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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.
- Troy Kennedy Martin
- Allan Prior
- Troy Kennedy-Martin
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Episode 1 - On Watch - Newtown
Release Date: 1962-09-19Both crews are forced to realise the narrow margin between life and death on a busy night in which Barlow and Twentyman miss one crime and catch two criminals.
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Episode 2 - Full Remission
Release Date: 1962-09-26A pretty girl out alone and late at night leads Steele and Lynch to a robbery and to a tearaway more dangerous than any they have encountered before.
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Episode 3 - Truth Or Dare
Release Date: 1962-10-03The violent death of a small shopkeeper brings Supt. Miller into Victor Division and into conflict with Barlow, who has his own solution to offer.
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Episode 4 - Information Received
Release Date: 1962-10-10Z-Victor Two gets an alarm call to a jeweller's shop. Sgt. Watt gets the information that leads to an arrest, but the case is not as simple as it seems.
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Episode 5 - Friendly Relations
Release Date: 1962-10-17The trail of a walk-in thief leads Smith and Weir to a locked room in Newtown and on to a night in Blackpool - but not to see the illuminations!
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Episode 6 - Corroboration
Release Date: 1962-10-24Lynch and Steele investigate a break-in at a factory where the night watchman has been attacked and injured. They bring in a man the Newtown police have long wanted to see behind bars. But bringing him in is one thing, keeping him in is another.
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Episode 7 - The Thin Girl
Release Date: 1962-10-31A neat operation in car stealing begins to go wrong when the thief tries mixing business with pleasure.
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Episode 8 - Johnny Sailor
Release Date: 1962-11-07Johnny attacks a man in a pub - the wrong man. Steele and Lynch have to find him before he finds the right man.
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Episode 9 - Person Unknown
Release Date: 1962-11-14Detective Superintendent Miller, aggressive as ever, leads the local Newtown force as they attempt to find a man who has attacked several young girls.
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Episode 10 - Ambush
Release Date: 1962-11-11Dick Davis comes out of Walton jail and immediately plans his first job. But after two years in prison Davis cannot match the quality of his planning with the quality of his new accomplices.
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Episode 11 - Known To The Police
Release Date: 1962-11-28Hilda Simmons reports that her car has been stolen. But she omits to tell the police that the man who took it is her husband. Smith and Weir have the task of rounding up the 'thief' only to find that the charge has been withdrawn. However, Sgt. Watt recognises Simmons of old, and soon tumbles to what is happening.
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Episode 12 - The Navigators
Release Date: 1962-12-05Lynch and Steele are called to a pub fight. Who started it? As Geraghty said: ""Hollis is always starting fights. Too clever for himself this time, though - far too clever"".
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Episode 13 - Business Trip
Release Date: 1962-12-12A London gang move north. They plan a short and profitable visit to Newtown. Smith and Weir spend a busy night trying to cut down their profits and lengthen their stay.
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Episode 14 - Five Whistles
Release Date: 1962-12-19A quantity of drink and five suits are missing. Steele and Lynch spend a long night looking for the drink while the rest of the Newtown police are at the Christmas party.
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Episode 15 - Search
Release Date: 1962-12-26When a child is reported missing on Christmas Day Smith and Weir are first in what becomes a countrywide hunt for him. They search all day and into the night in a desperate attempt to find him.
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Episode 16 - All Up By Seven
Release Date: 1963-01-02Arrest usually pile up at night - except in this case that involves a safe, the Army, a divorce and a potted plant.
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Episode 17 - Trumpet Voluntary
Release Date: 1963-01-09Eddie plays the trumpet badly and on the streets, so his contacts with the police are frequent. This time, however, there is more than music involved.
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Episode 18 - Five And A Match
Release Date: 1963-01-16Export cigarettes are being imported into the Newtown area. Lynch and Steele pick up some fag-ends of information.
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Episode 19 - The Hitch-Hiker
Release Date: 1963-01-23A casual lift as the rain pours down - and for Winnie Parker it means a drive of terror. Her kindness in persuading her husband to pick up a hitch-hiker puts her in danger and gives a long night of anxiety and work for Smith and Weir.
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Episode 20 - A Simple Case
Release Date: 1963-01-30Bob Steele is late for work. And because of this he becomes accidentally involved in a case concerning a petty thief. He is going through the town's shopping centre when a middle-aged woman comes running out of one of the stores, closely pursued by a security guard. She has apparently been shoplifting. But what seems at first sight to be a 'simple case' confronts Steele with the biggest decision of his life. (This was Jeremy Kemp's last appearance as PC Bob Steele.)
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Episode 21 - Act Of Vengeance
Release Date: 1963-02-06The act is sudden, brutal and corroding. The problem facing Barlow is what the victim has done to warrant it.
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Episode 22 - The Listeners
Release Date: 1963-02-13Lynch goes out on patrol with PC Dave Graham, the former dog-handler who has been chosen to replace Bob Steele. With Lynch missing the companionship of Steele, the relationship between the new pair is not easy. They quickly run into trouble - with each other and with a pair of thieves with an ear to police business.
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Episode 23 - The Main Chance
Release Date: 1963-02-20Cock-fighting is cruel, bloody and illegal. Its promoters have to work in secret, and so do the police in trying to catch the perpetrators.
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Episode 24 - Follow My Leader
Release Date: 1963-02-27The trail of counterfeit notes begins in a chemist's shop. Following it is more complicated than Lynch and Graham would ever have believed.
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Episode 25 - Members Only
Release Date: 1963-03-06The men want the new club to be peaceful and palatial. John Watt's concern is with the way it is being financed and furnished.
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Episode 26 - Matter Of Conviction
Release Date: 1963-03-13A serious crime has to be reported to Headquarters. Barlow's main worry is that the crime may not have been committed at all.
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Episode 27 - The Bad Lad
Release Date: 1963-03-20In an attempt to improve the crime statistics Barlow has Smith and Weir devoting valuable time to the theft of a bicycle lamp and John Watt is set to clear up an affair of lead castings pilfered from a factory. Both seem trivial, but Barlow thinks that they are worth some trouble - and as usual he is proved right in the end.
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Episode 28 - Enquiry
Release Date: 1963-03-27Despite all the anger and resentment they arouse nothing must deflect Inspector Bamber from the most difficult enquiries of his career - into suspicions that Victor Division contains a policeman who is a thief.
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Episode 29 - Pay By Results
Release Date: 1963-04-03Glossop is a name all too familiar to Newtown CID. His record includes larceny, assault, shopbreaking, gaming and assault on police. So when he escapes from prison and is reported to be back in Newtown Barlow makes it his personal business to find him. But knowing Glossop's reputation, the informers are reluctant to talk.
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Episode 30 - The Peterman
Release Date: 1963-04-10A big bump in the night and the hunt for the safebreakers is on. But the safebreakers are hunting too - for the expert.
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Episode 31 - The Birds Of The Air
Release Date: 1963-04-17Only when the birds have flown does Z-Victor One get called to the Atlantic Hotel, where a man and woman are wanted for not paying their bill. Barlow has to set snares to catch them.
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Episode 32 - Train Of Events
Release Date: 1963-04-24A mailbag robbery in Newtown and Barlow is in his element as the masterly organiser at the centre of operations. He sends Lynch and Graham to set up a road block, chivvies John Watt into scouting for information and reminds Sgt. Blackitt of the golden rule: ""Can't afford to let things stop or get bogged down"".
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Episode 33 - By The Book
Release Date: 1963-05-01""Crimes like this, there's always two, always. I've never known it otherwise"". And DCS Robins is talking about murder.
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Episode 34 - Nothing Serious
Release Date: 1963-05-08A vicious bunch of thugs and a young couple in love. Lynch and Graham are involved with both while their own working relationship reaches flash point. PC Sweet and the relative newcomer DC Hicks also get caught up in the action.
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Episode 35 - Alarm Call
Release Date: 1963-05-15The alarm rings and the police dash to the scene. This is the reflex action a clever crook can calculate on - except when PC Jock Weir decides to take charge.
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Episode 36 - A Try By Weir
Release Date: 1963-05-22It's the night after a big rugby football match. Lynch and Graham get a surprise when they are sent to investigate a spot of trouble at a pub on the Newtown to Seaport road, for there they find Jock Weir. He is having a drink with friends to celebrate playing on the winning side, but with the arrival of Lynch and Graham the evening turns out to be anything but a happy one.
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Episode 37 - Quiet Confidence
Release Date: 1963-05-29Fancy Smith's devotion to duty takes him, on his night off, to visit a young offender's father, with results that make him bitterly and furiously angry.
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Episode 38 - Scare
Release Date: 1963-06-05The crew of a merchant ship about to dock at Seaport are looking forward to shore leave. They have money to burn and an itch to burn it in Rosie's Club. When a smallpox scare leads to all leave being stopped, two sailors have other ideas and sneak ashore. Lynch and Graham have to find them to prevent a possible smallpox epidemic.
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Episode 39 - Caught By The Ears
Release Date: 1963-06-12Cattle are identified by marks on their ears. Sgt. Watt and Z-Victor One have to find their own way of identifying the people responsible for a large-scale fraud.
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Episode 40 - Come On The Lads
Release Date: 1963-06-19In soccer mad Newtown tickets for the big match are at a premium. Everyone wants to go, villains and police alike. Con man Johnson has eight tickets to distribute to people who might be useful to him, but mistakenly hands them to Paddy, a fixer who has his own ideas about who to give them to. Lynch and Graham also have tickets and are on their way to the stadium when they come into violent contact with a gang of men in a stolen lorry.
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Episode 41 - The Whizzers
Release Date: 1963-06-26A team of pickpockets and the attempt to track them down leads Jock Weir into serious trouble with the public and with the Chief Constable.
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Episode 42 - Police Work
Release Date: 1963-07-03The Coroner's demand for the presence of a witness sends Smith and Weir to a lonely cottage, to be greeted with a kind of violence even they do not expect.