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Z-Cars : Season 9
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Air date: 09 Sep '74 - 32 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 (32)
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1. Bits An' Bats
09 Sep '74There'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 with.
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2. Old Bones
16 Sep '74Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
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3. Mysteries
30 Sep '74Ossie 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 there's more to Ossie than that.
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4. Night Train
07 Oct '74Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
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5. Friends
14 Oct '74Quilley 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 better car thief. He and Quilley play for the same team and Gordon Glossop is a friend of both of them.
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6. Mugs
21 Oct '74
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7. Gardens
28 Oct '74A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
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8. Quiet As The Grave
04 Nov '74Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
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9. Pursuit
11 Nov '74A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
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10. Have You Seen This Child
18 Nov '74Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
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11. Occupation
25 Nov '74A factory work-in is on its last legs with the police outside the gates, keeping the peace but waiting for someone to break it.
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12. Unnecessary Force
02 Dec '74How 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.
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13. The Bouncer
09 Dec '74Eddy Howarth is the over-enthusiastic bouncer at the local dance hall, but his devotion to duty and jealousy over a woman land him in trouble, and he finds himself facing a serious charge.
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14. House To House
16 Dec '74A full-scale house to house enquiry fails to produce a witness until a mysterious night prowler and two criminals lay their own freedom on the line.
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15. Boy In Blue
06 Jan '75The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
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16. Local Knowledge
13 Jan '75Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.
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17. Innocent And Vulnerable
20 Jan '75Tempers fray among men constructing a block of flats, but for one family who actually live in a high-rise, nerves reach breaking point and an everyday flare-up develops into a police enquiry.
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18. Intervention
27 Jan '75Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
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19. Tonight And Every Night
03 Feb '75
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20. Transit
10 Feb '75When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
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21. Snouts
17 Feb '75Jack Melish is walking down a deserted street near the docks to keep a secret appointment with Inspector Lynch. Suddenly a car pulls up alongside him and he is bundled into the back seat. The car races off...
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22. Squatters
24 Feb '75
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23. Eviction
03 Mar '75Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
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24. Incitement
10 Mar '75Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
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25. Thanks But...No Thanks
17 Mar '75Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?
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