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Z-Cars

Season 8 1973 - 1974

  • 1973-10-21T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 50m
  • 23h 20m (28 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.

28 episodes

Season Premiere

1973-10-21T23:00:00Z

8x01 Inspector Lynch

Season Premiere

8x01 Inspector Lynch

  • 1973-10-21T23:00:00Z50m

Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?

1973-10-29T00:00:00Z

8x02 Nuisance

8x02 Nuisance

  • 1973-10-29T00:00:00Z50m

Alexandra is always complaining to an already overworked police force about her next door neighbour Percy. But is she just a nuisance? Or should Inspector Lynch take her complaints seriously?

1973-11-05T00:00:00Z

8x03 Escape

8x03 Escape

  • 1973-11-05T00:00:00Z50m

Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.

1973-11-19T00:00:00Z

8x04 Break Up

8x04 Break Up

  • 1973-11-19T00:00:00Z50m

A woman is arrested for shoplifting and a thief has his alibi checked. On the face of it two routine cases. But even the most routine cases can have repercussions.

1973-11-26T00:00:00Z

8x05 Stray Girl

8x05 Stray Girl

  • 1973-11-26T00:00:00Z50m

Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.

1973-12-03T00:00:00Z

8x06 Pieces

8x06 Pieces

  • 1973-12-03T00:00:00Z50m

A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.

1973-12-10T00:00:00Z

8x07 The Cinder Path

8x07 The Cinder Path

  • 1973-12-10T00:00:00Z50m

Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!

1973-12-11T00:00:00Z

8x08 Cadet

8x08 Cadet

  • 1973-12-11T00:00:00Z50m

Cadet Peter Preston wants nothing more than to be a policeman, and even though he's a bit of a joke at Newtown his future seems assured. Then his father takes someone for a ride.

1973-12-17T00:00:00Z

8x09 Pressure Of Work

8x09 Pressure Of Work

  • 1973-12-17T00:00:00Z50m

Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.

1974-01-07T00:00:00Z

8x10 Absence

8x10 Absence

  • 1974-01-07T00:00:00Z50m

A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.

1974-01-21T00:00:00Z

8x11 In Police Hands

8x11 In Police Hands

  • 1974-01-21T00:00:00Z50m

Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.

8x12 Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears

  • 1974-02-04T00:00:00Z50m

Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.

1974-02-11T00:00:00Z

8x13 Joanna

8x13 Joanna

  • 1974-02-11T00:00:00Z50m

When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.

1974-02-18T00:00:00Z

8x14 Pressure

8x14 Pressure

  • 1974-02-18T00:00:00Z50m

A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.

1974-02-25T00:00:00Z

8x15 Waste

8x15 Waste

  • 1974-02-25T00:00:00Z50m

Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.

1974-03-04T00:00:00Z

8x16 Two Wise Monkeys

8x16 Two Wise Monkeys

  • 1974-03-04T00:00:00Z50m

When villains like Burford and Tyndale fall out they will go to any lengths to settle a score. And somewhere along the line the police have to take drastic measures.

1974-03-11T00:00:00Z

8x17 Dinner Break

8x17 Dinner Break

  • 1974-03-11T00:00:00Z50m

Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.

1974-03-17T23:00:00Z

8x18 Allegiance

8x18 Allegiance

  • 1974-03-17T23:00:00Z50m

Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.

1974-03-24T23:00:00Z

8x19 Rota

8x19 Rota

  • 1974-03-24T23:00:00Z50m

The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.

1974-03-31T23:00:00Z

8x20 Priority

8x20 Priority

  • 1974-03-31T23:00:00Z50m

Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.

1974-04-07T23:00:00Z

8x21 Background

8x21 Background

  • 1974-04-07T23:00:00Z50m

1974-04-09T23:00:00Z

8x22 Losers

8x22 Losers

  • 1974-04-09T23:00:00Z50m

DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!

1974-04-21T23:00:00Z

8x23 Turnabout

8x23 Turnabout

  • 1974-04-21T23:00:00Z50m

Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?

1974-04-28T23:00:00Z

8x24 Intruder

8x24 Intruder

  • 1974-04-28T23:00:00Z50m

1974-05-05T23:00:00Z

8x25 Mugs?

8x25 Mugs?

  • 1974-05-05T23:00:00Z50m

Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?

1974-05-12T23:00:00Z

8x26 Pastime

8x26 Pastime

  • 1974-05-12T23:00:00Z50m

A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.

1974-05-19T23:00:00Z

8x27 Certain Parties

8x27 Certain Parties

  • 1974-05-19T23:00:00Z50m

Back in Newtown after seven years in Parkhurst, Pikey Nimmo wants to settle up with the men who put him away. Stone was one of them.

Season Finale

1974-06-29T23:00:00Z

8x28 Family

Season Finale

8x28 Family

  • 1974-06-29T23:00:00Z50m

Susan Giles wants her father back inside and uses two men to help her. One of them is Quilley, and he unwittingly ruins Skinner's work.

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