Z-Cars - Series 8

Run Time: 50 mins
Air Date: Mon, 22 Oct 1973
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (6 votes)
BBC One28 Episodes

Inspector Lynch
Season 8 - Episode 1
Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?

Nuisance
Season 8 - Episode 2
Alexandra is always complaining to an already overworked police force about her next door neighbour Percy. But is she just a nuisance? Or ...

Escape
Season 8 - Episode 3
Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.

Break Up
Season 8 - Episode 4
A woman is arrested for shoplifting and a thief has his alibi checked. On the face of it two routine cases. But even the most routine case...

Stray Girl
Season 8 - Episode 5
Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.

Pieces
Season 8 - Episode 6
A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.

The Cinder Path
Season 8 - Episode 7
Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!

Cadet
Season 8 - Episode 8
Cadet Peter Preston wants nothing more than to be a policeman, and even though he's a bit of a joke at Newtown his future seems assured. Th...

Pressure Of Work
Season 8 - Episode 9
Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.

Absence
Season 8 - Episode 10
A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.

In Police Hands
Season 8 - Episode 11
Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.

Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears
Season 8 - Episode 12
Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.

Joanna
Season 8 - Episode 13
When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.

Pressure
Season 8 - Episode 14
A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.

Waste
Season 8 - Episode 15
Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.

Two Wise Monkeys
Season 8 - Episode 16
When villains like Burford and Tyndale fall out they will go to any lengths to settle a score. And somewhere along the line the police have...

Dinner Break
Season 8 - Episode 17
Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.

Allegiance
Season 8 - Episode 18
Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.

Rota
Season 8 - Episode 19
The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.

Priority
Season 8 - Episode 20
Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.

Background
Season 8 - Episode 21

Losers
Season 8 - Episode 22
DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!

Turnabout
Season 8 - Episode 23
Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?

Intruder
Season 8 - Episode 24

Mugs?
Season 8 - Episode 25
Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?

Pastime
Season 8 - Episode 26
A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.

Certain Parties
Season 8 - Episode 27
Back in Newtown after seven years in Parkhurst, Pikey Nimmo wants to settle up with the men who put him away. Stone was one of them.

Family
Season 8 - Episode 28
Susan Giles wants her father back inside and uses two men to help her. One of them is Quilley, and he unwittingly ruins Skinner's work.