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Z-Cars

Season 9 1974 - 1975

  • 1974-09-08T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 50m
  • 1d 2h 40m (32 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.

32 episodes

Season Premiere

1974-09-08T23:00:00Z

9x01 Bits An' Bats

Season Premiere

9x01 Bits An' Bats

  • 1974-09-08T23:00:00Z50m

There's a new Cash'n'Carry being built in Newtown and some odd characters work on it. One of them is on the fiddle - bits and bats to begin with.

1974-09-15T23:00:00Z

9x02 Old Bones

9x02 Old Bones

  • 1974-09-15T23:00:00Z50m

Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.

1974-09-29T23:00:00Z

9x03 Mysteries

9x03 Mysteries

  • 1974-09-29T23:00:00Z50m

Ossie Davies is a security guard. He's a pushover. You just knock off his specs, threaten him a bit and help yourself. But Miller reckons there's more to Ossie than that.

1974-10-06T23:00:00Z

9x04 Night Train

9x04 Night Train

  • 1974-10-06T23:00:00Z50m

Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.

1974-10-13T23:00:00Z

9x05 Friends

9x05 Friends

  • 1974-10-13T23:00:00Z50m

Quilley is a good copper, but as an amateur footballer he has his limitations. Jesse Alty is a good footballer but has ambitions to be a better car thief. He and Quilley play for the same team and Gordon Glossop is a friend of both of them.

1974-10-20T23:00:00Z

9x06 Mugs

9x06 Mugs

  • 1974-10-20T23:00:00Z50m

1974-10-28T00:00:00Z

9x07 Gardens

9x07 Gardens

  • 1974-10-28T00:00:00Z50m

A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.

1974-11-04T00:00:00Z

9x08 Quiet As The Grave

9x08 Quiet As The Grave

  • 1974-11-04T00:00:00Z50m

Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.

1974-11-11T00:00:00Z

9x09 Pursuit

9x09 Pursuit

  • 1974-11-11T00:00:00Z50m

A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.

1974-11-18T00:00:00Z

9x10 Have You Seen This Child

9x10 Have You Seen This Child

  • 1974-11-18T00:00:00Z50m

Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.

1974-11-25T00:00:00Z

9x11 Occupation

9x11 Occupation

  • 1974-11-25T00:00:00Z50m

A factory work-in is on its last legs with the police outside the gates, keeping the peace but waiting for someone to break it.

1974-12-02T00:00:00Z

9x12 Unnecessary Force

9x12 Unnecessary Force

  • 1974-12-02T00:00:00Z50m

How did a man like Derek Murphy get beaten up by his best friend, a man half his size? A puzzle for Miller, Yates and Skinner.

1974-12-09T00:00:00Z

9x13 The Bouncer

9x13 The Bouncer

  • 1974-12-09T00:00:00Z50m

Eddy Howarth is the over-enthusiastic bouncer at the local dance hall, but his devotion to duty and jealousy over a woman land him in trouble, and he finds himself facing a serious charge.

1974-12-16T00:00:00Z

9x14 House To House

9x14 House To House

  • 1974-12-16T00:00:00Z50m

A full-scale house to house enquiry fails to produce a witness until a mysterious night prowler and two criminals lay their own freedom on the line.

1975-01-06T00:00:00Z

9x15 Boy In Blue

9x15 Boy In Blue

  • 1975-01-06T00:00:00Z50m

The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.

1975-01-13T00:00:00Z

9x16 Local Knowledge

9x16 Local Knowledge

  • 1975-01-13T00:00:00Z50m

Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.

1975-01-20T00:00:00Z

9x17 Innocent And Vulnerable

9x17 Innocent And Vulnerable

  • 1975-01-20T00:00:00Z50m

Tempers fray among men constructing a block of flats, but for one family who actually live in a high-rise, nerves reach breaking point and an everyday flare-up develops into a police enquiry.

1975-01-27T00:00:00Z

9x18 Intervention

9x18 Intervention

  • 1975-01-27T00:00:00Z50m

Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.

1975-02-03T00:00:00Z

9x19 Tonight And Every Night

9x19 Tonight And Every Night

  • 1975-02-03T00:00:00Z50m

1975-02-10T00:00:00Z

9x20 Transit

9x20 Transit

  • 1975-02-10T00:00:00Z50m

When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.

1975-02-17T00:00:00Z

9x21 Snouts

9x21 Snouts

  • 1975-02-17T00:00:00Z50m

Jack Melish is walking down a deserted street near the docks to keep a secret appointment with Inspector Lynch. Suddenly a car pulls up alongside him and he is bundled into the back seat. The car races off...

1975-02-24T00:00:00Z

9x22 Squatters

9x22 Squatters

  • 1975-02-24T00:00:00Z50m

1975-03-03T00:00:00Z

9x23 Eviction

9x23 Eviction

  • 1975-03-03T00:00:00Z50m

Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.

1975-03-10T00:00:00Z

9x24 Incitement

9x24 Incitement

  • 1975-03-10T00:00:00Z50m

Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?

1975-03-16T23:00:00Z

9x25 Thanks But...No Thanks

9x25 Thanks But...No Thanks

  • 1975-03-16T23:00:00Z50m

Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?

1975-03-23T23:00:00Z

9x26 Kronur

9x26 Kronur

  • 1975-03-23T23:00:00Z50m

A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.

1975-04-06T23:00:00Z

9x27 Scapegoat

9x27 Scapegoat

  • 1975-04-06T23:00:00Z50m

As an act of kindness Bert Lynch gives a deadbeat tramp a cell for the night - and finds himself up to his neck in trouble.

1975-04-13T23:00:00Z

9x28 Bit Of Business

9x28 Bit Of Business

  • 1975-04-13T23:00:00Z50m

A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.

1975-04-20T23:00:00Z

9x29 Distance

9x29 Distance

  • 1975-04-20T23:00:00Z50m

Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?

1975-04-27T23:00:00Z

9x30 Ritual

9x30 Ritual

  • 1975-04-27T23:00:00Z50m

Continuation of the previous episode 'Distance'. Skinner has been shot dead and the Murder Squad have taken over the case. So why is Haggar meeting a mate halfway down the M6?

1975-05-04T23:00:00Z

9x31 Legacy

9x31 Legacy

  • 1975-05-04T23:00:00Z50m

Continuation of the two previous episodes 'Distance' and 'Ritual'. The hunt for Skinner's murderer has moved away from Newtown. So why is a London detective on his way there, in secret?

Season Finale

1975-05-11T23:00:00Z

9x32 A New Broom

Season Finale

9x32 A New Broom

  • 1975-05-11T23:00:00Z50m

The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?

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