About this season
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Episodes (13)
1. Driver
Aired 28 June 1978 • 50 min
2. Heavenly Host
Aired 5 July 1978 • 50 min
Shabnam Chowdry is a young Asian girl. Roy Grant is a young white boy. Put them together and knives are drawn - and Lynch is in the middle.
3. Debris
Aired 12 July 1978 • 50 min
Newtown Marriage Guidance Centre has been burned down, so Haggar and Bowker start investigating its clients. They are looking for a man or woman with a grudge - a man or woman who will strike again.
4. Quilley On The Spot
Aired 19 July 1978 • 50 min
A policeman can only take so much. Lynch deals with the problem one way, Quilley another. Trouble is, in Quilley's case there's a woman involved.
5. A Woman's Place
Aired 26 July 1978 • 50 min
Night duty in Newtown is a rough turn; not the place for a young policewoman. But WPC Jane Beck won't listen to the warnings of Inspector Lynch.
6. Exposure
Aired 2 August 1978 • 50 min
Roger Stevens is the quiet sort of copper, always there. Perhaps that's why Lynch tends to take him for granted. But sometimes it's the quiet kind one needs to worry about most of all.
7. Fat Freddie BA
Aired 9 August 1978 • 50 min
Freddie Cowling has come out of prison a changed man. He's lost a lot of weight, he's got a degree and he's promised his wife he'll go straight from now on. But Lynch doesn't believe he's changed. Not when there's the proceeds of his last job to be collected - £40,000 hidden away and waiting...
8. First Offender
Aired 16 August 1978 • 50 min
Sunday - kids who have nothing to do. First Lynch, then Haggar gets involved - they do have something to do.
9. Deserter
Aired 23 August 1978 • 50 min
Frank Rafael Saietta has come home to Newtown. Lynch remembers him as a nice little lad, but that was years ago. Now there are different words to describe him - terrorist and murderer.
10. Rummage
Aired 30 August 1978 • 50 min
Lynch holds the balance between C.I.D. and the Customs & Excise as they investigate a bent businessman and a suspicious German ship. The only link between them is a showgirl.
11. Prey
Aired 6 September 1978 • 50 min
Maureen Price was always complaining to the police - so much so that they'd stopped listening. The pity is that if they hadn't she might be alive today.
12. Departures
Aired 13 September 1978 • 50 min
Two men face retirement, one a policeman, the other a villain. There are younger men impatient to fill their shoes. The copper has no choice about it, but the villain has other ideas.
13. Pressure
Aired 20 September 1978 • 50 min
A new security shutter is being installed at the entrance to Newtown station, just in time, it seems, as an angry mob gathers outside. A stream of visitors keeps the desk duty officer busy.