Z Cars

Series 7

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.

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115 Episodes

The Stone Standard Part 1
E1
The Stone Standard Part 1
The Stone Standard Part 2
E2
The Stone Standard Part 2Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.
The Mystery Part 1
E3
The Mystery Part 1
The Mystery Part 2
E4
The Mystery Part 2A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.
Nobody Hit Me Part 1
E5
Nobody Hit Me Part 1
Nobody Hit Me Part 2
E6
Nobody Hit Me Part 2Two 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.
Dan, Dan... Part 1
E7
Dan, Dan... Part 1
Dan, Dan... Part 2
E8
Dan, Dan... Part 2To 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.
Funny Fellah
E9
Funny Fellah
Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1
E10
Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1
Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2
E11
Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.
Purely Medical Purposes Part 1
E12
Purely Medical Purposes Part 1
Purely Medical Purposes part 2
E13
Purely Medical Purposes part 2Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.
Grandstand Finish Part 1
E14
Grandstand Finish Part 1
Grandstand Finish Part 2
E15
Grandstand Finish Part 2Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.
Funny Creatures Women Part 1
E16
Funny Creatures Women Part 1
Funny Creatures Women Part 2
E17
Funny Creatures Women Part 2Night, 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.
The Dirty Job Part 1
E18
The Dirty Job Part 1
The Dirty Job Part 2
E19
The Dirty Job Part 2The 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?
Ding Dong Part 1
E20
Ding Dong Part 1
Ding Dong Part 2
E21
Ding Dong Part 2Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.
Intrusion Part 1
E22
Intrusion Part 1
Intrusion Part 2
E23
Intrusion Part 2
Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1
E24
Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1
Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2
E25
Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2There'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 quiet.
Contact Man Part 1
E26
Contact Man Part 1
Contact Man Part 2
E27
Contact Man Part 2Three 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.
Take Away Part 1
E28
Take Away Part 1
Take Away Part 2
E29
Take Away Part 2Nicked 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.
Who Were You With? Part 1
E30
Who Were You With? Part 1
Who Were You With? Part 2
E31
Who Were You With? Part 2A 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.
Danny Boy's Home Part 1
E32
Danny Boy's Home Part 1At the court hall, Longji and Taiping are at daggers drawn, in the nick of time, Wang Zhen rushes there, bringing alone evidence against Taiping, who seeks to usurp the throne. Things have drawn to an end, following which Longji goes to have a word with Wang Zhen, fulfilling Sanshu's wishes.
Danny Boy's Home Part 2
E33
Danny Boy's Home Part 2Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.
Rules Of The Game Part 1
E34
Rules Of The Game Part 1
Rules Of The Game Part 2
E35
Rules Of The Game Part 2
The Wrong Odds Part 1
E36
The Wrong Odds Part 1
The Wrong Odds Part 2
E37
The Wrong Odds Part 2
The Horse Dealer Part 1
E38
The Horse Dealer Part 1
The Horse Dealer Part 2
E39
The Horse Dealer Part 2With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.
Collation Part 1
E40
Collation Part 1
Collation Part 2
E41
Collation Part 2Promotion 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.
Last Bus To Newtown
E42
Last Bus To NewtownBert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.
Lynch
E43
LynchChange. 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.
Team Work
E44
Team WorkWhether 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.
The Attackers
E45
The AttackersA lad is walking home late at night...
Retirement
E46
RetirementAn old man tries to stop a robbery...
Promotion
E47
PromotionPolice life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.
Canal
E48
CanalIt'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.
Week Off
E49
Week OffLynch tries to get away from it all...
Missing
E50
MissingMariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.
Quilley
E51
QuilleyQuilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.
Tessa In The Woodpile
E52
Tessa In The WoodpileAfter a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.
Keep To Yourself
E53
Keep To YourselfTwo loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.
Smoke
E54
Smoke
Operation Ascalon
E55
Operation AscalonIs Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?
Short Cut
E56
Short CutStone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.
Hagger
E57
HaggerDS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.
Playtime
E58
PlaytimeStone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.
Sweet Girl
E59
Sweet GirlA lass is missing...
Access
E60
AccessQuilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?
Goss
E61
GossMrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.
The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1
E62
The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1Sub Post Office manager Mr. Rutherland is battered and his daughter left tied up. Judd takes his keys and steals cash and postal orders. Det. Con Skinner and Det. Sgt. Miller, who served as constable in Newtown, begin their investigation.
The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2
E63
The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2Pam Rutherford informs Miller that the attacker mentioned looking after his father. Judd Bowen gave his father Jakey £10 and it hasn't gone unnoticed when he splashed his money in the pub. Informant Mae passes a message on to Sgt. Lynch.
Forget It Part 1
E64
Forget It Part 1
Forget It Part 2
E65
Forget It Part 2A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?
A Neighbour's Goods Part 1
E66
A Neighbour's Goods Part 1PC Quilley spots burglar Cedric Jackson leaving a house in Malven Road. Jackson shows him the dead woman inside. Millicent Farquar had been dead for two weeks. Miller thinks Jackson is the burglar but a tip off points to a neighbour.
A Neighbour's Goods Part 2
E67
A Neighbour's Goods Part 2Miller and Skinner visit Miss Farquar next door neighbour's the Kingsley's. When stolen items are discovered Roy Kingsley is arrest. He admits knowing Miss Farquar died and taking several items but what about residents in Malven Road?
Loyalties Part 1
E68
Loyalties Part 1Charlie Cotes turns down 5,000 cigarettes from to yobbo's. He confides to Bert Lynch and reports to the station. The yobbo's drop two cases to his home and then ring the police. Sgt. Stone knows Cotes has a record and believes he guilty.
Loyalties Part 2
E69
Loyalties Part 2Bert Lynch believes Cotes has been set up but Sgt Stone disagrees. Cotes thinks his daughter's estranged husband Jack is to blame. Lynch spots stolen cigarettes sold at the pub he drinks and wants Cotes to pick Hargreaves out his mates.
Relative Values Part 1
E70
Relative Values Part 1Quilley and Skinner discover pensioners Mr. and Mrs Martin have committed suicide. Living in one room they were surrounded by a unpaid bills. Neighbour George Copley fears he and Alice Spencer will be in the same boat so decides to act.
Relative Values Part 2
E71
Relative Values Part 2George Copley breaks into the Post Office, cuts open the safe and takes £150. Giving Alice a birthday party he asks her to marry him. Alice soon picks holes in his story and wants to know truth. Finding out she takes to the police station.
Not Good Enough Part 1
E72
Not Good Enough Part 1Bright slips a way when police thwart a robber,y at a factory. His reputation of violence means no one will talk so Skinner plans to put pressure on him. Bright learns he is drinking with a ex-police officer so decides to make him pay.
Not Good Enough Part 2
E73
Not Good Enough Part 2Bright and his father invite themselves into the home of Paul, a former policeman, and notice his silver bowl. Miller begins to turn the screw on the family so Bright persuades his cousin Angela to steal the silver bowl from Paul's table.
Breakage Part 1
E74
Breakage Part 1PC Skinner is asked for help by a George T. Wood, claiming that he has been robbed of holiday savings. George is taken to the station for details, but is continually told to wait as a suspected intruder on a factory roof diverts attention.
Breakage Part 2
E75
Breakage Part 2A 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.
Connor
E76
ConnorFred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.
The Team
E77
The TeamInspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.
Witness
E78
WitnessTerence 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 the run.
Takes All Sorts
E79
Takes All SortsA 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, however trivial. It doesn't take long for Bert Lynch to take a violent dislike to the newcomer and to make every effort to avoid him!
Sins Of The Father
E80
Sins Of The FatherWives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.
Damage
E81
DamageNight-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.
Day Trip
E82
Day TripSgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.
Public Relations
E83
Public RelationsDS 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?
Old Soldiers
E84
Old SoldiersOld Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.
Diabolical Liberty
E85
Diabolical LibertyThere's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.
Old Acquaintance
E86
Old AcquaintanceA newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.
The Legacy
E87
The LegacySgt. 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.
The Amateurs
E88
The AmateursWhile 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.
Hobo
E89
HoboA 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.
Old Lag
E90
Old Lag
Skinner
E91
SkinnerSkinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.
Skin Game
E92
Skin GameA safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.
Backwater
E93
BackwaterAll 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.
Big Jake
E94
Big JakeWho 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?
Women At Work
E95
Women At WorkTwo working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.
Jack The Dodger
E96
Jack The DodgerThere's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.
Miller
E97
MillerA body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.
Care
E98
CareTwo 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.
Operation Watchdog
E99
Operation WatchdogConnor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother
Defection
E100
DefectionA 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.
Invention
E101
InventionRowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.
Hard Man
E102
Hard ManClifford 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.
Domestic
E103
DomesticA bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.
Pat
E104
PatPat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?
Bowman
E105
BowmanBringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.
The Lady And The Gentleman
E106
The Lady And The GentlemanThere's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.
Suspicion
E107
SuspicionSgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.
Mileage
E108
MileageJupp 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.
Routine
E109
RoutineLynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.
The Spike
E110
The SpikeA suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?
Hi-Jack
E111
Hi-JackA 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!
Mother And Child
E112
Mother And ChildJoyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.
Co-Operation
E113
Co-OperationUnderstanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?
No Proceedings
E114
No ProceedingsHugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.
Officer Material...?
E115
Officer Material...?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?