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 (31)
1. Bits An' Bats
Aired 9 September 1974 • 50 min
There's a new Cash'n'Carry being built in Newtown and some odd characters work on it. One of them is on the fiddle - bits and bats to begin with.
2. Old Bones
Aired 16 September 1974 • 50 min
Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
3. Mysteries
Aired 30 September 1974 • 50 min
Ossie Davies is a security guard. He's a pushover. You just knock off his specs, threaten him a bit and help yourself. But Miller reckons there's more to Ossie than that.
4. Night Train
Aired 7 October 1974 • 50 min
Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
5. Friends
Aired 14 October 1974 • 50 min
Quilley is a good copper, but as an amateur footballer he has his limitations. Jesse Alty is a good footballer but has ambitions to be a better car thief. He and Quilley play for the same team and Gordon Glossop is a friend of both of them.
6. Gardens
Aired 28 October 1974 • 50 min
A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
7. Quiet As The Grave
Aired 4 November 1974 • 50 min
Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
8. Pursuit
Aired 11 November 1974 • 50 min
A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
9. Have You Seen This Child
Aired 18 November 1974 • 50 min
Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
10. Occupation
Aired 25 November 1974 • 50 min
A factory work-in is on its last legs with the police outside the gates, keeping the peace but waiting for someone to break it.
11. Unnecessary Force
Aired 2 December 1974 • 50 min
How did a man like Derek Murphy get beaten up by his best friend, a man half his size? A puzzle for Miller, Yates and Skinner.
12. The Bouncer
Aired 9 December 1974 • 50 min
Eddy Howarth is the over-enthusiastic bouncer at the local dance hall, but his devotion to duty and jealousy over a woman land him in trouble, and he finds himself facing a serious charge.
13. House To House
Aired 16 December 1974 • 50 min
A full-scale house to house enquiry fails to produce a witness until a mysterious night prowler and two criminals lay their own freedom on the line.
14. Boy In Blue
Aired 6 January 1975 • 50 min
The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
15. Local Knowledge
Aired 13 January 1975 • 50 min
Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.
16. Innocent And Vulnerable
Aired 20 January 1975 • 50 min
Tempers fray among men constructing a block of flats, but for one family who actually live in a high-rise, nerves reach breaking point and an everyday flare-up develops into a police enquiry.
17. Intervention
Aired 27 January 1975 • 50 min
Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
18. Tonight And Every Night
Aired 3 February 1975 • 50 min
19. Transit
Aired 10 February 1975 • 50 min
When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
20. Snouts
Aired 17 February 1975 • 50 min
Jack Melish is walking down a deserted street near the docks to keep a secret appointment with Inspector Lynch. Suddenly a car pulls up alongside him and he is bundled into the back seat. The car races off...
21. Squatters
Aired 24 February 1975 • 50 min
22. Eviction
Aired 3 March 1975 • 50 min
Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
23. Incitement
Aired 10 March 1975 • 50 min
Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
24. Thanks But...No Thanks
Aired 17 March 1975 • 50 min
Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?
25. Kronur
Aired 24 March 1975 • 50 min
A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.
26. Scapegoat
Aired 7 April 1975 • 50 min
As an act of kindness Bert Lynch gives a deadbeat tramp a cell for the night - and finds himself up to his neck in trouble.
27. Bit Of Business
Aired 14 April 1975 • 50 min
A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.
28. Distance
Aired 21 April 1975 • 50 min
Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?
29. Ritual
Aired 28 April 1975 • 50 min
Continuation of the previous episode 'Distance'. Skinner has been shot dead and the Murder Squad have taken over the case. So why is Haggar meeting a mate halfway down the M6?
30. Legacy
Aired 5 May 1975 • 50 min
Continuation of the two previous episodes 'Distance' and 'Ritual'. The hunt for Skinner's murderer has moved away from Newtown. So why is a London detective on his way there, in secret?
31. A New Broom
Aired 12 May 1975 • 50 min
The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?