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C.A.T.S. Eyes

Season 3 1987
TV-PG

  • 1987-04-25T20:00:00Z on ITV
  • 50m
  • 5h 50m (7 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
An all-female detective agency, the 'Eyes Enquiry Agency', is formed as a front for the Home Office's new security operation, the 'Covert Activities Thames Section' or C.A.T.S. for short. Initially lead by ex-Oxford University President Pru Standfast, she was in charge of the unit that exeprienced ex-cop Maggie Forbes, computer geek Fredrica Smith, and from series two, Tessa Robinson who replaced Pru. Their contact with the Ministry was Nigel Beaumont. Made by Television South (TVS) for the ITV Network. Currently copies exist at ITV Archive, notably Maidstone Studios or at Leeds Archive and Disney own the actual rights through company acquisition although the paperwork is missing.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

1987-04-25T20:00:00Z

3x01 Twelve Bar Blues

Season Premiere

3x01 Twelve Bar Blues

  • 1987-04-25T20:00:00Z50m

What's the link between the murder of a stripper in a Middle East nightclub, and Jethro Blackstock, who runs a talent agency and lives in luxury on the South coast?

The 'EYES' team investigate a number of cases of arms going missing from local military establishments, and Tessa gets a job as a barmaid in a seedy pub, to find out more. Maggie meets an 'old flame', Derek Moore, who warns her of the dangers involved with Blackstock. The girls remain convinced he is connected with the arms smuggling.....

1987-05-02T20:00:00Z

3x02 Carrier Pigeon

3x02 Carrier Pigeon

  • 1987-05-02T20:00:00Z50m

Fred is visiting Amsterdam for a few days break when she recognises an old schoolfriend working with a film crew who are making a commercial.

Later in a Dutch disco, Fred meets up with Sara Fields and they remember the old days.

Flying back home, Sara is caught smuggling drugs through customs and is arrested. Convinced her friend is innocent, Fred puts her own life on the line to prove it but was it worth it?

1987-05-09T20:00:00Z

3x03 Country Weekend

3x03 Country Weekend

  • 1987-05-09T20:00:00Z50m

Tessa visits her alcoholic mother in the country for the weekend, accompanied by Fred.

Their break is interrupted when three men arrive and hold them all hostage, and the relaxing weekend does not turn out the way anyone expects.

1987-05-16T20:00:00Z

3x04 The Big Burn

3x04 The Big Burn

  • 1987-05-16T20:00:00Z50m

The discovery of electronic listening 'bugs' on some valuable antiques stolen from a country house, leads Maggie, Fred and Tessa into the world of espionage and petty crime.

The bugs are 'foreign' in design, but why should they have been placed in the home of jailed forger Joe McCrewer?

1987-05-23T20:00:00Z

3x05 A Naval Affair

3x05 A Naval Affair

  • 1987-05-23T20:00:00Z50m

Ship designer Alan Moss' house burns down and all his work on revolutionary design concept for warships is destroyed. His plans had previously been rejected by the Admiralty and he was successfully going it alone until the fire.

The 'EYES' team join Moss on a sailing trip which goes wrong when the rudder breaks, but they manage to get safely back to shore.

An explosion at Maggie's flat seems like another attempt to kill Moss and Maggie goes to the Admiralty where she meets Commander Hutchins, a supporter of Moss' designs.

1987-05-30T20:00:00Z

3x06 Family Tradition

3x06 Family Tradition

  • 1987-05-30T20:00:00Z50m

Following an annual luch with close friend Sir Edward John - who recruited Nigel - the 'EYES' team investigate Sir Edward's son Howard, a civil servant with access to secrets, who is reportedly acting strange.

Maggie gets to know the Howard family when she goes to Sir Edward's 70th birthday party with Nigel.

After Howard fails in a suicide bid, Maggie discovers Sir Edward's 'secret' and the reason for Howard's behaviour.

1987-06-06T20:00:00Z

3x07 Backlash

3x07 Backlash

  • 1987-06-06T20:00:00Z50m

Pressed into taking a fortnight's holiday, Maggie looks up an old schoolfriend but within hours they both narrowly escape a hit and run driver.

Then while visiting a stately home, tumbling scaffolding seems like another deliberate attempt on Maggie's life. So, when her friend Penny is shot, a guilty Maggie is determined to find out who is responsible an uncovers some disturbing revelations.

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