Coppers End is a police station where the policemen work very hard to avoid work. PC Penny Pringle is the enthusiastic, efficient WPC posted to the station to shake things up.

If you want the time, don't ask a policeman from Coppers End; no one has a watch.

Two thugs arrive at Coppers End.

A drunken Irishman has a problem – he can't get into jail.

Short's new romance changes him as a man.

PC Edwards has gambling fever but ends up in the casualty ward.

Ripper blackmails Pringle into looking after his 12-year-old son. And that means trouble for everyone.

Agatha Pilbeam tells the men in Coppers End about a bank hold-up.

Two lorry drivers find a sinister-looking box leaking blood.

Why is the constabulary at Coppers End moving faster than usual? Edwards announces that he and Pringle have come to an arrangement.

Coppers End takes to examining itself.

Everyone at Coppers End is shocked — someone has committed a crime and Ripper arrests him. But then Short takes action.