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Z-Cars

Season 12 1978

  • 1978-06-27T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 50m
  • 10h 50m (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
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.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1978-06-27T23:00:00Z

12x01 Driver

Season Premiere

12x01 Driver

  • 1978-06-27T23:00:00Z50m

1978-07-04T23:00:00Z

12x02 Heavenly Host

12x02 Heavenly Host

  • 1978-07-04T23:00:00Z50m

Shabnam Chowdry is a young Asian girl. Roy Grant is a young white boy. Put them together and knives are drawn - and Lynch is in the middle.

1978-07-11T23:00:00Z

12x03 Debris

12x03 Debris

  • 1978-07-11T23:00:00Z50m

Newtown Marriage Guidance Centre has been burned down, so Haggar and Bowker start investigating its clients. They are looking for a man or woman with a grudge - a man or woman who will strike again.

1978-07-18T23:00:00Z

12x04 Quilley On The Spot

12x04 Quilley On The Spot

  • 1978-07-18T23:00:00Z50m

A policeman can only take so much. Lynch deals with the problem one way, Quilley another. Trouble is, in Quilley's case there's a woman involved.

1978-07-25T23:00:00Z

12x05 A Woman's Place

12x05 A Woman's Place

  • 1978-07-25T23:00:00Z50m

Night duty in Newtown is a rough turn; not the place for a young policewoman. But WPC Jane Beck won't listen to the warnings of Inspector Lynch.

1978-08-01T23:00:00Z

12x06 Exposure

12x06 Exposure

  • 1978-08-01T23:00:00Z50m

Roger Stevens is the quiet sort of copper, always there. Perhaps that's why Lynch tends to take him for granted. But sometimes it's the quiet kind one needs to worry about most of all.

1978-08-08T23:00:00Z

12x07 Fat Freddie BA

12x07 Fat Freddie BA

  • 1978-08-08T23:00:00Z50m

Freddie Cowling has come out of prison a changed man. He's lost a lot of weight, he's got a degree and he's promised his wife he'll go straight from now on. But Lynch doesn't believe he's changed. Not when there's the proceeds of his last job to be collected - £40,000 hidden away and waiting...

1978-08-15T23:00:00Z

12x08 First Offender

12x08 First Offender

  • 1978-08-15T23:00:00Z50m

Sunday - kids who have nothing to do. First Lynch, then Haggar gets involved - they do have something to do.

1978-08-22T23:00:00Z

12x09 Deserter

12x09 Deserter

  • 1978-08-22T23:00:00Z50m

Frank Rafael Saietta has come home to Newtown. Lynch remembers him as a nice little lad, but that was years ago. Now there are different words to describe him - terrorist and murderer.

1978-08-29T23:00:00Z

12x10 Rummage

12x10 Rummage

  • 1978-08-29T23:00:00Z50m

Lynch holds the balance between C.I.D. and the Customs & Excise as they investigate a bent businessman and a suspicious German ship. The only link between them is a showgirl.

1978-09-05T23:00:00Z

12x11 Prey

12x11 Prey

  • 1978-09-05T23:00:00Z50m

Maureen Price was always complaining to the police - so much so that they'd stopped listening. The pity is that if they hadn't she might be alive today.

1978-09-12T23:00:00Z

12x12 Departures

12x12 Departures

  • 1978-09-12T23:00:00Z50m

Two men face retirement, one a policeman, the other a villain. There are younger men impatient to fill their shoes. The copper has no choice about it, but the villain has other ideas.

Season Finale

1978-09-19T23:00:00Z

12x13 Pressure

Season Finale

12x13 Pressure

  • 1978-09-19T23:00:00Z50m

A new security shutter is being installed at the entrance to Newtown station, just in time, it seems, as an angry mob gathers outside. A stream of visitors keeps the desk duty officer busy.

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