Z-Cars - Season 9

Z-Cars

Season 9

1974 • 32 Episodes

Episodes

Bits An' Bats - Z-Cars

1. Bits An' Bats

September 9, 1974

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.

Old Bones - Z-Cars

2. Old Bones

September 16, 1974

Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.

Mysteries - Z-Cars

3. Mysteries

September 30, 1974

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.

Night Train - Z-Cars

4. Night Train

October 7, 1974

Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.

Friends - Z-Cars

5. Friends

October 14, 1974

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.

Mugs - Z-Cars

33. Mugs

October 21, 1974

No overview available.

Gardens - Z-Cars

6. Gardens

October 28, 1974

A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.

Quiet As The Grave - Z-Cars

7. Quiet As The Grave

November 4, 1974

Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.

Pursuit - Z-Cars

8. Pursuit

November 11, 1974

A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.

Have You Seen This Child - Z-Cars

9. Have You Seen This Child

November 18, 1974

Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.

Occupation - Z-Cars

10. Occupation

November 25, 1974

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.

Unnecessary Force - Z-Cars

11. Unnecessary Force

December 2, 1974

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.

The Bouncer - Z-Cars

12. The Bouncer

December 9, 1974

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.

House To House - Z-Cars

13. House To House

December 16, 1974

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.

Boy In Blue - Z-Cars

14. Boy In Blue

January 6, 1975

The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.

Local Knowledge - Z-Cars

15. Local Knowledge

January 13, 1975

Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.

Innocent And Vulnerable - Z-Cars

16. Innocent And Vulnerable

January 20, 1975

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.

Intervention - Z-Cars

17. Intervention

January 27, 1975

Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.

Tonight And Every Night - Z-Cars

18. Tonight And Every Night

February 3, 1975

No overview available.

Transit - Z-Cars

19. Transit

February 10, 1975

When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.

Snouts - Z-Cars

20. Snouts

February 17, 1975

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...

Squatters - Z-Cars

21. Squatters

February 24, 1975

No overview available.

Eviction - Z-Cars

22. Eviction

March 3, 1975

Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.

Incitement - Z-Cars

23. Incitement

March 10, 1975

Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?

Thanks But...No Thanks - Z-Cars

24. Thanks But...No Thanks

March 17, 1975

Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?

Kronur - Z-Cars

25. Kronur

March 24, 1975

A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.

Scapegoat - Z-Cars

26. Scapegoat

April 7, 1975

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.

Bit Of Business - Z-Cars

27. Bit Of Business

April 14, 1975

A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.

Distance - Z-Cars

28. Distance

April 21, 1975

Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?

Ritual - Z-Cars

29. Ritual

April 28, 1975

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?

Legacy - Z-Cars

30. Legacy

May 5, 1975

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?

A New Broom - Z-Cars

31. A New Broom

May 12, 1975

The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?