Hours after being promoted to detective inspector, Maggie Forbes learns her husband has been brutally gunned down and killed.
Tired of sitting at home, Maggie disobeys orders and sets out to find her husband's killers.
Having withdrawn her resignation, Maggie tries to help both her son, Stephen, who has turned to alcohol in the wake of his father's murder, and her friend Susan Scott.
Maggie is assigned to investigate the death of a woman discovered in a love nest.
Maggie finds herself at odds with a fellow officer while investigating the stabbing death of a young gay man on the London Underground.
While Maggie investigates a businessman suspected of torching his own premises, she is offended by being offered a bribe, but even stranger offers are waiting around the corner.
After a young prostitute is found brutally murdered, Maggie runs into a wall of frightened silence while trying to gain evidence against the girl's pimp.
Maggie's skills are put to the test by an unusual robbery case; Maggie faces a moral dilemma after overhearing her son talking about watching a "dirty" movie.
Maggie goes under cover as a bar maid hoping to trap a serial sex offender, but making herself a target places her in grave danger.
A burglary at the office of a solicitor who prosecutors for the police leads to a crisis situation.
Maggie investigates after Ivor Stocker, a successful businessman and lawyer, is threatened with blackmail.
A series of robberies with violence have been reported. All have a similar pattern, and all are carried out by women. Maggie Forbes and her police team are puzzled to know who these women are. Or could it be one woman in many disguises.
Det.-Insp. Maggie Forbes spends a frustrating day at the law courts. She feels she would be much usefully employed trying to solve the criminal cases that keep arriving on her desk.
When Mrs Beresford, wife of a wealthy and respected businessman, is threatened with a knife by a menacing masked figure, who then runs away, leaving her unharmed, DI Maggie Forbes find herself assigned to the case.
Maggie is looking forward to a hard-earned weekend break and a with Alan Lawson. Her son Steve wants mum out of the way and it looks as though both plans could be thwarted - until help arrives from an unexpected source.
Maggie investigates when a badly beaten boy refuses to name his attackers.
Maggie's delight at being courted by the wealthy Dave Connolly, who gives her a Victorian ring, soon changes to suspicion.
Maggie and Steve are puzzled when they begin to receive mysterious gifts in the post.
Maggie and Jimmy take a severe beating during a robbery.
Detective Inspector Forbes has a marksman with a high-powered rifle loose on her patch.
Maggie investigates when a Jewish home is vandalised.
Maggie must find a potentially violent teenager who has escaped from a top-security remand centre.
Maggie investigates a protection racket.
A café proprietor is murdered and Maggie is on the case.
A WPC is in hospital after a riot.
Maggie is assigned to protect a famous actress after she receives a series of death threats.
Maggie deals with a drunken bank robber.
A new WPC arrives at Seven Dials.
Maggie's progress on a case is stalled by a personal crisis.
When confronted with tragedy, Maggie and Russell examine their feelings about mercy killings.
A dead burglar and a case of paranoia add up to a difficult situation for Maggie.
Maggie tries to track down a missing informant.
A well-educated, young black man confesses to a crime he didn't commit; Maggie's problems escalate when he son approaches her for advice that only a father can give.
Maggie investigates dodgy dealings in the world of fine art.
Maggie tries to gain a beautiful French student's trust to find a key witness who is on the run from the German police and an international network of pornographers.
Detective Sgt. Barratt falls for the victim of a robbery.
Maggie and a detective posing as a pimp go under cover to track a maniac who has been killing prostitutes working out of a London pub.
Maggie investigates when a fellow detective tries to frame an old villain for a jewellery theft.
Maggie sets out to confront a gang of teenagers who have been terrorising local pensioners.
Maggie quizzes an informant with knowledge of a gang of thieves; Steve becomes concerned after a pal quits the police college.
Maggie suffers severe stress when faced with a bloody multiple murder.
Phillips and Barratt investigate a bizarre marriage.
When a loyal wife is determined to help her jailed husband get justice, Maggie is Forced to review the evidence.
Maggie returns to Seven Dials for the first time since the explosion wrecked her office and learns that her colleagues are investigating a gang of small-time crooks.
Maggie and her colleagues try to track forged bank notes which have fallen into the wrong hands.
Maggie becomes involved with of a group of vigilantes dishing out their justice on a housing estate; things become more complicated for her when someone new joins the team.
The Seven Dials team attends a crime seminar about a string of thefts from hotels; things go out with a bang after Slater sets up Philips.
Maggie tries to help her son Steve when he learns about the criminal activity going on at his college.
When animal rights campaigners free some dogs from a laboratory, but fail to realise that one of the animals is dangerously ill, a children's birthday party becomes a terrible nightmare for Maggie Forbes.
When a well-dressed con man begins harassing a rich middle-aged widow, Maggie doubts he's up to much good.
Maggie thinks a woman who killed her abusive husband acted in self-defense until troubling new facts emerge.
Maggie discovers that sophisticated and well-liked Cecily's elegant flat conceals a grim secret.
Maggie is on the case after an old man is mugged and dies from his injuries.
Maggie and Jake decide to test Mr. Armour's powers to learn whether he really has the gift of healing as he claims.
Maggie struggles with keeping her word to an informer.
After a minor civil servant is found dead in rather exotic surroundings, Maggie and her team believe they have an open and shut case of a fatal lovers' quarrel, but nothing could be further from the truth.