Drama TV Guide — Thursday, 4 June 2026

Nora gets her hands on Compo, with surprisingly therapeutic results, inspiring Truly and Clegg to lead him off the straight and narrow. Classic comedy, starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Kathy Staff and Frank Thornton

Truly decides to put his extensive police training to good use by roping Compo and Clegg into his newly formed active rescue team, and finds there is only one thing stopping them becoming heroes - the lack of a casualty. Long-running comedy, starring Frank Thornton

Wesley's latest creation - a bed on wheel - meets with great approval, particularly with Compo who wants to be the first one to try it believing he has finally found the perfect way to get close to Nora Batty. Long-running comedy, starring Bill Owen, Gordon Wharmby and Kathy Staff

A mysterious saboteur tries to stop Kembleford winning the Three Counties choir competition. Return of the 1950s-set crime drama based on the stories by GK Chesterton, starring Mark Williams as the Roman Catholic priest who attempts to solve various misdemeanours

Mick and Shazia investigate the discovery of a Viking hoard after a museum curator is suspicious about the circumstances and summons Mick for a second opinion

In a special edition of the detective drama that features only two members of the team, Gerry Standing and Steve McAndrew travel to Glasgow, where a new Ucos section is being set up. While there, they agree to assist the investigation into the 1993 unsolved murder of James Soutar, the wealthy owner of a string of betting shops. Cathy Sinclair, one of the beneficiaries of the bookie's will at his death, had a care-home upbringing in common with Soutar, but she claims to have no idea who he was or why she was left £15,000. McAndrew has a personal stake in the case - the original investigating officer was corrupt cop Frank McNair, who had an affair with his wife, and their paths soon cross. The London-based officers' questions begin to unsettle someone and a campaign of victimisation against them begins, but it's a revelation from McAndrew's girlfriend Charley that reawakens a long-dormant scandal and clears the path to a solution. Dennis Waterman and Denis Lawson star

Feature-length episode. The detectives are called out to a robbery where a security guard is found dead. As they try to determine whether his demise was an accident or murder, they expose a complex web of deception among his friends - or enemies. Meanwhile, Lateef uncovers evidence of an international exchange racket. Art Malik guest stars