Probation Officer

Philip Main is recruited has a probation officer. Arthur Finney was arrested for burglary. The prison doctor says the boy has been a marijuana addict for three months. Main attempts to build a relationship with the boy and his parents.

Mr. Alexander asks Philip Main to help him to persuade his son Johnny not to marry white girl Mary Sadler. When a razor gang attack the pair, he kills one in self defence. Mary decides to comes forward to give evidence in his defence.

Residivist Patsy Morley convinces the Judge that he is worth another chance, so Philip Main has to access him for probation. Meanwhile marijuana addict Arthur Finney has been sent to the psychiatric ward and is desperate to talk to Main..

An old friend of Philip Main, Corporal Len Grantham contacts him for help with his marriage. He says his German wife, Eva is seeing a married man Mr. Daniels and wants it to stop. Jim Blake thinks that Iris Cope must deal with the wife.

Iris Cope is given the task of helping Carrie West, a doctor's daughter given a two years probation for stealing. Her parents are unable to control her behaviour so Iris has no choice but to hand her over to senior colleague Miss Randell.

Philip Main is asked to help a girl who is ill treated by her father, a strongly religious widower.

A man is in trouble for selling something he has bought on hire purchase.

Dr Svoboda is a Czech physicist whose hatred of Germans lands him in trouble.

The opening of the third series, set in the suburban town of Goodford rather than metropolitan London as previously.

A Jamaican girl living with her sister in a crowded lodging house attempts suicide by turning on the gas.

A 15-year-old girl who has grown up in a children's home dreams of returning to her mother.

Philip Main comes to the aid of the son of a friend who has given up his studies for the clergy to become a barman in a drinking club.

Amoral, scatterbrained, but lovable Jenny is in Borstal for receiving. Then Probation Officer, Maggie Weston finds her a job as a maidservant in a country house. Can Jenny make good or will her unfortunate background and her own unstable temperament be too much for her?