Summary Sgt Stone is feeling that he has made very little difference in his career to preventing young criminals from offending again and is talking about finding other challenges outside of the police force. Inspector Lynch is giving Sgt Stone a shoulder to lean on and trying to help him work through it. In the meantime, a gang of kids are spending their unfilled days with small acts of vandalism and general anti social behaviour, 3 of this gang decide to break into a local electronics factory but are beaten by the alarm system and while they are trying to escape through some derelict buildings one of them falls through the floor and is badly injured so one of his friends seeks help from the police who are investigating the alarm. The injured lad goes to hospital and his friend is taken to the police station where Sgt Stone sees a chance to talk to the young lad and tries to explain to him just how his life will go if he continues on this path of minor crimes and where it will lead for him by spending his life in and out of trouble and or prison and that he has a chance to make something of his life to get out of the poverty and degradation in which he lives with his mum. This story centres around Sgt Stone's sense of failure and the young lad's choice to make something of his life while he still can.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Bernard Holley John Slater James Ellis Douglas Fielding
Genres : Crime Drama
Release date : Apr 7, 1974
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) BBC Television
Summary Sgt Stone is feeling that he has made very little difference in his career to preventing young criminals from offending again and is talking about finding other challenges outside of the police force. Inspector Lynch is giving Sgt Stone a shoulder to lean on and trying to help him work through it. In the meantime, a gang of kids are spending their unfilled days with small acts of vandalism and general anti social behaviour, 3 of this gang decide to break into a local electronics factory but are beaten by the alarm system and while they are trying to escape through some derelict buildings one of them falls through the floor and is badly injured so one of his friends seeks help from the police who are investigating the alarm. The injured lad goes to hospital and his friend is taken to the police station where Sgt Stone sees a chance to talk to the young lad and tries to explain to him just how his life will go if he continues on this path of minor crimes and where it will lead for him by spending his life in and out of trouble and or prison and that he has a chance to make something of his life to get out of the poverty and degradation in which he lives with his mum. This story centres around Sgt Stone's sense of failure and the young lad's choice to make something of his life while he still can.
Genres : Crime Drama
Release date : Apr 7, 1974
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) BBC Television
