Z-Cars (Season 12)

Driver 0.0

Air date: 1978-06-28

Runtime: 50 min

Heavenly Host 0.0

Air date: 1978-07-05

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Shabnam Chowdry is a young Asian girl. Roy Grant is a young white boy. Put them together and knives are drawn - and Lynch is in the middle.

Debris 0.0

Air date: 1978-07-12

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Newtown Marriage Guidance Centre has been burned down, so Haggar and Bowker start investigating its clients. They are looking for a man or woman with a grudge - a man or woman who will strike again.

Quilley On The Spot 0.0

Air date: 1978-07-19

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A policeman can only take so much. Lynch deals with the problem one way, Quilley another. Trouble is, in Quilley's case there's a woman involved.

A Woman's Place 0.0

Air date: 1978-07-26

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Night duty in Newtown is a rough turn; not the place for a young policewoman. But WPC Jane Beck won't listen to the warnings of Inspector Lynch.

Exposure 0.0

Air date: 1978-08-02

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Roger Stevens is the quiet sort of copper, always there. Perhaps that's why Lynch tends to take him for granted. But sometimes it's the quiet kind one needs to worry about most of all.

Fat Freddie BA 0.0

Air date: 1978-08-09

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Freddie Cowling has come out of prison a changed man. He's lost a lot of weight, he's got a degree and he's promised his wife he'll go straight from now on. But Lynch doesn't believe he's changed. Not when there's the proceeds of his last job to be collected - £40,000 hidden away and waiting...

First Offender 0.0

Air date: 1978-08-16

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sunday - kids who have nothing to do. First Lynch, then Haggar gets involved - they do have something to do.

Deserter 0.0

Air date: 1978-08-23

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Frank Rafael Saietta has come home to Newtown. Lynch remembers him as a nice little lad, but that was years ago. Now there are different words to describe him - terrorist and murderer.

Rummage 0.0

Air date: 1978-08-30

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Lynch holds the balance between C.I.D. and the Customs & Excise as they investigate a bent businessman and a suspicious German ship. The only link between them is a showgirl.

Prey 0.0

Air date: 1978-09-06

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Maureen Price was always complaining to the police - so much so that they'd stopped listening. The pity is that if they hadn't she might be alive today.

Departures 0.0

Air date: 1978-09-13

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Two men face retirement, one a policeman, the other a villain. There are younger men impatient to fill their shoes. The copper has no choice about it, but the villain has other ideas.

Pressure 0.0

Air date: 1978-09-20

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A new security shutter is being installed at the entrance to Newtown station, just in time, it seems, as an angry mob gathers outside. A stream of visitors keeps the desk duty officer busy.