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 (28)
1. Inspector Lynch
Aired 22 October 1973 • 50 min
Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?
2. Nuisance
Aired 29 October 1973 • 50 min
Alexandra is always complaining to an already overworked police force about her next door neighbour Percy. But is she just a nuisance? Or should Inspector Lynch take her complaints seriously?
3. Escape
Aired 5 November 1973 • 50 min
Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.
4. Break Up
Aired 19 November 1973 • 50 min
A woman is arrested for shoplifting and a thief has his alibi checked. On the face of it two routine cases. But even the most routine cases can have repercussions.
5. Stray Girl
Aired 26 November 1973 • 50 min
Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.
6. Pieces
Aired 3 December 1973 • 50 min
A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.
7. The Cinder Path
Aired 10 December 1973 • 50 min
Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!
8. Cadet
Aired 11 December 1973 • 50 min
Cadet Peter Preston wants nothing more than to be a policeman, and even though he's a bit of a joke at Newtown his future seems assured. Then his father takes someone for a ride.
9. Pressure Of Work
Aired 17 December 1973 • 50 min
Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.
10. Absence
Aired 7 January 1974 • 50 min
A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.
11. In Police Hands
Aired 21 January 1974 • 50 min
Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.
12. Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears
Aired 4 February 1974 • 50 min
Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.
13. Joanna
Aired 11 February 1974 • 50 min
When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.
14. Pressure
Aired 18 February 1974 • 50 min
A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.
15. Waste
Aired 25 February 1974 • 50 min
Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.
16. Two Wise Monkeys
Aired 4 March 1974 • 50 min
When villains like Burford and Tyndale fall out they will go to any lengths to settle a score. And somewhere along the line the police have to take drastic measures.
17. Dinner Break
Aired 11 March 1974 • 50 min
Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.
18. Allegiance
Aired 18 March 1974 • 50 min
Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.
19. Rota
Aired 25 March 1974 • 50 min
The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.
20. Priority
Aired 1 April 1974 • 50 min
Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.
21. Background
Aired 8 April 1974 • 50 min
22. Losers
Aired 10 April 1974 • 50 min
DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!
23. Turnabout
Aired 22 April 1974 • 50 min
Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?
24. Intruder
Aired 29 April 1974 • 50 min
25. Mugs?
Aired 6 May 1974 • 50 min
Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?
26. Pastime
Aired 13 May 1974 • 50 min
A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.
27. Certain Parties
Aired 20 May 1974 • 50 min
Back in Newtown after seven years in Parkhurst, Pikey Nimmo wants to settle up with the men who put him away. Stone was one of them.
28. Family
Aired 30 June 1974 • 50 min
Susan Giles wants her father back inside and uses two men to help her. One of them is Quilley, and he unwittingly ruins Skinner's work.