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Z-Cars (1962 – 1978)

1962 • 12 seasons • Drama • TV-14
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Z-Cars — Series 7

115 episodes · Aug 2, 1971

1. The Stone Standard Part 1
Aug 2, 1971 · 50m
2. The Stone Standard Part 2
Aug 3, 1971 · 50m

Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.

3. The Mystery Part 1
Apr 9, 1971 · 50m
4. The Mystery Part 2
Aug 10, 1971 · 50m

A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.

5. Nobody Hit Me Part 1
Aug 16, 1971 · 50m
6. Nobody Hit Me Part 2
Aug 17, 1971 · 50m

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.

7. Dan, Dan... Part 1
Aug 23, 1971 · 50m
8. Dan, Dan... Part 2
Aug 24, 1971 · 50m

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.

9. Funny Fellah
Aug 31, 1971 · 50m
10. Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1
Sep 6, 1971 · 50m
11. Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2
Sep 7, 1971 · 50m

Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.

12. Purely Medical Purposes Part 1
Sep 13, 1971 · 50m
13. Purely Medical Purposes Part 2
Sep 14, 1971 · 50m

Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.

14. Grandstand Finish Part 1
Sep 20, 1971 · 50m
15. Grandstand Finish Part 2
Sep 21, 1971 · 50m

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
Sep 27, 1971 · 50m
17. Funny Creatures Women Part 2
Sep 28, 1971 · 50m

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
Oct 4, 1971 · 50m
19. The Dirty Job Part 2
Oct 5, 1971 · 50m

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
Oct 11, 1971 · 50m
21. Ding Dong Part 2
Oct 12, 1971 · 50m

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
Oct 18, 1971 · 50m
23. Intrusion Part 2
Oct 19, 1971 · 50m
24. Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1
Oct 25, 1971 · 50m
25. Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2
Oct 26, 1971 · 50m

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 quie…

26. Contact Man Part 1
Nov 1, 1971 · 50m
27. Contact Man Part 2
Nov 2, 1971 · 50m

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
Nov 8, 1971 · 50m
29. Take Away Part 2
Nov 9, 1971 · 50m

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
Nov 15, 1971 · 50m
31. Who Were You With? Part 2
Nov 16, 1971 · 50m

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
Nov 22, 1971 · 50m
33. Danny Boy's Home Part 2
Nov 23, 1971 · 50m

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
Nov 29, 1971 · 50m
35. Rules Of The Game Part 2
Nov 30, 1971 · 50m
36. The Wrong Odds Part 1
Dec 6, 1971 · 50m
37. The Wrong Odds Part 2
Dec 7, 1971 · 50m
38. The Horse Dealer Part 1
Dec 13, 1971 · 50m
39. The Horse Dealer Part 2
Dec 14, 1971 · 50m

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
Dec 20, 1971 · 50m
41. Collation Part 2
Dec 21, 1971 · 50m

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
Jan 3, 1972 · 50m

Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.

43. Lynch
Jan 10, 1972 · 50m

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
Jan 17, 1972 · 50m

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
Jan 24, 1972 · 50m

A lad is walking home late at night...

46. Retirement
Jan 31, 1972 · 50m

An old man tries to stop a robbery...

47. Promotion
Feb 14, 1972 · 50m

Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.

48. Canal
Feb 21, 1972 · 50m

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.

49. Week Off
Feb 28, 1972 · 50m

Lynch tries to get away from it all...

50. Missing
Mar 6, 1972 · 50m

Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.

51. Quilley
Apr 10, 1972 · 50m

Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.

52. Tessa In The Woodpile
Apr 17, 1972 · 50m

After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.

53. Keep To Yourself
Apr 24, 1972 · 50m

Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.

54. Smoke
May 1, 1972 · 50m
55. Operation Ascalon
May 8, 1972 · 50m

Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?

56. Short Cut
May 15, 1972 · 50m

Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.

57. Hagger
May 22, 1972 · 50m

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
May 29, 1972 · 50m

Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.

59. Sweet Girl
Jun 5, 1972 · 50m

A lass is missing...

60. Access
Jun 12, 1972 · 50m

Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?

61. Goss
Jun 19, 1972 · 50m

Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.

62. The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1
Jul 10, 1972 · 50m
63. The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2
Jul 11, 1972 · 50m

Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.

64. Forget It Part 1
Jul 17, 1972 · 50m
65. Forget It Part 2
Jul 18, 1972 · 50m

A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?

66. A Neighbour's Goods Part 1
Jul 24, 1972 · 50m
67. A Neighbour's Goods Part 2
Jul 25, 1972 · 50m

There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.

68. Loyalties Part 1
Jul 31, 1972 · 50m
69. Loyalties Part 2
Aug 1, 1972 · 50m

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
Aug 7, 1972 · 50m
71. Relative Values Part 2
Aug 8, 1972 · 50m

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
Aug 14, 1972 · 50m
73. Not Good Enough Part 2
Aug 15, 1972 · 50m

Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.

74. Breakage Part 1
Aug 21, 1972 · 50m
75. Breakage Part 2
Aug 22, 1972 · 50m

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
Sep 11, 1972 · 50m

Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.

77. The Team
Sep 18, 1972 · 50m

Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.

78. Witness
Sep 25, 1972 · 50m

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 t…

79. Takes All Sorts
Oct 2, 1972 · 50m

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, …

80. Sins Of The Father
Oct 9, 1972 · 50m

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
Oct 16, 1972 · 50m

Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.

82. Day Trip
Oct 23, 1972 · 50m

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
Oct 30, 1972 · 50m

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
Nov 6, 1972 · 50m

Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.

85. Diabolical Liberty
Nov 13, 1972 · 50m

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
Nov 20, 1972 · 50m

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
Nov 27, 1972 · 50m

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
Dec 4, 1972 · 50m

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
Dec 11, 1972 · 50m

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
Dec 18, 1972 · 50m
91. Skinner
Jan 4, 1973 · 50m

Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.

92. Skin Game
Jan 11, 1973 · 50m

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
Jan 18, 1973 · 50m

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
Jan 25, 1973 · 50m

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
Feb 1, 1973 · 50m

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
Feb 8, 1973 · 50m

There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.

97. Miller
Feb 15, 1973 · 50m

A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.

98. Care
Feb 22, 1973 · 50m

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.

99. Operation Watchdog
Mar 1, 1973 · 50m

Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother

100. Defection
Mar 8, 1973 · 50m

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
Mar 15, 1973 · 50m

Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.

102. Hard Man
Mar 22, 1973 · 50m

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
Mar 29, 1973 · 50m

A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.

104. Pat
Apr 5, 1973 · 50m

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
Apr 12, 1973 · 50m

Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.

106. The Lady And The Gentleman
Apr 19, 1973 · 50m

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
Apr 30, 1973 · 50m

Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.

108. Mileage
May 7, 1973 · 50m

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
May 14, 1973 · 50m

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
May 21, 1973 · 50m

A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?

111. Hi-Jack
Jun 4, 1973 · 50m

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
Jun 11, 1973 · 50m

Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.

113. Co-Operation
Jun 18, 1973 · 50m

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
Jun 25, 1973 · 50m

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...?
Jul 2, 1973 · 50m

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?