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BBC One · Running
Doorbell Detectives
2025
Last aired: S2 E12, Episode 12 · 2026-06-16
Neighbourhood Watch with a digital upgrade! Matt Allwright has gobsmacking stories of crafty crooks and dodgy deliveries caught on camera, and top tips to help make a safer street.
Season 2
E1
Episode 1
2026-06-01 · 30 min
Jane wakes up in the middle of the night to discover two masked men breaking into her elderly parents' house. Tami's doorbell capture catches the moment she took on a gang of wannabe bike thieves.
E2
Episode 2
2026-06-02 · 30 min
Matt Allwright hears from Shaz, who leaps into action when he starts getting deliveries he didn't order. Former police inspector Anton Sullivan demonstrates a doorstep scam on pensioner Beryl.
E3
Episode 3
2026-06-03 · 30 min
Cheryl turns doorbell detective when she discovers a dodgy duo taking her kid's bike from the garden. James confronts the fly-tippers captured by his cameras.
E4
Episode 4
2026-06-04 · 30 min
Matt Allwright hears how Linda rushed over to her 87-year-old father's house after a group of rogue traders turned up saying he needed work doing. A man chases down a gang of suspected car thieves.
E5
Episode 5
2026-06-05 · 30 min
Matt Allwright speaks to the owners of a family-run business which was the target of a smash-and-grab. He also hears from two friends whose food truck was stolen.
E6
Episode 6
2026-06-08 · 30 min
Matt Allwright hears from a couple whose shop was robbed not once but twice, taking half-a-million pounds' worth of goods in minutes.
E7
Episode 7
2026-06-09 · 30 min
Matt Allwright hears from a Doorbell Detective who was robbed in the night by two men while she was asleep upstairs.
E8
Episode 8
2026-06-10 · 30 min
Phil returns home to find someone hanging around his house. When he checks his doorbell footage, he sees the burglar drop some incriminating evidence.
E9
Episode 9
2026-06-11 · 30 min
Matt Allwright meets the residents of what is maybe one of Britain's safest streets after they worked together to foil not one but two attempted burglaries.
E10
Episode 10
2026-06-12 · 30 min
When Chelsea discovers her milk hasn't been delivered, she checks her doorbell camera and finds a man breaking into her house.
E11
Episode 11
2026-06-15 · 30 min
Matt Allwright hears from Harley, whose camera footage of his caravan being broken into was pivotal for the cops jailing a thief. Former police inspector Anton Sullivan takes a camper van for a spin armed with top tips to keep them safe. And we hear from a group of doorbell detectives who were the victims of a prolific porch-pincher on the rampage in London.
E12
Episode 12
2026-06-16 · 30 min
Matt Allwright meets a group of doorbell detectives from Hampshire who combined the latest tech with doorbell footage to catch a burglar red-handed. Former police inspector Anton Sullivan test-drives trackable tech to see if it's worth the hype. And victims of a serial thief tell how their doorbell footage eventually brought him to justice.
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Matt Allwright
Host