Z-Cars - Series 9

Run Time: 50 mins
Air Date: Mon, 9 Sept 1974
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (6 votes)
BBC One32 Episodes

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
Season 9 - Episode 2
Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.

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
Season 9 - Episode 4
Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.

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
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
Season 9 - Episode 7
Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.

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
Season 9 - Episode 9
Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Season 9 - Episode 18

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
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
Season 9 - Episode 21

Eviction
Season 9 - Episode 22
Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.

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
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
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
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
Season 9 - Episode 27
A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.

Distance
Season 9 - Episode 28
Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?

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
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
Season 9 - Episode 31
The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?

Mugs
Season 9 - Episode 33