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.
Showing Season 7 of 12
Series 7
1971
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01. The Stone Standard Part 1
1971-08-02
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02. The Stone Standard Part 2
1971-08-03
Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.
03. The Mystery Part 1
1971-04-09
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04. The Mystery Part 2
1971-08-10
A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.
05. Nobody Hit Me Part 1
1971-08-16
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06. Nobody Hit Me Part 2
1971-08-17
Two grocers, one across the road from the other. Both ordinary, everyday characters. But then one of them has a fire in his shop. Goss and Stone end up with one villain and two very frightened men.
07. Dan, Dan... Part 1
1971-08-23
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08. Dan, Dan... Part 2
1971-08-24
To get stolen goods to the public a villain has to be an organising genius, and that's not all. The police are keeping an eye on Reg Thurley, who seems to be leading a double life.
09. Funny Fellah
1971-08-31
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10. Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1
1971-09-06
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11. Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2
1971-09-07
Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.
12. Purely Medical Purposes Part 1
1971-09-13
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13. Purely Medical Purposes part 2
1971-09-14
Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.
14. Grandstand Finish Part 1
1971-09-20
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15. Grandstand Finish Part 2
1971-09-21
Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.
16. Funny Creatures Women Part 1
1971-09-27
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17. Funny Creatures Women Part 2
1971-09-28
Night, a deserted park and a young woman on her way home. Skinner is interviewed by Goss and Stone. Then they take the keys to his quarters.
18. The Dirty Job Part 1
1971-10-04
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19. The Dirty Job Part 2
1971-10-05
The Bannion family is in trouble, but at first not with the police. Bannion can possibly help Goss catch a villain. But is Goss willing to help Bannion in return?
20. Ding Dong Part 1
1971-10-11
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21. Ding Dong Part 2
1971-10-12
Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.
22. Intrusion Part 1
1971-10-18
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23. Intrusion Part 2
1971-10-19
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24. Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1
1971-10-25
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25. Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2
1971-10-26
There's a V.I.P. visit in the offing and everyone is making plans: Newtown police, Special Branch, Headquarters. And they're not the only ones. It's a straight line from the airport to the Remand Home. And the roads should be fairly quiet.
26. Contact Man Part 1
1971-11-01
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27. Contact Man Part 2
1971-11-02
Three villains are under lock and key. But where is the missing eight thousand pounds? With business problems and an expensive wife Mr. Owen has lots of reasons to be worried, but there's another reason too.
28. Take Away Part 1
1971-11-08
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29. Take Away Part 2
1971-11-09
Nicked cars are normally just a routine job. So what makes Annette Minto's so different? At first she just wants her car back, but then something makes her change her mind.
30. Who Were You With? Part 1
1971-11-15
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31. Who Were You With? Part 2
1971-11-16
A hairdresser's shop is wrecked. In the middle is a frightened girl. She's alone and vulnerable and it's night time. She's no money and nowhere to go. It's not surprising that she's scared.
32. Danny Boy's Home Part 1
1971-11-22
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33. Danny Boy's Home Part 2
1971-11-23
Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.
34. Rules Of The Game Part 1
1971-11-29
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35. Rules Of The Game Part 2
1971-11-30
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36. The Wrong Odds Part 1
1971-12-06
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37. The Wrong Odds Part 2
1971-12-07
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38. The Horse Dealer Part 1
1971-12-13
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39. The Horse Dealer Part 2
1971-12-14
With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.
40. Collation Part 1
1971-12-20
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41. Collation Part 2
1971-12-21
Promotion is in the air and Goss is in with an outside chance. A sighting, plus a report from a beat man, might just add up to a feather in Goss's cap at just the right time.
42. Last Bus To Newtown
1972-01-03
Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.
43. Lynch
1972-01-10
Change. New people. Different methods. Some people call it progress. Bert Lynch, out on his own, is starting to feel left behind. Not the best time for his surprise visitor to call.
44. Team Work
1972-01-17
Whether it's a family trying to adjust to change or the police force mounting a big crime prevention operation a team is only as strong as its weakest member.
45. The Attackers
1972-01-24
A lad is walking home late at night...
46. Retirement
1972-01-31
An old man tries to stop a robbery...
47. Promotion
1972-02-14
Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.
48. Canal
1972-02-21
It's the age of fast getaways, but Frank and George are exceptions. They're villains all the same and Sgt. Miller thinks they're worth watching.
98. Care
1973-02-22
Two girls with their husbands away. Maureen is the social type and likes a drink; Jill is the lonely type, but she finds something for the police to do.
49. Week Off
1972-02-28
Lynch tries to get away from it all...
50. Missing
1972-03-06
Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.
51. Quilley
1972-04-10
Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.
52. Tessa In The Woodpile
1972-04-17
After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.
53. Keep To Yourself
1972-04-24
Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.
54. Smoke
1972-05-01
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55. Operation Ascalon
1972-05-08
Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?
56. Short Cut
1972-05-15
Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.
57. Hagger
1972-05-22
DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.
58. Playtime
1972-05-29
Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.
59. Sweet Girl
1972-06-05
A lass is missing...
60. Access
1972-06-12
Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?
61. Goss
1972-06-19
Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.
62. The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1
1972-07-10
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63. The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2
1972-07-11
Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.
64. Forget It Part 1
1972-07-17
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65. Forget It Part 2
1972-07-18
A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?
66. A Neighbour's Goods Part 1
1972-07-24
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67. A Neighbour's Goods Part 2
1972-07-25
There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.
68. Loyalties Part 1
1972-07-31
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69. Loyalties Part 2
1972-08-01
Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.
70. Relative Values Part 1
1972-08-07
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71. Relative Values Part 2
1972-08-08
OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.
72. Not Good Enough Part 1
1972-08-14
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73. Not Good Enough Part 2
1972-08-15
Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.
74. Breakage Part 1
1972-08-21
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75. Breakage Part 2
1972-08-22
A man with a parcel - George T. Wood - who's looking for someone; who's been kept waiting most of his life. And a derelict building, all glass and wind - and someone up on the roof. Quilley takes a big risk.
76. Connor
1972-09-11
Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.
77. The Team
1972-09-18
Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.
78. Witness
1972-09-25
Terence Nichols is in custody at Newtown police station after a wages snatch. There are three days to the trial and Stone thinks it's an open and shut case. He has a reliable witness in Sydney Adams. But one of the villains is still on the run.
79. Takes All Sorts
1972-10-02
A new Inspector arrives at Newtown, Ralph Edward Pratt by name, spruce as a pocket hanky and dripping self-confidence. He is fussy and believes in doing everything by the book. He also wants to get involved in everything that's going on, however trivial. It doesn't take long for Bert Lynch to take a violent dislike to the newcomer and to make every effort to avoid him!
80. Sins Of The Father
1972-10-09
Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.
81. Damage
1972-10-16
Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.
82. Day Trip
1972-10-23
Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.
83. Public Relations
1972-10-30
DS Haggar doesn't like Ken Knowles. ""Journalists,"" he says, ""grow fat on misrepresenting police information"". He doesn't like old Bertha either. She doesn't give information. So what chance does he stand against both of them?
84. Old Soldiers
1972-11-06
Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.
85. Diabolical Liberty
1972-11-13
There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.
86. Old Acquaintance
1972-11-20
A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.
87. The Legacy
1972-11-27
Sgt. Stone goes to the funeral of an old and respected thief in the hope of unearthing a few skeletons. But dead men don't talk and neither will this one's grandson.
88. The Amateurs
1972-12-04
While Austin Nuttall dreams of owning his own business Connor dreams of nailing a fence. And with two crimes unsolved, Connor demonstrates how to kill two men and two birds with one stone.
89. Hobo
1972-12-11
A gullible old man, a con man, and a do-gooder. And Tom Stone is right in the middle and in need of somewhere to live.
90. Old Lag
1972-12-18
No overview available.
91. Skinner
1973-01-04
Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.
92. Skin Game
1973-01-11
A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.
93. Backwater
1973-01-18
All Tom Stone wants is a quiet weekend's fishing, but then he meets Sergeant Rust. Together they catch a very queer fish, but have different ideas about landing it.
94. Big Jake
1973-01-25
Who gets to Big Jake first, Billy Fielden or DC Skinner? One of them wants to help him, the other just wants him. And who, or what, is Big Jake anyway?
95. Women At Work
1973-02-01
Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.
96. Jack The Dodger
1973-02-08
There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.
97. Miller
1973-02-15
A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.
99. Operation Watchdog
1973-03-01
Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother
100. Defection
1973-03-08
A member of a visiting Trade Delegation takes a positive step concerning th future. But Sgt. Stone's future is left for Connor and Richards to fight over.
101. Invention
1973-03-15
Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.
102. Hard Man
1973-03-22
Clifford Roscoe is the local hard man. He's fresh out of jail and ready and anxious to cause trouble. But Stone and Connor are ready for him.
103. Domestic
1973-03-29
A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.
104. Pat
1973-04-05
Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?
105. Bowman
1973-04-12
Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.
106. The Lady And The Gentleman
1973-04-19
There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.
107. Suspicion
1973-04-30
Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.
108. Mileage
1973-05-07
Jupp has a large family and needs to keep his job. But events pile up against him - his boss and a robbery - and he needs to keep his cool.
109. Routine
1973-05-14
Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.
110. The Spike
1973-05-21
A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?
111. Hi-Jack
1973-06-04
A stolen lorry load of meat parked on a busy road. A piece of cake for the police, unless the lorry driver's name is Houdini!
112. Mother And Child
1973-06-11
Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.
113. Co-Operation
1973-06-18
Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?
114. No Proceedings
1973-06-25
Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.
115. Officer Material...?
1973-07-02
It's the day of Lynch's promotion board. He's already passed his exams, so he knows his stuff. But - is he the right type to be an officer?