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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 - The Stone Standard Part 1
Release Date: 1971-08-02 -
Episode 2 - The Stone Standard Part 2
Release Date: 1971-08-03Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.
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Episode 3 - The Mystery Part 1
Release Date: 1971-04-09 -
Episode 4 - The Mystery Part 2
Release Date: 1971-08-10A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.
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Episode 5 - Nobody Hit Me Part 1
Release Date: 1971-08-16 -
Episode 6 - Nobody Hit Me Part 2
Release Date: 1971-08-17Two 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.
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Episode 7 - Dan, Dan... Part 1
Release Date: 1971-08-23 -
Episode 8 - Dan, Dan... Part 2
Release Date: 1971-08-24To 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.
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Episode 9 - Funny Fellah
Release Date: 1971-08-31 -
Episode 10 - Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1
Release Date: 1971-09-06 -
Episode 11 - Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2
Release Date: 1971-09-07Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.
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Episode 12 - Purely Medical Purposes Part 1
Release Date: 1971-09-13 -
Episode 13 - Purely Medical Purposes part 2
Release Date: 1971-09-14Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.
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Episode 14 - Grandstand Finish Part 1
Release Date: 1971-09-20 -
Episode 15 - Grandstand Finish Part 2
Release Date: 1971-09-21Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.
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Episode 16 - Funny Creatures Women Part 1
Release Date: 1971-09-27 -
Episode 17 - Funny Creatures Women Part 2
Release Date: 1971-09-28Night, 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.
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Episode 18 - The Dirty Job Part 1
Release Date: 1971-10-04 -
Episode 19 - The Dirty Job Part 2
Release Date: 1971-10-05The 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?
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Episode 20 - Ding Dong Part 1
Release Date: 1971-10-11 -
Episode 21 - Ding Dong Part 2
Release Date: 1971-10-12Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.
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Episode 22 - Intrusion Part 1
Release Date: 1971-10-18 -
Episode 23 - Intrusion Part 2
Release Date: 1971-10-19 -
Episode 24 - Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1
Release Date: 1971-10-25 -
Episode 25 - Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2
Release Date: 1971-10-26There'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.
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Episode 26 - Contact Man Part 1
Release Date: 1971-11-01 -
Episode 27 - Contact Man Part 2
Release Date: 1971-11-02Three 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.
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Episode 28 - Take Away Part 1
Release Date: 1971-11-08 -
Episode 29 - Take Away Part 2
Release Date: 1971-11-09Nicked 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.
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Episode 30 - Who Were You With? Part 1
Release Date: 1971-11-15 -
Episode 31 - Who Were You With? Part 2
Release Date: 1971-11-16A 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.
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Episode 32 - Danny Boy's Home Part 1
Release Date: 1971-11-22 -
Episode 33 - Danny Boy's Home Part 2
Release Date: 1971-11-23Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.
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Episode 34 - Rules Of The Game Part 1
Release Date: 1971-11-29 -
Episode 35 - Rules Of The Game Part 2
Release Date: 1971-11-30 -
Episode 36 - The Wrong Odds Part 1
Release Date: 1971-12-06 -
Episode 37 - The Wrong Odds Part 2
Release Date: 1971-12-07 -
Episode 38 - The Horse Dealer Part 1
Release Date: 1971-12-13 -
Episode 39 - The Horse Dealer Part 2
Release Date: 1971-12-14With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.
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Episode 40 - Collation Part 1
Release Date: 1971-12-20 -
Episode 41 - Collation Part 2
Release Date: 1971-12-21Promotion 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.
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Episode 42 - Last Bus To Newtown
Release Date: 1972-01-03Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.
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Episode 43 - Lynch
Release Date: 1972-01-10Change. 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.
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Episode 44 - Team Work
Release Date: 1972-01-17Whether 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.
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Episode 45 - The Attackers
Release Date: 1972-01-24A lad is walking home late at night...
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Episode 46 - Retirement
Release Date: 1972-01-31An old man tries to stop a robbery...
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Episode 47 - Promotion
Release Date: 1972-02-14Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.
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Episode 48 - Canal
Release Date: 1972-02-21It'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.
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Episode 49 - Week Off
Release Date: 1972-02-28Lynch tries to get away from it all...
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Episode 50 - Missing
Release Date: 1972-03-06Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.
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Episode 51 - Quilley
Release Date: 1972-04-10Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.
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Episode 52 - Tessa In The Woodpile
Release Date: 1972-04-17After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.
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Episode 53 - Keep To Yourself
Release Date: 1972-04-24Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.
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Episode 54 - Smoke
Release Date: 1972-05-01 -
Episode 55 - Operation Ascalon
Release Date: 1972-05-08Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?
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Episode 56 - Short Cut
Release Date: 1972-05-15Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.
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Episode 57 - Hagger
Release Date: 1972-05-22DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.
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Episode 58 - Playtime
Release Date: 1972-05-29Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.
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Episode 59 - Sweet Girl
Release Date: 1972-06-05A lass is missing...
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Episode 60 - Access
Release Date: 1972-06-12Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?
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Episode 61 - Goss
Release Date: 1972-06-19Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.
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Episode 62 - The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1
Release Date: 1972-07-10 -
Episode 63 - The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2
Release Date: 1972-07-11Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.
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Episode 64 - Forget It Part 1
Release Date: 1972-07-17 -
Episode 65 - Forget It Part 2
Release Date: 1972-07-18A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?
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Episode 66 - A Neighbour's Goods Part 1
Release Date: 1972-07-24 -
Episode 67 - A Neighbour's Goods Part 2
Release Date: 1972-07-25There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.
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Episode 68 - Loyalties Part 1
Release Date: 1972-07-31 -
Episode 69 - Loyalties Part 2
Release Date: 1972-08-01Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.
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Episode 70 - Relative Values Part 1
Release Date: 1972-08-07 -
Episode 71 - Relative Values Part 2
Release Date: 1972-08-08OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.
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Episode 72 - Not Good Enough Part 1
Release Date: 1972-08-14 -
Episode 73 - Not Good Enough Part 2
Release Date: 1972-08-15Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.
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Episode 74 - Breakage Part 1
Release Date: 1972-08-21 -
Episode 75 - Breakage Part 2
Release Date: 1972-08-22A 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.
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Episode 76 - Connor
Release Date: 1972-09-11Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.
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Episode 77 - The Team
Release Date: 1972-09-18Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.
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Episode 78 - Witness
Release Date: 1972-09-25Terence 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.
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Episode 79 - Takes All Sorts
Release Date: 1972-10-02A 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!
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Episode 80 - Sins Of The Father
Release Date: 1972-10-09Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.
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Episode 81 - Damage
Release Date: 1972-10-16Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.
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Episode 82 - Day Trip
Release Date: 1972-10-23Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.
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Episode 83 - Public Relations
Release Date: 1972-10-30DS 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?
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Episode 84 - Old Soldiers
Release Date: 1972-11-06Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.
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Episode 85 - Diabolical Liberty
Release Date: 1972-11-13There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.
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Episode 86 - Old Acquaintance
Release Date: 1972-11-20A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.
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Episode 87 - The Legacy
Release Date: 1972-11-27Sgt. 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.
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Episode 88 - The Amateurs
Release Date: 1972-12-04While 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.
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Episode 89 - Hobo
Release Date: 1972-12-11A 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.
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Episode 90 - Old Lag
Release Date: 1972-12-18 -
Episode 91 - Skinner
Release Date: 1973-01-04Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.
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Episode 92 - Skin Game
Release Date: 1973-01-11A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.
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Episode 93 - Backwater
Release Date: 1973-01-18All 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.
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Episode 94 - Big Jake
Release Date: 1973-01-25Who 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?
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Episode 95 - Women At Work
Release Date: 1973-02-01Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.
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Episode 96 - Jack The Dodger
Release Date: 1973-02-08There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.
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Episode 97 - Miller
Release Date: 1973-02-15A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.
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Episode 98 - Care
Release Date: 1973-02-22Two 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.
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Episode 99 - Operation Watchdog
Release Date: 1973-03-01Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother
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Episode 100 - Defection
Release Date: 1973-03-08A 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.
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Episode 101 - Invention
Release Date: 1973-03-15Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.
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Episode 102 - Hard Man
Release Date: 1973-03-22Clifford 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.
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Episode 103 - Domestic
Release Date: 1973-03-29A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.
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Episode 104 - Pat
Release Date: 1973-04-05Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?
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Episode 105 - Bowman
Release Date: 1973-04-12Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.
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Episode 106 - The Lady And The Gentleman
Release Date: 1973-04-19There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.
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Episode 107 - Suspicion
Release Date: 1973-04-30Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.
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Episode 108 - Mileage
Release Date: 1973-05-07Jupp 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.
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Episode 109 - Routine
Release Date: 1973-05-14Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.
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Episode 110 - The Spike
Release Date: 1973-05-21A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?
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Episode 111 - Hi-Jack
Release Date: 1973-06-04A 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!
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Episode 112 - Mother And Child
Release Date: 1973-06-11Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.
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Episode 113 - Co-Operation
Release Date: 1973-06-18Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?
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Episode 114 - No Proceedings
Release Date: 1973-06-25Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.
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Episode 115 - Officer Material...?
Release Date: 1973-07-02It'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?