In the opening episode, Harry's offices are attacked by someone with a grudge. He hires a young reporter to share his workload. His relationship with his antiques-dealer wife keeps his feet on the ground. He tries to get to the bottom of a mystery involving a nuclear company, a campaigning miner and some very powerful people.

Three grave robbers open a hermetically sealed ciffin and think they've got the plague. An old man with Alzheimer's disease is dumped in a car park. Harry imagines his international horizons are widening when an old acquaintance, Frank Drury, arrives.

When an ex-army officer is murdered on his patch, Harry goes off in hot pursuit of IRA suspects, intent on selling the story to the national press. He finds the real villain is somewhat nearer home.

There is dissension in the ranks at News Associates. Harry criticises the team's productivity but they respond in kind. Jonathan and Alice decide to follow up a story about a young girl whose parents are launching a £250,000 appeal to send her to Pittsburgh for a life-saving operation. When other press fail to turn up, the father turns the staff of the diner into hostages. Harry decides to manipulate the situation, with unexpected results.

Harry is in deep trouble with the law after interfering in a serious hostage incident. Harry wants to go to trial against his solicitor's advice.

Harry is released from jail and is immediately back on the case with a story about chemical pollution. They follow a police car and witness a crazed man breaking up a glamour photographer's flat. Further investigations reveal a thriving business in pornography and prostitution involving local students, one of whom is the daughter of a town councillor who is a vocal campaigner against pornography.

Harry gets the chance to impress an important Italian client, and uses a fictional story. At the same time he has an exclusive interview with a top footballer, but has problems making him sound interesting. Meanwhile, Snappy is covering a story about a girl who has a vision and needs to set up a holy shrine, but events spiral rapidly out of control...

Harry researches for a newspaper article on the death of a well-respected policeman, and finds that he was involved in a murder trial with Masonic entanglements.

Harry arranges a surprise party to celebrate the broadcast of Jonathan's video diaries, but finds out that he is not portrayed very well in them. His friendship with a policeman is still teetering after Harry discovered he had been involved in a set-up fifteen years earlier. Harry follows a story about a local strike, and finds financial scandal...

Harry finds out that his local MP is having an affair with the Foreign Secretary and disappears to Spain with a photographer to take pictures of her cavorting with the Minister by a pool.

Harry and his photographer, Archer, throw a party for Fleet Street journalists to announce his scoop expose of a female MP's foreign affair with her boss. However, he manages to upset his wife and his staff back home in Darlington, and faces the problem of thinking of a follow-up story.