked by power cuts and blizzards. The new arrival is delayed by the weather and falls ill as soon as she arrives. However, she is quickly dragged from her sick bed to assist with a difficult birth. Nurse Crane and Dr Turner treat an elderly cancer patient who faces losing her house due to slum clearances, and try to convince Sergeant Woolf to allow her to die at home