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Z-Cars : Season 8
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Air date: 22 Oct '73 - 28 episodesZ-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.
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List of Episodes (28)
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1. Inspector Lynch
22 Oct '73Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?
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2. Nuisance
29 Oct '73Alexandra is always complaining to an already overworked police force about her next door neighbour Percy. But is she just a nuisance? Or should Inspector Lynch take her complaints seriously?
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3. Escape
05 Nov '73Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.
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4. Break Up
19 Nov '73A 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 cases can have repercussions.
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5. Stray Girl
26 Nov '73Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.
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6. Pieces
03 Dec '73A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.
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7. The Cinder Path
10 Dec '73Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!
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8. Cadet
11 Dec '73Cadet 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. Then his father takes someone for a ride.
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9. Pressure Of Work
17 Dec '73Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.
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10. Absence
07 Jan '74A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.
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11. In Police Hands
21 Jan '74Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.
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12. Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears
04 Feb '74Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.
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13. Joanna
11 Feb '74When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.
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14. Pressure
18 Feb '74A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.
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15. Waste
25 Feb '74Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.
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16. Two Wise Monkeys
04 Mar '74When 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 to take drastic measures.
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17. Dinner Break
11 Mar '74Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.
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18. Allegiance
18 Mar '74Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.
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19. Rota
25 Mar '74The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.
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20. Priority
01 Apr '74Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.
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21. Background
08 Apr '74
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22. Losers
10 Apr '74DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!
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23. Turnabout
22 Apr '74Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?
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24. Intruder
29 Apr '74
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25. Mugs?
06 May '74Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?
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