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Z-Cars Season 7

August. 02,1971

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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.

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Z-Cars

1962

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Frank Windsor, James Ellis

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Z-Cars Season 7 Full Episode Guide

Episode 115 - Officer Material...?

First Aired: July. 02,1973

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?

Episode 114 - No Proceedings

First Aired: June. 25,1973

Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.

Episode 113 - Co-Operation

First Aired: June. 18,1973

Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?

Episode 112 - Mother And Child

First Aired: June. 11,1973

Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.

Episode 111 - Hi-Jack

First Aired: June. 04,1973

A 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!

Episode 110 - The Spike

First Aired: May. 21,1973

A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?

Episode 109 - Routine

First Aired: May. 14,1973

Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.

Episode 108 - Mileage

First Aired: May. 07,1973

Jupp 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.

Episode 107 - Suspicion

First Aired: April. 30,1973

Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.

Episode 106 - The Lady And The Gentleman

First Aired: April. 19,1973

There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.

Episode 105 - Bowman

First Aired: April. 12,1973

Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.

Episode 104 - Pat

First Aired: April. 05,1973

Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?

Episode 103 - Domestic

First Aired: March. 29,1973

A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.

Episode 102 - Hard Man

First Aired: March. 22,1973

Clifford 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.

Episode 101 - Invention

First Aired: March. 15,1973

Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.

Episode 100 - Defection

First Aired: March. 08,1973

A 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.

Episode 99 - Operation Watchdog

First Aired: March. 01,1973

Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother

Episode 98 - Miller

First Aired: February. 15,1973

A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.

Episode 97 - Jack The Dodger

First Aired: February. 08,1973

There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.

Episode 96 - Women At Work

First Aired: February. 01,1973

Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.

Episode 95 - Big Jake

First Aired: January. 25,1973

Who 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?

Episode 94 - Backwater

First Aired: January. 18,1973

All 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.

Episode 93 - Skin Game

First Aired: January. 11,1973

A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.

Episode 92 - Skinner

First Aired: January. 04,1973

Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.

Episode 91 - Old Lag

First Aired: December. 18,1972

Episode 90 - Hobo

First Aired: December. 11,1972

A 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.

Episode 89 - The Amateurs

First Aired: December. 04,1972

While 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.

Episode 88 - The Legacy

First Aired: November. 27,1972

Sgt. 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.

Episode 87 - Old Acquaintance

First Aired: November. 20,1972

A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.

Episode 86 - Diabolical Liberty

First Aired: November. 13,1972

There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.

Episode 85 - Old Soldiers

First Aired: November. 06,1972

Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.

Episode 84 - Public Relations

First Aired: October. 30,1972

DS 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?

Episode 83 - Day Trip

First Aired: October. 23,1972

Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.

Episode 82 - Damage

First Aired: October. 16,1972

Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.

Episode 81 - Sins Of The Father

First Aired: October. 09,1972

Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.

Episode 80 - Takes All Sorts

First Aired: October. 02,1972

A 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!

Episode 79 - Witness

First Aired: September. 25,1972

Terence 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.

Episode 78 - The Team

First Aired: September. 18,1972

Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.

Episode 77 - Connor

First Aired: September. 11,1972

Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.

Episode 76 - Breakage Part 2

First Aired: August. 22,1972

A 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.

Episode 75 - Breakage Part 1

First Aired: August. 21,1972

Episode 74 - Not Good Enough Part 2

First Aired: August. 15,1972

Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.

Episode 73 - Not Good Enough Part 1

First Aired: August. 14,1972

Episode 72 - Relative Values Part 2

First Aired: August. 08,1972

OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.

Episode 71 - Relative Values Part 1

First Aired: August. 07,1972

Episode 70 - Loyalties Part 2

First Aired: August. 01,1972

Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.

Episode 69 - Loyalties Part 1

First Aired: July. 31,1972

Episode 68 - A Neighbour's Goods Part 2

First Aired: July. 25,1972

There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.

Episode 67 - A Neighbour's Goods Part 1

First Aired: July. 24,1972

Episode 66 - Forget It Part 2

First Aired: July. 18,1972

A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?

Episode 65 - Forget It Part 1

First Aired: July. 17,1972

Episode 64 - The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2

First Aired: July. 11,1972

Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.

Episode 63 - The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1

First Aired: July. 10,1972

Episode 62 - Goss

First Aired: June. 19,1972

Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.

Episode 61 - Access

First Aired: June. 12,1972

Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?

Episode 60 - Sweet Girl

First Aired: June. 05,1972

A lass is missing...

Episode 59 - Playtime

First Aired: May. 29,1972

Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.

Episode 58 - Hagger

First Aired: May. 22,1972

DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.

Episode 57 - Short Cut

First Aired: May. 15,1972

Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.

Episode 56 - Operation Ascalon

First Aired: May. 08,1972

Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?

Episode 55 - Smoke

First Aired: May. 01,1972

Episode 54 - Keep To Yourself

First Aired: April. 24,1972

Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.

Episode 53 - Tessa In The Woodpile

First Aired: April. 17,1972

After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.

Episode 52 - Quilley

First Aired: April. 10,1972

Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.

Episode 51 - Missing

First Aired: March. 06,1972

Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.

Episode 50 - Week Off

First Aired: February. 28,1972

Lynch tries to get away from it all...

Episode 49 - Care

First Aired: February. 22,1973

Two 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.

Episode 48 - Canal

First Aired: February. 21,1972

It'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.

Episode 47 - Promotion

First Aired: February. 14,1972

Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.

Episode 46 - Retirement

First Aired: January. 31,1972

An old man tries to stop a robbery...

Episode 45 - The Attackers

First Aired: January. 24,1972

A lad is walking home late at night...

Episode 44 - Team Work

First Aired: January. 17,1972

Whether 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.

Episode 43 - Lynch

First Aired: January. 10,1972

Change. 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.

Episode 42 - Last Bus To Newtown

First Aired: January. 03,1972

Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.

Episode 41 - Collation Part 2

First Aired: December. 21,1971

Promotion 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.

Episode 40 - Collation Part 1

First Aired: December. 20,1971

Episode 39 - The Horse Dealer Part 2

First Aired: December. 14,1971

With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.

Episode 38 - The Horse Dealer Part 1

First Aired: December. 13,1971

Episode 37 - The Wrong Odds Part 2

First Aired: December. 07,1971

Episode 36 - The Wrong Odds Part 1

First Aired: December. 06,1971

Episode 35 - Rules Of The Game Part 2

First Aired: November. 30,1971

Episode 34 - Rules Of The Game Part 1

First Aired: November. 29,1971

Episode 33 - Danny Boy's Home Part 2

First Aired: November. 23,1971

Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.

Episode 32 - Danny Boy's Home Part 1

First Aired: November. 22,1971

Episode 31 - Who Were You With? Part 2

First Aired: November. 16,1971

A 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.

Episode 30 - Who Were You With? Part 1

First Aired: November. 15,1971

Episode 29 - Take Away Part 2

First Aired: November. 09,1971

Nicked 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.

Episode 28 - Take Away Part 1

First Aired: November. 08,1971

Episode 27 - Contact Man Part 2

First Aired: November. 02,1971

Three 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.

Episode 26 - Contact Man Part 1

First Aired: November. 01,1971

Episode 25 - Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2

First Aired: October. 26,1971

There'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.

Episode 24 - Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1

First Aired: October. 25,1971

Episode 23 - Intrusion Part 2

First Aired: October. 19,1971

Episode 22 - Intrusion Part 1

First Aired: October. 18,1971

Episode 21 - Ding Dong Part 2

First Aired: October. 12,1971

Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.

Episode 20 - Ding Dong Part 1

First Aired: October. 11,1971

Episode 19 - The Dirty Job Part 2

First Aired: October. 05,1971

The 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?

Episode 18 - The Dirty Job Part 1

First Aired: October. 04,1971

Episode 17 - Funny Creatures Women Part 2

First Aired: September. 28,1971

Night, 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.

Episode 16 - Funny Creatures Women Part 1

First Aired: September. 27,1971

Episode 15 - Grandstand Finish Part 2

First Aired: September. 21,1971

Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.

Episode 14 - Grandstand Finish Part 1

First Aired: September. 20,1971

Episode 13 - Purely Medical Purposes part 2

First Aired: September. 14,1971

Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.

Episode 12 - Purely Medical Purposes Part 1

First Aired: September. 13,1971

Episode 11 - Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2

First Aired: September. 07,1971

Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.

Episode 10 - Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1

First Aired: September. 06,1971

Episode 9 - Funny Fellah

First Aired: August. 31,1971

Episode 8 - Dan, Dan... Part 2

First Aired: August. 24,1971

To 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.

Episode 7 - Dan, Dan... Part 1

First Aired: August. 23,1971

Episode 6 - Nobody Hit Me Part 2

First Aired: August. 17,1971

Two 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.