Z-CarsSeries 3
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.
Where to Watch Z-Cars • Series 3
42 Episodes
- Made for Each OtherE2
Made for Each OtherSmith and Weir Take in a housebreaking girl, learning she's been turned out by her stern parents who want nothing more to do with her. She escapes from a remand home and joins an odious,provocative crook who treats her brutally. Smith nearly starts a fight with him when he sees how he's bruised her, but there's nothing that can legally be done. - Light the Blue PaperE4
Light the Blue PaperThe bang is loud in the night. The conspiracy of silence which follows is more sinister. When an explosion destroys Bill Webster's betting shop CID runs up against a blank wall. No clues and there is nobody willing to talk. Webster himself stubbornly maintains it was an accident, but Barlow is convinced there is a connection between the explosion and the fact that Webster intends to compete with his rivals by opening more shops in the area. - Daylight RobberyE11
Daylight RobberyWhen a Newtown pillar box begins to belch smoke Graham's first reaction is that someone has been posting red hot love letters. But by the time thirteen pillar boxes have been burned out he and Lynch are on the trail of an unusual kind of pyromaniac. Meanwhile Sgt. Watt is keeping an eye on Oliver Snow, a visitor from London who goes out of his way to be offensive. - Tuesday AfternoonE14
Tuesday AfternoonA desperate out-of-work laborer gets nicked for shoplifting a toy for his grandson and shamefully contemplates his future. A fey upper-class young man causes a bit of bother with his reckless driving and gets away Scott-free after knocking over a bicyclist who turns out to not be so clean as all that. And who nicked 3000 bricks off the building site, then? Surprisingly busy day for a Tuesday. - ... and a Happy New YearE18
... and a Happy New YearThe revelry of New Year's Eve has its normal problems for the Newtown police and its special opportunities for a lone marauder in the streets. Sgt. Blackitt, leaving PC Sweet on the desk, is on the beat himself for a change. Down by the canal is a nurse from the Cottage Hospital and she is out on a cold night without a cloak over her uniform. - Happy FamiliesE29
Happy FamiliesA mother finds her schoolboy son in possession of pornographic photographs. Then the lad goes missing and Smith and weir have the job of finding him. Meantime Barlow tracks down the source of the photographs. John Watt deals with his marital problems. JOSS ACKLAND appears here as the villain: four years later he became a cast regular as DI Todd. - Cage Until TameE40
Cage Until TameArty Timmins is out of jail. Chief Supt. Robins put him away when he was an Inspector and Sgt. Blackitt was a constable. With Barlow away on a course Robins makes it his personal business to keep a close watch on one of the hardest characters ever to cross his path. For there are three citizens of Newtown who, even after ten years, have good cause to be frightened.
