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 - Bits An' Bats
Release Date: 1974-09-09There'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.
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Episode 2 - Old Bones
Release Date: 1974-09-16Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
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Episode 3 - Mysteries
Release Date: 1974-09-30Ossie 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.
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Episode 4 - Night Train
Release Date: 1974-10-07Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
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Episode 5 - Friends
Release Date: 1974-10-14Quilley 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.
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Episode 6 - Gardens
Release Date: 1974-10-28A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
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Episode 7 - Quiet As The Grave
Release Date: 1974-11-04Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
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Episode 8 - Pursuit
Release Date: 1974-11-11A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
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Episode 9 - Have You Seen This Child
Release Date: 1974-11-18Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
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Episode 10 - Occupation
Release Date: 1974-11-25A factory work-in is on its last legs with the police outside the gates, keeping the peace but waiting for someone to break it.
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Episode 11 - Unnecessary Force
Release Date: 1974-12-02How 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.
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Episode 12 - The Bouncer
Release Date: 1974-12-09Eddy 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.
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Episode 13 - House To House
Release Date: 1974-12-16A 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.
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Episode 14 - Boy In Blue
Release Date: 1975-01-06The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
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Episode 15 - Local Knowledge
Release Date: 1975-01-13Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.
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Episode 16 - Innocent And Vulnerable
Release Date: 1975-01-20Tempers 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.
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Episode 17 - Intervention
Release Date: 1975-01-27Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
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Episode 18 - Tonight And Every Night
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Episode 19 - Transit
Release Date: 1975-02-10When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
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Episode 20 - Snouts
Release Date: 1975-02-17Jack 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...
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Episode 21 - Squatters
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Episode 22 - Eviction
Release Date: 1975-03-03Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
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Episode 23 - Incitement
Release Date: 1975-03-10Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
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Episode 24 - Thanks But...No Thanks
Release Date: 1975-03-17Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?
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Episode 25 - Kronur
Release Date: 1975-03-24A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.
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Episode 26 - Scapegoat
Release Date: 1975-04-07As an act of kindness Bert Lynch gives a deadbeat tramp a cell for the night - and finds himself up to his neck in trouble.
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Episode 27 - Bit Of Business
Release Date: 1975-04-14A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.
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Episode 28 - Distance
Release Date: 1975-04-21Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?
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Episode 29 - Ritual
Release Date: 1975-04-28Continuation 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?
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Episode 30 - Legacy
Release Date: 1975-05-05Continuation 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?
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Episode 31 - A New Broom
Release Date: 1975-05-12The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?
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Episode 32 - A New Broom
Release Date: 1975-05-12The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?
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Episode 33 - Mugs
Release Date: 1974-10-21