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Z-Cars - Series 9

Z-Cars

Run Time: 50 mins

Air Date: Mon, 9 Sept 1974

Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (6 votes)

BBC One

32 Episodes

Bits An' Bats

Bits An' Bats

Season 9 - Episode 1

There's a new Cash'n'Carry being built in Newtown and some odd characters work on it. One of them is on the fiddle - bits and bats to begin...

Old Bones

Old Bones

Season 9 - Episode 2

Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.

Mysteries

Mysteries

Season 9 - Episode 3

Ossie Davies is a security guard. He's a pushover. You just knock off his specs, threaten him a bit and help yourself. But Miller reckons...

Night Train

Night Train

Season 9 - Episode 4

Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.

Friends

Friends

Season 9 - Episode 5

Quilley is a good copper, but as an amateur footballer he has his limitations. Jesse Alty is a good footballer but has ambitions to be a be...

Gardens

Gardens

Season 9 - Episode 6

A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.

Quiet As The Grave

Quiet As The Grave

Season 9 - Episode 7

Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.

Pursuit

Pursuit

Season 9 - Episode 8

A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.

Have You Seen This Child

Have You Seen This Child

Season 9 - Episode 9

Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.

Occupation

Occupation

Season 9 - Episode 10

A factory work-in is on its last legs with the police outside the gates, keeping the peace but waiting for someone to break it.

Unnecessary Force

Unnecessary Force

Season 9 - Episode 11

How did a man like Derek Murphy get beaten up by his best friend, a man half his size? A puzzle for Miller, Yates and Skinner.

The Bouncer

The Bouncer

Season 9 - Episode 12

Eddy Howarth is the over-enthusiastic bouncer at the local dance hall, but his devotion to duty and jealousy over a woman land him in troubl...

House To House

House To House

Season 9 - Episode 13

A full-scale house to house enquiry fails to produce a witness until a mysterious night prowler and two criminals lay their own freedom on t...

Boy In Blue

Boy In Blue

Season 9 - Episode 14

The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.

Local Knowledge

Local Knowledge

Season 9 - Episode 15

Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.

Innocent And Vulnerable

Innocent And Vulnerable

Season 9 - Episode 16

Tempers fray among men constructing a block of flats, but for one family who actually live in a high-rise, nerves reach breaking point and a...

Intervention

Intervention

Season 9 - Episode 17

Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.

Tonight And Every Night

Tonight And Every Night

Season 9 - Episode 18

Transit

Transit

Season 9 - Episode 19

When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.

Snouts

Snouts

Season 9 - Episode 20

Jack Melish is walking down a deserted street near the docks to keep a secret appointment with Inspector Lynch. Suddenly a car pulls up alo...

Squatters

Squatters

Season 9 - Episode 21

Eviction

Eviction

Season 9 - Episode 22

Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.

Incitement

Incitement

Season 9 - Episode 23

Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?

Thanks But...No Thanks

Thanks But...No Thanks

Season 9 - Episode 24

Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?

Kronur

Kronur

Season 9 - Episode 25

A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.

Scapegoat

Scapegoat

Season 9 - Episode 26

As an act of kindness Bert Lynch gives a deadbeat tramp a cell for the night - and finds himself up to his neck in trouble.

Bit Of Business

Bit Of Business

Season 9 - Episode 27

A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.

Distance

Distance

Season 9 - Episode 28

Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?

Ritual

Ritual

Season 9 - Episode 29

Continuation of the previous episode 'Distance'. Skinner has been shot dead and the Murder Squad have taken over the case. So why is Hagga...

Legacy

Legacy

Season 9 - Episode 30

Continuation of the two previous episodes 'Distance' and 'Ritual'. The hunt for Skinner's murderer has moved away from Newtown. So why is ...

A New Broom

A New Broom

Season 9 - Episode 31

The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?

Mugs

Mugs

Season 9 - Episode 33

Drama