• Air date: 05 Apr '77 13 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. The Man Who Killed Songbirds

      05 Apr '77
      Young Colin's route home from school lies across a grubby parkland. Hiding in the bushes is a man with sweets... and a knife.
    • 2. Guilt

      12 Apr '77
      It's not like Arthur Scarsdale to be violent. He's normally a peaceful little villain, but in the Newtown nick it takes three policemen to hold him down - and all Bowker did was offer him a cup of tea.
    • 3. Guilt

      19 Apr '77
      Quilley was at school with Chris Murray and knows he wouldn't hurt a soul. So when Chris half murders a man and pleads guilty Quilley wants to know why.
    • 4. Transit

      26 Apr '77
      Crime Squad from Cardiff want Inspector Moffat to lodge a prisoner overnight in the Newtown cells - and no-one must know about it. But someone has to know, even if it's only another policeman.
    • 5. Error Of Judgement

      03 May '77
      Lorry hi-jacks: too many, too well-planned and executed. Braithwaite goes 'under cover' as a lorry driver with a shady past. He's out in the cold - and vulnerable.
    • 6. Scavengers

      10 May '77
      Digging a deep hole in the sand by the light of the moon isn't the sort of behaviour you'd expect from a debt collector. Not even such a strange one as Clarrie Enwright.
    • 7. Fall Of Wiskers Castle

      17 May '77
      It's his first day as a sergeant and Alec Quilley's hung over. It's his first job as a sergeant, and it requires a bit of gentle persuasion. But how can you be gently persuasive to a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun?
    • 8. Rip Off

      24 May '77
      DC Bowker and Jack Crawford have met before. Their relationship is very simple: one way or another Bowker is going to nail Crawford, unless Crawford can nail Bowker first.
    • 9. Quarry

      31 May '77
    • 10. Attack

      14 Jun '77
      Coppers are fair game and copper-baiting is a good sport - unless the copper you pick on happens to be an expert in unarmed combat. In that case the game's called mayhem.
    • 11. Skeletons

      21 Jun '77
      Excavating for a swimming pool a young couple come across an old trunk buried in their garden. For the police it means old files, old memories and old wounds must all be re-opened.
    • 12. Domestic

      28 Jun '77
      Unlike his brother Terry, who's just a flat-footed scuffer, Graham Moffat is all set to wheeler-dealer his way into big business. Trouble is - the way it looks to Terry - brother Graham is all set to wheeler-dealer his way into crime.
    • 13. Juvenile

      05 Jul '77