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Z-Cars - Series 8

Z-Cars

Run Time: 50 mins

Air Date: Mon, 22 Oct 1973

Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (6 votes)

BBC One

28 Episodes

Inspector Lynch

Inspector Lynch

Season 8 - Episode 1

Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?

Nuisance

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

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

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

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

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

The Cinder Path

Season 8 - Episode 7

Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!

Cadet

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

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

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

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

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

Joanna

Season 8 - Episode 13

When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.

Pressure

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

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

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

Dinner Break

Season 8 - Episode 17

Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.

Allegiance

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

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

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

Background

Season 8 - Episode 21

Losers

Losers

Season 8 - Episode 22

DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!

Turnabout

Turnabout

Season 8 - Episode 23

Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?

Intruder

Intruder

Season 8 - Episode 24

Mugs?

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

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

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

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.

Drama