TV Guide Drama Wednesday

Nora Batty invites Compo up to her bedroom, but it proves to be an entirely innocent invitation as she merely wishes him to remove a mangle and deliver it to a friend. However, the nature of the item creates all sorts of problems. Long-running comedy, starring Bill Owen and Kathy Staff

Seymour departs for a new teaching job, leaving Clegg and Compo at a loose end now he is no longer around to drag them into his eccentric schemes. However, they do not realise an old friend is about to return to the village. Comedy, starring Peter Sallis, Bill Owen and Brian Wilde

Grace Pearson is found dead at a local festival. Detective Inspector Sam Gillespie - to the bewilderment of newly arrived Detective Sergeant Felix Livingstone - uses Sister Boniface as his scientific adviser. She determines that Pearson died by suffocation after her head was pushed into sawdust. The investigation leads to the three Bellamy siblings, at whose home Pearson was a housemaid. Crime drama, starring Lorna Watson and Max Brown, with Belinda Lang and Robert Daws

New information links the unexplained death of a market trader to a series of drug rapes in east London - but with that case still ongoing, Ucos officers are unable to question the chief suspect, so they have to look into their victim's past in their search for clues. Gerry finds a likely culprit in the shape of the market inspector who clamped his car, while Sandra has problems of a more personal nature when her hated mother arrives for a visit. Sheila Hancock guest stars

Part two of two. Boyd and the team's investigation of a shifty businessman leads them to uncover a pharmaceutical conspiracy involving fake drugs to treat Aids. A major company is implicated in the scandal - and its bosses are prepared to do whatever is necessary to ensure their secret remains safe. Meanwhile, the detectives interview Stella Goodman, the latest applicant for Mel's job. Trevor Eve stars