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Press Gang Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Page One

First aired: Jan/16/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest star: Simon Embleton (Godfrey Hunter), Jim Dunk (Jack Slade), Roger Sloman (Mr Vader)



2 :01x02 - Photo Finish

First aired: Jan/23/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest star: Gary Bridges (Andy), Peter Childs (Czar)



3 :01x03 - One Easy Lesson

First aired: Jan/30/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest star: Michelle Akers (New Recruit), David Collings (Mr Winters)



4 :01x04 - Deadline

First aired: Feb/06/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat



5 :01x05 - A Night In

First aired: Feb/13/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat



6 :01x06 - Interface

First aired: Feb/20/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat



7 :01x07 - How to Make a Killing (1)

First aired: Feb/27/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat



8 :01x08 - How to Make a Killing (2)

First aired: Mar/06/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat



9 :01x09 - Both Sides of the Paper

First aired: Mar/13/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest star: David Collings (Mr Winters)



10 :01x10 - Money, Love and Birdseed

First aired: Mar/20/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat



11 :01x11 - Monday, Tuesday

First aired: Apr/01/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest star: David Collings (Mr Winters)

Tuesday is canceled for the newsroom, but for those involved in a confrontation with hungry talent David Jefford, their long day of figuring out what happened on Monday brings them back to to comfort a distraught Lynda



12 :01x12 - Shouldn't I Be Taller?

First aired: Apr/08/1989
Writer: Steven Moffat

Lynda takes a leave of absence, and the newsroom descends into the madness only Collin Matthews can hope to create. With the Gazette slowly transformed into slimy tabloid "The Gaz", Spyke makes a desperate plea to a shopaholic Lynda to return, but only if she blames the person responsible for what happened to David Jefford and not herself...



13 :02x01 - Breakfast at Czar's

First aired: Jan/18/1990
Writer: Steven Moffat



14 :02x02 - Picking up the Pieces

First aired: Jan/25/1990
Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest star: Anna Kipling ( Member of The News Team)



15 :02x03 - Going Back to Jasper Street

First aired: Feb/01/1990



16 :02x04 - The Week and Pizza

First aired: Feb/08/1990



17 :02x05 - Love and the Junior Gazette

First aired: Feb/15/1990



18 :02x06 - At Last a Dragon

First aired: Feb/22/1990

Spyke coaches Lynda as she attempts to leave an important dinner party several times due to her shyness and nerves. Colin mingles in with the right crowd in the wrong way



19 :02x07 - Something Terrible (1)

First aired: Mar/01/1990



20 :02x08 - Something Terrible (2)

First aired: Mar/08/1990



21 :02x09 - Friends Like These

First aired: Mar/15/1990



22 :02x10 - The Rest of My Life

First aired: Mar/22/1990

Trapped in a decimated restraunt, Spyke comforts a solitary voice that serves to accompany him as he waits for rescue...how long he can talk depends on how long she can listen



23 :02x11 - Yesterday's News

First aired: Mar/29/1990

Lynda and Spyke begin a series of challenges in a bid to outdo the other on doing grounded investigative journalism on their own without help, but Spyke begins demonstrating a need to confront Lynda on deeper matters



24 :02x12 - Rock Solid

First aired: Apr/05/1990



25 :02x13 - The Big Finish?

First aired: Apr/12/1990
Writer: Steven Moffat



26 :03x01 - The Big Hello

First aired: May/07/1991



27 :03x02 - Killer on the Line

First aired: May/14/1991



28 :03x03 - Chance is a Fine Thing

First aired: May/21/1991
Guest star: Claire Forlani (Judy Wellman)



29 :03x04 - The Last Word (1)

First aired: May/28/1991
Guest star: Christien Anholt (Donald Cooper)

A Gazzete article on gun clubs and their members drives an armed and masked gunman to infiltrate their offices and hold everyone hostage. Despite managing to initially calm him down, the arrival of the police escalates things further. One thing is clear, a member of the Newsteam will not make it out alive...



30 :03x05 - The Last Word (2)

First aired: Jun/04/1991
Guest star: Christien Anholt (Donald Cooper)

At the funeral of their close friend, the surviving Gazzete team inform the leading investigative officer of the real, tragic circumstances behind the final hours of the gun siege, as the unknown gunman reveals more about himself whilst still managing to critically harm and endanger people. With each hostage slowly reduced to only one, who will have the last word?



31 :03x06 - Holding On

First aired: Jun/11/1991



32 :04x01 - Bad News

First aired: Jan/07/1992

Lynda appears on a children's television show to promote The Gazette, but feels insulted and condescended to by the show's hosts and storms off. So popular was her apperance that she is invited back, only this time it's to reunite her with Spyke.



33 :04x02 - UnXpected

First aired: Jan/14/1992



34 :04x03 - She's Got It Taped

First aired: Jan/21/1992



35 :04x04 - Love and War

First aired: Jan/28/1992



36 :04x05 - In the Picture

First aired: Feb/04/1992

Lynda and Spyke's tussle on children's television catches the attention of an important business pioneer, and she visits Lynda just as she begins receiving phone calls from a desperate Collin trapped in an unnerved and paranoid film star's apartment, unable to escape...



37 :04x06 - Day Dreams

First aired: Feb/11/1992

Several years ago, Lynda's parents met and fell in love..then they parted ways. As Spyke's mother insists that she shares very much her tastes in men, will the same fate befall Lynda's relationship with the wayward and collected loner? Her dreams of what might be become nightmarish realizations



38 :05x01 - Head and Heart

First aired: Apr/16/1993
Guest star: David Collings (Mr Winters)

Collin becomes smitten with the new school secretary, but his pursuit of her affections in his usual manner leads him to a potential scandal. With their former Headmaster about to embark on a new campaign to promote Fidelity in school, Lynda decides to do the wrong thing for the right reasons...



39 :05x02 - Friendly Fire

First aired: Apr/23/1993
Guest star: David Collings (Mr Winters)

Sarah reads a long and detailed letter to Spike over the phone, a letter that recounts the day that Lynda met her, and the years they shared laying the foundations for what would become The Junior Gazette. But after all those days together, the one thing holding Sarah back from full commitment becomes impossible to ignore, and one must leave the other



40 :05x03 - A Quarter to Midnight

First aired: Apr/30/1993



41 :05x04 - Food, Love and Insecurity

First aired: May/07/1993
Writer: Steven Moffat

Lynda and Spike go undercover at a restaurant to fool an old classmate into revealing details regarding her relationship scandal. but when Spike begins using his usual charm reserved only for girlfriends, and failing miserably as a waitress, Lynda slowly begins to snap...



42 :05x05 - Windfall

First aired: May/14/1993



43 :05x06 - There Are Crocodiles

First aired: May/21/1993
Writer: Steven Moffat

A drug-related death at the heart of the Junior Gazette threatens it's destruction once and for all. Lynda suspects Spike has informed the media of the incident, Collin divides his loyalties, and an old enemy listens closely as Lynda confesses her sins in a hell of her own making...