Original title
Mitch
Released
8/31/1984
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama
Production companies
LWT
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
10
Mitch is a newspaper reporter with a difference, he cares about the people he reports.
The unusually caring reporter goes to a village where a 10-year old boy has been murdered, but the locals are not very sociable - even with each other.
Mitch gets in too deep with MI6 business, and the suspicious death of a homosexual. Meanwhile, his wife is trying to get him fit by making him able to run.
A police inspector is shot after pursuing a burglar along the street, and everyone Mitch talks to describes him as a saint.
A series of muggings of old people are taking place, but as they are being committed by black people the police have to tread very carefully so as not to be accused of racism.
When a petty criminal is spared a prison sentence, the two cops who sorted it for him want more than he bargained for. Can Mitch expose bent cops, or is that in too deep even for him?
Ex-villain Reg Grey promises his wife he's now gone straight. But he is then arrested for a crime he committed a few years before. Mrs Grey tells Mitch that the arrest came from a tip-off from regular Police informer Jack Frost.
A postman is shot while apparently being a have-a-go hero and stopping some armed robbers, but Mitch finds out everything is not as clear cut as it seems.
Mitch begins drinking again and attends a few parties, where he and his friends make a series of cringe-worthy jokes.
Some Asians in the area are attacked by yobbos, and Mitch's son gets a burst appendix, which brings the wife from whom he has separated back into his life.
Mitch goes undercover in a dangerous white supremacist group, and he doesn't fair much better in his private life.
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