Z-Cars
Series 9
197431 episodes
Episode 1
Bits An' Bats
Sep 9, 197450m
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.
Episode 2
Old Bones
Sep 16, 197450m
Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
Episode 3
Mysteries
Sep 30, 197450m
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.
Episode 4
Night Train
Oct 7, 197450m
Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
Episode 5
Friends
Oct 14, 197450m
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.
Episode 6
Gardens
Oct 28, 197450m
A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
Episode 7
Quiet As The Grave
Nov 4, 197450m
Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
Episode 8
Pursuit
Nov 11, 197450m
A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
Episode 9
Have You Seen This Child
Nov 18, 197450m
Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
Episode 10
Occupation
Nov 25, 197450m
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.
Episode 11
Unnecessary Force
Dec 2, 197450m
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.
Episode 12
The Bouncer
Dec 9, 197450m
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.
Episode 13
House To House
Dec 16, 197450m
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.
Episode 14
Boy In Blue
Jan 6, 197550m
The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
Episode 15
Local Knowledge
Jan 13, 197550m
Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.
Episode 16
Innocent And Vulnerable
Jan 20, 197550m
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.
Episode 17
Intervention
Jan 27, 197550m
Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
Episode 18
Tonight And Every Night
Feb 3, 197550m
Episode 19
Transit
Feb 10, 197550m
When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
Episode 20
Snouts
Feb 17, 197550m
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...
Episode 21
Squatters
Feb 24, 197550m
Episode 22
Eviction
Mar 3, 197550m
Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
Episode 23
Incitement
Mar 10, 197550m
Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
Episode 24
Thanks But...No Thanks
Mar 17, 197550m
Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?
Episode 25
Kronur
Mar 24, 197550m
A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.
Episode 26
Scapegoat
Apr 7, 197550m
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.
Episode 27
Bit Of Business
Apr 14, 197550m
A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.
Episode 28
Distance
Apr 21, 197550m
Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?
Episode 29
Ritual
Apr 28, 197550m
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?
Episode 30
Legacy
May 5, 197550m
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?
Episode 31
A New Broom
May 12, 197550m
The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?