Z-Cars (1962)
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.
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Episode 1 - Inspector Lynch
Release Date: 1973-10-22Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?
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Episode 2 - Nuisance
Release Date: 1973-10-29Alexandra 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?
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Episode 3 - Escape
Release Date: 1973-11-05Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.
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Episode 4 - Break Up
Release Date: 1973-11-19A 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.
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Episode 5 - Stray Girl
Release Date: 1973-11-26Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.
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Episode 6 - Pieces
Release Date: 1973-12-03A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.
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Episode 7 - The Cinder Path
Release Date: 1973-12-10Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!
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Episode 8 - Cadet
Release Date: 1973-12-11Cadet 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.
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Episode 9 - Pressure Of Work
Release Date: 1973-12-17Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.
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Episode 10 - Absence
Release Date: 1974-01-07A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.
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Episode 11 - In Police Hands
Release Date: 1974-01-21Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.
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Episode 12 - Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears
Release Date: 1974-02-04Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.
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Episode 13 - Joanna
Release Date: 1974-02-11When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.
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Episode 14 - Pressure
Release Date: 1974-02-18A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.
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Episode 15 - Waste
Release Date: 1974-02-25Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.
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Episode 16 - Two Wise Monkeys
Release Date: 1974-03-04When 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.
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Episode 17 - Dinner Break
Release Date: 1974-03-11Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.
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Episode 18 - Allegiance
Release Date: 1974-03-18Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.
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Episode 19 - Rota
Release Date: 1974-03-25The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.
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Episode 20 - Priority
Release Date: 1974-04-01Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.
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Episode 21 - Background
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Episode 22 - Losers
Release Date: 1974-04-10DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!
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Episode 23 - Turnabout
Release Date: 1974-04-22Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?
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Episode 24 - Intruder
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Episode 25 - Mugs?
Release Date: 1974-05-06Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?
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Episode 26 - Pastime
Release Date: 1974-05-13A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.
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Episode 27 - Certain Parties
Release Date: 1974-05-20Back 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.
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Episode 28 - Family
Release Date: 1974-06-30Susan 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.